Matthew Prior
Life
Born: 21 July 1664
Died: 18 September 1721
Biography
Matthew Prior was an English diplomat and poet.
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Settings of text by Matthew Prior
- Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue (William Mather)
- If wine and music have the pow'r (Stephen Storace)
- In vain you tell your parting lover (Francis Hutcheson)
- In vain you tell your parting lover (Jonathan Battishill)
- In vain you tell your parting lover (William Jackson of Exeter)
- Let perjur'd fair Amyntas know (Jonathan Battishill)
- Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z 392 (Henry Purcell)
- Love, inform thy faithful creature (Pieter Hellendaal)
- On his deathbed (Samuel Webbe)
- Poor, little, pretty, flutt'ring thing (Thomas Arne)
- The Pride of every grove I chose (John Stafford Smith)
- Secure by George's care (John Stafford Smith)
- See, whilst thou weep'st (Elizabeth Turner)
- Sylvia blushes when I woo her (Jonathan Battishill)
- The merchant, to secure his treasure (Maurice Greene)
- Thou fairest proof of beauty's power (William Jackson of Exeter)
- Thou to whose eyes I bend (William Jackson of Exeter)
- Whilst from our looks (William Jackson of Exeter)
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