Roundelay (Charles E. S. Littlejohn)

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• (Posted 2023-11-09)  CPDL #77153:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-09).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 566 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Roundelay
Composer: Charles E. S. Littlejohn
Lyricist: John Dryden
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1909 Stainer & Bell
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Chloe found Amyntas lying,
All in Tears, upon the Plain,
Sighing to himself, and crying,
“Wretched I, to love in vain!
Kiss me, Dear, before my dying;
Kiss me once, and ease my pain.”

Sighing to himself, and crying,
“Wretched I, to love in vain!
Ever scorning, and denying
To reward your faithful Swain,
Kiss me, Dear, before my dying;
Kiss me once, and ease my pain!”

“Ever scorning, and denying
To reward your faithful Swain.”
Chloe, laughing at his crying,
Told him, that he lov’d in vain:
“Kiss me, dear, before my dying;
Kiss me once, and ease my pain!”

Chloe, laughing at his crying,
Told him that he lov’d in vain;
But repenting, and complying,
When he kiss’d, she kiss’d again:
Kiss’d him up, before his dying;
Kiss’d him up, and eas’d his pain.