Sweet Content (Clara Angela Macirone)

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• (Posted 2023-11-14)  CPDL #77304:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 522 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Arranged by George J. Webb and William Mason.

General Information

Title: SweetContent
Composer: Clara Angela Macirone
Lyricist: Thomas Dekker
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1850 Mason & Law
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Original text and translations

English text

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
O sweet content!
Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed?
O punishment!
Dost thou laugh to see how fools are vex’d
To add to golden numbers golden numbers?
O sweet content!
Work apace, apace, apace, apace;
Honest labour bears a lovely face;
Then hey nonny nonny—hey nonny nonny, no!

From The Pleasant Comoedy of Patient Grissill (1603)