Love is a sickness (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• CPDL #16306:  Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-03-07).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 71 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MIDI: 15 KB, Sib4: 45 KB.

General Information

Title: Love is a sickness
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Samuel Daniel

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published:

Description: Six Lyrics from an Elizabethan Song Book (1897): No. 2

1. Follow your saint (Thomas Campion)
2. Love is a sickness
3. Turn all thy thoughts to eyes (Thomas Campion)
4. Whether men do laugh or weep (From an Elizabethan Song Book)
5. The sea hath many a thousand sands
6. Tell me, O love (From an Elizabethan Song Book)

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Original text and translations

English text

Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing;
A plant that most with¹ cutting grows,
Most barren with best using,
Why so?

More we enjoy it, more it dies;
If not enjoy'd it sighing cries
Heigh ho! Heigh ho!

Love is a torment of the mind,
A tempest everlasting;
And Jove hath made it of² a kind
Not well, nor full, nor fasting.
Why so?

Notes:
¹ Original is "with most"
² Original is "of it"