Love is a sickness (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #16306:    Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-03-7).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 71 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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

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Title: Love is a sickness
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

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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"