Love is a sickness (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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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 (1562-1619)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description:

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Original text and translations

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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"