Come, Sleep (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-02-27)  CPDL #83997:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-02-27).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 325 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Come, Sleep
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: John Fletcher
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SMzATB + Mezzo soloist
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting of John Fletcher's poem, for mezzo-soprano soloist with five-voice accompanying choir.

Original text and translations

English text

Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile;
Let some pleasing dreams beguile
All my fancies; that from thence
I may feel an influence
All my powers of care bereaving!

Though but a shadow, but a sliding,
Let me know some little joy!
We that suffer long annoy
Are contented with a thought
Through an idle fancy wrought:
O let my joys have some abiding!