Why should your eyes for conquest rove? (Elizabeth Turner)

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• (Posted 2023-10-04)  CPDL #76020: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-10-04).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 288 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Why should your eyes for conquest rove?
Composer: Elizabeth Turner
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo, violin

First published: c.1750 (n/d)
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Original text and translations

English text

Why should your eyes for conquest rove,
Why others' tender looks return?
In Damon's heart you'll find more love
Than can in thousand others burn.

So tender is his heart, so true,
Ev'n love itself you triumph o'er;
Unless he dies your pow'r to shew,
What would my Flavia seek for more?

Tyrants, who would new kingdoms get,
Think ev'ry joy is pow'r alone;
The monarch who is truly great
Contented is to reign in one.