by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Love not me for comely grace
Language: English
[Love not me for comely grace,]1 For my pleasing eye or [my pleasing]2 face, Nor for any outward part, [No,]3 nor for [my]4 constant heart: For [these]5 may [fail]6 or turn to ill, So [thou]7 and I shall sever: Keep, therefore, a true [woman's]8 eye, And love me still but know not why; So [hast thou]9 the same reason still To [doat upon]10 me ever!
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Baxter: "Love me not for comely grace"
2 added by Baxter.
3 omitted by Baxter.
4 Baxter: "a"
5 Head, Wilbye: "those"
6 Wilbye: "fade"
7 Baxter: "you"
8 Baxter: "lover's"
9 Baxter: "you have"
10 Baxter: "dote on"
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Garth Baxter (b. 1946), "Love me not for comely grace" [ voice and guitar or SATB chorus ], from Three madrigals, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "Love me not for comely grace", 1972-3 [ high voice and piano ], from A Miscellany of Love Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael (Dewar) Head (1900 - 1976), "Love not me for comely grace", 1921, published 1921 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "Love me not for comely grace " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Love not me", 1865 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Love not me for comely grace", op. 380 (1953) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Love not me for comely grace", published 1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joel Weiss , "Love not me", 1998 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Wilbye (1574 - 1638), "Love me not for comely grace", published 1609 [ vocal quartet ], from Second Set of Madrigals, madrigal [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 65