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by John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)

Translation © by Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes

There's not a Swain, on the Plain

Language: English

Our translations: CAT GER

There's not a Swain, on the Plain,
would be bless'd like me, oh!
could you but on me smile;
but you appear so severe
that trembling with fear,
my heart goes pit-a-pat, all the while:
When I cry, must I die,
you make no reply, but look shy,
and with a scornful eye
kill me by your cruelty.
Oh! can you be so hard to me?

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Text Authorship:

by John Fletcher (1579 - 1625) [author's text not yet checked 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 (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "There's not a swain of the plain", 1948 [ voice and piano ], a realization of the Purcell song. Confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "There's not a swain", Z. 587 no. 1 (1693), from the incidental music to Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes) , "Es gibt im Land keinen jungen Liebhaber", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 66

Es gibt im Land keinen jungen Liebhaber

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Es gibt im Land keinen jungen Liebhaber, 
der so gesegnet wie ich sein könnte,
Wenn du mir zulächeln wurdest.
Aber du scheinst so streng, 
dass mein Herz, im Angst bebend, 
macht Pit-a-pat die ganze Zeit.
Wenn ich weine, muss ich sterben?
Du antwortest nicht und schaust schüchtern aus,
und mit dein Blick voll von Hohn,
tötest du mich mit deiner Grausamkeit.
Ah, wie kannst du so hart zu mir sein?

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a text in English by John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-13
Line count: 11
Word count: 70