by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Vaine is all this worlds contention
Language: English
Vaine is all this worlds contention, Fortunes fraile, and hopes deceiuing, Chance layes ambush of preuention, Our atempts of end bereuing, Future thing are plast Beyond our weake conceiuing Minds in euery age new thoughts engender Till all to fate wee render.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 William Corkine (fl. 1610-2), "Vaine is all this worlds contention", published 1610 [voice, lute, bass viol], from the collection Airs to sing and play to the Lute and Bass-viol, no. 8. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2016-06-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 42