LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,139)
  • Text Authors (19,552)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Can she disdaine, can I persist to love
Language: English 
Can she disdaine can I persist to love, 
Can she be cruell, I subiected still.
Time will my truth, compassion hers aprove, 
Release the thrald, and conquer froward will. 
I love not lust, Oh, therfore let her daigne, 
To equall my desires, with like againe.

Am I not pleasing in her prouder eies,
Oh that she knew Loves power as well as I,
Wittie she is, but Loves more wittie wise,
She breathes on earth, he Raignes in heaven on high.
I love not lust, oh therefore let her daigne,
To equall my desires with like againe.

Love scornes the abiect earth his sacred fires,
Unites divided mindes dissevers none,
Contempt springs out of fleshly base desires,
Setting debate twixt love and union.
I love not lust, oh therefore let her daigne,
To equall my desires, with like againe.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Francis Pilkington (d. 1638), "Can she disdaine, can I persist to love", published 1605 [ satb quartet, lute ], from First Book of Songs or Airs, no. 3, Confirmed with The First Book of Songs or Ayres, by Francis Pilkington, T Este, London 1605. [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Iain Sneddon [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-02-21
Line count: 18
Word count: 139

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris