by Aurelian Townshend (flourished 1601-1643)
Sufferance
Language: English
Delicate Beauty, why should you disdaine With pity at least, to lessen my pain? Yet if you purpose to render no cause, Will and not Reason is Judge of those Lawes. Suffer in silence I can with delight Courting your Anger to live in your sight, Inwardly languish, and like my disease, Alwaies provided my sufferance please. Take all my comforts in present away, Let all but the hope of your favour decay, Rich in reversion Ile live as content, As he to whom Fortune her sore-lock hath lent.
Text Authorship:
- by Aurelian Townshend (flourished 1601-1643) [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 Henry Lawes (c1595 - 1662), "Sufferance", published 1655 [ voice and continuo ], from The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues, no. 22, Confirmed with The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three, by Henry Lawes, John Playford, London 1655, Page 20. [sung text checked 1 time]
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