Draw on, sweet Night, best friend unto those cares That do arise from painful melancholy; My life so ill [through]1 want of comfort fares, That unto thee I consecrate it wholly. Sweet Night, draw on; my griefs, when they be told To shades and darkness, find some ease from paining; And while thou all in silence dost enfold, I then shall have best time for my complaining.
Birthday Madrigals
by John Milford Rutter, CBE (b. 1945)
1. Draw on, sweet Night  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Nicolaas (Koos) Jaspers) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 Rutter: "from"
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2. My true love hath my heart  [sung text checked 1 time]
My true love hath my heart and I have his. By just exchange, one [for]1 the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; There never was a [bargain better]2 driven[.]3 His heart in me keeps [me and him]4 in one; My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides: He loves my heart, for once it was his own; I cherish his because in me it bides[.]3 His heart his wound received from my sight; My heart was wounded with his wounded heart; For as from me on him his hurt did light, So still, methought, in me his hurt did smart: Both equal hurt, in this change sought our bliss, My true love hath my heart and I have his.
Authorship:
- by Philip Sidney, Sir (1554 - 1586), no title, appears in Arcadia
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , "Der Handel", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936
Parodied in Archibald Stodart-Walker's My true friend hath my hat.
1 Foote: "to"2 Foote, Gounod, Rutter, Wilkinson: "better bargain"
3 Foote: ":/ My true love hath my heart and I have his." (first line is repeated)
4 Foote: "him and me"
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