Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs

Song Cycle by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960)

1. When Arthur first in Court began

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When Arthur first in Court began
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2. Pious Celinda goes to prayers  [sung text not yet checked]

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Pious [Celinda]1 goes to prayers
If I but ask [the]2 favour,
And yet the tender fool's in tears
When she believes I'll leave her.
Would I were free from this restraint,
Or else had [hopes]3 to win her;
Would she could make of me a saint,
Or I of her a sinner!

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  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Selinda fängt zu beten an", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Barratt: "Selinda"
2 Barratt: "a"
3 Barratt: "hope"

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3. If music be the food of love
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If music be the food of love,
Sing on till I am fill'd with joy;
For then my list'ning soul you move
To pleasures that can never cloy.
Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare
That you are music ev'rywhere.

Pleasures invade both eye and ear,
So fierce the transports are, they wound,
And all my senses feasted are,
Tho' yet the treat is only sound,
Sure I must perish by your charms,
Unless you save me in your arms.

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  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Si la música és l’aliment de l’amor", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Si la musique est la nourriture de l'amour", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes) , "Wenn Musik die Nahrung der Liebe ist", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "Se la musica è il cibo dell'amore", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Note: the first line quotes Orsino's lines in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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4. 'Tis wine that inspires and quenches love's fires

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'Tis wine that inspires and quenches love's fires
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