by Elkanah Settle (1648 - 1724)
Thrice happy lovers, may you be
Language: English
Thrice happy lovers, may you be For ever, ever free, From the tormenting devil, Jealousy. From all the anxious Care and Strife, That attends a married Life: Be to one another true, Kind to her as she to you. And since the Errors of this Night are past, May he be ever Constant, she for ever Chast.
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- by Elkanah Settle (1648 - 1724) [author's text checked 1 time 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 Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "An Epithalamium", alternate title: "Thrice happy lovers", Z. 629 no. 39bc, from The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, no. 39bc, published in Orpheus Britannicus, Vol. II [text verified 1 time]
- by Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998), "An Epithalamium", note: this is a realization of a song by Purcell. [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Chant nuptial", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "Epitalamio", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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