Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go!
What do you mean to vex me so?
Cease, cease, cease your pleading force.
Do you think thus to extort remorse?
Now no more; alas, you overbear me;
And I would cry but some, I fear, might hear me.

Composition:

Set to music by Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1998), no title, 1976 [ tenor and soprano ], from A Little Love Music, no. 5, Confirmed with a CD booklet

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title

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