by Henry Reynolds (1564 - 1632)
Language: English
Was it a forme, a gate, a grace, Was it their sweetnes, meerely? Was it the Heav'n of a bright face, That made me love so deerly? Was it a skin of silk and snow, That soule and sences wounded? Was't any of these, or all of these, Whereon my faith was founded? Ah no! 'twas a far deeper part Then all the rest that won me; 'Twas a fair cloath'd, but feigning heart, I lov'd, and has undone me.
Composition:
- Set to music by Henry Lawes (c1595 - 1662), no title, published 1655 [ voice and continuo ], from The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues, no. 23, Confirmed with The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three, by Henry Lawes, John Playford, London 1655, Page 20.
Text Authorship:
- by Henry Reynolds (1564 - 1632)
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