by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Shall a frown or angry eye
Language: English
Shall a frowne or angrie eye, Shall a word vnfitly placed ? Shall a shadow make me flie, As I were with Tygers chaced ? Loue must not be so disgraced. Shall I woe her in dispight ? Shall I turne her from her flying ? Shall I tempt her with delight, Shall I laugh out her denying ? Noe, beware of louers crying. Shall I then with patient mind, Still attend her wayward pleasure, Time will make her proue more kind, Let her coynesse then take leasure, Paines are worthy such a treasure.
Modernized form below is from Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 99.
Shall a frown or angry eye, Shall a word unfitly placèd, Shall a shadow make me flie As if I were with tigers chasèd? Love must not be so disgracèd. Shall I woo her in despight? Shall I turn her from her flying? Shall I tempt her with delight? Shall I laugh at her denying? No: beware of lovers’ crying. Shall I then with patient mind Still attend her wayward pleasure? Time will make her prove more kind, Let her coyness then take leisure: She is worthy such a treasure.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 William Corkine (fl. 1610-2), "Shall a frown or angry eye", published 1610 [voice, lute, bass viol], from the collection Airs to sing and play to the Lute and Bass-viol, no. 12. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-25
Line count: 15
Word count: 94