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I care not for [these]1 Ladies That must be wooed and prayed, Give me kind Amarillis The wanton country maid; Nature art disdaineth, Her beauty is her own; For when we court and kiss, She cries, forsooth, let go; But when we come where comfort is, She never will say no. If I love Amarillis, She gives me fruit and flowers, But if we love these Ladies, We must give golden showers; Give them gold that sell love, Give me the nut brown lass, For when we court and kiss, She cries, forsooth, let go; But when we come where comfort is, She never will say no. These ladies must have pillows, And beds by strangers wrought, Give me a Bower of willows, Of moss and leaves unbought, And fresh Amarillis, With milk and honey fed, For when we court and kiss, She cries, forsooth, let go; But when we come where comfort is, She never will say no.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Gibbs: "those"; further changes may exist not noted.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [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 Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), "I care not for these Ladies", published 1601, from A Booke of Ayres = A Book of Airs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Amaryllis", op. 116 no. 2 (1948), published 1949 [ voice and piano ], from Two Old English Lyrics, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Brian Holmes (b. 1946), "I care not for these Ladies", from Six Ayres, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "Amaryllis" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Amaryllis", op. 261 (1950) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Geart van der Meer) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRI Frisian [singable] (Geart van der Meer) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Brian Holmes
This text was added to the website: 2004-08-14
Line count: 30
Word count: 160
Ik geef niet om die meiden, Die kruidjes-roer-mij-niet, Zo taai om te verleiden, Nee, neem dan mijn Margriet, Ondeugend kind van ’t land, Zo echt als melk en kaas. Bij ’t vurig minnespel Dan roept ze wel: ‘Nee, hoor!’ Maar kom ik aan haar je-weet-wel, Dan roept ze steeds: ‘Ga door!’ Zij geeft, als wij gaan vrijen, Mij bloemen en zoet fruit; Met goud slechts kun je krijgen. Zo’n nuf de kleren uit. Geef goud wier hart is koud. Zo niet dat bruine ding, Dat bij het minnespel Dan wel luid roept: ‘Nee, hoor!’ Maar kom ik aan haar je-weet-wel, Dan steeds weer roept: ‘Ga door!’ Dy nuffen willen kussens En lakens zacht als zij; Geef mij een plekje tussen De bloemen in de wei, Waar ik met mijn Margriet, Die meid van melk en kaas, Geniet van ’t minnespel, En als ze roept ‘Nee, hoor!’ Dan kom ik aan haar je-weet-wel, En roept ze steeds: ‘Ga door!’
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Based on:
- a text in English by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
This text was added to the website: 2015-11-26
Line count: 30
Word count: 158