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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Piggésnie
Language: English 
She is so proper and so pure,
Full steadfast, stable and demure,
There is none such, ye may be sure,
As my sweet sweeting.

When I behold my sweeting sweet,
Her face, her hands, her minion feet,
They seem to me there's none so meet
As my sweet sweeting.

In all this world, as thinketh me,
Is none so pleasant to my eye,
That I am so glad so oft to see
As my sweet sweeting.

Above all other praise must I
And love my pretty piggesnie,
For none I find so womanly
As my sweet sweeting.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 16th century )  [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 Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Piggésnie", 1922, published 1922 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 97

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