by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Can she disdaine, can I persist to love
Language: English
Can she disdaine can I persist to love, Can she be cruell, I subiected still. Time will my truth, compassion hers aprove, Release the thrald, and conquer froward will. I love not lust, Oh, therfore let her daigne, To equall my desires, with like againe. Am I not pleasing in her prouder eies, Oh that she knew Loves power as well as I, Wittie she is, but Loves more wittie wise, She breathes on earth, he Raignes in heaven on high. I love not lust, oh therefore let her daigne, To equall my desires with like againe. Love scornes the abiect earth his sacred fires, Unites divided mindes dissevers none, Contempt springs out of fleshly base desires, Setting debate twixt love and union. I love not lust, oh therefore let her daigne, To equall my desires, with like againe.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Francis Pilkington (d. 1638), "Can she disdaine, can I persist to love", published 1605 [ satb quartet, lute ], from First Book of Songs or Airs, no. 3, Confirmed with The First Book of Songs or Ayres, by Francis Pilkington, T Este, London 1605. [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Iain Sneddon [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2023-02-21
Line count: 18
Word count: 139