by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Song: While dancing rests
Language: English
The third Song of three partes, with a Chorus of fiue partes, sung after the first Daunce. While dancing rests, fit place to musicke graunting, Good spels the Fates shall breath, al enuy daunting, Kind eares with ioy enchaunting, chaunting. Chorus. Io, Io, Hymen. Like lookes, like hearts, like loues are linck't together : So must the Fates be pleas'd, so come they hether, To make this Ioy perseuer, euer. Chorus. Io, Io, Hymen. Loue decks the spring, her buds to th' ayre exposing, Such fire here in these bridall Breasts reposing, We leaue with charmes enclosing, closing. Chorus. Io, Io, Hymen.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [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 Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), "Song: While dancing rests", published 1614, from the collection The Description of a Maske on S. Stephen's Night, no. 3. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-11-16
Line count: 17
Word count: 101