by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

When from my love I looked for love and...
Language: English 
When from my love I looked for love and kind affections due, 
To well I found her vows to prove most faithless and untrue 
For when I did ask her why 
Most sharply she did reply 
That she with me did ne’re agree 
To love but jestingly.

Mark but the subtle policies that female lovers find, 
Who loves to fix their constancies, like feathers in the wind
Though they swear, vow and protest, 
That they love you chiefly best, 
Yet by and by they’ll all deny, 
And say ‘twas but in jest.

Text Authorship:

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by John Bartlet (flourished 1606-1610), "When from my love I looked for love and kind affections due", published 1606 [ vocal quartet for soprano, alto, tenor, bass with lute ], from A booke of Ayres with a Triplicitie of Musicke, no. 3, Confirmed with A booke of Ayres with a Triplicitie of Musicke by John Bartlet, Printed by John Windet, for John Browne and are to bee sold at his shoppe in Saint Dunstan's Churchyard in Fleet Street, London 1606. [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2024-11-05
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