by Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343 - 1400)
So hath your beauty from your hertë...
Language: English
So hath your beauty from your hertë chased Pity, that me ne availeth not to plain: For Daunger halt your mercy n his chain. Guiltless my death thus have ye me purchased; I say you sooth, me needeth not to feign: So hath your beauty from your hertë chased Pity, that me ne availeth not to plain. Alas! That nature hath in you compassed So great beauty, that no man may attain To mercy, though he stervë for the pain! So hath your beauty from your hertë chased Pity, that me ne availeth not to plain: For Daunger halt your mercy n his chain.
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Authorship
- by Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343 - 1400), no title, appears in Merciles Beaute: A Triple Roundel, no. 2 [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 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "So hath your beauty", 1921 [soprano or tenor, 2 violins, violoncello], from Merciless Beauty, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Ted Perry
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