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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Rest sweet nimphs
Language: English 
Rest sweet Nimphs let goulden sleepe,
Charme your star brighter eies,
Whiles my Lute the watch doth keep
With pleasing simpathies,
Lulla lullaby, Lulla lullaby,
Sleepe sweetly, sleepe sweetly, 
let nothing affright ye,
In calme contentments lie.

Dreame faire virgins of delight
And blest Elizian groves:
Whiles the wandring shades of night
Resemble your true loves:
Lulla lullaby, Lulla lullaby,
Your kisses, your blisses 
send them by your wishes,
Although they be not nigh.

Thus deare damzelle I do give
Good night and so am gone:
With your hartes desires long live,
Still joy, and never mone.
Lulla lullaby, Lulla lullaby,
Hath pleased you and easd you,
& sweet slumber sezd you,
And now to bed I hie.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Francis Pilkington (d. 1638), "Rest sweet nimphs", published 1605 [ satb quartet, lute ], from First Book of Songs or Airs, no. 6, from The First Booke of Songs or Ayres [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Peter Warlock.

    • Go to the text. [ view differences ]

Researcher for this page: Linda Godry

This text was added to the website: 2008-11-09
Line count: 24
Word count: 118

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