by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
About the sweet bag of a bee
Language: English
About the sweet bag of a bee Two cupids fell at odds, And whose the pretty prize should be They vow'd to ask the gods. Which Venus hearing, thither came, And for their boldness stripp'd them, And, taking thence from each his flame, With rods of myrtle whipp'd them. Which done, to still their wanton cries, When quiet grown she'd seen them, She kiss'd, and wip'd their dove-like eyes, And gave the bag between them.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "The bag of the bee" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "The bag of the bee", op. 10 (Fourteen songs) no. 7 (1912) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Lawes (c1595 - 1662), "About the sweet bag of a bee", published 1655 [ 2 sopranos, bass, continuo ], from The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues, no. 49, Confirmed with The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three, by Henry Lawes, John Playford, London 1655, Page 48. [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-30
Line count: 12
Word count: 75