by John Mennes, Sir, Vice Admiral (1599 - 1671)
Tell me no more tis love
Language: English
Tell me no more tis love Your passions move In a phantasticke sphear, And only there, Thus you confine What is divine, When love hath power and can dispence Sufficient to the soul and sence. Tis Love the sence informs And cold bloud warms, Nor gives the soule a Throne To us alone, But bids them bend Both to one end, And then tis Love when thus design'd, They make another of their kind.
Text Authorship:
- by John Mennes, Sir, Vice Admiral (1599 - 1671) [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 Henry Lawes (c1595 - 1662), "Tell me no more tis love", published 1655 [ voice and continuo ], from The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues, no. 11, Confirmed with The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three, by Henry Lawes, John Playford, London 1655, Page 10. [sung text checked 1 time]
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