by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Fair, if you expect admiring
Language: English
Fair, if you expect admiring, Sweet, if you provoke desiring, Grace dear love with kind requiting. Fond, but if thy sight be blindness, False, if thou affect unkindness, Fly both love and love's delighting. Then when hope is lost and love is scorned I'll bury my desires And quench the fires That ever yet in vain have burned. Fates, if you rule lovers' fortune, Stars, if men your pow'rs importune, Yield relief by your relenting. Time, if Sorrow be not endless, Hope made vain, and Pity friendless, Help to ease my long lamenting. But if griefs remain still unredressed I'll fly to her again and sue For pity to renew My hopes distressed.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [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 Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), "Fair, if you expect admiring", published 1601, from the collection A Booke of Ayres = A Book of Airs, no. 11. [text verified 1 time]
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Word count: 113