Let perjur'd fair Amyntas know (Jonathan Battishill)

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• (Posted 2022-11-04)  CPDL #71407: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-11-04).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 289 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Let perjur'd fair Amyntas know
Composer: Jonathan Battishill
Lyricist: Matthew Prior
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1775 (n/d)
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Original text and translations

English text

Let perjured fair Amynta know
What for her sake I undergo;
Tell her, for her how I sustain
A lingering fever's wasting pain;
Tell her the torments I endure,
Which only, only she can cure.

But, oh! she scorns to hear or see
The wretch that lies so low as me;
A fancied greatness turns her brain,
And Strephon hopes, alas! in vain;
For ne'er 'twas found (though often tried)
That Pity ever dwelt with Pride.