A cure for melancoly (Andreas Stenberg)

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• (Posted 2014-05-14)  CPDL #32011:       

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2014-05-14).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 415 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: a Cure for Melancoly

Composer: Andreas Stenberg
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2014
Description: Text and melody is from: Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; … VOL. V. 1719 Some sections of the composition are for SSA womans choir and some for TBB male choir. The piece is free for non commercial use. Pleas inform me (as a courtesy) if you are going to perform it.

Original text and translations

English text 1  Are you grown so melancholy, That you think on nought but folly; are you sad, are you made, are you worse; Do you think, Want of Chink Is a Curse: Do you wish for to have, Longer life, or a Grave, Thus would I Cure ye. 2  First I would have a Bag of Gold, That should ten Thousand Pieces hold, And all that, In thy Hat, Would I pour; For to spend, On thy Friend, Or thy Whore: For to cast away at Dice, Or to shift you of your Lice, Thus would I Cure ye. 3  Next I would have a soft Bed made, Where a Virgin should be laid; That would Play, Any way You'll devise; That would stick Like a Tick, To your Thighs, That would bill like a Dove, Lye beneath or above, Thus would I Cure ye.

4  Next that same Bowl, where Jove Divine Drank Nectar in, I’d fill with Wine; That whereas You should pause, You should quaff Like a Greek Till your Cheek To Ceres and to Venus, To Bacchus and Silenus, Thus would I Cure ye. 5  But if not Gold, no Woman can Nor Wine, nor Songs, make merry then; Let the Batt Be my Mate, And the Owl; Let a Pain In the Brain, Make thee Howl; Let the Pox be thy Friend, the plague work thy end, Thus I would Cure you.