Shall I come, sweet love, to thee (Thomas Campion)

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Editor: Eva Toller (added 2002-12-01).   Score information: A4, kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: arranged by Eva Toller, midi files available for each part

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Title: Shall I come, sweet love, to thee
Composer: Thomas Campion
Arranger: Eva Toller

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: TTBBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals
Language: English
Instruments: none
Published:

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External websites: http://www.evatoller.pp.se/

Original text and translations

English text Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee
When the evening beams are set?
Shall I not excluded be,
Will you find no feigned let?
Let me not, for pity, more
Tell the long hours at your door.
Who can tell what thief or foe,
In the covert of the night,
For his prey will work my woe,
Or through wicked foul despite?
So may I die unredressed
Ere my long love be possesed.
But to let such dangers pass,
Which a lover’s thoughts disdain,
’Tis enough in such a place
To attend love’s joys in vain:
Do not mock me in thy bed,
While these cold nights freeze me dead.