The self banished (John Blow)

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• CPDL #33039: 

Editor: Cathal Twomey (submitted 2014-09-27).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 87 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth for low voice. Minor adjustments to the continuo part to accommodate lower pitch.

• CPDL #33037: 

Editor: Cathal Twomey (submitted 2014-09-27).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 85 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: At original pitch for high voice and continuo. Underlay is first verse only; edition includes suggestions for how to add the other verses.

General Information

Title: The Self Banished
Composer: John Blow
Lyricist: Edmund Waller

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: S

Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

Published: 1700

Description: Minuet setting of a poem by Waller, published in 'Amphion Anglicus', a collection of vocal music by John Blow, in 1700.

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Original text and translations

English text 1  It is not that I love you less Than when before your feet I lay, But to prevent the sad increase Of hopeless love, I keep away. 2  In vain (alas!) for everything Which I have known belong to you, Your form does to my fancy bring, And makes my old wounds bleed anew. 3  Who in the spring from the new sun Already has a fever got, Too late begins those shafts to shun, Which Phœbus through his veins has shot.

4  Too late he would the pain assuage, And to thick shadows does retire; About with him he bears the rage, And in his tainted blood the fire. 5  But vow’d I have, and never must Your banish’d servant trouble you; For if I break, you may distrust The vow I made to love you, too.