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'''Title:''''' Why So Pale and Wan ''<br>
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{{Composer|Charles Hubert Hastings Parry}}
{{Composer|Charles Hubert Hastings Parry}}
{{Lyricist|John Suckling| - (1609 - 1642)}}
{{Lyricist|John Suckling}}


{{Voicing|1|Solo Tenor}}<br>
{{Voicing|1|Solo Tenor}}<br>

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Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-05-14).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 45 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: File Sizes: MIDI: 7 KB, Sib4: 37 KB.

General Information

Title: Why So Pale and Wan
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Suckling

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Tenor solo

Genre: SecularArt song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

Published: 1895

Description: Number 4 of Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 3. From John Suckling's play, "Aglaura", and described by the singer as "A little foolish counsel I gave to a friend of mine four or five years ago, when he was falling into a consumption."

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Original text and translations

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Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Prythee, why so pale?
Will if looking well can't move her
Looking ill prevail?
Prythee, why so pale?

Why so dull and mute, young sinner?
Prythee, why so mute?
Will, when speaking well can't win her
Saying nothing do't?
Prythee, why so mute?

Quit, quit for shame
This shall not move,
This can not take her;
If of herself she will not love
Nothing will make her
The devil take her!