Come and let us live (Samuel Webbe Jr.)

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• (Posted 2011-08-19)  CPDL #24188:        (Sibelius 5)

Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2011-08-19).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Come and let us live
Composer: Samuel Webbe Jr.
Lyricist: Richard Crashaw c. 1613 – 25 August 1649

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1805
Description: 4 part glee probably composed for ATTB male voices. The text is a translation in verse by Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 25 August 1649), of the poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC)

Original text and translations

English text Come and let us live my Dear, Let us love and never fear, What the sourest Fathers say: Brightest Sol that dies today Lives again as blithe tomorrow, But if we dark sons of sorrow Set; o then, how long a Night Shuts the Eyes of our short light! Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin to tell A Thousand, and a Hundred, score An Hundred, and a Thousand more, Till another Thousand smother That, and that wipe off another. Thus at last when we have numb’red Many a Thousand, many a Hundred; We’ll confound the reckoning quite, And lose ourselves in wild delight: While our joys so multiply, As shall mock the envious eye.

Latin translation The original poem from which the above translation derives. By Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) in hendecasyllabic verse. Vivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis! soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda. da mi basia mille, deinde centum, dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum. dein, cum milia multa fecerimus, conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, aut ne quis malus inuidere possit, cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.

Spanish translation

Translation in verse by Cristóbal de Castillejo (1495-1550)

Dame, Amor, besos sin cuento,
asida de mis cabellos,
y mil y ciento tras ellos
y tras ellos mil y ciento,
y después
de muchos millares, tres;
y porque nadie lo sienta,
desbaratemos la cuenta
y contemos al revés.