For love ev'ry creature is form'd, Z 628/30a (Henry Purcell)

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• (Posted 2009-06-06)  CPDL #19601: 

Editor: William Long (submitted 2009-06-06).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Transposed from g minor to d minor.

General Information

Title: For Love ev'ry Creature is form'd
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist: John Dryden

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SB
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1691
    2nd published: 1698 in Orpheus Britannicus (Henry Purcell), Book 1, p. 45
Description: Duet taken from Orpheus Britannicus, published 1721. Originally a verse from the act 4 Passacaille of King Arthur.

Original text and translations

English text

For Love ev'ry Creature is form'd by his Nature:
No Joyes are above the pleasures of Love.