Is Charleroy's Siege come to? Z 257 (Henry Purcell)
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- Editor: Raymond Nagem (submitted 2017-07-12). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 61 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: From The Catch Club or Merry Companions (London: John Walsh, c. 1700).
General Information
Title: Is Charleroy's Siege come to? Z 257
Composer: Henry Purcell
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: 3 equal voices
Genre: Secular, Canon
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: c. 1693
Description: A catch commemorating the Allied defeat by the French at Charleroi in 1693, during the War of the Grand Alliance.
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Original text and translations
English text
Is Charleroy's Siege come to? who wou'd 'a thought it?
Then the Rumours was false that Lewis had bought it:
Then charge all your Guns, Boys, as high as they can be,
With the briskest Champagne ramm'd down with Nantz Brandy:
Let Engineer Vauban shoot the Devil and all,
Yet his Marshal shan't Dance at old Maintenon's Ball.