Love is a bable (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #16439:       Sibelius4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-3-7).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 64 kbytes       Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 64 KB, MIDI:10 KB, Sib4: 41 KB.

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Title: Love is a bable
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 1v  Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1903

Description: Number 3 of Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 6. From Robert Jones collection: "The Second Book of Songs and Ayres", published in 1601.

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Original text and translations

English text

Love is a bable,

No man is able

To say 'tis this or 'tis that;

So full of passions

Of sundry fashions,

'Tis like I cannot tell what.

Love is a fellow

Clad oft in yellow,

The canker-worm of the mind,

A privy mischief,

And such a sly thief

No man knows which way to find.

Love's fair in cradle,

Foul in fable,

'Tis either too cold or too hot;

An arrant liar,

Fed by desire,

It is and yet it is not.

Love is a wonder

That's here and yonder,

As common to one as to moe;

A monstrous cheater,

Ev'ry man's debtor;

Hang him and so let him go.

Lyrics: (Anonymous)