Yes, I'm in love (Thomas Arne)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-11-07). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 467 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes the original orchestral accompaniment.
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-11-07). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 164 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Probably written for performance at Vauxhall. The first verse of the text is indirectly quoted (by Henry Crawford) in "Mansfield Park" (Jane Austen). This edition includes a keyboard reduction of the original instrumental accompaniment.
General Information
Title: Yes, I'm in love
Composer: Thomas Arne
Lyricist: William Whiteheadcreate page
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo,Violin
First published: 1748
Description: Probably written for performance at Vauxhall. The first verse of the text is indirectly quoted (by Henry Crawford) in "Mansfield Park" (Jane Austen).
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Original text and translations
English text
Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now,
And Celia has undone me;
And yet I'll swear I can't tell how
The pleasing plague stole on me.
'Tis not her face that love creates,
For there no graces revel;
'Tis not her shape, for there the Fates
Have rather been uncivil.
'Tis not her air, for sure, in that
There's nothing more than common;
And all her sense is only chat,
Like any other woman.
Her voice, her touch might give th'alarm,
'Tis both perhaps, or neither;
In short, 'tis that provoking charm
Of Celia altogether.