Come and let us live (Samuel Webbe Jr.)
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- 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, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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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)
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Original text and translations
English text Come and let us live my Dear, |
Latin translation The original poem from which the above translation derives. By Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) in hendecasyllabic verse. |
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.