Prithee, why? (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2023-12-20)  CPDL #78412:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-20).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 348 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Prithee, why?
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Suckling
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1909 in Six Part-Songs for SATB, no. 5
Description: Novello and Co.

Original text and translations

English text

Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Prithee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?

Why so dull and mute, young sinner?
Prithee, why so mute?
Will, when speaking well can’t win her,
Saying nothing do’t?
Prithee, why so mute?

Quit, quit for shame! This will not move;
This cannot take her.
If of herself she will not love,
Nothing can make her:
The devil take her!