Sweet Love, if thou wilt gain (Alfred Redgrave Cripps)

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(Posted 2023-10-06) CPDL #76121:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 290 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Sweet Love, if thou wilt gain
Composer: Alfred Redgrave Cripps
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB, minor ST divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1901 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Sweet Love, if thou wilt gain a monarch’s glory,
Subdue her heart, who makes me glad and sorry:
Out of thy golden quiver
Take then thy strongest arrow
That will through bone and marrow,
And me and thee from fear and grief deliver.
But come behind— for if she look upon thee,
Alas! poor Love! then thou art woebegone thee.

Elizabethan