Yes, I'm in love (Thomas Arne)

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• (Posted 2023-11-07)  CPDL #77042: 

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.

• (Posted 2023-11-07)  CPDL #77041: 

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 Whitehead^{create 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).

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.