Like sparkling champagne (Jonathan Battishill)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-08-11). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 859 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Like sparkling champagne
Composer: Jonathan Battishill
Lyricist: David Garrick
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo, strings accompaniment
First published: c.1766
Description: Sung by James Dodd in a production of Garrick's The Foundling, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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Original text and translations
English text
Like sparkling champagne,
Rosy mounts to the brain.
And so tingles in every part:
Her fire comes so quick,
Her shots fly so thick
No quarter she gives to the heart.
Fidelia demure,
More slow but as sure,
Her mischief will greatly impart;
Will day after day
Steal your senses away,
And then steal away with your heart.
But I who knw both,
To one should be loth,
So manage the matter with art:
I laugh at the trick
Of the slow and the quick,
And then steal away with your heart.