While you here do snoring lie (Thomas Linley the younger)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-04-01). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 122 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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General Information
Title: While you here do snoring lie
Composer: Thomas Linley the younger
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
First published:
Description: Thomas Linley's setting of Ariel's song was composed with an orchestral accompaniment as part of his incidental music for "The Tempest", 1777. This reduced version was issued posthumously by his brother William in his anthology of Shakespearean settings, published 1816.
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Original text and translations
English text
While you here do snoring lie,
Open-eyed conspiracy his time doth take.
If of life you keep a care,
Shake off slumber and beware:
Awake, awake!