Before you can say, Come" and "Go"

Before you can say, "Come" and "Go",
And breathe twice, and cry, "So, so,"
Each one, tripping on his toe,
Will be here with mop and [mow]1.
[Do you love me, master? no?]2

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Frank Martin (1890-1974) , no title, 1950, published 1968, first performed 1953 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Songs of Ariel from Shakespeare's Tempest, no. 3.
by Peter Anthony Monk , "Come & Go", 1982, published 1982, first performed 1982 [soprano and SSAA chorus a cappella], from Ariel's Five Little Songs, no. ?
by Michael Nyman (1944-) , "Come and go", from Ariel Songs, no. 1.

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

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