Davison's Poetical Rhapsody

My Love in her attire doth show her wit,
It doth so well become her:
For every season she hath dressings fit,
For winter, spring, and summer.

No beauty she doth miss
When all her robes are on:
But Beauty's self, Beauty's self she is
When all her robes are gone.

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , 17^th century, "Davison's Poetical Rhapsody"

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

by Frederic Ayres (1876-1926) , "My Love in her Attire"
by Jean Berger (1909-2002) , "My Love in her attire", from Of Love, no. 5.
by Gladys M. Cohen (1907-1996) , "Madrigal", 1929-30 [SATB chorus a cappella], under the pseudonym Guirne Creith
by William Walton (1902-1983) , "My Love in her attire", from Anon. in Love, no. 4.
by Jürg Wyttenbach (1935-) , "Madrigal", 1964, from Two Nonsense Verses, an Epigram and a Madrigal, no. 3.

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