Catch (Anonymous, set by H. Purcell) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Call for the reck'ning and let us be gone:
such careless attendance sure never was known.
Pray ring the bell till the drawers come up:
nay prithee pull on, till you break the rope.
Why sure, they're asleep, a pox take 'em all!
O, now they come sneaking with "Gentlemen, d'ye call?"

Input by Tinelot Wittermans

Authorship

Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

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

Henry Purcell (1658/9-1695)

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