Tell me no more (Congreve, set by W. Boyce, H. Purcell) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Tell me no more I am deceived,
That Chloe's false and common:
By heaven, I all along believed
She was a very woman.
As such I liked, as such caressed,
She still was constant when possessed,
She could do more for no man.

But oh! her thoughts on others ran,
And that you think a hard thing,
Perhaps she fancied you the man,
And what care I one farthing.
You think she's false, I'm sure she's kind;
[I]¹ take her body, you her mind,
Who has the better bargain?

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¹ Purcell: "I'll"

Authorship

William Congreve (1670-1729)

The Maid's Last Prayer

Sir George Etheredge (1635?-1691)

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

William Boyce (1710-1779)

Henry Purcell (1658/9-1695)

Incidental Music to The Maid's Last Prayer -or- Any Rather Than Fail

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