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COMUS COMPOSITIONS BY EDWARD ELGAR. VOCAL. ORATORIOS. ANTHEMS, SERVICES, &c. THE APOSTLES. For Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, CORONATION OFFERTORIUM (Op. 64) and Bass Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra. (Op. 49.) (Tonic DOUBT NOT THY FATHER'S CARE ("The Sol-fa, Choruses and Words of Solos only, 45.) .. Light of Life ") (Op. 29). Duet, s. and c. (Tonic Sol-fa. (Vocal Paris, 2s. 6d. each.) of with is. Full Score, -, 55. Book Words, Analysis, 4d., or 75s. net per 100. Words only, 8d., or 415. 8d. net FEAR NOT, O LAND (Harvest) per 100. An Interpretation of the Libretto by C. V. (Tonic Sol-fa, 3d.) GORTON, M.A., is. 6d. Vocal Score, with German words GIVE UNTO THE LORD xxix (Deutsche Ubersetzung von JULIUS BUTHS), i2s. (Psalm ) 74) i Chorstimmen, 35. each. Textbuch, 8d. Erlauterung (Op.
von Max is. id. Parts, 345. ; Wind IS Hehemann, String GREAT THE LORD (Psalm xlviii.) (Op. 67, , Parts on hire only. (Tonic Sol-fa, 8d.) THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS. For Mezzo- JESU, LORD OF LIFE AND GLORY. Anthem. Soprano, Tenor, and Bass Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra. (Op. 38.) from 2 . -, Adapted Op. 2, No. (Tonic Sol-fa, 2d.) .. . (Tonic Sol-fa, Choruses only, 23. 6d.) 5 6 (Vocal Parts, 25. 6d. each.) JESU, MEEK AND LOWLY. Anthem. Adapted Full Miniature Full us. 6d. ; Score, 3 35. Score, paper, from Op. 2, No. 3 (Tonic Sol-fa, 2d.) ...... o cloth, i6s. Book of Words, with Analysis, is. 4d., or 66s. 8d. WORD OF GOD INCARNATE net per 100. Words only, 8d., or 335. 4d. net per 100. JESU, (Ave 2, No. Motet. and Latin Vocal Score, with German and English words (Deutsche Verum) (Op. i). English Words (Tonic Sol-fa, ijd.)...... o Ubersetzung von JULIUS BUTHS), gs. Chorstimmen, each, 35. DITTO. Words with French English only (Tonic Sol-fa, ijd.) .. Textbuch, 335. 4d. per ipo. Vocal score, words (Traduction franchise de J. d'Offoel), gs. Parties LIGHT OF THE WORLD (" The Light of each. 100. de Choeur, 35. Livret, 335. 4d. per String Parts, Life") (Op. 29). S.A.T.B. (Tonic Sol-fa, 3d.) .. .. o 6d. Parts on hire 295. ; Wind only. LO ! LORD IS BORN. Carol .. o Sanctus Fortis. Tenor Solo from above. Transposed to CHRIST THE Full 6d. A flat, 6d. score, 55. String Parts, 35. 4d. ; O HEARKEN THOU (Arranged from the Coro- Wind Parts on hire only. nation Offertorium) (Op. 64) ...... o THE KINGDOM. For Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, O MIGHTIEST OF THE MIGHTY (Coronation and Bass Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra. (Op. 51.) (Tonic Hymn) ...... o Sol-fa, Choruses and Words of Solos only, 43.) .. 7 6 (Vocal Parts, 2S. 6d. each.) SEEK HIM THAT MAKETH THE SEVEN Full Book of with is. or Score, 5 55. Words, Analysis, 4d., STARS (" The Light of Life ") (Op. 29). Tenor Solo and 755. net per 100. Words only, 8d., or 415. 8d. net Chorus for T.T.B.B...... o ico. An of the Libretto by C. V. per Interpretation TE DEUM AND BENEDICTUS IN F. For GORTON, M.A., is. 6d. Vocal Score, with German words Chorus A. and .. .. i (Deutsche Ubersetzung von JULIUS BUTHS), 75. 6d. (s. T.B.), Orchestra, Organ. (Op. 34) 8d. each. Chorstimmen, 35. each. Textbuch, String THEY ARE AT REST. Elegy (Tonic Sol-fa, 2d.) o on Parts, 378. 6d ; Wind Parts hire only. THE LIGHT OF LIFE (" Lux Christi "). A Short Oratorio. For Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, and Baritone Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra. (Op. 29) MOTETS (Latin Words). s Tonic Sol-fa, is. 6d. Full Score, 2 25. ; Words only, 125. 6d. 100. 205. Wind Parts on hire per String Parts, ; only. AVE VERUM (Op. 2, No. l) (Tonic Sol-fa, ijd.).. o CANTATAS. AVE MARIA (Op. 2, No. 2) o s. d. AVE MARIS STELLA No. BANNER OF ST. THE. For Chorus (Op. 2, 3) GEORGE, ME^E (Soprano Solo ad lib.) and Orchestra. (Op. 33) .. ..26 INTENDE VOCI ORATIONIS (Coronation o Full Score, 255. Tonic Sol-fa, is. 6d. Words only, 95. 6d. Offertorium) (Op. 64) too. 125. 6d. 285. per String Parts, ; Wind Parts, nd. BLACK KNIGHT, THE. For Chorus and Orchestra. (Op. 25) ...... 30 is. 6s. Full Score, 315. 6d. Tonic Sol-fa, 6d. Wordsonly, 6d. SONGS. s. d. per 100. String Parts, 135. 6d. ; Wind Parts on hire only. (Vocal Parts, is. 6d. each.) ANGEL'S SONG, THE : "My work is done" CARACTACUS. For Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, (" Gerontius ") (Op. 38). For Mezzo-Soprano and Bass Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra. (Op. 35) . . ..56 AS A SPIRIT DIDST THOU PASS BEFORE Full Score, 3 35. Tonic Sol-fa (Choruses and Words of MINE EYES ("The Light of Life") Op. 29. Tenor .. Solos only), 25. 6d. Book of Words, with Analysis, is. 4d., 66s. net 100 Words or net or 8d. per ; only, 8d., 335. 4d. CHILD ASLEEP, A (Contralto) per ico. String Parts, 365. 6d. ; Wind Parts on hire only. (Vocal Parts, 2s. 6d. each.) FOLLOW THE COLOURS (Marching Song) .. KING OLAF. For Soprano, Tenor, and Bass IN MOONLIGHT (arranged from the Canto popolare Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra. (Op. 30) ...... 46 " In the as. in the Concert-Overture South," Op. 50). (In G, F, Full Score, 3 35. ; Tonic Sol-fa (Choruses only), 6d. and E Book of Words, with Analysis, is. 4d. or 66s. 8d. net per flat) loo. Words or net 100. only, 8d., 335. 4d. per String OH, SOFT WAS THE SONG (Op. 59, No. 3). Parts, 345. 6d. ; Wind Parts on hire only. In D and E (Orchestral Parts in E only) (Vocal Parts, 2s. 6d. each.) No. In and F MUSIC-MAKERS, THE (Op. 69). Ode by Arthur PLEADING (Op. 48, i). A flat, G, O'Shaughnessy. For Contralto Solo, Chorus, and Orchestra . . 40 (Orchestral Parts in G only) Tonic Sol-fa, 25. 6d. ; Vocal Parts, is. 6d. each ; Wordsonly, THE 60, No. 2). In G minor, A minor, 95. 6d. per 100. String Parts, 135. 6d. Wind Parts on RIVER, (Op. and B minor (original). (Orchestral Parts in A minor only) . . SPIRITbF ENGLAND, THE (Op. 80). A poem SWORD SONG, THE (" Caractacus," Op. 35). Set for or by Laurence Binyon. Tenor Soprano Solo, Chorus, In E flat and F (Orchestral Parts in F only) and Orchestra ...... complete 4 o THE Tonic Sol-fa, 25. 6d. Full score, complete, 255. Complete THERE ARE SEVEN THAT PULL IDS. Parts on hire Vocal String Parts, ; Wind only. Parts THREAD ("Grania and Diarmid") (Op. 42). Mezzo-Soprano on hire only. Words only, 125. 6d. per 100. or Baritone Or, Singly No. i). In F, G, and A 1. THE FOURTH OF AUGUST i 6 TORCH, THE (Op. 60, Full Parts in G only) .. Tonic Sol-fa, is.; Score, 135. ; String Parts, 35. 4d.; (Orchestral Wind Parts on hire only. TWILIGHT 59, No. 6). Contralto 2. TO WOMEN 10 (Op. 8d. Full 6 LONDON- : LIMITED. (Julv. NOVELLO AND COMPANY, '. . , : , ':? >; 1 /'": .' '>:-.; . i'.t.-,,! ;' R< HENRY LAWES. Photographed, by permission, from the painting in the Music School Collection. Oxford. MILTON TERCENTENARY, 1908. THE MASQUE OF COMUS BY JOHN MILTON THE ORIGINAL MUSIC BY HENRY LAWES TOGETHER WITH INCIDENTAL MUSIC, DANCES, ETC., BY WILLIAM LAWES AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY SIR FREDERICK BRIDGE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. BARCLAY SQUIRE, (PRICE THREE SHILLINGS.) LONDON: NOVELLO AND COMPANY, LIMITED. NBW YORK : THE H. W. GRAY CO., SOLE AGENTS FOR THE U.S.A. MADE IN ENGLAND PR fli INTRODUCTION. " " Comus is generally supposed to have been written at the instigation MILTON'Sof Henry Lawes. It was first produced "on Michaelmasse night," 1634, in the great hall of Ludlow Castle, probably as part of the festivities which celebrated the arrival of John Egerton, first Earl of Bridgewater, to take up his duties as Lord President of the Council in Wales and the Marches. At this performance the part of the Attendant Spirit was taken by Lawes, while the Lady was represented by Lady Alice Egerton, and the two brothers by Viscount Brackley and the Hon. Thomas is Lord Egerton ; who played the parts of Comus and Sabrina unknown. Brackley, Lady Alice and Mr. Thomas Egerton were the three youngest children of the Earl of Bridgewater : in 1634 tne sister cannot have been more than fifteen, and of her two brothers, "two pleasing black-haired boys," the elder was only twelve : as Lawes was at least thirty-nine the contrast between the performers must have been rather singular. " At a much later date (in 1653) the musician dedicated his Ayres and Dialogues" to Lady Alice and her elder sister, Lady Mary, and from this dedication we know that they " had been his pupils, for Lawes tells them that they excelled most ladies, especially in vocal music, wherein you were so absolute that you gave life and honour to all I set and taught you." The Masque was not printed till 1637, when it appeared anonymously, with a dedication to Lord Brackley by Henry Lawes, in which he says the poem is " so lovely and so much desired that the often copying of it hath tired my pen to give my several friends satisfaction." This edition presents the text practically in the form adopted in all later editions, and it may be accepted as representing the result of Milton's latest revision, but there exist two other versions, both which are of importance in connection with Lawes's music. The first of these is the poet's autograph draft, preserved at Trinity College, Cambridge, and published in facsimile in 1899 by Mr. Aldis Wright. This agrees in a remarkable manner with the second MS. version, preserved in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere, which is very possibly a copy made for the original performance at Ludlow in 1634. Of equal importance (from a musical point of view) with these, is a MS. volume in the possession of the Rev. Dr. Cooper Smith, " which contains Lawes's autograph setting of five songs in Comus" all the music of which there is any proof that he actually wrote for the Ludlow production. Dr. Cooper Smith's MS. formerly belonged in succession to the Rev. William Gostling, Minor Canon of Canterbury, Sir John Hawkins and Dr. Philip Hayes, from whom it passed to an ancestor of the present owner, who has kindly allowed it to be consulted in preparing the present edition. It contains the following songs (all written merely with the voice part and unfigured bass) : " 1. From the Heavens now I fly." " 2. Sweet echo." " 3. Sabrina fair." " " 4. Back, shepherds, back," 2nd part, Noble Lord and Lady bright." " 5. Now my task is smoothly done." A comparison of the Trinity College and Ellesmere MSS. rhows in both different versions of the from that in which it in the editions epilogue appears printed ; moreover, the Ellesmere text agrees with Lawes's musical setting, and shows that the composer 4 INTRODUCTION. " " " seems to have altered the line To the ocean now I fly into From the Heavens now to I fly," and transferred the whole passage the beginning of the play. H. J. Todd, who in 1798 published the Ellesmere MS., surmised that it represented the original form of the poem, yet in the case of another alteration, by which the printed version of the lines : " So may'st thou be translated to the skies, " And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies becomes " So may'st thou be translated to the skies, " And hold a counterpoint to all Heaven's harmonies " " the editor could see in the last line only a professional alteration made by the " composer ! That the expression hold a counterpoint," which is so characteristic of Milton's use of technical musical terms, was in fact his original first thought, is proved by the Trinity MS., in which the words, though carefully erased, can still be detected. Besides these important variations, Lawes's autograph contains other verbal differences are in from the printed editions; they noticed an article by Mr. E. J. Dent in the Monthly Musical Record for August, 1908, where it is pointed out that they receive the support of the Trinity draft, and uphold the theory that the setting of Lawes represents the original form of the Masque as produced at Ludlow. It is curious that no music should exist for Sabrina's song "By the rushy-fringed bank," nor for either the "Light fantastick round" danced by Comus's crew nor the dances in the last scene. Though much instrumental music by William Lawes is still none his brother seems to to us it is extant, by Henry have come down ; therefore possible that he left the dancers to supply their own tunes. The omission of Sabrina's song is more difficult to account for, and it can only be surmised that the performer of the part was no vocalist, and simply spoke the lines. Though Lawes was thirteen years older than Milton, and their political opinions led them into widely divergent paths, their friendship did not end with their collaboration " in the Masque of Comus," for fourteen years later, when Lawes published his and his " brother's Choice Psalmes," there appeared among the commendatory poems the noble " sonnet by Milton (dated in the rough draft in the Trinity MS. February 9, 1645 "), which has done much to immortalize the composer's name. It may well be given " " here, as a fitting prelude to this edition of Lawes's music to Comus : Harry, whose tuneful and well-measur'd song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan Midas' short With ears, committing and long ; Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, for to look wan With praise enough Envy ; To after age thou shalt be writ the man, That with smooth air could'st humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st Verse, and Verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phrebus' quire, That tun'st their happiest lines in hymn or story. Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher Than his Casella, whom he woo'd to sing, Met in the milder shades of Purgatory. W. B. S. NOTES ON THE MUSIC AND SUGGESTIONS FOR PERFORMANCE. No. i. OVERTURE. a. SYMPHONY. b. ALMAIN. " 11 The first scene discovers a wild wood." The A ttendant Spirit descends or enters." It may be assumed that an Overture was played before the rising of the curtain. For " this Overture I have selected a "Symphony" and an Almain," both composed by William Lawes, brother of Henry Lawes. No. 2. SONG (The Attendant Spirit), "FROM THE HEAVENS NOW I FLY." " The Masque originally began with the song, From the heavens now I fly," composed by Henry Lawes. No. 3 "THE KING'S HUNTING JIGG." The entry of Comus (line 93) suggests the next introduction of music. The strains" here employed at the first representation of the Masque are unknown, but they were< probably of a character akin to the sprightly little piece, "The King's Hunting Jigg," composed by Dr. John Bull. No. 4. "SELLINGER'S ROUND." The next opportunity for music is afforded by "The Measure" (after line 144), " In a light fantastic round." This is a country dance, which, according to the " Trinity MS. of the Masque, should be danced in a wild, rude, and wanton antic." " One of the best known of these dances is Sellinger's Round," an arrangement of which, by William Byrd, is here introduced. As the Trinity MS. adds the stage direction "They all scatter," the music might continue to be played while Comus " " addresses the rout until after Our number may affright (line 148). When the rout " has hidden within these brakes and trees," he would at once continue his speech with " the words Some virgin sure," &c. " No. 5. SONG (The Lady), SWEET ECHO." Introduced at line 230, this beautiful song needs no comment, except to say that " the last line was originally And hold a counterpoint to all Heaven's harmonies," which " the Poet afterwards altered to And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies," a in it all form which appears in the printed editions (see Introduction, p. 4). 6 INTRODUCTION. Nos. 6 and '/."THE ROYAL CONSORT" (Two MOVEMENTS). " The second scene (line 658) presents a stately palace, set out with all manner of all deliciousness : soft music, tables spread with dainties," &c. For the "soft music" I have selected a slow movement from "The Royal Consort," composed by William Lawes. In the absence of any specific direction as to the music, the Allegro movement rush in may fitly accompany the incident when the brothers with drawn swords, wrest the glass out of the hand of Comus, and put his rout to flight, as the Attendant Spirit enters (line 814). No. 8. SONG (The Attendant Spirit) AND CHORUS, "SABRINA FAIR." Of this beautiful song (line 859), as set by Henry Lawes, only a portion of the are utilized but the remainder could recited while the chorus splendid words ; be "off the stage" repeats the song. To this end I have arranged it for four voices; an arrangement is also given for three voices (S.S.A.), to be used when the Masque is performed at schools. " No. g.-SONG (Sabrina), BY THE RUSHY-FRINGED BANK." " Sabrina then rises (line 889), and, attended by water-nymphs, sings By the rushy- fringed bank." Lawes does not appear to have set these beautiful words, therefore I " " have ventured to adapt to them the music of his song Phillis, why should we delay? with, I trust, some success. It admirably fits the text without necessitating alteration of the music. No. lo.-SARABAND. Later on (line 922), Sabrina descends and the Lady rises out of her seat. As the introduction of music would certainly add to the impressiveness of the scene, I have selected a dainty little Saraband by William Lawes to be played at this point. a -"J IGG '" No.ii.-jU. "THE MITTER RANT." The stage directions at the beginning of Scene 3 (line 958) include Country Dancers. An appropriate opportunity is thus afforded for some rustic strains. Therefore I have " " selected (a) a spirited Jigg," by William Lawes, and (b) The Mitter Rant," composed by that distinguished lyth century musician, John Jenkins. These pieces, played during the entry of the Attendant Spirit with the two Brothers and the Lady, will be immediately followed by No. 12. SONG (The Attendant Spirit), "BACK, SHEPHERDS, BACK!" Music by Henry Lawes. No. 13. MARCH, "LORD ZOUCHE'S MASKE.' Immediately following the conclusion of the above song, the stage directions are : " This second Noble and them to their Father and song [< Lord, Lady bright '] presents Mother," the Earl and Countess of Bridgewater. It is clear that these high personages INTRODUCTION. 7 who were chief among the audience at the first performance of the Masque should enter here. Their entry upon the stage which in the present day could be made a most imposing feature of the performance offers an effective opportunity for a stately march. " For this I have selected a March, entitled Lord Zouche's Maske," composed by " and in " Giles Farnaby (b. 1560), printed Thomas Morley's Consort Lessons (1599). No. 14. SONG (The Attendant Spirit) AND CHORUS, "NOBLE LORD. AND LADY BRIGHT." To this song, by Henry Lawes (line 966), I have added a harmonised version for four voices, and one for three voices (S.S.A.), the latter to be used when the Masque is performed in schools. No. 15. "SARABAND/' After the song "Noble Lord, and Lady bright," the stage directions read : "The dances ended, the Spirit epiloguizes." Thus it may be assumed that a stately dance of some kind followed the song. For the dance I have selected a charming Saraband, composed by William Lawes, in which a select number of the performers, or even the whole company on the stage, might take part. " " It is at this point (line 976) that the words To the ocean now I fly occur. As these lines (with a slight variant) have already been sung at the opening of the Masque, they may here be merely recited, or the song (No. 2) may be repeated, beginning " To the ocean," &c. No. 16. SONG (The Attendant Spirit), "NOW MY TASK IS SMOOTHLY DONE." The Masque concludes most beautifully and effectively with the above song, by Henry Lawes, Its concluding lines I have arranged for four voices, and also for If three voices (S.S.A.), thus providing a choral ending. an instrumental close is " " considered desirable, Lord Zouche's Maske (No. ^3* could be played. In making these suggestions my desire has been to throw out hints as to where a little music may add interest and brightness to the Masque, without, I venture to think, in any way doing violence to the beautiful poem. Milton allowed Henry Lawes to make a few changes in the text in order to stage the piece, thus creating a precedent which largely justifies the few performing suggestions I have, in a spirit of veneration, endeavoured to set forth. In the songs I have adhered to melodies and basses written by Lawes, and endeavoured to fill in the accompaniments with a due regard to the " " " period at which he wrote. In two instances Sweet echo and By the " rushy-fringed bank I have added short symphonies. J. FREDERICK BRIDGE, November, 1908. An orchestral yrrangement, strings only, of the whole of the music may be had. THE PERSONS. THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT, afterwards in the habit of THYRSIS. COMUS, with his Crew. THE LADY. FIRST BROTHER. SECOND BROTHER. SABRINA, the Nymph. The Chief Persons which presented were: The Lord Brackley ; Mr. Thomas Egerton, his Brother; The Lady Alice Egertcn, COMUS. No. i. OVERTURE. *r a, SYMPHONY. b. ALMAIN. (Editor's note OH p. 5.) The first Scene discovers a wild wood. The ATTENDANT SPIRIT descends or enters and sings. " 2. SONG, FROM THE HEAVENS NOW I FLY." (Editor's note on p. ;.) And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky. There I suck the liquid air, All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about a golden tree. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can show, Beds of hyacinth and roses, many a cherub soft Where" I } rereoosesP' 'S< "1 1 young Adonis oft ) J BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care, Confined and pestered in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful of the crown that Virtue gives, After this mortal change, to her true servants 10 Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats. Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity. such errand is but for To my ; and, such, i would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the r'ink vapours of this sin-worn mould. lo COMUS. But to my task. Neptune, besides the sway Of every salt flood and each ebbing stream, Took in by lot, 'twixt high and nether Jove, 2c Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles That, like to rich and various gems, inlay of the The unadorned bosom deep ; Which he, to grace his tributary gods, By course commits to several government, And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns And wield their little tridents. But this Isle, The greatest and the best of all the main, He quarters to his blue-haired deities; And all this tract that fronts the falling sun 30 A noble Peer of mickle trust and power Has in his charge, with tempered awe to guide An old and haughty nation, proud in arms : Where his fair offspring, nursed in princely lore, Are coming to attend their father's state, new-ir.trusted but their And sceptre ; way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger ; And here their tender age might suffer peril, 40 But that by quick command from sovereign Jove I was despatched for their defence and guard ! And listen why; for I will tell you now r W hat never yet was heard in tale or song, From old or modern bard, in hall or bower. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine, After the Tuscan mariners transformed, Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed. On Circe's island fell. (Who knows not Circe, 50 The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, fell into a ? And downward grovelling swine ) This nymph, that gazed upon his clustering locks, With ivy berries wreathed, and his blithe youth, Had by him, ere he parted thence, a son Much like his father, but his mother more, Whom therefore she brought up, and Comus named: Who, ripe and frolic of his full-grown age, Roving the Celtic and Iberian fields, 60 At last betakes him to this ominous wood, And, in thick shelter of black shades imbowered, Excels his at art mother her mighty ; Offering to every weary traveller His orient liquor in a crystal glass, To quench the drouth of Phoebus; which as they taste (For most do taste through fond intemperate thirst), COMUS. n Soon as the potion works, their human countenance, The express resemblance of the gods, is changed Into some brutish form of wolf, or bear, 70 Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were. And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before, And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Therefore, when any favoured of high Jove Chances to pass through this adventurous glade, Swift as the sparkle of a glancing star 80 I shoot from heaven, to give him safe convoy, As now I do. But first I must put off These my sky-robes spun out of Iris' woof, And take the weeds and likeness of a swain That to the service of this house belongs, Who with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song, Well knows to still the wild winds when they roar. nor of less And hush the waving woods ; faith, And in this office of his mountain watch Likeliest, and nearest to the present aid go Of this occasion. But I hear the tread I Of hateful steps ; must be viewless now. COMUS enter-, with a charming-rod in one hand, his glass in the other; with him a rout of monsters, headed like sundry sorts of wild beasts, but otherwise like men and women, their apparel glistering; they come in making a riotous and unruly noise, with torches in their hands. No. 3. "THE KING'S HUNTING JIGG." (Editor's note on p, 5.) Comus. The star that bids the shepherd fold of Now the top heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay the Atlantic In steep stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal 100 Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Dropping odours, dropping wine. is Rigour now gone to bed ; And Advice with scrupulous head, 12 COM US. Strict Age, and sour Severity, With their grave saws, in slumber lie. no We that are of purer fire Imitate the starry quire, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, to in morrice Now the moon wavering move ; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. By dimpled brook and fountain-brim, The wood-nymphs decked with daisies trim, 120 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep ? better sweets to Night hath prove ; Venus now wakes, and wakens Love. rites Come, let us our begin ; 'Tis only daylight that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veiled Cotytto, to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns ! mysterious dame, 130 That ne'er art called but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom, And makes one blot of all the air! Stay thy cloudy ebon chair, Wherein thou ridest with Hecate, and befriend Us thy vowed priests, till utmost end all left out Of thy dues be done, and none ; Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice Morn, on the Indian steep From her cabined loop-hole peep, 140 And to the tell-tale Sun descry Our concealed solemnity. Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. J No. 4." SELLINGER'S ROUND." (Editor's note on p. 5.) THE MEASURE. Break off, break off! I feel the different pace Of some chaste footing near about this ground. trees Run to your shrouds within these brakes and ; Our number may affright. Some virgin sure (For so I can distinguish by mine art) Benighted in these woods ! Now to my charms, 150 And to my wily trains : I shall ere long Be well-stocked with as fair a herd as grazed COMUS. 13 About my mother Circe. Thus I hurl My dazzling spells into the spongy air, Of power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. And give it false presentments, lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment, to And put the damsel suspicious flight ; Which must not be, for that 's against my course : I, under fair pretence of friendly ends, i6c And well-placed words of glozing courtesy, Baited with reasons not unplausible, Wind me into the easy-hearted man, And hug him into snares. When once her eye Hath met the virtue of this magic dust, I shall appear some harmless villager, Whom thrift keeps up about his country gear. here she I But comes ; fairly step aside, And hearken, if I may, her business here. The LADY enters. Lady. This way the noise was, if mine ear be true, 170 My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose unlettered hinds, When, for their teeming flocks and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence such late wassailers ! where else Of ; yet, oh Shall I inform my unacquainted feet 180 In the blind mazes of this tangled wood ? My brothers, when they saw me wearied out With this long way, resolving here to lodge Under the spreading favour of these pines, Stepped, as they said, to the next thicket-side To bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind hospitable woods provide. They left me then when the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain. 190 But where they are, and why they came not back, Is now the labour of 'tis likeliest my thoughts ; They had engaged their wandering steps too far, And envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish Night, Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars That Nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? 200 j 4 COM US. This is the place, as well as I may guess, Whence even now the tumult of loud mirth in ear Was rife, and perfect my listening ; Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound 210 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience. O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemished form of Chastity ! I see ye visibly, and now believe That He, the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailed 220 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err ; there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. I cannot hallo to my brothers, but Such noise as I can make to be heard farthest I'll venture for new-enlivened ; my spirits Prompt me, and they perhaps are not far off. " i/No. 5. SONG, SWEET ECHO." (Editor's note on p. 5.) Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen 230 Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well : Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ? O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, 240 Sweet Queen of parley, Daughter of the sphere i So may'st thou be translated to the skies, to a" Heaven ' s harmonies! Cotnus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? COM US. 15 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs; Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul, And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause. Yet they in pleasing slumber lulled the sense, 260 it And in sweet madness robbed of itself ; But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now. I'll speak to her, And she shall be my queen. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed, Unless the goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here with Pan or Sylvan, by blest song Forbidding every bleak unkindly fog To touch the prosperous growth of this tall wood. 270 Lady. Nay, gentle shepherd, ill is lost that praise That is addressed to unattending ears : Not any boast of skill, but extreme shift How to regain my severed company, Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch. Comus. What chance, good Lady, hath bereft you thus ? Lady. Dim darkness, and this leafy labyrinth. Comus. Could that divide you from near-ushering guides ? Lady. They left me weary on a grassy turf. 280 Comus. By falsehood, or discourtesy, or why ? Lady. To seek i' the valley some cool friendly spring. Comus. And left your fair side all unguarded, Lady ? Lady. They were but twain, and purposed quick return. Comus. Perhaps forestalling night prevented them. Lady. How easy my misfortune is to hit ! Cotmts. Imports their loss, beside the present need ? Lady. No less than if I should my brothers lose. Comus. Were they of manly prime, or youthful bloom ? Lady. As smooth as Hebe's their unrazored lips. 290 Comus. Two such I saw, what time/the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. I saw them under a green mantling vine. That crawls along the side of yon small hill, 16 COMUS. Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots; Their port was more than human, as they stood: I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I passed, I worshipped : if those you seek, It were a journey like the path to Heaven, To help you find them. Lady. Gentle villager, What readiest way would bring me to that place ? Comus. Due west it rises from this shrubby point. Lady. To find that out, good shepherd, I suppose, In such a scant allowance of star-light, Would overtask the best land-pilot's art, Without the sure guess of well-practised feet. 310 Comus. I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side, walks and ancient My daily neighbourhood ; And if your stray attendance be yet lodged, Or shroud within these limits, I shall know Ere morrow wake, or the low-roosted lark From her thatched pallet rouse : if otherwise, I can conduct you, Lady, to a low But loyal cottage, where you may be safe 320 Till further quest. Lady. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended. In a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be, that I should fear to change it. Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength ! Shepherd, lead on. 330 [Exeunt. Enter the Two BROTHERS. Elder Brother. faint Stars and Unmuffle, ye ; thou, fair Moon, Thou wont'st to love the traveller's benison, Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud, And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here In double night of darkness and of shades ; Or, if your influence be quite dammed up With black usurping mists, some gentle taper, Though a rush-candle from the wicker hole Of some clay habitation, visit us With thy long levelled rule of streaming light. 340 COM US. 17 And thou shalt be our star of Arcady, Or Tyrian Cynosure. Second Brother. Or, if our eyes Be barred that happiness, might we but hear The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes, Or sound of pastoral reed with oaten stops, Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night-watches to his feathery dames, 'Twould be some solace yet, some little cheering, In this close dungeon of innumerous boughs. But, Oh, that hapless virgin, ow lost sister ! 350 Where may she wander now, whither betake her From the chill dew, amongst rude burs and thistles ? Perhaps some cold bank is her bolster now, Or 'gainst the rugged bark of some broad elm Leans her unpillowed head, fraught with sad fears. What if in wild amazement and affright, Or, while we speak, within the direful grasp Of savage hunger, or of savage heat ! Elder Brother. Peace, brother : be not over-exquisite cast the fashion of uncertain evils To ; 360 For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or, if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion ! I do not think my sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon. Second Brother. 'Tis most true That musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, Sir P. Bridge Com us. Novello. B COMUS. And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, 390 His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon-watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit. From the rash hand of bold Incontinence. You may as well spread out the unsunned heaps Of miser's treasure by an outlaw's den, And tell me it is safe, as bid me hope 400 Danger will wink on Opportunity, And let a single helpless maiden pass Uninjured in this wild surrounding waste. or loneliness it recks not Of night me ; I fear the dread events that dog them both, Lest some ill-greeting touch attempt the person Of our unowned sister. Elder Brother. I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state without all doubt or Secure controversy ; Yet, where an equal poise of hope and fear 410 Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion. My sister is not so defenceless left As she has a you imagine ; hidden strengths Which you remember not. Second Brother. What hidden strength, Unless the strength of Heaven, if you mean that ? Elder Brother. I mean that too, but yet a hidden strength, Which, if Heaven gave it, may be termed her own. *Tis chastity, my brother, chastity : 420 She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quivered nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharboured heaths, Infamous and wilds hills, sandy perilous ; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity : Yea, there where very desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time. No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, COM US. 19 Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. Do ye believe me yet, or shall I call Antiquity from the old schools of Greece To testify the arms of chastity ? 440 Hence had the huntress Dian her dread bow, Fair silver-shafted queen for ever chaste, Wherewith she tamed the brinded lioness And spotted mountain-pard, but set at nought and men The frivolous bolt of Cupid ; gods Feared her stern frown, and she was queen o' the woods. What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield That wise Minerva wore, unconquered virgin, Wherewith she freezed her foes to congealed stone, But rigid looks of chaste austerity, 450 And noble grace that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe ? So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal. But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp 4.70 Oft seen in charnel-vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensualty To a degenerate and degraded state. Second Brother. How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. Elder Brother. List ! list ! I hear 480 Some far-off hallo break the silent air. so too what should it Second Brother. Methought ; be? Elder Brother. For certain, Either some one, like us, night-foundered here, Or else some neighbour woodman, or, at worst, Some roving robber calling to his fellows. 20 ' COMUS. Second Brother. Heaven keep my sister ! Again, again, and near ! Best draw, and stand upon our guard. Elder Brother. I'll hallo. If he be friendly, he comes well : if not, Defence is a good cause, and Heaven be for us ! Enter the ATTENDANT SPIRIT, habited like a shepherd. That hallo I should know. What are you ? speak. 490 not too near fall on iron stakes else. Come ; you Spirit. What voice is that ? my young Lord ? speak again. Second Brother. O brother, 'tis my father's Shepherd, sure. Elder Brother. Thyrsis ! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal, And sweetened every musk-rose of the dale. How earnest thou here, good swain ? hath any ram Slipped from the fold, or young kid lost his dam, Or straggling wether the pent flock forsook ? How couldst thou find this dark sequestered nook ? 500 Spirit. O my loved master's heir, and his next joy, I came not here on such a trivial toy As a strayed ewe, or to pursue the stealth Of pilfering wolf; not all the fleecy wealth That doth enrich these downs is worth a thought To this my errand, and the care it brought. ? But, Oh ! my virgin Lady, where is she How chance she is not in your company ? Elder Brother. To tell thee sadly, Shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. 510 Spirit. Ay me unhappy ! then my fears are true. Elder Brother. What fears, good Thyrsis ? Prithee briefly shew. I'll tell 'tis not or Spirit. ye ; vain fabulous, (Though so esteemed by shallow ignorance) What the sage poets, taught by the heavenly Muse, Storied of old in high immortal verse Of dire Chimeras and enchanted isles, And rifted leads to rocks whose entrance Hell ; For such there be, but unbelief is blind. Within the navel of this hideous wood, 520 Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells, Of Bacchus and of Circe born, great Comus, skilled in all witcheries Deep his mother's ; And here to every thirsty wanderer By sly enticement gives his baneful cup, With many murmurs mixed, whose pleasing poison The visage quite transforms of him that drinks, And the inglorious likeness of a beast Fixes instead, unmouldering reason's mintage Charactered in the face. This have I learnt 530 COMUS. ii Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts this bottom whence That brow glade ; night by night He and his monstrous rout are heard to howl Like stabled wolves, or tigers at their prey, Doing abhorred rites to Hecate In their obscured haunts of inmost bowers. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the unwary sense Of them that pass unweeting by the way. This evening late, by then the chewing flocks 540 Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle, and began, Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill; but ere a close The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, filled air And the with barbarous dissonance ; 550 At which I ceased, and listened them a while, Till an unusual stop of sudden silence Gave respite to the drowsy-flighted steeds That draw the litter of close-curtained Sleep. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, 560 And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death : but, Oh ! ere long Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honoured Lady, your dear sister. I fear Amazed stood, harrowed with grief and ; 1 ' And, O poor hapless nightingale, thought I, ' ' How sweet thou sing'st, how near the deadly snare 1 Then down the lawns I ran with headlong haste, Through paths and turnings often trod by day, Till, guided by mine ear, I found the place 570 Where that damned wizard, hid in sly disguise (For so by certain signs I knew), had met Already, ere my best speed could prevent, The aidless innocent lady, his wished prey ; Who gently asked if he had seen such two, Supposing him some neighbour villager. Longer I durst not stay, but soon I guessed I Ve were the two she meant : with that sprung Into swift flight, till I had found you here ; But further know I not. 580 22 COM US. Second Brother. O Night and Shades, How are ye joined with hell in triple knot Against the unarmed weakness of one virgin, Alone and helpless ! Is this the confidence You gave me, brother ? it still Elder Brother. Yes, and keep ; it not a Lean on safely ; period Shall be unsaid for me. Against the threats Of malice or of sorcery, or that power Which erring men call Chance, this I hold firm : Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, but not enthralled Surprised by unjust force, ; 590 Yea, even that which Mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness, when at last, Gathered like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed : if this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. But come, let 's on ! Against the opposing will and arm of Heaven 6oc never this sword be lifted May just up ; But, for that damned magician, let him be girt With all the griesly legions that troop Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras, or all the monstrous forms 'Twixt Africa and Ind, I'll find him out, And force him to return his purchase back, Or drag him by the curls to a foul death, Cursed as his life. Spirit. Alas ! good venturous youth, I love bold thy courage yet, and emprise ; 610 But here thy sword can do thee little stead : Far other arms and other weapons must those that of hellish charms Be quell the might ; He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Elder Brother. Why, prithee, Shepherd, How durst thou then thyself approach so near As to make this relation ? Spirit. Care and utmost shifts How to secure the Lady from surprisal Brought to my mind a certain shepherd lad, Of small regard to see to, yet well skilled 620 In every virtuous plant and healing herb That spreads her verdant leaf to the morning ray : He loved me well, and oft would beg me sing; Which when I did, he on the tender grass Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy, COMUS. 23 And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties. Amongst the rest a small unsightly root, But of he culled out divine effect, me ; 630 The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteemed, and the dull swain Treads on it with his daily clouted shoon ; And yet more med'cinal is it than that Moly That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave. He called it Hsemony, and gave it me, And bade me keep it as of sovereign use 'Gainst all enchantments, mildew blast, or damp, 640 Or ghastly Furies' apparition. I pursed it up, but little reckoning made, Till now that this extremity compelled : But now I find it true for this ; by means I knew the foul enchanter, though disguised, Entered the very lime-twigs of his spells, And yet came off. If you have this about you (As I will give you when we go) you may assault the hall Boldly necromancer's ; Where if he be, with dauntless hardihood 650 And brandished blade rush on him : break his glass, And shed the luscious liquor on the ground, seize his he and his curst crew But wand ; though Fierce sign of battle make, and menace high, Or, like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke, Yet will they soon retire, if he but shrink. lead I'll follow thee Elder Brother. Thyrsis, on apace ; ; And some good angel bear a shield before us ! The Scene changes to a stately palace, set out with all manner of deliciousness : his soft music, tables spread with all dainties. COMUS appears with rabble, and THE LADY set in an enchanted chair; to whom he offers his glass, which she puts by, and goes about to rise. v/No. 6. SLOW MOVEMENT FROM "THE ROYAL CONSORT." (Editor's note on p. 6.) Comus. Nay, Lady, sit : if I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chained up in alabaster, 660 And you a statue, or as Daphne was, Root-bound, that fled Apollo. Lady. Fool, do not boast : Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled, while Heaven sees good. COMUS. Comus. Why are you vexed, Lady ? why do you frown ? nor from these Here dwell no frowns, anger ; gates Sorrow flies far. See, here be all the pleasures That fancy can beget on youthful thoughts, When the fresh blood grows lively, and returns 670 Brisk as the April buds in primrose season. And first behold this cordial julep here, That flames and dances in his crystal bounds, With spirits of balm and fragrant syrups mixed. Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst. Why should you be so cruel to yourself, And to those dainty limbs, which Nature lent 680 For gentle usage and soft delicacy ? But you invert the covenants of her trust, And harshly deal, like an ill borrower, With that which you received on other terms, Scorning the unexempt condition By which all mortal frailty must subsist, Refreshment after toil, ease after pain, That have been tired all day without repast, rest have fair And timely wanted ; but, virgin, This will restore all soon. Lady. 'Twill not, false traitor! 690 'Twill not restore the truth and honesty That thou hast banished from thy tongue with lies. Was this the cottage and the safe abode Thou told'st me of? What grim aspects are these, These ugly-headed monsters ? Mercy guard me ! Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver I Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizored falsehood and base forgery ? And wouldst thou seek again to trap me here With liquorish baits, fit to ensnare a brute ? 700 Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer : none But such as are good men can give good things ; And that which is not good is not delicious To a well-governed and wise appetite. Comus. O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence ! Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth 710 With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks. Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste ? COMUS. 25 And set to work millions of spinning worms, That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk, her sons that corner To deck ; and, no might Be vacant of her plenty, in her own loins She hutched the all-worshipped ore and precious gems, To store her children with. If all the world 720 Should in a pet of temperance feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, The All-giver would be unthanked, would be unpraised, half his riches and Not known, yet despised ; And we should serve him as a grudging master, As a penurious niggard of his wealth, And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons, Who would be quite surcharged with her own weight, And strangled with her waste fertility : The earth cumbered, and the winged air darked with plumes, 730 The herds would over-multitude their lords ; The sea o'erfraught would swell, and the unsought diamonds Would so emblaze the forehead of the deep, And so bestud with stars, that they below Would grow inured to light, and come at last To gaze upon the sun with shameless brows. List, Lady; be not coy, and be not cozened With that same vaunted name, Virginity. is Nature's coin not be Beauty ; must hoarded, be current and the thereof But must ; good 740 Consists in mutual and partaken bliss, Unsavoury in the enjoyment of itself: If you let slip time, like a neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languished head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship : It is for homely features to keep home, had their name thence coarse They ; complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn ? There in these was another meaning gifts ; Think what, and be advised ? you are but young yet. Lady. I had not thought to have unlocked my lips In this unhallowed air, but that this juggler Would think to charm my judgment, as mine eyes, Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments 760 And Virtue has no tongue to check her pride. Impostor ! do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous 26 COMUS. With her abundance ; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare Temperance. If every just man that now pines with want Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered Luxury 770 Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well-dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store ; And then the Giver would be better thanked, His praise due paid : for swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to Heaven amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder. Shall I go on ? Or have I said enough ? To him that dares 780 Arm his profane tongue with contemptuous words Against the sun-clad power of chastity, Fain would I to ? something say ; yet what end Thou hast nor ear, nor soul to apprehend The sublime notion and high mystery That must be uttered to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of Virginity ; And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, 790 That hath so well been her taught dazzling fence ; Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced : Yet, should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be moved to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magic structures, reared so high, Were shattered into heaps o'er thy false head. Comus. She fables not. I feel that I do fear 800 Her words set off by some superior power ; And, though not mortal, yet a cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er, as when the wrath of Jove Speaks thunder and the chains of Erebus To some of Saturn's crew. I must dissemble, And try her yet more strongly. Come, no more ! This is mere moral babble, and direct Against the canon laws of our foundation ; I must not suffer this 'tis but the lees ; yet And settlings of a melancholy blood : 810 But this will cure all one of this straight ; sip Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise, and taste \j L COMUS. 27 The BROTHERS rush in with swords drawn, wrest his glass out of his hand, and break it against the ground : his rout make sign of resistance, but are all driven in. The ATTENDANT SPIRIT comes in. " No. 7. QUICK MOVEMENT FROM THE ROYAL CONSORT." (Editor's note on p. 6.) Spirit. What ! have you let the false enchanter scape ? mistook should have his O ye ; ye snatched wand, And bound him fast : without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless. : be not disturbed I bethink 820 Yet stay ; now me, Some other means I have which may be used, Which once of Melibceus old I learnt, The soothest shepherd that e'er piped on plains. There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : is her name : a Sabrina virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame, Guendolen, 830 Commended her fair innocence to the flood That stayed her flight with his cross-flowing course. The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played, Held up their pearled wrist, and took her in, her to Nereus' hall Bearing straight aged ; Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head, And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodil, And through the porch and inlet of each sense Dropt in ambrosial oils, till she revived, 840 And underwent a quick immortal change, Made goddess of the river. Still she retains Her maiden gentleness, and oft at eve Visits the herds along the twilight meadows, Helping all urchin blasts, and ill-luck signs That the shrewd meddling elf delights to make, Which she with precious vialed liquors heals : For which the shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness loud in rustic lays, And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream 850 Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils. And, as the old swain said, she can unlock The clasping charm, and thaw the numbing spell, If she be right invoked in warbled song; For maidenhood she loves, and will be swift To aid a virgin, such as was herself, I In hard-besetting need : this will try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. 2 8 COM US. " ,No. 8. SONG AND CHORUS, SABRINA FAIR." (Editor's note on p. 6.) Sabrina fair, Listen where thou are sitting 860 Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save ! Listen and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys* grave majestic pace ; 870 By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look, the wizard's And Carpathian hook ; By scaly Triton's winding "\ell, old And soothsaying Glacus' spell ; By Leucothea's lovely hands, And her son that rules the strands ; By Thetis' tinsel-slippered feet, the And songs of Sirens sweet ; By dead Parthenope's dear tomb, And fair Ligea's golden comb, 880 Wherewith she sits on diamond rocks her soft locks Sleeking alluring ; By all the nymphs that nightly dance Upon thy streams with wily glance; Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head From thy coral-paven bed, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answered have. Listen and save ! SABRINA rises, attended by Water-nymphs, and sings. 9. SONG, "BY THE RUSHY-FRINGED BANK." (Editor's note on p. 6.) By the rushy-fringed bank, 890 Where grows the willow and the osier dank, My sliding chariot stays, Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen Of turkis blue, and emerald green, That in the channel strays : Whilst from off the waters fleet Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread. Gentle swain, at thy request 900 I am here ! COMUS. 29 Spirit. Goddess dear, We implore thy powerful hand To undo the charmed band Of true virgin here distressed, Through the force and through the wile Of unblessed enchanter vile. Sabrina. Shepherd, 'tis my office best To help ensnared chastity: Brightest Lady, look on me. 910 Thus I sprinkle on thy breast Drops that from my fountain pure I have kept of precious cure ; Thrice upon thy ringer's tip, Thrice upon thy rubied lip: Next this marbled venomed seat, Smeared with gums of glutinous heat, I touch with chaste palms moist and cold. lost his hold Now the spell hath ; And I must haste ere morning hour 920 To wait in Amphitrite's bower. SABRINA descends, and THE LADY rises out of her seat. No. io. SARABAND. (Editor's note on p. 6.) Spirit. Virgin, daughter of Locrine, Sprung of old Anchises' line, May thy brimmed waves for this Their full .tribute never miss From a thousand petty rills, That tumble down the snowy hills : Summer drouth or singed air Never scorch thy tresses fair, Nor wet October's torrent flood 930 molten fill with Thy crystal mud ; May thy billows roll ashore The and the beryl golden ore ; May thy lofty head be crowned With many a tower and terrace round, And here and there thy banks upon With groves of myrrh and cinnamon.*^...,.^ Come, Lady, while Heaven lends us grace, Let us fly this cursed place, Lest the sorcerer us entice 940 With some other new device. Not a waste or needless sound Till come to holier we ground ; I shall be your faithful guide this covert Through gloomy wide ; 30 COM US. And not many furlongs thence Is your Father's residence, Where this night are met in state Many a friend to gratulate His wished presence, and beside 950 All the swains that there abide With jigs and rural dance resort ; We shall catch them at their sport, And our sudden corning there Will double all their mirth and cheer. let the stars Come, us haste ; grow high, But Night sits monarch yet in the mid sky. The Scene changes, presenting Ludlow Town and the President's Castle : then come in Country Dancers ; after them the ATTENDANT SPIRIT, with the two BROTHERS and THE LADY. "JIGG." NO T T fa.I \b. "THE MITTER RANT." (Editor's note on p. 6.) No. 12. SONG, "BACK, SHEPHERDS, BACK!" (Editor's note on p. 6.) Spirit. Back, shepherds, back ! enough your play, Till next sun-shine holiday : Here be, without duck or nod, 960 Other trippings to be trod Of lighter toes, and such court guise As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades On the lawns and on the leas. " No. 13. MARCH, LORD ZOUCHE'S MASKE." (Editor's note on p. 6.) This second Song presents them to their Father and Mother. No. 14. SONG AND CHORUS, "NOBLE LORD, AND LADY BRIGHT." note (Editor's on />. 7.) Noble Lord, and Lady bright, I have brought ye new delight ; Here behold so goodly grown Thr.ee fair branches of your own : Heaven hath timely tried their youth, 970 Their faith, their patience, and their truth, And sent them here through hard assays With a crown of deathless praise, To triumph in victorious dance O'er sensual folly and intemperance. COMUS. 31 No. 15. "SARABAND." (Editor's note on p. 7.) The dances ended, the SPIRIT epiloguizes. Spirit. To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, in the broad fields of the Up sky ; There I suck the liquid air, 980 All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring ; The Graces and the rosy-bosomed Hours Thither all their bounties bring ; There eternal Summer dwells, And west winds with musky wing About the cedarn alleys fling 990 Nard and cassia's balmy smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue scarf can Than the purfled shew ; And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound 1000 In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen : But far above in spangled sheen Celestial Cupid, her famed son advanced, Holds his dear Psyche sweet entranced, After her wandering labours long, Till free consent the gods among Make her his eternal bride, And from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, 1010 Youth and Joy; so Jove hath sworn. No. 16. SONG, "NOW MY TASK IS SMOOTHLY DONE." (Editor's note on p. 7.) But now my task is smoothly done : I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue : she alone is free ; She can teach ye how to climb 1020 Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. 33 No. 1 . OVEKTURE. (a) SYMPHONY. WILLIAM LAWES. " Arranged from Courtly Masquing Ayres" (1662). Moderate. ^ F-F- pEEiSg&I:^._ ^ _ _ _y-i r ^ f =1= (- v * m 1 1 * : l* .jr-jT-J-" ALMAIN. WILLIAM LAWKS, Allegro con spirito. 5 s P S*i f r r Sir F. Bridge Comus. -Noveflo. C 84 "2nd time. j-j? S" f=S=t i r i +++4 ^F P j= -\- ^~r7 ^zj^.^ -- i -^=3=i=|P| _j. -C*- SCENE I. ^ TFiW Wood. The Attendant Spirit decends or enters and sings. No. 2. SONG." FROM THE HEAVENS NOW I FLY." THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT. HENRY LAWES. 0, fr j 85 :=F=: - - air, All a-midst the gar dens fair Of Hes per-us, and his daughters three That =3-T" ^?"is 4TT1^=^ g g : If -*_: Jr-4-TJSZ_dE rail. Animato. -a^- sing a-bout the gold - en tree. I - ris there with hu - mid bow Wa-ters the o - dorous Animate. ^~ d: - J T r I m * ^ banks, that blow Flow-ers of more min - gled hue Than her pur - fled scarf can shew &&i ^ IF zi: Slower. >rp' - - - - Beds of hy-a cinth and ro ses, Where many a cherub soft re po ses. young A-don-is oft Slower. ^ - < corda, 3 ^ 9(5 Spirit (Line 91). But I hear the tread I Of hateful steps ; must be viewless now. COMUS enters, with a charming -rod in one hand, his glass in the otlttr ; with him a rout of monsters, headed like sundry sorts of wild beasts, but otherwise like men and women, their apparel glistering ; they GI in making a riotous and unruly noise, with torches in their hands. / No. 8. THE KING'S HUNTING JIGG. Allegrofurioso. Dr. JOHN BULL, 1604. A ^8^ ff N i -*- *- _*L. ft^$-2 ; p ^F r\r * i lUJU FINE. A A A rf 4 I r : r** P r tr T "P Hrfrfi X M 4-^ B.C. I II I i 7 ' Com-ns (Line 143). Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. JVo. 4. BELLINGER'S BOUND ; OB, "THE BEGINNING OP THE WORLD." V Harmonised by WILLIAM BYRD. Allegro. ^^Efei& =E=p u*-1 ' '' Z^HA Cw' f> it Ept j=t r -r T ^ ==it ^=i -F F- ^=^-i* r ^ c r c ^ l=^=^y^ ^^^ 38 I'll for new-enlivened Lady (Line 228). venture ; my spirits Prompt me, and they perhaps are not far off iVo. 5. SONG. "SWEET ECHO." THE LADY. HENRY LAWES. - Sweet Ecli-o, sweet est nymph, that liv'st un-seen . Andante. m about 76. tai i=^lEfesiJE' ^ - 3L-3* -Eg * ^Hr ^ ^ - . . . Within thy air y shell By slow Meander's margent green, ' I *--N-. j-i r -6> -.- 3=3F -*-^ r ! t i ! K ^ ^3 a tempo. :m/ zz& - And in thevi o - let-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Night-ly to } Pi a tempo. < *e Unpoco animate. - thee her sad . . . song mourn eth well Canst thou not tell me Un poco animato. ^ E^E^E EE^ . w rit. -,-- C S, - - of a gen tie pair That li - kest thy Nar cis - sus are ? ^ n= -r ^ - 0, if thou have Hid . . them in some flow'r y cave, Tell me but 8 FP J^* 3 f=r>- - - where, Sweet . . Queen of Par ley, Daugh ter of the Sphere ! fc^: ftJ-#M j* f\0rJ^h j- 3 -cr A littlefaster. f rail. A A . -^~*r gffl/3~7'iS^l-^ /^KE - So may'st thou be trans-la-ted to the skies, And hold a coun-ter-point to all Ileav'n's har-mon iesJ give resounding grace A little faster. > 3 H lead on I'll follow thee Elder Brother (Line 657). Thyrsis, apace ; ; And some good angel bear a shield before us I END OF SCENE I. 40 SCENE II. (Line 659.) The Sct.nf. changes to a stately palace, set out with all manner of deliciousness: soft music, tables spread with all dainties. COMCS appears toith his rabble, and THE LADY set in an enchanted chair ; to whom h about to rise. qft'ers his glass, which she puts by, and goes " No. 6. FROM THE ROYAL CONSORT." WILLIAM LAWES. Andante. G>=60. i n d^E5bj3: tf - -*= " -e- t3 -F- pp very smoothly. ^ ,- _J J_J-, J- j -j Hj-j jjj- =ifa: -e* 41 Lady (Line 811) one sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise, and taste .... The BROTHERS rush in ivith swords drawn, wrest his glass out of his hand, and break it against the ground: his rout makes sign of resistance, but are all driven in. The ATTENDANT SPIRIT comes in. No. 7. FROM "THE ROYAL CONSORT." WILLIAM LAWKS. Allegro. ^^f= B-i. g r Tf%^^-g^ Ar.r.4^ " ' w * ' _D*-kr I ^-5- JT 9~*- ^ I fyj J 3 ^ QJ-rfVM^qLj ^V *- 2^^- jcrQc fe* ri ^ i ^ ^ s 4. 4- IP - i t -i ^r-- e ** -3 42 this will I Spirit ( Line 857) try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. " No. 8. SONG (AND CHORUS). SABEINA FAIR." THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT. HENRY LAWES. : rfttl mfc g5' 43 No. Sa, " SABRINA FAIR." (CHORUS.) HENRY LAWES. Arranged for Four Voices by Sir FREDERICK BRIDGE. """^ tL &IOW. SOPRANO. ALTO. TENOR. BASS. ;<* P, K fe. Spirit (Line 887). And bridle in thy headlong wave. Till thou our summons answered have. Listen and save ! SABRIXA rises, attended by Water-nymphs, and 4'uvjs. " 9. SONG. BY THE EUSHY-FRINGELV BANK." SABRINA. HENRY LAWES. Adapted by Sir FREDERICK BRIDGE. -* S M * . frin - ged bank, Where grows the wil-low and the o - sicrdank, My sli - ding :t=|r: a tempo. E :F= cha - riot stays, Thick set with a - gate, and the a - zure sheen Of - - - tur kis blue, and em 'raid green, That in the chan nel strays ; IG*: rail. ?3=F Whilst from off the wa-ters fleet, Thus I set my print less feet rr =3 i i = =]- i 3 I J: j__^ j_ ^-^ 41 ~^" I ^ - V 46 cres. ^ ^ ^ iv iv . 47 SCENE III. She Scene changes (Line 958), presenting Ludlow Town and the President's Castle: then come in Country Dancers; after them the ATTENDANT SPIRIT, leith the two BROTHERS and THE LADY. 11 No. (a) JIGG. ILLIAM LAWES. Con spin^o. f ; 48 (b) THE MITTEB RANT. JOHN JEXKIXS, 15921678. r s is^ -dr ^^ m tfl A A^ A A_ *^ r-w JJ'.rV-fS --^ P- d=i > If this movement is used, a retain must be made to the Jigg (No. lla). No. 12. SONG. "BACK, SHEPHERDS, BACK!" THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT. HENRY LAWES. Briskly and lightly. -.=1=1 - Till next - shine i- Here Back, shepherds, back ! e nough your play, the sun hoi- day: be, Briskly and lightly. 4=112. m =t g ^=^ with-cmt duck or nod, 0-ther trippings to be trod Of lighter toes, and such court guise As ***=*. - 3 ~z=j: *=F Mer-cu-ry did first de - vise With the mincing Dry - a-des On the lawns and on the leas. 1 ' ^ i'n^e?' C^e ar^ and Countess of Eridgtwater and their train while the following stately March is being played. jYo. 13. MARCH. 'LORD ZOUCHE ; S MASKE." GILES FABNABT, J. 1560. In a stately manner. A -I , N ~\ ru- A - _m- -f- -*--*- A ,S J =g= i* rr-7-r-g rgjj"- r -\ L ^^^F^T r \ FINE. fflElEiE? ^^-Jr *- I -br-h I A Sir F. Bridge Comns. Novello. D 60 No. 14. SONG (AND CHORUS)." NOBLE LORD, AND LADY BRIGHT." THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT. HENRY LAWES ' Maestoso. ^SiE^EE - - I have new de - No ble Lord, and La dy bright, brought ye light ; i Maestoso. 4 = about 72. m 4 / esnress. rail. - :^_ i |_=fa== r* ^T be- liold so - fair - Here good ly grown Three branch es of your own : I * 1*^ ^===i:f^* - =g * -fc ^zJ espress. rail. 3= Animate. - Heav'n hath time ly tried their youth, Their faith, their pa tience, and their truth, Animate, _ , ^Soir-a i :5=f i t^-*iiji 'j mf i^ HP TF- |-^ 1 I ' ' - . . less And sent them here . . through hard as says "With a crown of death =X-^| i ^?-((): rail. marcato. = rr^= EaEh^=*n^Ejf^Fg ?^'^ F^H - - praise, To tri - umph in vic-tor-ious dance O'er sen-sual fol- ly and in-tem per ance. ' ^ JP-J 1 m. w M- \ I L ~T^ f r r rail. marcato. w 61 No. Ua. 'NOBLE LORD, AND LADY BRIGHT." (CHORUS.) HENRY LAWES. ' Maestoso. SOPRANO. --^\ ^t ALTO. TENOR. BASS. tzfih r-{^ -P IK h-Jrj_gL- ^ j j.i - Heav'n hath time ly tried their youth, Their faith, their pa tience, and their truth, t/ > i | , n j - -*i 'i - Heav'n hath time - ly tried their youth, Their faith, their pa tience, and their truth, And igiCTg - Heav'n hath time ly tried their youth, Their faith, their pa tience, and their truth, And 3r ^ - Heav'n hath time ly tried their youth, Their faith, their pa tience, and their truth, And Animato.. s J j ii^-HJ J: i if i -H F f~*: i i r P I f y T p Lj i p^ -^ I -P' 1 - And sent them here . . thro' hard as-says With a crown ... of death leas sent them here thro' hard as says With a crown of death -less 1 sent them here thro' hard as says With a crown of death -less " -F r -p ^ ' m U* ^g= - says With a crown of . . death less roll. /TN & - - praise, To tri-mnph in vie- tor-ious dance O'er sen-sual fol-lyand in-tem per ance. IX u ^ 3 *=2 - - - praise, . . To triumph in vic-tor ious dance O'er sen-sual fol-lyand in-tem per ance. rail. fa\ff'^EgJ - - praise, . . To triumph in vie -to ri-ous dance O'er sen-sual fol -ly.and in-tem-per ance. roll. /^. ^q=r =VF^f - - - - - praise, To tri umph in vie- tor ious dance O'er sen-sual fol ly and in-tem per ance. d=J3 ^=* i marcato. 1E$ o. 15. SARABAND. WILLIAM LAWES. ., Moderate. Q-., fr i j crw. v^S-l : J J J ~~S G / 5 -0- ^^^ af r i -&- i irt< (Line 1009). And from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and so Jove hath sworn. Joy ; SONG. "NOW MY TASK IS SMOOTHLY DONE.' THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT. HEXRY LAWES. Allegro. " *= is smooth - Now my task ly done, I can fly, or I can A llegro. * = 1 12. j^~ :M= =^r=?^ ' J^^S=P 4-fl-y:==g=J| g^FgEjzS^ j^jEggpE f Jg%%3= =*=pE ==te; - run Quick ly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed wel-kin slow *~~ """^ i Lento. ^ ^^j^^^^^^i^^^ I -| 1 (5 m -I- 1 / -* *- Animato. iza rail. ^^ . ^ doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the cor- ners of the moon. Animato. ^ ~v i \ =1: ^E 55 Lento, con molto espress. t*0 - - Mor- that : . would fol-low Love Vir tue she . a is . . tals, me, lone free ; Lento, con molto espress. 4 66. ~gj -o- ^ cres. roll. tfc She can teach ye how to climb High - er than the spher A"~ ~^ iron Very slow. S - - it - self to chime ; Or if Vir tue fee ble were Heav'n would stoop her. Very slow. No. 16a. "MORTALS, THAT WOULD FOLLOW ME." (CHORUS.) HENRT LAWES. Lento, con molto esprezs. Arranged by SIR FREDERICK BRIDGE. I SOPRANO. - - - Mor tals, that would fol- low me, Love Vir tue : she . . a ALTO. -* 0t - - - - Mor tals, that would fol- low me, would fol low me, Love Vir tue : she . . a +-*-, 'TENOR. ~P W - - - - Mor that would fol low would fol low Love Vir tue : she a tals, me, me, = : BASS. ^:p=p=gq=H EEE?J - - - a Mor tals, that would fol low me, Love Vir tue : she Lento, con molto espress. 66. ' =3=^qv I j -*- -0- I'^'i ^^-^-1J \'"^r~ 56 ,. ra#. *** ' A __iv_ A _/ . _ >-ft r=r =ZIZi3=fc: *a ^-S> a^ :z^to=aiilE=g^_^j-;'yif-f-g=j ' - is . . er than the lone free ; She can teach ye how to climb High spher cres. A -== A ~ n _ lone is free - er than the - ; She can teach ye how to climb High spher y ral1 - v i> 3td lone is free; She can teach ye how to climb High - er than the spher - y ^ cres. A A f rail. - lone is free She can teach to climb - er than the ; ye how High spher y A . .A, cres. rail. - - it - to her. chime ; Or if Vir tue fee ble were Heav'n self would stoop ^ . - - . to her. chime ; Or if Vir tue fee ble were Heav'n it self would stoop - - - to her. chime ; Or if Vir tue fee ble were Heav'n it self would stoop chimeime if - - it - self would to her. ; Or Vir tue fee, ble were Heav'n stoop ) ifc rfc: j*i_* e>- t -L: !^ For an arrangement of this Chorus for female voices (S.S.A.) see Appendix, p. 61. APPENDIX. No. 8b. " SABKINA FAIR." (FOR FEMALE VOICES.) HEXKT LAWKS. Arranged by Sir FREDERICK I'.KIDQH. Stoic. -l/_ 1st SOPRANO. -5: Sa - bri - - na, Sa - bri - na fair, List - en where 2nd mf _ I SOPRANO. Eg - - - - Sa bri na, Sa bri na fair, List en where ALTO. - - - - Sa bri na, Sa bri na fair, List en where /SYozo. J = 58. -s EEE^=gEF - f f =$ ,1= -&*- 3 ~* ' ^~~ 1 I/ gj J" 1*3 " 146. NOBLE LORD, AND LADY BRIGHT." (FOR FEMALE VOICES.) HENRY LAWES. ' Maestoso. 1st SOPRANO. 2nd SOPRANO. ALTO. 60 _X i_ [^ T"-^~ m ^ /L 5 EU JV'c. 1Gb. "MORTALS, THAT WOULD FOLLOW ME." ( FOR FEMALE VOICES.) HENRY LAWES. Lento, con molto espress. Arranged by Sir FREDERICK BRIDGE. 1st J?- SOPRANO. - - - Mor tals, that would fol-low me, Love Vir tue : she . a 2nd SOPRANO. - - - - Mor tals, that would fol low me, would fol-low me, Love Vir tue : she . a ALTO. >~~fr"Tj* -J- * D ^r - - Mor tals, that would fol-low me, would fol-low me, Love Vir tue : she a Lento, con molto espress. *=66. cm. rail A / ^=^- EE8?E - lone is . . free can teach climb er than ; She ye how to High the spher -- cres. A ~ rail. \~ ^. ^. X. _,V 1 .] T i rxT :d | r, j ^-p [^ [^ -* 0- +--&- 4* I w ^m lone is free teach to climb - er than the - ; She can ye how High spher y cres. A raH- lone is to climb - er than the free ; She can teach ye how High spher A A _ i^g S 3=ti / raO. f rgtoszr^ ^ if - - it - self would to her. chime ; Or Vir tue fee ble were Heav'n stoop ^TN m ff. s - if - - it to chime ; Or Vir tue fee ble were Heav'n self would stoop her. if - - it - self would to her. chime ; Or Vir tue fee ble were Heav'n stoop " ^ 1 v """*""'-t"- /^N ^ Very slow. 2* * tf * f- I ^%^i^^t ?: NOVELLO'S EDITIONS. ORATORIOS, CANTATAS, MASSES, &c. (S.A.T.B. EDITIONS ONLY.) PRICE ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE EACH. T. ADAMS. J. BARNEY. G. M. GARRETT. ACROSS OF CHRIST, THE. tREBEKAH. +HARVEST CANTATA. ^GOLDEN HARVEST, A. THE. M. BARTON. A. R. GAUL. /HOLY CHILD, IN /NATIVITY, THE. MASS, A. tRUTH (CHORUSES ONLY). RAINBOW OF THE. PEACE, BEETHOVEN. H. GOETZ. W. G. ALCOCK. tCHORAL FANTASIA. fBY THE WATERS OF BABYLON. ENGEDI. tNOSNIA. AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE. tMASS, IN C (LATIN WORDS). MASS, IN C. A. M. GOODHART. T. ANDERTON. tMOUNT OF OLIVES. EARL HALDAN'S DAUGHTER. NORMAN BARON, THE. tWRECK OF THE HESPERUS, THE. CH. G. J. BENNETT. GOUNOD. EASTER HYMN THE MORN OF EASTER DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM. E. ASPA. (ON DAY). DE PROFUNDIS (LATIN). GIPSIES, THE. DITTO (ENGLISH). W. S. BENNETT. *tGALLIA. ASTORGA. EXHIBITION ODE. MESSE SOLENNELLE, STE. CfeciLi STABAT MATER. tMAY QUEEN, THE. (LATIN). +WOMAN OF SAMARIA, THE. OUT OF DARKNESS. F. AUSTIN. PASSION. THt. R. tSONGS IN A FARMHOUSE. G. BETJEMANN. tREDEMPTION (PART a). THE SONG OF THE WESTERN MEN. fREDEMPTION (PART BACH. 3). tBIDE WITH US. H. BLAIR. GRAUN. t DITTO (WELSH WORDS). tHARVEST-TIDE. PASSION OF OUR LORD, THB CHRIST LAY IN DEATH'S DARK (CHORUSES ONLY). PRISON. J. BRAHMS. CHRISTIANS, GRAVE YE THIS GLAD SONG OF DESTINY, A. A. GRAY. DAY. SONGS OF LOVE (VOCAL PART DULY). LEGEND OFTHE ROCK-BUOY BELL. +CHKISTMAS i ORATORIO. PARTS a. B. VAN BREE. DITTO DITTO. PARTS 34. J. J. O. GRIMM. DITTO DITTO. PARTS tST. CECILIA'S DAY. SOUL'S ASPIRATION, THE. COME 5-6. fCOME, JESU, (MOTET). A. H. BREWER. HANDEL. COME, REDEEMER OF OUR RACE. O PRAISE THE LORD. FROM DEPTHS OF WOE I CALL ON tACIS AND GALATEA. THEE. SONG OF EDEN,. A. CHANDOS TE DEUM. GIVE THE HUNGRY MANTHY BREAD. F. BRIDGE. DETTINGEN TE DEUM. GOD GOETH UP WITH SHOUTING. J. DIXIT DOMINUS. fGOD SO LOVED THE WORLD. HYMN TO THE CREATOR. EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THB + INCHCAPE THE. tGOD'S TIME IS ROCK, HOUSE. THE BEST. tLORD'S PRAYER, THE. t tISRAEL IN EGYPT EDITION). DITTO (WELSH WORDS). *tROCK OF AGES. (POCKET rHOW BRIGHTLY SHINES YON STAR + TUDAS MACCABEUS (DiTTo). OF MORN. CARISSIMI. tMESSIAH (DITTO). IF THOU BUT SUFFEREST GOD TO *NISI DOMINUS. GUIDE THEE. *JEPHTHAH. O COME, LET US SING. tJESU, PRICELESS TREASURE CHERUBINI. +O PRAISE THE LORD. (MOTET). *FIRST MASS, REQUIEM, IN C MINOR. ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. DITTO (WELSH WORDS). THIRD MASS (CORONATION), IN A. PASSION OF CHRIST (ABRIDGED). JESUS, NOW WILL WE PRAISE THEE. FOURTH MASS, IN C. UTRECHT JUBILATE. JESUS SLEEPS, WHAT HOPE WAYS OF 2ION, THE. REMAINETH. G. F. COBB. LET SONGS OF REJOICING BE MY SOUL TRULY WAITETH. C. A. E. HARRISS. RAISED. SANDS OF DEE, THE. LORD IS A SUN AND THE. M. COSTA. SHIELD, THE. fLORD IS MY SHEPHERD, THE. DREAM, J. HARRISON. LORD, REBUKE ME NOT. CHRISTMAS CANTATA. *tMAGNIFICAT IN D. F. H. COWEN. fHARVEST CANTATA. tMY SPIRIT WAS IN HEAVINESS. +HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP. O CHRIST, MY ALL IN LIVING. B. HARWOOD. O JESU CHRIST, THOU PRINCE OF B. J. DALE. LOVE INCARNATE. i>EACE. tBEFORE THE PALING OF THE tO LIGHT EVERLASTING. STARS. HAYDN. O PRAISE THE LORD FOR ALL HIS H. +CREATION, THE (POCKET EDITION). MERCIES. W. DAVIES. FIRST MASS, IN B FLAT. RIEL. O TEACH ME, LORD, MY DAYS TO tHERVf FIRST MASS, IN B FLAT (LATIN). NUMBER. ODE ON TIME. SECOND MASS, IN C (LATIN). PRAISE OUR GOD WHO REIGNS IN T. F. DUNHILL. THIRD MASS, IN D (LATIN). THIRD IN D. HEAVEN. tTUBAL CAIN. MASS, PRAISE THOU THE LORD, JERU TE DEUM. SALEM. E. ELGAR. SEASONS, THE, FROM : READY BE, MY SOUL, AWAY. tFOR THE FALLEN. tSPRING. KISE.O SOUL.THIS HAPPY MORNING. tFOURTH OF AUGUST, THE. SUMMER. SAGES OF SHEBA, THE. TE DEUM AND BENEDICTUS, IN F. AUTUMN. tSLEEPERS, WAKE. WINTER. SPIRIT ALSO HELPETH US, THE R. F. ELLICOTT. SEASONS, THE (CHORUSES ONLY). (MOTET). ELYSIUM. tSTRONGHOLD SURE, A. E. HECHT. R. THERE IS NOUGHT OF SOUNDNESS FRANZ. O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE IN ALL MY BODY. PRAISE YE THE LORD. THOU GUIDE OF ISRAEL. H. M. HIGGS. WAILING, CRYING, MOURNING, N. W. GADE. ERL KING, THE. WATCH YE, PRAY YE. [SIGHING. tCHRISTMAS EVE. WHEN WILLGOD RECALL MYSPIRIT. +ERL-KING'S DAUGHTER, THE. F. KILLER. WHOSO DOTH OFFER THANKS. ZION. tSONG OF VICTORY, A. The Works marked * have Latin and English Words. Those marked thus t may be had in the Tonic Sol-fa Notation. Cantatas, &c., for Female and Male voices (see Novello's Catalogues). LONDON : NOVELLO AND COMPANY, LIMITED. NEW YORK : THE H. W. GRAY CO., SOLE AGENTS FOR THE U.S (Aug.. 1926) ORATORIOS, CANTATAS, MASSES, &c, (S.A.T.B. EDITIONS ONLY.) PRICE ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE EACH. G. HOLST. S. NORTH. A. B. SMITH. ODE ON A GRECIAN URN. tIN THE MORNING. IN GLORIOUS FREEDOM. ODE TO DEATH. PALESTRINA. A. M. SMITH. HUMMEL. ODE TO THE NORTH-EAST WIND FIRST MASS, IN B FLAT. SURGE ILLUMINARE. SECOND MASS, IN E FLAT. THIRD MASS, IN D. H. W. PARKER. SPOHR. CHRISTIAN'S PRAYER, THE. THE. A. KOBOLDS, tGOD, THOU ART GREAT. JENSEN. HYMN TO ST. CECILIA. tFEAST OF ADONIS, THE. tLAST THE. C. H. H. PARRY. JUDGMENT, W. tBLEST PAIR OF SIRENS. JORDAN. tCHIVALRY OF THE SEA, THE D. STEPHEN. BLOW YE THE TRUMPET IN ZION. (NAVAL ODE). tLAIRD O'COCKPEN, THE. GLORIES OF OUR BLOOD AND E. H. LEMARE. STATE, THE. TE DEUM LAUDAMUS (CORONATION). S. STOCKER. 'TIS THE SPRING OF SOULS TO-DAY' SONG OF THE FATES. C. PINSUTI. L. LEO. DIXIT DOMINUS. PHANTOMS. S. STOJOWSKI. SPRINGTIME. C. H. LLOYD. E. PROUT. O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD. FREEDOM A. SULLIVAN. SONG OF BALDER, THE. fHUNDREDTH PSALM, THE. EXHIBITION ODE. tTE DEUM (THANKSGIVING). H. MAcCUNN. PURCELL. tLORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER. TE DEUM AND IN D. A. G. THOMAS. tWRECK OF THE HESPERUS, THE. JUBILATE, tTE DEUM, IN D. tSUN WORSHIPPERS, THE. TE DEUM, IN D (LATIN). G. A. MACFARREN. E. H. THORNE, tMAY DAY. ROMBERG. OUTWARD BOUND. BE MERCIFUL UNTO ME. HARMONY OF THE SPHERES, THE. tLAY OF THE BELL, THE. B. A. C. MACKENZIE. TE DEUM. TOURS. fTRANSIENT AND THE ETERNAL, FESTIVAL A. (BRIDE, THE. THE. ODE, WAGNER. MENDELSSOHN. ROSSINI. FLYING DUTCHMAN (A SELRCriOX IAS THE HART PANTS. MATER. FROM ACT tATHALIE. TSTABAT 2). AVE MARIA (SAVIOUR OF SINNERS) tCHRISTUS. ED. SACHS. E. WALKER. tCOME, LET US SING. KING CUPS. HYMN TO DIONYSUS, A. tELIJAH (POCKET EDITION). WATER-LILIES. DITTO (CHORUSES ONLY). ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. IFESTGESANG (HYMNS OP PRAISE) WEAR MY PRAYER. SCHUBERT. C. M. tHYMN OF PRAISE (LoBGESANG). WEBER. t'LAUDA SION. MASS, IN A FLAT. JUBILEE CANTATA. tLORD, HOW LONG. MASS, IN B FLAT. *MASS, IN E FLAT. ILORELEY. MASS, IN C. "MASS, IN G. MAN IS MORTAL. fMASS, IN F. PRECIOSA. NOT UNTO US. MASS, IN G. THREE SEASONS. tST. PAUL (POCKET EDITION). tSONG OF MIRIAM. DITTO (CHORUSES ONLY). tWALPURGIS NIGHT, THE FIRST. SCHUMANN. S. WESLEY. fWHEN ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT DIXIT DOMINUS. CAME. ADVENT HYMN, "IN LOWLY GUISE." KING'S SON, THE. MEYERBEER. MANFRED. S. S. WESLEY. MIGNON'S REQUIEM. OLORD, THOU ART MY GOD. gisr PSALM (LATIN). fNEW YEAR'S SONG. gisT PSALM (ENGLISH). PILGRIMAGE OF THE ROSE, THE. J. E. WEST. MOZART. LORD, I HAVE LOVED THE HABI H. SCHUTZ. HOUSE. KING THAMOS. TATION OF THY PASSION OF OUR LORD, THE. SONG OF ZION, A. MASS, INC (No. i). MASS, IN BD (No. 7) (LATIN). MASS, IN G (No. 12) (LATIN). B. L.-SELBY. C. WOOD. MASS, IN G (No. 12) (ENGLISH). TO THE WEST WIND. . tMASS, IN G (No. 12). DYING SWAN, THE. ODE MASS, REQUIEM, IN D MINOR (No. i (LATIN). E. R. T. WOODMAN- tMASS, REQUIEM, IN D MINOR SILAS. (No. 15). MASS, IN C. FALMOUTH. The Works marked * have Latin and English Words. Those marked thus t may be had in the Tonic Sol-fa Notation. LONDON : NOVE? .LO AND COMPANY, LIMITED. lAug.. COMPOSITIONS BY EDWARD ELGAR. VOCAL. PART-SONGS PART-SONGS (MALE VOICES). continued. (Mixed Voices). THE Unaccompanied (unless otherwise stated). s. d. WANDERER, (Sol-fa, 3 d.) ZUT! ZUT! ZUT! (Remember) (Sol-fa, 3d. AFTER MANY A DUSTY MILE (Sol-fa, 3d.) .. o 4 Staff ANGELUS (Tuscany) (Op. 56, No. i) (Sol-fa, 2(1.) o 6 BIRTHRIGHT, THE (Unison School Song) and Sol-fa Notations BIRTHRIGHT, THE (Marching Song) together D.TTO, for Unison-Singing FOLLOW THE COLOURS (Unison). Marching (Bugle and Drum parts, on hire only.) song for soldiers (Voice Parts, 3d.) (Sol-fa, 3d.) t Orchestral Parts may be had. CIIRISTMAS GREETING, A 52). For two (Op. IT COMES FROM THE MISTY AGES (Unison) Sopranos (Soli or Chorus), Tenor and Bass Chorus, ad lib. (" The Banner of St. George "). (Staff and Sol-fa Notations \Vithaccompaniment for two Violins and Pianoforte (Sol-fa, 4d.) (Sol-fa 2d.) Violin Parts, 8d. each. together) only, DEATH ON THE HILLS (7 parts) 72) ~ ' (Op. o 8 (Sc 1-fa, 6d.) PART-SONGS (Female Voices). EVENING SCENE (Sol-fa, 3d.) ...... (Accompanied.) FEASTING I WATCH (Sol-fa, 3d.) ...... o 4 FLY, SINGING BIRD (Arranged byj. POINTER) AS TORRENTS IN SUMMER ("King Olaf") (Op. 26, No. 2) (Sol-fa, 4 d.) ...... (Sol-fa, ad.) THE No. 2) FOUNTAIN, (5 Parts) (Op. 71, CHRISTMAS GREETING, A (Op. 52). With (Sol-fa, 6d.) ...... accompaniment for two Violins and Pianofoite. (Sol-fa, 4d.) FOUR PART-SONGS (Op. 53) (Sol-fa, is. 6d.) Violin Parts, 3d. tach. Complete.. DOUBT NOT THY FATHER'S CARE (Op. 29) Or, separately ("The Light of Life"). (Sol-fa, i id.) 1. There is sweet music (S parts) (Sol-fa, 6d.) o 8 in soul 2. Deep my (6 parts) (Sol-fa, 4tL) iFLY, SINGING BIRD (Op. 26, No. 2). With Ditto, German Words o 6 accompaniment for two Violins and Pianoforte. (Sol-fa. ,;d ) O wild West wind (8 (Sol-fa, 4d.) .. o 6 3. parts) Violin Parts, 8d. each. (Full Score, 7 s. 6d.) 4. Owls (an Epitaph) (5 parts) (Sol-fa, 3d.) .. o 6 HOW CALMLY THE EVENING (Sol-fa, 3d.) .. GO, SONG OF MINE (6 parts) (Op. 57) (Sol-fa, 4d.) o 8 DWELT IN A NORTHERN LAND GOD SAVE THE KING (Arranged) (Sol-fa, ijd.) o 4 MY LOVE (Full Score, 45.) (Sol-fa, 3 d.) HOW CALMLY THE EVENING (Sol-fa, 2d.) UPRAISE TO THE HOLIEST ("Dream of Gerontius Chorus and S.S.A. A. IT 'S OH ! TO BE A WILD WIND (Sol-fa, ad.) j ") (Op. 38). Semi-Chorus, (Sol-fa, 3d.) LOVE (Op. 18, No. 2) (Sol-fa, 3d.) ...... 6 tSNOW, THE (Op. 26, No. i). With accom- LOVE'S TEMPEST (5 (Op. 73, No. i) parts) paniment for two Violins and Pianoforte. (Sol-fa, 4d.) (Sol-fa, 6d.) ...... Violin Parts, 8d. each. (Full Score, 75. 6d.) MY LOVE DWELT IN A NORTHERN LAND SPANISH SERENADE (Stars of the summer (Sol-fa, 2d.) ...... night). With Accompaniment for two Violins and Pianoforte DITTO, German words ...... (Op. 23) (Sol-fa, 4d.) O HAPPY EYES (Op. 18) (Sol-fa, 2d.) ...... 3 Violin Parts, 8d. each. REVEILLE, THE (Sol-fa, 6d.) ...... 8 t Editions with German Words may also be had. Orchestral Parts mav be had. SERENADE (Op. 73, No. 2) (Sol-fa, 46.) .. .. 06 THE No. .. SHOWER, (Op. 71, i) (Sol-fa, 4d.) 06 SEPARATE NUMBERS SNOW, THE. (Arranged by J. POINTER) (Op. 26, No. i) (Sol-fa, 4d.) ...... FROM THE .SPANISH SERENADE (Stars of the Summer Night) (Op. 23) (Sol-fa, 3 d.) (Full Score, 73. 6d.) .. .. CHORAL WORKS, WIND WEARY OF THE WEST (Sol-fa, 2d.) APOSTLES, THE (Op. 49). s . d. the is . . . . o 3 WHETHER I FIND THEE (Sol-fa, 2d.) .. .. Prologue. The Spirit of Lord upon me WITH PROUD Words BANNER OF ST. THE THANKSGIVING(Chorus)." GEORGE, (Op. 33). LAURENCE BINVON. from For the by Arranged Fallen," It comes from the misty ages. Epilogue (March) (Sol-fa. 3d.) o 6 for with for or Brass S.A.T.B., accompaniment Military Band, Ditto (Unison Song) (arranged) (Sol-fa, 2d.) .. ..04 ur Organ, or Pianoforte (Sol-fa, 6d.) ...... Ba:id Brass Band Military Accompaniment, 95. ; Accompani- CARACTACUS (Op. 35). alert EA. CAST ME FROM HEIGHTS OF THE Britons, (Sol-fa, 2d.) ...... 04 Lament (O, my warriors) (Sol-fa, 2d.) ...... o \ MOUNTAINS (Sol-fa, ad.) ...... The March triumphal thunders (Sol-fa, 3d.) .. .. o 3 Orchestral Parts may be had. DREAM OF GERONTIUS (Op. 38). PART-SONGS (Male Voices). Softly and gently, dearly ransomed soul (Full Score, 95.) . . o 3 Litany ...... T.T.B.B. otherwise ..03 (unless stated). Be merciful ...... 04 Go forth ...... ( U naccom pan ied. ) upon thy journey. ..06 Praise to the Holiest (Sol-fa, 06 AS TORRENTS IN SUMMER ("King Olaf") 3d.) for A.T.B.B. .. (Op. 30). Arranged KING OLAF (Op. 30). FIVE PART-SONGS Nos. i .. (Op. 45, 5) A little bird in the air (Sol-fa, 41!.) 08 words from the Greek (The Anthology.) As torrents in summer (Sol-fa, ijd.) ...... words ..03 Or, separately, English only . . . . . Ditto (arranged for male voices) . ..03 After a mile .. many dusty (Sol-fa, 3d.) Ditto (arranged for female voices) (Sol-fa, 2d.) .. ..03 I watch .. Feasting (Sol-fa, 3d.) The challenge of Thor (Sol-fa, 3d.) ...... o o It's oh! to be a wild wind (Sol-fa, ijd.) The Wraith of Odin (Sol-fa, 3d.) 06 Whether I find thee (Sol-fa, tjd.) > ea, cast me from heights of the mountains (Sol-fa, 3d.) LIGHT OF LIFE, THE (Op. 29). Vocal Parts (German words 3d. each. only), Doubt not thy Father's care (Sol-fa, ijd.) ...... 03 of the we HERALD, THE Light World, know Thy praise (Sol-fa, 3d.) .. 04 (Sol-fa, sd.) Seek Him that maketh the seven stars (Male Voices) .. o S REVEILLE, THE (Sol-fa, 6d.) . Orchestral Parts may be had of the above Choruses. LONDON: NOVELLO AND COMPANY, LIMITED. YORK: H. (Feb . 1928.) NEW THE W. GRAY CO., SOLE AGENTS FOR THE U.S.A. G. HENSCHEL PROGRESSIVE STUDIES FOR THE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. IN TWO PARTS. PART I. STUDIES IN SUSTAINED SINGING, PART II. STUDIES IN FLORID Sixor d. PART I. HIGH VOICE ...... 4 o PART II. 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FIFTY VOCALISES FOR TWO VOICES (SOPRANO AND MEZZO-SOPRANO, OR TENOR AND SOPRANO, OR TENOR AND BARITONE). IN Two PARTS. Nos. to Part I. Containing Nos. I to 30. Part II. Containing 31 50. Price Three Shillings each Part. MARCO BORDOGNI TWENTY-FOUR VOCAL EXERCISES FOR MEZZO-SOPRANO Price Two Shillings and Sixpence. LONDON: NOVELLO AND COMPANY, LIMITED. (January, 1925.) PR Milton, John 355^ The masque of Comus Al 1008 PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE CARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY