A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z359

composer

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

1681

author of text

Anonymous

Recordings

Purcell: Secular solo songs, Vol. 1

The King's Consort

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Purcell: The complete secular solo songs

The King's Consort

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Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), The King's Consort

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English

A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z359

A thousand sev’ral ways I tried was first published in Playford’s fifth book of Choice Ayres and Songs (1684) but appears in an earlier manuscript in the British Museum which is dated around 1681. The lover desperately tried not to show his passion (a word which, in Purcell’s setting, leaps up a ninth), knowing that he was unworthy (the phrase descends as he sings this). But by keeping away he ‘Did so increase my wretched pain’ that he returned, preferring that his love would cut him ‘By the swift fate of your disdain’.

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