As a decrepit father takes delight - Gray, Michael

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"Part of an on-going collection of SAB settings of Shakespeare's Sonnets"

◈ Genre → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SAB ¶ Language → English

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 6

CPDL # 55606

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2019-10-14

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

¶Lyrics / Text

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spight Take all of my comfort of thy worth and truth. For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit, Or any of these all, or all, or more Intitled in their parts, do crownéd sit, I make my love ingrafted to this store: So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis'd Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give That I in thy abundance am suffic'd, And by a part of all thy glory live: Look what is best, that best I wish in thee, This wish I have, then ten times happy me.