Rail no more, ye learned asses - Boyce, William

📄

Preview not generated yet

Open PDF ↗

PDF MIDI MXL

Download PDF Download MIDI

Loading player...

⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre → Arias

♯ Key A minor

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → Solo Bass

◆ Difficulty

Advanced

↕ Range G1 – C6

♩ Tempo animato (120)

◷ Duration ~2 min

¶ Language → English

Measures 61

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 4

CPDL # 7407

Editor Robert Nottingham

Posted 2004-06-30

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Baritone

G2 – D4

Piano

G1 – E4

¶Lyrics / Text

Rail no more, ye learned asses, 'Gainst the joys the bowl supplies, Sound the depth and fill your glasses, Wisdom in the bottom lies. Fill them higher yet and higher, Shallow draughts perplex the brain; Sipping quenches all our fire, Bumpers light it up again. Draw the scene for wit and pleasure, Enter Jollity and Joy, We for thinking have no leisure, Manly mirth is our employ. Since in life there's nothing certain We'll the present hour engage, And when Death shall drop the curtain With applause we'll leave the stage.