Gentle manners, virtuous lives - Webbe, Samuel

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⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Glees ♬ Voicing → SATBB ¶ Language → English

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 3

CPDL # 67372

Editor Christopher Shaw

Posted 2022-01-03

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¶Lyrics / Text

Gentle manners, virtuous lives, Make easy husbands, happy wives; These are the only means we know To make a little heav'n below. Angry manners, vicious lives, Make wretched husbands, cursed wives; And hence such evils take their birth, Which make a little hell on earth. Two easy things will satisfy mankind; An easy fortune and an easy mind: But the one thing that gives a man content Is a good conscience from a life well spent.