Love thou art best of human joys, Z 596/1 - Purcell, Henry

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"From the incidental music to ''The Female Virtuosos''."

⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre / Form → Arias ♬ Voicing → Solo SS ¶ Language → Latin

Parts 2

Instruments Basso continuo

Pages 5

CPDL # 16380

Editor William Long

Posted 2008-03-18

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

Love thou art best of Humane Joys: Our chiefest happiness below; All other Pleasures are but Toys, Musick without that is but Noise and Beauty but an empty show. Heaven who knew best what Men cou'd move, And raise his thoughts above the Brute; Said let him Love; That, that, that alone, must his Soul improve; Howe'er Philosophers dispute.