Court Odes: With cheerful hearts let all appear


 Selected item (#2004) = With cheerful hearts let all appear
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incipit (first line(s), normalized): With cheerful hearts let all appear
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the item's genre (general): ode
the item's genre (specific): New Year
the institution/place or purpose 
for which the work was first destined:
English court
the work's year (or focal date, if known): 1690
author of the text: Thomas Shadwell
composer of the music: John Blow
Number of texts stored: 1  
  • Selected text (below): #101 / Source: GB-Lcm, MS 1097, f. 189
 Selected text (#101) / Source: GB-Lcm, MS 1097, f. 189  
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GB-Lcm, MS 1097
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f. 189
type of source: MS, music and words
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Symphony
Vers.

With Chearfull Hearts let all appear
to welcome ye beginning Year
Cho.
With chearfull Hearts let all appear
with Chearful voice let all appear
to welcome ye beginning Year.

And offer up our Vows & prayer
For ye Illustrious happy paire
The Brave the wise the good the fair
Cho.
Be now more Joyes of each of ym possest
then e’re found roome in any Royall Breast

The joy wch the all quickening Spring
imparts to every liveing thing
wch does ye Chirping feather’d Quire
wth Musick and with Love inspire
Repairing all ye Vigour Lost
by Churlish Winters Killing frost

vers 3 voc:
This joy posses their Minds
This warmth posses their Vaines
Cho: Over quick
With long life This joy possess their Minds
vers
This warmth possess their veines
With long life free from disease or paines

vers
In every Joy may they have part
produc’d by Nature or supply’d by Art
what joyes a plenteous harvest yields
From Laden Meads and Burthen fields
with store of Lambs and ye Large fleece
and loving heards wth vast increase
and these wch the plump vintage brings
all the delights and Ornaments of peace be wth this pare
tho seldom known to Kings.

Vers
What unambitious Amrous youth
e’re felt in Beauty Love and truth
Or those ye fierce young Heroes find
when Laurell wreaths their Temples bind
with Sprightly Poets warm’d wth wine can feign
In the most Exalted vein

[Chorus]
Be nere this pare
and yet more solid joy
wch nought wth:out ym can destroy

The joy of well gotten Large renown
the Conscience of a mighty Deed well done
wch this Great pare may call their own
For sure it was a mighty deed
wch none in fame can e’re exceed
to raise us when oppres’d at our Extreamest need
vers
The joy for us their Royall Vertues make
the joy wch they in one another take
Cho.
The joy wch they in one another take
be ever with them
and what more their eager wishes can explore
till time shall be no more.


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