On Chloe Sleeping (Thomas Arne)

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• (Posted 2023-11-07)  CPDL #77051: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-11-07).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 296 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes the original instrumental accompaniment.

• (Posted 2023-11-07)  CPDL #77050: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-11-07).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 126 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes a keyboard reduction of the original instrumental accompaniment.

General Information

Title: On Chloe Sleeping
Composer: Thomas Arne
Lyricist: William Shakespeare (adapted)
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo,Violin

First published: 1748
Description: The setting of a text (adapted by Arne) from The Rape of Lucrece, probably written for performance at Vauxhall.

Original text and translations

English text

One of her hands one rosy cheek lay under,
Coz'ning the pillow of a lawful kiss,
Which therefore swell'd and seem'd to part asunder,
As angry to be robb'd of such a bliss.
The one look'd pale, and for revenge did long
While t'other blush'd, 'cause it had done the wrong.

Out of the bed the other fair hand was,
On a green satin quilt, whose perfect white
Look'd like a daisy in a field of grass,
And appeared like unmelt snow unto the sight;
So lay this pretty fair one safe to keep
Her lovely form that there lay fast asleep.