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==General Information==
==General Information==

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Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2009-04-11).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 41 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: To all you ladies now at hand
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1636-1706)
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: ATB

Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella (originally). Piano accompaniment added by William Horsley (1774-1858).
Published: Not known

Description: a three part glee, also known as "The new mariners", to distinguish it from "The mariners" ("Ye gentlemen of England")

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

To all you ladies now at land

by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1636-1706)

To all you ladies now at land
We men at sea indite;
But first would have you understand
How hard it is to write:
The Muses now, and Neptune too,
We must implore to write to you--
With a fa, la, la, la, la!


[For though the Muses should prove kind,
And fill our empty brain,
Yet if rough Neptune rouse the wind
To wave the azure main,
Our paper, pen, and ink, and we,
Roll up and down our ships at sea--
With a fa, la, la, la, la!

Then if we write not by each post,
Think not we are unkind;
Nor yet conclude our ships are lost
By Dutchmen, or by wind:
Our tears we'll send a speedier way,
The tide shall bring 'em twice a day--
With a fa, la, la, la, la!

The King with wonder and surprise
Will swear the seas grow bold.
Because the tides will higher rise
Then e'er they us'd of old;
But let him know it is our tears
Bring floods of grief to Whitehall stairs--
With a fa, la, la, la. la!

Should foggy Opdam chance to know
Our sad and dismal story,
The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe,
And quit their fort at Goree;
For what resistance can they find
From men who've left their hearts behind?-
With a fa, la, la, la, la!

Let wind and weather do its worst,
Be you to us but kind;
Let Dutchmen vapour, Spaniards curse,
No sorrow we shall find;
'Tis then no matter how things go,
Or who's our friend, or who's our foe--
With a fa, la, la, la, la!

To pass our tedious hours away
We throw a merry main,
Or else at serious ombre play;
But why should we in vain
Each other's ruin thus pursue?
We were undone when we left you--
With a fa, la, la, la, la!

But now our fears tempestuous grow
And cast our hopes away,
Whilst you, regardless of our woe,
Sit careless at a play:
Perhaps permit some happier man
To kiss your hand, or flirt your fan--
With a fa, la, la, la, la!

When any mournful tune you hear
That dies in ev'ry note,
As if it sigh'd with each man's care
For being so remote,
Think then how often love we've made
To you, when all those tunes were play'd--
With a fa, la, la, la, la!]

In justice you cannot refuse
To think of our distress,
When we for hopes of honour lose
Our certain happiness;
All those designs are but to prove
Ourselves more worthy of your love--
With a fa, la, la, la, la!

And now we've told you all our loves,
And likewise all our fears,
In hopes this declaration moves
Some pity from your tears:
Let's hear of no inconstancy,
We have too much of that at sea--
With a fa, la, la, la, la!

Note only first 10th and 11th verses were part of the musical setting.