Alfred Deller sings "Shall I Come, Sweet Love, to Thee" - Thomas Campion

Video footage of the great English countertenor singing Thomas Campion's Elizabethan love-song. Robert Spencer, lute.

Here is a link to my Deller playlist: http://www.youtube.com/user/kadoguy2006#grid/user/518189837228B363

Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee
When the evening beams are set?
Shall I not excluded be,
Will you find no feigned let?
Let me not, for pity, more
Tell the long hours at your door.
Who can tell what thief or foe,
In the covert of the night,
For his prey will work my woe,
Or through wicked foul despite?
So may I die unredrest
Ere my long love be possest.

But to let such dangers pass,
Which a lover's thoughts disdain,
'Tis enough in such a place
To attend love's joys in vain:
Do not mock me in thy bed,
While these cold nights freeze me dead.

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Music

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• alfred deller Shall I come
• sweet Loue
• to thee

[TheDantarez]

great, really great

[viviavalon]

Thank you so much for this video!

[Walvis2007]

Fabulous!!!

[sweetascandyism]

Think no one can sing these songs of the elisabethan age better than him.

[jawisher]

This is one of my favorite Elizabethan songs, and I have been waiting for someone to post it. Thank you!

[pierodellafrancesca]

Where on earth did you get this wonderful video? Thank you so much for posting it.