SYLVIA FOR SHAME. English, Air (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune was set by Captain Pack and was printed in Aphra Behn's (1640-1689) Poems upon several occasions with, A voyage to the island of love.
A Pox upon this needless Scorn: Sylvia for shame the Cheat give o'er: The End to which the Fair are born, Is not to keep their Charms in store: But lavishly dispose in haste Of Joys which none but Youth improve; Joys which decay when Beauty's past; And who, when Beauty's past, will love?
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol. 1), 1953, p. 156.
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