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John Potter
(c.1734 - c.1813)
Cupid's recruiting serjeant (cantata)
(Soprano/Tenor,Violin,Continuo)
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Cupid's recruiting serjeant (cantata)
(Soprano/Tenor,Violin,Continuo)
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149285 : Potter : Cupid's recruiting serjeant (cantata) : sheet music
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Written for performance at Vauxhall and sung by Joseph Vernon in !771 and subsequent seasons. The core song, stripped of its neo-classical accoutrements, proved popular and was recorded in printed collections and tune books in both Great Britain and North America.
Lyrics: Anon
From Paphos isle, so famed of old, I come
To raise recruits, with merry fife and drum.
The Queen of Beauty here by me invites
Each nymph and swain to taste of sweet delights.
Obey the call and seek the happy land,
Where Captain Cupid bears the sole command.
Ye nymphs and swains, who are youthful and gay,
Attend to the call, and be blest while you may.
Lads and lasses hither come, to the sound of the drum;
I have treasures in store which you never have seen:
Then haste, let us rove to the land of love,
Where Cupid is captain, and Venus the queen.
Each nymph of sixteen, who would fain be a wife,
Shall soon have a partner to bless her for life:
Then lasses hither come, to the sound of the drum;
I have sweethearts in store such as never were seen:
Then haste, let us rove to the land of love,
Where Cupid is captain, and Venus the queen.
Would a swain but be blest with a nymph to his mind,
Let him enter my list and his wish he shall find.
I can bless him for life with a kind loving wife
More beautiful far than was nymph ever seen:
Then haste, let us rove to the land of love,
Where Cupid is captain, and Venus the queen.
In Paphos we know of no discord nor strife,
Each hymph and each swain may be happy for life.
In transport and joy we each moment employ,
And raste such delights as were never yet seen:
Then haste, let us rove to the land of love,
Where Cupid is captain, and Venus the queen.
From Paphos isle, so famed of old, I come
To raise recruits, with merry fife and drum.
The Queen of Beauty here by me invites
Each nymph and swain to taste of sweet delights.
Obey the call and seek the happy land,
Where Captain Cupid bears the sole command.
Ye nymphs and swains, who are youthful and gay,
Attend to the call, and be blest while you may.
Lads and lasses hither come, to the sound of the drum;
I have treasures in store which you never have seen:
Then haste, let us rove to the land of love,
Where Cupid is captain, and Venus the queen.
Each nymph of sixteen, who would fain be a wife,
Shall soon have a partner to bless her for life:
Then lasses hither come, to the sound of the drum;
I have sweethearts in store such as never were seen:
Then haste, let us rove to the land of love,
Where Cupid is captain, and Venus the queen.
Would a swain but be blest with a nymph to his mind,
Let him enter my list and his wish he shall find.
I can bless him for life with a kind loving wife
More beautiful far than was nymph ever seen:
Then haste, let us rove to the land of love,
Where Cupid is captain, and Venus the queen.
In Paphos we know of no discord nor strife,
Each hymph and each swain may be happy for life.
In transport and joy we each moment employ,
And raste such delights as were never yet seen:
Then haste, let us rove to the land of love,
Where Cupid is captain, and Venus the queen.