Henry Purcell - Ah! Cruel Nymph, Z.352 [Score Video]

René Jacobs, countertenor
Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba
Konrad Junghanel, lute
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Ah! cruel nymph! you give despair,
When with delight I should approach thee,
Still with Sylvia you reproach me,
Still with that deluding fair.
Too long I own, she has maintain’d
Her conquest when her love was feign’d.
But charming, airy, humorous and gay,
You from my eyes have driven the mist away.