Video Information

• Choir: Roundelay
• Piece: Love Bade me welcome
• Conductor:  Alan Myerscough
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical
• Love bade me welcome performed by Roundelay in Chester
  
  Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,
  Guilty of dust and sin.
  But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
  From my first entrance in,
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  Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,
  Guilty of dust and sin.
  But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
  From my first entrance in,
  Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
  If I lack’d anything.
  
  ‘A guest,’ I answer’d, ‘worthy to be here:’
  Love said, ‘You shall be he.’
  ‘I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear,
  I cannot look on Thee.’
  Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
  ‘Who made the eyes but I?’
  
  ‘Truth, Lord; but I have marr’d them: let my shame
  Go where it doth deserve.’
  ‘And know you not,’ says Love, ‘Who bore the blame?’
  ‘My dear, then I will serve.’
  ‘You must sit down,’ says Love, ‘and taste my meat.’
  So I did sit and eat.Love bade me welcome performed by Roundelay in Chester
  
  
  
  Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,
  Guilty of dust and sin.
  But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
  From my first entrance in,
  Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
  If I lack’d anything.
  
  ‘A guest,’ I answer’d, ‘worthy to be here:’
  Love said, ‘You shall be he.’
  ‘I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear,
  I cannot look on Thee.’
  Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
  ‘Who made the eyes but I?’
  
  ‘Truth, Lord; but I have marr’d them: let my shame
  Go where it doth deserve.’
  ‘And know you not,’ says Love, ‘Who bore the blame?’
  ‘My dear, then I will serve.’
  ‘You must sit down,’ says Love, ‘and taste my meat.’
  So I did sit and eat.  less