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. Link to My Alfred Deller playlist: Link to my Robert Spencer playlist: 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.