Music For A While
Haute Contre : Philippe Jaroussky
Clavecin : Yoko Namura
Words : John Dryden (1631-1700)
Music : Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile:
Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd
And disdaining to be pleas'd
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
And the whip from out her hands.

