Without Love

Have I caught my heavenly jewel Teaching sleep most fair to be? Now will I teach her that she When she wakes is too too cruel Since sweet sleep her eyes hath charmed The only two darts of love Now will I with that boy prove Some play while he is disarmed We love and have our loves rewarded We love and are no whit regarded We find most sweet affection's snare That sweet but sour despairing care We love and have our loves rewarded We love and are no whit regarded Who can despair, whom hope doth bear? And who can hope who feels despair? We love and have our loves rewarded We love and are no whit regarded As without breath no pipe doth move No music kindly without love See the hand which waking guardeth Sleeping grants a free resort Now I will invade the fort Cowards love with no reward But O fool think of the danger Of her just and high disdain Now I will alas refrain Love fears nothing else but anger We love Yet those lips so sweetly swelling Do invite a stealing kiss Now will I but venture this Who will read must first learn spelling O sweet kiss—but ah she’s waking Louring beauty chastens me Now will I away hence flee Fool more fool for no more taking We love and have our loves rewarded We love and are no whit regarded We find most sweet affection's snare That sweet but sour despairing care We love and have our loves rewarded We love and are no whit regarded Who can despair, whom hope doth bear? And who can hope who feels despair? We love and have our loves rewarded We love and are no whit regarded As without breath no pipe doth move No music kindly without love We love and have our loves rewarded We love and are no whit regarded We find most sweet affection's snare That sweet but sour despairing care We love and have our loves rewarded We love and are no whit regarded Who can despair, whom hope doth bear? And who can hope who feels despair? We love and have our loves rewarded We love and are no whit regarded As without breath no pipe doth move No music kindly without love Without love Without Without Without love Without love

Without Love (Live) Words by Philip Sidney Music by John Harle Performed by John Harle & Elvis Costello feat. Lyric String Quartet Musicians Elvis Costello - vocal John Harle - saxophone Patricia Calnan - violin Harriet Davies - violin Nick Barr - viola Dave Daniels - cello Sarah Leonard - soprano vocal Andy Sheppard - saxophone Steve Lodder - keyboards Alastair Gavin - keyboards James Woodrow - guitar Chris Laurence - double bass Paul Clarvis - drums Harry Lowther - trumpet Richard Henry - bass trombone Recorded November 9, 1996, Royal Festival Hall, London, England Released October 23, 2020 Albums John Harle - The John Harle Collection Vol. 11: Shipbuilding, 2020 Length 7:48 First known performance:  October 19, 1996, Aberdeen, Scotland Last known performance:  November 9, 1996, London, England      (5 known performances)

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