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'Whence could so much virtue spring?' Lyrics

DIDO
Whence could so much virtue spring?
What storms, what battles did he sing?
Anchises' valour mixt with Venus' charms,
how soft in peace, and yet how fierce in arms!
BELINDA
A tale so strong and full of woe
Might melt the rocks as well as you.
What stubborn heart unmov'd could see
such distress, such piety?
DIDO
Mine with storms of care opprest
is taught to pity the distrest.
Mean wretches' grief can touch,
so soft, so sensible my breast;
But ah! I fear, I pity his too much.
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Dido And Aeneas (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment) (2009)
Overture 'Shake the cloud from off your brow' 'Ah! Belinda I am prest with torment' 'Grief increases by concealing' 'Whence could so much virtue spring?' 'See, your royal guest appears' 'Cupid only throws the dart' 'If not for mine, for Empire's sake' - Gittars Chacony 'To the hills and vales' Triumphing Dance Prelude - 'Wayward sisters' - 'Harms our delight' 'The Queen of Carthage' - 'Ho ho ho!' 'Ruin'd 'ere the set of sun?' - 'Ho ho ho!' 'In our deep vaulted cell the charm we'll prepare' Echo Dance of Furies Ritornelle 'Thanks to these lonesome vales' Gittars Passacaille 'Oft she visits this lone mountain' 'Behold, upon my bending spear' - 'Haste, haste to town' 'Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command' 'Then since our charms have sped' Prelude - 'Come away, fellow sailors' - The Sailors' Dance 'See the flags and streamers curling' 'Our next motion' The Witches' Dance Almand - 'Your counsel all is urg'd in vain' 'Great minds against themselves conspire' 'Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me' 'With drooping wings ye Cupids come'