Thomas Arne: Sigh no more, ladies - The Hilliard Ensemble

Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778): Sigh no more, ladies (W. Shakespeare, Much ado about nothing, atto II, scena 3a), versione per 3 voci virili (TTB) a cappella. The Hilliard Ensemble.
Foto di scena dal film Much ado about nothing (1993) di Kenneth Branagh.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
       Men were deceivers ever,
   One foot in sea, and one on shore,
       To one thing constant never.
   Then sigh not so, but let them go,
       And be you blithe and merry,
   Converting all your notes of woe
       Into hey down derry.

Sing no more ditties, sing no more
       Of dumps so dull and heavy.
   The fraud of men was ever so
       Since summer first was leavy.
   Then sigh not so, but let them go,
       And be you blithe and merry,
   Converting all your notes of woe
       Into hey down derry.