Charming Cloris:

Ask not the cause

HWV 228₂

English song with basso continuo.

Another text with the same music, a text by

John Gay :

The poor shepherd: The sun was sunk beneath the hills. (about 1725)

Text : adapted from  John Dryden (1631-1700)

Records:

1. SOMM 226 (2001) “The occasional song”