Theodore Aylward
(1730 - 1801)

Done to death by slanderous tongues (glee)
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Published in Aylward's collection of elegies and glees, Op. 2, London, c.1790. Aylward also published a three part setting of this text for use as a canzonet.
Lyrics: William Shakespeare

Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies.
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies.
So the life that died in shame
Lives in death with glorious fame.