Think we've had a similar thread before but quite some time back, so there's some new members to add their input. For me it has to be Purcell's "When I am Laid in Earth" - Dodo's lament from his opera Dido and Aeneas, I've just had a quick youtube and my hanky is now sopping wet Herewith Jessie Norman's interpretation or Evelyn Tubb's version