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Wit and Mirth
or Pills to Purge Melancholy

Volume II

 
   
Volume II: Songs and Poems
Songs
A
'All jolly Rake-hells that sup at,'
'Andrew and Maudlin,'
'Ah ! tell me no more of your Duty or Vow,'
'Augustus crown'd with Majesty,'
'Alba Victorious, Alba fam'd in Story,'
'Ah ! my dearest, my dearest Celide,'
'Apelles told the Painters fam'd in Greece,'
'A Lad o'th' Town thus made his moan,'
'Abroad as I was walking,'
'All the Town so lewd are grown,'
'A Country Bumpkin that Trees did grub,'
'A Beau dress'd fine met Miss divine,'
'As I gang'd o'er the Links of Leith,'
'A Virgin's Life who would be leaving,'
'Away, ye brave Fox hunting Race,'
'A Grasshopper, and a Fly,'
B
'By all the Pow'rs ! I love you so,'
'Bright Honour provokes me,'
'Boast no more fond Love, thy Power,'
'Brute who descended from Trojan stem,'
'Behold, how all the Stars give way,'
'Born with the Vices of my kind,'
C
'Crown your Bowls Loyal souls'
'Come hither all you that love musical Sport,'
'Cease Hymen, cease thy Brow,'
'Cold and Raw the North did blow,'
'Chloris, for fear you should think,'
'Chloe's a Nymph in flowry Groves,'
'Clowdy Saturnia drives her Steeds apace,'
'Corrinna when you left the Town,'
'Cynthia with an awful Power,'
D
'Dearest believe without a Reformation,'
'Dear Jemmy when he sees me,'
'Did not you promise me,'
'Dear Jack if you mean,'
'Damon fond of his Peaceful retirement,'
'Drink, my Boys, Drink and rejoyce,'
E
'Elevate your Joys,'
F
'Farewell ye Rocks, ye Seas, and Sands,'
'Flora, beauteous Queen of May,'
'Forc'd by a Cruel lawless Fate,'
'Full Forty long Years,'
'Friend Sawney come sit near me,'
G
'Go silly Mortall, and ask thy Creator,'
H
'High on a Throne of glittering Ore,'
'High Renown and Martial Glory,'
'Here is Hymen, here am I,'
'Here is the Rarity of the whole Fair,'
'Have you seen Battledore Play,'
I (J)
'Just when the young and blooming,'
'Jenney and Molly, and Dolly,'
'In vain, in vain fantastick Age,'
'If my Addresses are grateful,'
'If Beauty by Enjoyment can,'
'Joy to great Caesar,'
'I follow'd Fame and got Renown,'
'In the Fields in Frost and Snows,'
'I Love thee well,'
'In a Desart in Greenland,'
'In a Seller at Sodom,'
'If Gold could lengthen Life,'
K
'King George was crown'd,'
L
'Ladies of London, both Wealthy and Fair,'
'Let Burgundy flow,'
'Lewis le Grand,'
'Loyal English Boys, sing and Drink,'
'Leave, leave the drawing Room,'
'Last Night a Dream,'
'Let Oliver now be forgotten,'
'Liberty's the Soul of Living,'
M
'My Life and my Death were once,'
'Myrtillo Darling of kind Fate,'
'Mundunga was as feat a Jade,'
'Me send you, Sir, one Letter,'
'Mars now is Arming,'
'Make your Honour Miss,'
'My Dear, I've sent the Letter,'
'Monsieur now disgorges fast,'
N
'Near to the Town of Windsor,'
'No, silly Cloris,'
'New Reformation begins thro' the,'
'Now the ground is hard froze,'
'Now comes joyful Peace,'
'Neptune frown, and Boreas roar,'
'Now the Summer solstice,'
'Now Second Hannibal is come,'
'Now, now the Tories all shall stoop,'
O
'On a Bank in flowry June,'
'One Holiday last Summer,'
'Of all our modern Storys,'
'Of all Comforts I miscarried,'
'Of noble Race was Shinking,'
'Oh yes ! Oh yes ! Oh yes ! I cry.'
P
'Prattles and Tattles,'
'Peggy in Devotion,'
'Phillis when your ogling Eye,'
R
'Royal Flora dry up your Tears,'
'Rouse up great Genius of'
'Room, room, room for a Rover,'
'Run Lovers, run before her,'
S
'Some blooming Honour get,'
'State and Ambition, alas,'
'Sit down my dear Sylvia,'
'Shone, a Welch Runt, and Hans a Dutch Boor,'
'Smile Lucinda, Revel with thy happy Race,'
'Steer, steer the Yacht to reach the strand,'
'Stubborn Church-division,'
'Strike up drowsie Gut-scrapers,'
'Stella, with Heart controling Grace,'
'Smug, rich and fantastick old Fumbler,'
T
'The Sages of Old,'
'The Golden Age is come,'
'Tho' Caelia Art you shew,'
'The Parliament sate,'
'To Cullies and Bullies,'
'Trooping with bold Commanders,'
'To tell a Tale of Windsor my Muse,'
'The Infant spring was shining,'
'Tantivee, tivee, tivee, tivee, high and low,'
'Twas when Summer was rosie,'
'The Larks awake the drowzy Morn,'
'The Instrument with which to sing,'
'The Thundring Jove,'
'Tis not a Kiss, or gentle Squeez,'
'Tis gone, the Black and Gloomy Year,'
'The Joys of Court, or City,'
'There's such Religion in my Love,'
'The World was hush'd, and Nature lay,'
U (V)
'Upon a sunshine Summers Day,'
'Ulm is gone, but basely won,'
'Valiant Jockey's march'd away,'
W
'When Harrold was invaded,'
'When the World first knew Creation,'
'When the Kine had giv'n a Pail full,'
'When I make a fond Address,'
'We all to conqu'ring Beauty bow,'
'Why ! why ! oh ye Pow'rs,'
'When vile Stella, kind and tendre,'
'Whilst their Flocks were feeding,'
'Whilst the French their Arms discover,'
'Wae is me, what ails our Northern Loons,'
'When Sylvia in Bathing, her Charms,'
'When Soll to Thetis Pool,'
'When for Air I take my Mare,'
'Why are my Eyes still flowing,'
'Walking down the Highland Town,'
'Whilst Content is wanting,'
'Was it some Cherubin,'
'When I Visit Proud Caelia,'
'What ails the foolish Woman,'
'Whilst abroad Renown and Glory,'
'While I with wounding Grief did look,'
'What's the worth of Health or Living,'
Y
'You that delight in a,'
'Ye pretty Birds that Chirp and sing,'
'Ye Britains, how long shall I tire'
'You the glorious Sons of Honour,'
'Yet we Love ye most,'
'You Write of Rural springs,'
Poems
'As some stout Warriour,'
'A Tragick Scene of Woe,'
'As some Deserter mutining for Pay,'
'At this odd Time of Bustle,'
'Each Critick here, methinks,'
'In the first happy Golden Age,'
'I am a Thing, yet drest in,'
'In this Grave Age,'
'In Days when Birds and,'
'Oh every tuneful Bard that Sings,'
'On Estcourt's Day, and to such Company,'
'Our Poetess, designing to expose,'
'Pish, I had e'en as good go out again,'
'The kumerous Author of this,'
'When Britain's prosperous Fortune,'
'When Wit and Science flourish'd'
'Y'have seen me Dance, and ye have,'


Source:
Thomas D'Urfey, ed. Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vols. 1-6. New York: Folklore Library Publishers, 1959.
   

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