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Wit and Mirth
or Pills to Purge Melancholy

Volume III

 
   
Volume III: Songs and Poems
Songs
A
'Awake my Lute, arise my string,'
'Adzooks ches went the other day,'
'As I walk'd forth one summer's day,'
'A Beggar got a Beadle,'
'All you that lov'd our Queen alive,'
'As I sat at my Spinning-Wheel,'
'A Beggar, a Beggar, a Beggar I'll be,'
'As sad Amyntor in a Meadow lay,'
'As I walk'd in the Woods one Ev'ning,'
'Adieu to the Pleasures and Follies of,'
'A Pox of the fooling and plotting,'
'A Curse on all Cares,'
'A Pox of dull mortals of the grave,'
'As May in all her youthful Dress,'
'A Gentle Breeze from the Lavinian Sea,'
'A Soldier and a Sailor, a Tinker and,'
'Ah Jenny gin your Eyes do kill,'
'At London che've bin,'
'All Hands up aloft, swab the,'
'As I went o'er yon misty Moor,'
B
'Beneath a Mirtle Shade,'
'Believe me Jenny, for I tell,'
'Bonny Lad, prithee lay thy Pipe down,'
'Bonny Lads and Damsels,'
'Bonny Lass gin thou wert mine,'
C
'Come buy my new Ballad,'
'Come listen a while tho' the Weather,'
'Chloris now thou art fled away,'
'Calm was the Ev'ning, and clear was,'
'Come Sweet Lass, this bonny Weather,'
'Come if you dare, our Trumpets sound,'
D
'Damon why will you die for Love,'
F
'From France, from Spain, from Rome,'
'Forth from the dark and dismal Cell,'
'Four and twenty Fidlers all in a Row,'
'From Twelve years old, I oft have,'
'Frier Bacon walks again,'
'Fairest Work of happy Nature,'
'Fairest Jenny ! thou mun love me,'
G
'Great Alexander's Horse,'
H
'He that a Tinker, a Tinker would be,'
'Ho Boy, hey Boy, come, come,'
'Ho Boy, hey Boy, come, come,'
'He that intends to take a Wife,'
'How Happy's the Mortal, that lives,'
'He that is a cleer Cavalier will not,'
'Have you e'er seen the Morning Sun,'
'How unhappy a Lover am I,'
'Hail to the Myrtle Shade,'
'He that is resolv'd to Wed'
'How lovely's a Woman before,'
'How long must Woman wish in vain,'
'Here's a Health to Jolly Bacchus,'
'Her Eyes are like the Morning bright,'
'How blest are Shepherds, how happy,'
I (J)
'If I live to grow Old, for I find,'
'If I live to be Old, which I never,'
'I love a Lass but cannot show it,'
'I am a lusty lively Lad,'
'In the merry Month of May,'
'I had a Chloris my Delight,'
'If Musick be the Food of Love,'
'I went to the Alehouse as an honest,'
'In Faith 'tis true, I am in Love,'
'I'll tell you a Story if it be true,'
'I tell thee Dick where I have been,'
'I'll sing you a Sonnet that ne'er was,'
'In a humour I was late,'
'I saw the Lass whom dear I lov'd,'
'I often for my Jenny strove,'
'Jockey was as brisk and blith a Lad,'
'If Love's a sweet Passion, why does,'
L
'Let Wine turn a Spark, and Ale,'
'Lay that sullen Garland by thee,'
'Leave off fond Hermite, leave thy Vow,'
'Like a Ring without a Finger,'
'Lament, lament you Scholars all,'
'Love thee ! good Sooth, not I,'
'Let us drink and be merry,'
'Let's Love, and let's Laugh,'
'Let the daring Advent'rers be toss'd,'
'Let's consecrate a mighty Bowl,'
M
'My Masters and Friends,'
'Methinks the poor Town has been,'
'My Life and my Death, are both,'
'Man (Man, Man) is for the Woman,'
N
'Now that Love's Holiday is come,'
'Now listen a while, and I,'
'Now God above that made all things,'
O
'Old Stories tell how Hercules,'
'Of all the Trades that ever I see,'
'Of all the Recreations which,'
'O the Time that is past,'
'Oh Mother, Roger with his Kisses,'
'Oh Fie ! what mean I foolish Maid,'
'Ods hartly wounds, Ize not to plowing,'
'O raree Show, O brave Show,'
P
'Phillis at first seem'd much afraid,'
'Poor Caelia once was very fair,'
'Pastora's Beauties when unblown,'
'Pretty Armida will be kind,'
Q
'Quoth John to Joan, wilt thou,'
R
'Ranging the Plain one Summers,'
S
'Since love hath in thine, and,'
'Since roving of late,'
'Some Men they do delight in Hounds,'
'Sabina in the dead of Night,'
'Sawney is a Bonny, Bonny Lad,'
'Since there's so small difference,'
'Sir Eglamore, that valiant Knight,'
'Sing, sing, whilst we trip it, trip,'
T
'There's many Clinching Verse is made,'
'The sleeping Thames one Morn,'
'The four and twentieth day of May,'
'Tom and Will were Shepherds Swains,'
'Tho' Sylvia's Eyes a Flame could raise,'
'Thus all our lives long we're Frolick,'
'Take not a Woman's Anger ill,'
'The Bonny grey Ey'd Morn began,'
'The Sun was just Setting, the Reaping,'
'Tho' Jockey su'd me long, he met,'
'Tell me Jenny, tell me roundly,'
'The bright Laurinda, whose hard fate,'
'There was a Jovial Beggar,'
'Tell me no more, no more, I am deceiv'd,'
'Then beauteous Nymph look from above,'
'There was a bonny Blade,'
'Tobacco is but an Indian Weed,'
'The Danger is over, the Battle,'
'To Kiss, to Kiss is pretty, 'tis pretty,'
U (V)
'Undone ! undone ! the Lawyers are,'
'Virgins, if e'er at length it prove,'
W
'When my Hairs they grow Hoary,'
'Will you give me leave,'
'Why should we boast of Arthur,'
'Where ever I am, or whatever I do,'
'Weep all ye Nymphs, your Floods unbind,'
'Why is your faithful Slave disdain'd,'
'When Money has done whate'er it can,'
'Why does Willy shun his dear,'
'With an Old Song, made by an Old,'
'Wully and Georgy now beath are gean,'
'What ungrateful Devil moves you,'
Y
'Yonder comes a courteous Knight,'
'You, understand no tender Vows,'
'You talk of New England,'
'Ye happy Swains, whose Nymphs,'
'Your Gamester, provok'd by his Loss,'
'Young I am and unskill'd,'
'You mad Caps of England who merry,'
'You Lasses and Lads take leave,'
'You Ladies who are young and gay,'
Poems
'As I lay Musing all alone,'
'Blandusia ! Nymph of this fair Spring,'
'Better our Heads than Hearts,'
'Display the Standard, let the,'
'Down came Grave Ancient Sir,'
'Fetch me Ben. Johnson's Skull, and,'
'If you will be still,'
'Madam, your Beauty, I confess,'
'No sooner were the doubtful People,'
'Of all the Factions in the Town,'
'On Verse depending, Orpheus urg'd,'
'Read, fairest of the Graces,'
'See, Britains, see, one half before,'
'Shou'd Addison's Immortal Verse,'
'Sure Heavens unerring Voice,'
'To all young Men that love to Wooe,'
'There are I know, Fools that do,'
'The Country People once a Wolf,'
'The Conquering Genius of our,'


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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