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Wit and Mirth
or Pills to Purge Melancholy

Volume IV

 
   
Volume IV: Songs
A
'A Palphry Proud, prick'd up,'
'A Maiden of late, whose Name,'
'Arise, arise, my Juggy, my Puggy,'
'A Doctor without any Stomach,'
'A Pox upon this cursed Life,'
'A restless Lover I espy'd,'
'A Shepherd set him tinder a Thorn,'
'All in a misty Morning,'
'A late Expedition to Oxford,'
'As I came from Tottingham,'
'A lusty young Smith at his Vice,'
'All Hail to the Days that merit,'
'Ah cruel bloody Fate, what can'st'
'As fair Olinda sitting was,'
'All my past Life is mine no more,'
'Ah ! Chioris awake,'
'Alass ! my poor tender Heart,'
B
'Blith Jockey Young and Gay,'
'Bless Mortals, bless the clearing,'
C
'Come listen, good People, the whilst.'
'Come my Hearts of Gold,'
'Cook Lorrel would needs have the,'
'Courtiers, Courtiers, think it no harm,'
'Could Man his Wish obtain,'
'Caelia, that I once was blest,'
'Come all the Youths whose Hearts,'
'Come Fair one be kind,'
D
'Did not you hear,'
'Dermot lov'd Shela well and,'
'Dolly, come be Brisk and Jolly,'
E
'Early in the dawning of a,'
F
'Farewel Three Kings, where I,'
'Fly merry News among the Crews,'
'Farweel bonny Wully Craig,'
'Farewel the Darling Shades I love,'
'For Iris I sigh and hourly die,'
'Fancelia's Heart is still the same,'
'Fly from Olinda young and fair,'
'Foolish Swain thy sighs forbear,'
G
'Good People all, I pray give Ear,'
'God prosper long our Noble King,'
'Go tell Amyntor gentle Swain,'
H
'Happy the Time when free from,'
'Happy is the Country Life,'
'Here's a Health to those Men,'
I (J)
'I'll Sing in the Praise, if you'll,'
'I'll tell you a Story, a Story anon,'
'Jenny long resisted Wully's fierce Desire,'
'Jockey late with Jenny walking,'
'If any one long for a Musical Song,'
'I am a Lover, and 'tis true,'
'I have been East, and I have,'
'I find I am a Cuckold, I care,'
'If every Woman was serv'd in,'
'I prithee Sweet-heart grant me my,'
'In Summer time when Flowers,'
'It is my Delight both Night and,'
'Joan to the May-Pole away let's run,'
'In fifty-five, may I never thrive,'
'If't please you for to hear,'
'In our Country, and in your Country,'
'Instead of our Buildings and Castles,'
'I'll sing you a Song of my,'
'I a tender young Maid have been,'
'In the World can ever a Trade,'
'In the Gardiners Paradise sweetly,'
'Jogging on from yonder Green,'
'In the Shade upon the Grass,'
'In Courts, Ambition kills the great,'
'In Paul's Church-yard in London,'
'I never saw a Face till now,'
'In vain she frowns, in vain,'
'In the long Vocation,'
K
'Kate, the loveliest thing,'
'Katy's a Beauty surpassing,'
L
'Lady, sweet now do not frown,'
'Ladys, why doth Love torment you,'
'Listen Lordlings to my Story,'
'Long have I grieved for to see,'
'Let Monarchs fight for Pow'r,'
'Let the Soldiers rejoyce,'
'Lovely Laurinda ! blame not me,'
'Let Totnam Court and Islington,'
M
'My Masters and Friends, and good,'
'My Masters and Friends, and good,'
'My pretty Maid, fain would I know,'
'My Mistress is a Hive of Bees in,'
'My Mother she will not endure,'
'My Mind to me a Kingdom is,'
'Maids are grown so Coy of late,'
'My Lord's Son must not be forgot,'
N
'Now listen again to those things,'
'Now Gentlemen sit ye all Merry,'
'Not long ago as all alone I lay,'
'Now all my Friends are laid in,'
'Now fie upon a Jealous Brain,'
'Nothing than Chloe e'er I knew,'
'Now every Place fresh Pleasure yields,'
O
'Oh London is a fine Town,'
'Oh the Miller, the dusty,'
'Oh, oh lead me, lead me to some,'
'O Love is longer than the way,'
'One Evening a little before it was dark,'
'On Enfield Common, I met a Woman,'
'One Sunday after Mass, Dormet and,'
'Oh ! happy, happy Groves,'
'On Brandon Heath, in sight of,'
P
'Prey lend me your Ear if you've,'
'Pan leave Piping, the Gods have,'
'Prithee Friend leave off thy Thinking,'
'Pillycock came to my Lady's Toe,'
'Poor Cleonice thy Garlands tear,'
S
'Some Christian People all give ear,'
'Since Pop'ry of late is so much,'
'Some Years of late, in Eighty Eight,'
'Shall I wasting in Despair,'
'Some Wives are Good, and some,'
'Still I'm Wishing, still desiring,'
'Smiling Phillis has an Air so,'
'Spare mighty Love, oh spare,'
T
'Tho' it may seem rude,'
'There was an Old Woman,'
'To Hunt the Fox is an Old Sport,'
'There was a Maid the other Day,'
'Tho' bootless I must needs Complain,'
'They say the World is full of Pelf,'
'There was a Lady in the North,'
'There was a Lass in Cumberland,'
'The Wit hath long beholding been,'
'The Beard thick or thin,'
'This is a Structure fair,'
'There were too Bumpkins lov'd,'
'To charming Caelia's Arms I flew,'
'There was a Man, a Shentleman,'
'To find my Tom of Bedlam,'
'The Devil he was so Weather beat,'
'The Weather's too bleak now,'
'These London Wenches are so stout,'
'There lately was a Maiden Fair,'
'There is one black and sullen,'
'Three merry Lads met at the Rose,'
'The Fire of Love in Youthful Blood,'
'Tho' the Pride of my Passion fair,'
'Thursday in the Morn,'
'The mighty state of Cuckoldom,'
'Take not the first Refusal ill,'
U
'Upon a time I chanced to walk,'
'Under this Stone lies one,'
'Upon the Wings of Love my,'
W
'When Rich Men die, whose Purses,'
'Will you please to give ear a while,'
'When Ize came first to London Town,'
'What tho' I am a Country Lass,'
'Was ever a Mast so vext with,'
'What Creature's that with his,'
'While the Citizens prate,'
'Women are wanton, yet cunningly,'
'What if Betty grows old,'
'What's a Cuckold, learn of me,'
'When Sawney first did Wooe me,'
'What need we take care for,'
'Well I'll say that for Sir William,'
'What shall I do to shew how,'
'Why does the Morn in Blushes rise,'
'When Aurelia first I courted,'
'Whilst Europe is alarm'd with,'
'When Troy Town for Ten Years Wars,'
'Why should we boast of Lais,'
'When Cupid from his Mother fled,'
'When I see my Strephon languish,'
Y
'Your Courtiers scorn we Country,'
'You Maidens and Wives,'
'Young Phaon strove the Bliss to taste,'


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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