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