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Wit and Mirth- or, Pills to Purge Melancholy

Edited originally by Henry Playford, 1698-1706, Thomas D'Urfey brought together this collection of songs, ballads and poems in a final six-volume edition in 1719-1720. It includes songs from the Elizabethan and the Restoration periods, and later. Some were composed by D'Urfey himself, others by well-known composers and authors. The majority are anonymous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume VI: Songs
A
'As Amoret and Thyrsis lay,'
'As unconcern'd and free as Air,'
'As I am a Sailor,'
'And now, now the Duke's March,'
'Aurelia now one Moment lost,'
'After the pangs of fierce Desire,'
'A Pox on the Fool,'
'A Young Man lately in our Town,'
'All Joy to Mortals,'
'A Pox on the Times,'
'A Pox on such Fools ! let the'
'As Cupid many Ages past,'
'All Christians that have Ears to hear,'
'As at Noon Dulcina rested,'
'A Dean and Prebendary,'
'A World that's full of Fools and Mad-men,'
'Astutus Constabularius,'
'Amor est Pegma,'
'Abroad as I was walking, I'spyd'
'A Pedlar proud as I heard tell,'
'A Young Man and a Maid,'
'All own the Young Sylvia is'
'A Swain in despair,'
'As I came down the hey Land Town,'
'A Jolly young Grocer of London Town,'
'As it befel upon one time,'
'A Taylor good Lord, in the Time of Vacation,'
'A Comely Dame of Islington,'
'Ah ! how happy's he,'
'A Little Love may prove a Pleasure,'
'At the Change as I was a walking,'
'All you that must take a leap in the Dark,'
'Alphonzo, if you Sir,'
'A Worthy London Prentice,'
'At the break of Morning light,'
B
'Belinda's pretty, pretty pleasing Form'
'Blush not redder than the Morning,'
'Banish my Lydia these'
'Beauty, like Kingdoms not for one,'
'Beneath a cool Shade Amaryllis'
'Boasting Fops who court the Fair,'
C
'Come here's a good Health,'
'Cupid make your Virgins tender,'
'Corinna I excuse thy Face,'
'Chloe found Love for his Psyche'
'Coy Belinda may discover,'
'Corinna 'tis you that I Love,'
'Come buy my Greens and Flowers,'
'Caelia's bright Beauty all others transcend,'
'Come from the Temple, away to the Bed,'
'Come all that are dispos'd'
'Chloris, can you'
'Caelia be not too complying,'
'Clasp'd in my dear Melinda's Arms,'
'Come Caelia come, lets sit and'
D
'Do not rumple my Top-knot,'
'Day was spent and Night'
'Dear Catholick brother'
'Dear Mother I am Transported,'
'Despairing besides a clear stream,'
E
'Ere Phillis with her looks did kill,'
F
'Fly, fly ye lazy Hours,'
'Fye Amaryllis, cease to grieve,'
'Fairest Isle, all Isles excelling,'
'Fye Jockey, never prattle,'
'Forgive me Cloe if I dare,'
'Fortune is blind and Beauty unkind,'
'From Father Hopkins,'
'Fickle Bliss, fantastick Treasure,'
'Fill the Glass fill, fill,'
'Farewel my useless Scrip,'
'Fates I defie, I defie your Advances,'
'Farewel Chloe, O farewel,'
G
'God Prosper long our Gracious Queen,'
'Go, go, go, go falsest of thy Sex,'
'Good morrow Gossip Joan,'
H
'How long, how long shall I pine'
'Hang this whining way of Wooing'
'Here's the Summer sprightly, gay,'
'How happy's the Husband,'
'Having spent all my Coin,'
'How happy, how happy is she,'
'Hang the Presbyters Gill,'
'Honest Shepherd, since'
'How happy's that Husband who after'
'How is the World transform'd'
'Hub ub, ub, boo;'
'Had I but Love,'
'How happy are we,'
'Hear Chloe hear,'
'How happy's he who weds a Wife,'
'How Charming Phillis is, how Fair,'
I (J)
'If I hear Orinda Swear,'
'Just coming from Sea,'
'If ever you mean to be kind,'
'I know her false,'
'I am come to lock all fast,'
'In vain Clemene you bestow,'
'If Wine be a Cordial'
'I fain wou'd find a passing,'
'If I should go seek the'
'I seek no more to shady coverts,'
'I try'd in Parks and Plays,'
'In a Flowry Myrtle Grove,'
'I am a Jolly Toper,'
'I'll tell you all, both great'
'I am a cunning Constable,'
'I Courted and Writ,'
'I'll tell thee Dick where I have'
'I am a poor Shepherd undone,'
'I Love to Madness, rave t' enjoy,'
'I'll press, I'll bless thee Charming'
'I'm vext to think that Damon'
'I have a Tenement to Let,'
K
'Ken you, who comes here,'
L
'Let not Love, let not Love on me,'
'Liberia's all my Thought'
'Let Mary live long,'
'Lerinda complaineth that'
'Lay by your Pleading,'
'Love's Pow'r in my Heart'
'Lets wet the whistle of the'
'Let's Sing as one may say'
'Lucinda has the de'el and all,'
'Love is a Bauble,'
'Lais when you'
'Lorenzo you amuse the Town,'
'Love's Passion never knew'
'Let those Youths who Freedom'
'Lavia would, but dare not venture,'
'Love, the sweets of Love,'
M
'Marlborough's a brave Commander,'
'My dear Corinna give me leave,'
'May her blest Example chace,'
'My Dear and only Love,'
'My Nose is the largest of all'
'My Nose is the Flattest of all'
'Mortals learn your Lives to'
'Mirtillo, whilst you patch'
'My Friend thy Beauty'
'Must Love, that Tyrant of the'
'My Theodora can those Eyes,'
N
'Now dry up thy Tears,'
'No, no, poor suffering Heart,'
'New Pyramid's raise,'
'Never sigh, but think of kissing,'
'Now, now the Queen's Health,'
'Noble King Lud,'
'Now I'm resolv'd to Love no more'
'Not your Eyes Melania move me,'
'Now, now the Night's come,'
'Now Jockey and Moggy are ready,'
O
'Oh ! my Panting, panting Heart,'
'Over the Mountains,'
'Oh how Happy's he, who from,'
'Oh ! the mighty pow'r of Love,'
'Oh the Charming Month of May,'
'Oh Roger I've been to see Eugene,'
'Of all the handsome Ladies,'
P
'Phillis lay aside your Thinking,'
'Pish fye, you're rude Sir,'
'Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it,'
'Poor Sawney had marry'd a Wife,'
R
'Room for Gentlemen,'
'Retire old Miser,'
'Richest Gift of lavish Nature,'
S
'She met with a Country-man,'
'Stand clear, my Masters,'
'Sometimes I am a Tapster new,'
'She went Apparell'd neat and fine,'
'Say cruel Amoret, how long,'
'Such command o'er my Fate'
'Sit you merry Gallants,'
'Since Phillis swears Inconstancy,'
'Some in the Town go betimes'
'Suppose a Man does all he can,'
'Sors sine visu,'
'See bleeding at your Feet'
'Since Tom's in the Chair, and every one here'
'Such a happy, happy, Life,'
T
'To meet her Mars the Queen of Love,'
'Thus Damon knock' d at Caelia's Door,'
'The World is a Bubble and full of'
'Through the cold shady Woods,'
'The gordian Knot,'
'There Dwelt a Widow in this Town,
'There was an Old Man,'
'There is a Thing which in the light'
'There's not a Swain,'
'Tormenting Beauty leave my Breast,'
'Tell me why so long,'
'Tis a foolish mistake,'
'Tell me, tell me, charming'
'Tho' thou'rt ugly and Old,'
'Tho' you make no return,'
'The King is gone to Oxon Town,'
'Tho' I love and she knows it,'
'There was three Travellers,'
'Troy had a breed of brave'
'There's none so Pretty'
'The Ordinance a-board'
'That scornful Sylvia's Chains'
'Tom Tinker's my true love,'
'To you Fair Ladies now at Land,'
'Then come kind Damon come'
'The Night is come that will,'
'There's a new set of Rakes,'
'Tho' Begging is an Honest Trade,'
'The Rosey Morn lukes blith and Gay'
'The Restauration now's the Word,'
U (V)
'Underneath the Castle Wall,'
'Unguarded lies the wishing Maid'
'Vobis magnis parvis dicam'
W
'Whilst Phillis is Drinking,'
'War, War and Battle now no more,'
'What shall I do, I am undone,'
'When Wit and Beauty,'
'When Sylvia was kind,'
'What, Love a crime,'
'When I have often heard young Maids,'
'What state of Life can be,'
'When Jockey first I saw,'
'When Dido was a Carthage Queen,'
'We merry Wives of Windsor,'
'Wo'as me poor Lass ! what mun'
'When on her Eyes,'
'With sighing and wishing,'
'What sayest thou,'
'What shall I do, I've lost my Heart,'
'When I was in the low Country,'
'Walk up to Virtue Strait,'
'When first I laid Siege to my Chloris,'
'Why alas do you now leave me,'
'When Beauty such as yours,'
'When crafty Fowlers would'
'Who can Dorinda's Beauty view,'
'When embracing my Friends,'
'Why will Clemene when I gaze,'
Y
'Ye Commons and Peers,'
'You guess by my wither'd Face,'
'You Friends to Reformation,'
'Young Strephon and Phillis,'
'Young Strephon he has Woo'd'
'You Ladies draw near,'
'You tell me Dick you've lately,'
'Your Melancholy's all a Folly,'
Z
'Z—DS Madam return me my Heart,'


Sources

D'Urfey, T., ed. Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vols. 1-6. New York: Folklore Library Publishers, 1959.
  
 


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