VII. OH! LONDON IS A FINE TOWN,
Old English. Published
by Playford in 1665.
VIII. GRIM KING OF THE GHOSTS.
Old Irish. Adapted
by Henry Purcell to “Hail to the Myrtle Shades,”
in Theodosius,
1680. Also adapted to “Rosalind’s
Complaint,” by
Mr. Baker, in 1727.
IX. O JENNY! O JENNY!
Old Irish air, 1600.
Adapted to “May Fair,” 1703.
X. THOMAS, I CANNOT.
Sung in Weaver’s
Perseus and Andromede, 1717. Published
in
Playford’s Dancing
Master, in 1719.
XI. A SOLDIER AND A SAILOR.
Composed by John Eccles
for Congreve’s Love for Love, 1696.
XII. NOW PONDER WELL.
Old English. “The
Children in the Wood.” Seventeenth Century.
XIII. LE PRINTEMPS RAPPELLE.
Old French chanson.
XIV. PRETTY PARROT, SAY.
Old English. Published
by Playford in 1719.
XV. PRAY, FAIR ONE, BE KIND.
Old English air, 1715.
XVI. OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.
Old Irish. Atkinson’s
MS. in 1694. By Farquhar in his Recruiting
Officer, in 1706.
Published by Durfey in 1709.
XVII. GIN THOU WERT MINE AWN THING.
Old Scotch. Published
by Ramsay in 1726, in his “Musick for the
Songs in the Tea Table
Miscellany.”
XVIII. O THE BROOM!
Old Irish. Quoted
by Bishop Wadding in 1680.
XIX. FILL EVERY GLASS.
A French Drinking
Song. “Que chacun remplisse son verre”;
adapted
by Durfey in 1710.
XX. MARCH IN “RINALDO.”
Composed by Handel.
Produced in 1711.
XXI. WOULD YOU HAVE A YOUNG VIRGIN?
Old Irish. Published
as “Poor Robin’s Maggot” in 1652.
Adapted by
Durfey to a song in
Modern Prophets in 1709.
XXII. COTILLON.
A French Dance
tune. Printed in a Frankfort book of the year
1664, and by Playford
as “Tony’s Rant,” in 1726.
XXIII. ALL IN A MISTY MORNING.
Old English. “The
Friar and the Nun” (Friar Foxtail). Printed
by
Playford in 1651.
Durfey’s Pills, 1719.
XXIV. WHEN ONCE I LAY WITH ANOTHER MAN’S
WIFE.
Old English. Sung
in Durfey’s The Wiltshire Maid.
XXV. WHEN FIRST I LAID SIEGE TO MY CHLORIS.
Old Irish. Adapted
by Durfey in his Pills, 1720.
XXVI. COURTIERS, COURTIERS, THINK IT NO HARM.
Old English air, 1720.
XXVII. A LOVELY LASS TO A FRIAR CAME.
Old Irish. Printed
in 1721.
XXVIII. ’TWAS WHEN THE SEA WAS ROARING.
Composed by Handel.
Sung in Gay’s What d’ye call it
(1715).
XXIX. THE SUN HAD LOOS’D HIS WEARY TEAMS.
Old English. “The
Hemp Dresser.” Published by Playford in
1651.
XXX. HOW HAPPY ARE WE.
Composed by Dr. Pepusch.
1716.