XXXI. OF A NOBLE RACE WAS SHENKIN.
Introduced in Henry
Purcell’s Richmond Heiress, 1693.
XXXII. No name, but evidently intended for HOW
SHOULD I YOUR TRUE LOVE
KNOW. Ophelia’s song.
Published by Playford
in 1713.
XXXIII. LONDON LADIES.
Old English.
XXXIV. ALL IN THE DOWNS.
Composed by Henry Carey.
1720.
XXXV. HAVE YOU HEARD OF A FROLICKSOME DITTY.
Old Irish. “Molly
Roe.” Published as “The Rant”
in Apollo’s
Banquet, in 1690.
XXXVI. IRISH TROT.
Old Irish. Printed
as “Hyde Park,” by Playford, in 1651.
XXXVII. No name given, but evidently CONSTANT
BILLY, published in 1726.
Sir H. Bishop says that
it was composed by Geminiani.
XXXVIII. GOOD-MORROW, GOSSIP JOAN.
Old English. Printed
in 1705.
XXXIX. IRISH HOWL.
Old Irish. Printed
as “The Irish Howl,” by Playford, in the
third
volume of his Dancing
Master, in 1726.
XL. THE LASS OF PATIE’S MILL.
Old Scotch. Printed
in Orpheus Caledonius. 1725.
XLI. IF LOVE’S A SWEET PASSION.
Composed by Henry Purcell.
Fairy Queen (1692).
XLII. SOUTH-SEA BALLAD.
Old English. Printed
in 1720.
XLIII. PACKINGTON’S POUND.
Old English. Melody
in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.
XLIV. LILLIBULLERO.
Old Irish. Printed
in 1688. Adapted by Purcell.
XLV. DOWN IN THE NORTH COUNTRY.
Old English.
XLVI. A SHEPHERD KEPT SHEEP.
Old English.
XLVII. ONE EVENING, HAVING LOST MY WAY.
Printed as “Walpole,
or the Happy Clown,” in 1719. Words by
Birkhead. The tune
also occurs in the Overture.
XLVIII. NOW, ROGER, I’LL TELL THEE BECAUSE
THOU’RT MY SON.
Old English.
XLIX. O BESSY BELL!
Old Scotch. Printed
by Playford in 1700.
L. WOULD FATE TO ME BELINDA GIVE.
Composed by John Wilford.
Printed in 1710.
LI. COME, SWEET LASS.
The tune was printed
as “Greenwich Park,” by Playford. 1688.
Song
from The Compleat
Academy (1685). Music composed by Jeremiah
Clarke, 1685.
LII. THE LAST TIME I WENT O’ER THE MOOR.
Old Scotch. Printed
in Ramsay’s Tea Table Misc. 1726.
LIII. TOM TINKER’S MY TRUE LOVE.
Old English. Printed
by Playford in 1664.
LIV. I AM A POOR SHEPHERD UNDONE.
Old English. Printed
by Playford in 1716.
LV. IANTHE THE LOVELY.
Composed by John Barret,
1701.
LVI. A COBLER THERE WAS.
Old English.
LVII. BONNY DUNDEE.
Old Scotch. The
melody is in the Skene MS., 1630.
LVIII. HAPPY GROVES.
Adapted from “The
Pilgrim,” composed by J. Barret in 1701.