Research Catalog

Title

Sixty ribald songs from Pills to purge melancholy. Selected and edited, with introd., notes, and glossary by S. A. J. Bradley, and arr. with guitar acc. by John W. Duarte.

Publication

[London] A. Deutsch [1968]

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Details

Description

219 p.; 26 cm.

Uniform Title

Wit and mirth. Selections.

Alternative Title

• Ribald songs from Pills to purge melancholy.
• Pills to purge melancholy.

Subject

• Songs, English
• Ballads, English

Note

• Selected from the 1719-20 ed. of the collection Wit and mirth; or, Pills to purge melancholy.
• Notes and glossary: p. 181-213; Bibliography: p. 215.

Contents

Conjugal love -- My longing desire -- A ballad of all the trades -- In praise of the pudding -- The hunting of the coney -- The riddle -- My mistress's cunny -- Consent at last! -- The hour she let me in -- Wedding and bedding -- I "hem!" when I cleave -- Put in all! Put in all! -- The designing dancing master -- The over-courteous knight -- Rumpled, tumbled and jumbled -- Was ever maiden so lericompooped? -- The tying of the garter -- A little of one with tother -- Dick and Doll -- The disappointment -- Chloe found Amyntas lying -- The surprised nymph -- The wanton virgins frightened -- Pretty Kate of Windsor -- Pretty Peg of Wandsor -- THe fumbler's wife's cat -- THe wanton Trick -- The comical dreamer -- The old fumbler -- I've vowed to die a maid -- The next is me! -- Would ye have a young virgin? -- My fair Teresa -- The jolly tradesmen -- Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor -- Tom and Doll -- Jenny, my blithest maid! -- Robin in the rushes -- De'il take the war! -- The nurse's song -- Tom Tinker's my true-love -- Tenement to let! -- Broom, green broom! -- Do not rumple my topknot! -- The mark my mother gave me -- The Tunbridge doctors -- The knight that would not when he might -- Under the bed was he -- The lusty young smith -- My thing is my own! -- The threshing of the wheat -- The trooper watering his nag -- The cunning constable -- Astutus constabularius -- The jolly pedlar's prettier thing -- The clever fair lass of Islington -- The lass of Lynn's lament -- The Hyde Park frolic -- The comely dame of Islington -- The maid's conjuring-book -- The three merry travellers.

Call Number

JMF 72-34

LCCN

73235705

OCLC

NYPG720265823-C

Title

Sixty ribald songs from Pills to purge melancholy. Selected and edited, with introd., notes, and glossary by S. A. J. Bradley, and arr. with guitar acc. by John W. Duarte.

Imprint

[London] A. Deutsch [1968]

Added Title

Ribald songs from Pills to purge melancholy.

Pills to purge melancholy.

Research Call Number

JMF 72-34