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Item Code: ERTTS1

First line: Song has no lyrics

Source Edition: The Town Shifts, or The Suburb Justice (1671), 3.4, p.32.

First performed: 15 March 1671.

UMI(2) reel no.: 875:54

Author: Edward Revet

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Love. Pretty Mistress, make an end of the Prologue, and come to the matter [Song.

Let. What say you, Gentlemen, how do you approve of my Kinswomans voice?

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Item Code: ERTTS2

First line: When as King Henry ruled this land

Source Edition: The Town Shifts, or The Suburb Justice (1671), 3.4, pp.32-4.

First performed: 15 March 1671.

UMI(2) reel no.: 875:54

Author: Edward Revet

Tune (if traditional): Chevy Chase. See also WCTTW6 .

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.381, n.3833 [Music] Wit and Mirth, Volume 5, 1714, pp.154-9 (not microfilmed). Only three copies exist--British Museum (238.g.44), Bodleian (HARDING C1153) and Harvard (EC65.D9345 wd vol.5). Score unavailable to compiler.

Text of song:

Love. <...> let's live no longer in Expectation.

Leftwell Sings.

When as King Henry Rul'd this Land,
The Second of that Name;
Besides the Queen, He dearly lov'd
A Fair, and Princely Dame.
Most Peerless was her, etc.

<dialogue...>

Leftwell Sings.

Her Favour, and Her Face:
A Sweeter Creature in the World
Did never Prince Embrace.

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Item Code: ERTWL1

First line: He's a phlegmatic lover

Source Edition: The Wrangling Lovers, or The Invisible Mistress (1676), 3.[2], pp.38-9.

First performed: 25 July 1676

UMI(2) reel no.: 545:11 (1677)

Author: Edward Ravenscroft

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

A SONG.

1.

He's a flegmatick Lover
In whom we discover
A temper that never do's change,
A Breast that like mine with jealousie burns,
Now Love and now Anger possess it by turns.
With fears I grow wild, and with hopes I grow tame.
That passion is weak, that is always the same.
With fears, &c.
That Passion, &c.

2.

But the sanguine brisk Lover
Can never give over.
He cannot be dully at rest.
He knows that her charms have conquer'd yet more,
That many there are, who do sigh and adore.
He trusts not to merit to give him success,
For women love only by fancy and guess.
Or if to desert by great chance they prove kind,
The Fair still are fickle, and oft change their mind.

3.

Oh the starts of a Lover
Do plainly discover
The passion he feels is extream!
For he that loves well, and does not possess,
Must either be jealous, or else love you less.
Then say not my fears, or my doubts do you wrong,
He cannot be quiet, who's passion is strong.
Small fires but glow, and are alwayes the same,
But the greater will rage, and will scatter their flame.

[The Song ended a Cerebrand is danc'd: as the dance ends, musick is heard without.

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Item Code: ERTWL2

First line: Ah Celia what powerful charms have you

Source Edition: The Wrangling Lovers, or The Invisible Mistress (1676), 3.2, pp.41-2.

First performed: 25 July 1676

UMI(2) reel no.: 545:11 (1677)

Author: Edward Ravenscroft

Composer: Unrecorded ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.164, n.24 [Music] Playford, John, Choice Ayres and Songs...Second Book (1679), p.13 (UMI(2) 286:12).

Text of song:

Enter Lights, Musick, Dancers.

Ruis. In order-Musick begin. [a flourish of Musick

A SONG.

Ah Celia, what powerful charms have you,
That with a look coud so my heart subdue?
And at first sight impose a Law on me;
Against my fundamental liberty?
I look'd, and Lov'd! O! fatal was that day!
I look'd, until I look'd my heart away.
I look'd, and lov'd, &c.
I look'd until, &c.

And yet upon your brow you wore a frown,
What wou'd sereneness then, and smiles have done?
In vain in vain, we boast a free born Soul,
When Beauty can so easily controul;
When every glance does liberty expose,
And with a look we native freedome lose.
When every, &c.
And with, &c.

You bid me now resume my liberty,
Alas I cannot, if I wou'd be free:
Should Fate the unwish'd power bestow, yet still,
Having that power I should want the will,
Where Love so absolute a Monarch reigns,
They court their fetters, and grow proud of Chains.
Since you with scorn and frowns do conquer so,
Ah try what Miracles your smiles can, do.

[The Song ended: a dance

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Item Code: ESCKOP1

First line: She that with love is not possessed

Source Edition: Cambyses, King of Persia (1671), 2.4, pp.24-5.

First performed: 10 January 1671

UMI(2) reel no.: 296:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Orind. <...> Your pardon, Sister, if so bold I prove
To tell you what Orinda thinks of Love.
Atossa, sing the Song I taught you.

Atossa sings.

She that with Love is not possest,
Has not for that the harder heart:
I think the softer, and more tender breast,
Would dull, would dull, would dull, and damp the dart.

Away with melancholy fits,
Whose strange effect our eyes disarms,
Deposes Beauty, and distracts our wits,
Whilst we grow pale, grow pale, and lose our charms.

Love does against it self conspire;
Such languishing desires imparts,
That quench the fuel, yet preserve the fire,
Clouding those eyes, those eyes, whence Love takes darts.

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Item Code: ESCKOP2

First line: Ye subtle powers that rule below

Source Edition: Cambyses, King of Persia (1671), 4.1, p.49.

First performed: 10 January 1671

UMI(2) reel no.: 296:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

The Scene drawn, Cambyses is discover'd seated in a Chair sleeping...In the time of this Representation this Song is sung from within, as suppos'd, by Spirits.

Ye subtle Pow'rs that rule below,
Onely where horrour dwells,
Whose deep dark Cells
Admit no other light,
Then that by which you mortal Fates do write,
Th'events of all your knowledge does foreknow.
The Prince of Fate's already set,
That Prince who does in Constellations write
Those glorious Characters of light,
The destinies of all that's great.
Chorus. To councel then, to councel strait,
With all your Ministers of State,
T'attend the high decrees of Fate.

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Item Code: ESCKOP3

First line: Kings from the gods and from our elements

Source Edition: Cambyses, King of Persia (1671), 5.3, p.75.

First performed: 10 January 1671

UMI(2) reel no.: 296:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

As Smerdis advances, leading Phedima towards the Altar, a soft Musick is heard, suppos'd, in the Air.

<Smerd.> What pleasant Musick's this that charms my ears?

1. Priest. Some Aiery Consort from the lower Sphears.
A sacred Tribute which the gods do pay,
To add a glory to your Nuptial day.

Here two glorious Spirits descend in Clouds, by whom this Song is sung:

1. Spir. Kings from the Gods, and from our Elements
Derive their greatnes, and descents.
Since they are sparks of Heav'n
'Tis just they have from us this Title giv'n,
To share our Pow'r and God-heads too,
As being Heav'ns Deputies of State below.
2. Spir. No, no, 'tis otherwise decreed,
Heav'ns Councels do more cautiously proceed.
Monarchs, as Rivals to the gods, should find
Heav'n must not by State-laws be kind.
The gods for their own greatness sake,
None but themselves immortal make.
The glories and the pow'r of Kings,
Are fading things;
Like th'objects of soft dreams desir'd,
Courted, Enjoy'd, and in th'embrace expir'd,
And vanisht whilst they are admir'd.
Then Smerdis, Smerdis, Smerdis, 'tis high time to wake.

The Song ended, the Musick turns into an Alarm...

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Item Code: ESITIB1

First line: No art Love's influence can destroy

Source Edition: Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa (1676), 3.1, pp.34-5.

First performed: March 1676 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:5 (1677)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Aster. <...> Musick directed here! what can this mean? A Song is sung from within.

SONG.

No Art Loves Influence can destroy.
In vain would Captive Kings their Chains unloose,
When the blind Boy
The Thunderer himself could ne're oppose.
Drest up in various forms his Heav'n he left,
And practis'd in disguise the amorous Theft.
But if Omnipotence so chang'd could be,
Fair Celia wonder not to see
Thy Vassal as disguis'd and as transform'd as he.

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Item Code: ESPF1

First line: Why does the foolish world mistake

Source Edition: Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd (1676), 3.1, p.28.

First performed: December 1676 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 751:17 (1677)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: William Turner ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.386, n.3925 [Music] Playford, John, Choice Ayres and Songs...Second Book (1679), pp.50-1 (UMI(2) 286:12).

Text of song:

Enter Amaryllis with a Train of Shepherdess, who enter Singing.

Song.

Why does the foolish World mistake,
And Loves dull praises sing so loud?
What idle Subjects must they make,
Who choose a blind and Childish Boy their God?

What dearer Joys our Freedom brings,
Whilst the wing'd Quire on every bough,
Charm'd with our Bliss in Consort sings,
And Night and Day our harmless pleasures view.

Chor. 'Tis Shame and the Night Loves folly does cover,
And only the Bat and Schreich-Owl that hover
About the dark Windows of a drowzy dull Lover.

The Song ended, they Dance, which done, they go off singing, and Corisca enters and stays Amaryllis.

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Item Code: ESPF2

First line: Let us use time whilst we may

Source Edition: Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd (1676), 3.1, p.33.

First performed: December 1676 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 751:17 (1677)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Corisc. <...> Celia, convert her with that Song I taught you.

Celia Sings.

"Let us use time whilst we may;
"Snatch those joys that hast away,
"Earth her Winter-Coat may cast,
"And renew her Beauties past;
"But our Winter come, in vain
"We solicite Spring again.
"And when our Furrows Snow shall cover;
"Love may return, but never Lover.

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Item Code: ESPF3

First line: Oh glorious youth true child of Hercules

Source Edition: Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd (1676), 4.3, p.50.

First performed: December 1676 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 751:17 (1677)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Enter Sylvio, with Linco and other Shepherds; a Bores Head being carry'd before him in Tryumph, the Shepherds Sing.

"Oh glorious Youth, true Child of Hercules,
"That kilst with ease such Monstrous Beasts as these.

<These lines are repeated six lines later>

<...> The Shepherds Sing.

"Oh glorious Youth, true Child of Hercules,
"That Kilst with ease such Monstrous Beasts as these.

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Item Code: ESPF4

First line: Thanks conqueror to thee no more shall the clown

Source Edition: Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd (1676), 4.3, p.51.

First performed: December 1676 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 751:17 (1677)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

The Shepherds Song.

Thanks Conquerour to thee; no more shall the Clown
Be scar'd from the Plough, and the Tillage lay down;
"He shall Sow the plump Seed, & from Earths pregnant Womb,
"Expect the wisht fruit when the Season is come:
No more shall the Shepherds be frightned away,
The Nymphs and their Loves in the Forrests shall play.
Chor. No more shall the Shepherds, &c.

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Item Code: ESPF5

First line: Sol's sister daughter of great Jupiter

Source Edition: Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd (1676), 5.1, p.57.

First performed: December 1676 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 751:17 (1677)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Lyrics: Part of the following lyrics appear in Richard Fanshawe's Il Pastor Fido--see RFIPF9.

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Enter Montano, Ergasto, Linco, and several Shepherds and Priests in Procession, singing.

SONG.

"Sols Sister, Daughter of great Jupiter,
"That shin'st a second Sun in the first Sphear,
"To the blind World.
"Thou, whose Life-giving and more temp'rate ray
"Thy Brothers burning fury does allay.
"Ah pitty thy Arcadia, and that rage
"Thou dost in others in thy self asswage.

<NOTE: A couplet separates this from the "Second Song">.

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Item Code: ESPF6

First line: Where's artless innocence and guiltless loves

Source Edition: Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd (1676), 5.1, pp.57-8.

First performed: December 1676 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 751:17 (1677)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: A couplet separates this from the previous song>.

Second SONG.

Where's artless Innocence and guiltless Loves,
If they are Banisht the Arcadian Groves.
Fair Cynthia, though late,
Pitty the Ruins of a World, "Create
"In us true Honour: Virtue's all the State
"Great souls should keep. To these poor Cells return,
"Which were thy Courts, but now thy absence mourn:
"From their dead sleeps awake,
All those Lethargick Infidels,
Who following their corrupted Wills,
"Thee and the glory of the ancient World forsake.

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Item Code: ESTAS1

First line: Why does the idle world mistake

Source Edition: The Ambitious Slave: or, A Generous Revenge (1694), 3.1, pp.18-9.

First performed: 21 March 1694 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:29

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: John Eccles ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mrs. Hudson

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.387, n.3938 [Music] Hudgebut, John, Thesuarus Musicus...Third Book (1695), pp.21-3 (UMI(2) 1820:20) et alia.

Text of song:

Song.

Why do's the Idle World mistake,
And Love a Godhead make?
If Love were Heav'n, like Heav'n twou'd last,
And the Immortall Joys would never dye.
Ah no, false man, at ev'ry blast
In broken Vows Loves fleeting Shadows fly.
Down then let all his Glorys fall,
His Temples, Altars, Empire, all
To dirt and Ashes trod:
For oh the Fools, for oh the Fools, that make blind Love a God.

So when fair Celia mournd to find
Philander so unkind;
She saw the Tempest roll too fast,
And all o'respread her rising Mornings dawn;
Her louring Fate was quite o'recast
And her Ecclipsing Glorys all withdrawn.
But tho' there shine such fading Jemms
In brittle Earthly Diadems,
Poor Celia ne're despair:
There's Starrs above, there's starrs above to crown thee brighter there.

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Item Code: ESTEOM1

First line: No music like that which loyalty sings

Source Edition: The Empress of Morocco (1673), 2.[2], p.13.

First performed: 3 July 1673

UMI(2) reel no.: 296:7

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

A State is presented, the King, Queen and Mariamne seated Muly Hamet, Abdelcador and Attendants, a Moorish Dance is presented by Moors in several Habits, who bring in an artificial Palm-tree, about which they dance to several antick Instruments of Musick; in the intervals of the Dance, this Song is sung by a Moorish Priest and two Moorish Women; the Chorus of it being performed by all the Moors.

1. Stanza

No Musick like that which Loyalty sings,
A Consort of Hearts at the Crowning of Kings:
There's no such delightful and ravishing Strain,
As the Ecchoes and Shouts of Long Live and Reign.
Long live and reign, long live and reign,
No Shouts so delightful, as, Long Live and Reign.
<Chorus> Long live and reign, &c.
2. Stanza

No Homage like what from Loyalty springs,
Wee'l kneel to our Gods, but wee'l die for our Kings:
We'l pay that Devotion our Lives shall maintain:
No raising of Altars like Long Live and Reign.
Long live and reign, long live and Reign,
No raising of Altars, like Long Live and Reign.
<Chorus> Long live, &c.

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Item Code: ESTEOM2

First line: The groans of ghosts and sighs of souls

Source Edition: The Empress of Morocco (1673), 4.[4], pp.46-8.

First performed: 3 July 1673

UMI(2) reel no.: 296:7

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

The Mask.

The Scene open'd; is presented a Hell, in which Pluto, Proserpine, and other Women-Spirits appeared seated, attended by Furies; the Stage being fill'd on each side with Crimalhaz, Hamet, Q.Mother, and all the Court in Masquerade: After soft Musick Enter Orpheus.

Orpheus Sings. The grones of Ghosts and Sighs of Souls,
Infernal Ecchoes and the Howles,
Of Tortured Spirits cease:
A gentle Gust
Has all things Husht;
And Hell in spite of Vengeance is at Peace:
Whilst Ravisht by my warbling Strings,
The Vultures moult their Wings;
The Furys from their Heads will shake
Each useless Snake;
The Scorpions loose their Stings,
And Hell it self forget their Tyrant Kings.
Pluto Sings. Whence Mortal does thy Courage grow,
To dare to take a Walk so Low?
Orpheus Sings. To Tell thee God, thou art a Ravisher.
No Tears nor Prayer
Your unresisted Will Controules,
Who Commit force on Vertue, Rapes on Souls.
Pluto Sings. Dares a weak Animal of Mortal Race,
Affront a God t'his Face;
And of a Crime Impeach a Deity?
Thy Breath has Damn'd Thee, thou shalt Die.
For your God and Honours sakes,
Unloose your twisted crests of snakes:
Into his Breast those swift Tormentors fling,
And his tortur'd Entrals Sting.
Proserpine Sings. Oh, Sir, his fatal Doom recal,
Dispel your furious Anger;
Let not such noble worth your Victim fall:
Be kind both to a Lover and a Stranger.
Attendant Sings. Oh Pardon, Pardon what his height of Love discovers,
Rage is a venial Sin in Lovers.
Proserpine Sings. Then gentle Stranger tell;
What Fortune has befell,
That brings a Lover down to Hell?
Orpheus Sings. I have a Mistress in your Spheare,
Forc'd from my Armes
By deaths Alarm's:
My Martyr'd Saint brings me a Pilgrim here,
My fair Eurdice my fair Eurdice.
Proserpine Sings. Unhappy Wanderer which is she? Oh which is she?
Orpheus Sings. If a gentle Ghost you heare,
Complaining to the Winds, and sighing to the Aire;
Breathing an unregarded Prayer:
If She in faint and murmuring Whispers Cry,
Orpheus, Orpheus, Oh I Die,
Snatch'd from Heaven and thee,
Oh that is She.
Oh take me down to Her or send Her back to me.
Pluto Sings. Shall Lovers Idle Prayers disturb my Eare?
Mortal we'v'e serious business here.
Your tiresome Story pleads in vaine;
Be gon.
Proserpine Sings. But with thee thy fair Treasure take,
Releast by Love from that Eternal Chain,
Which destin'd Kings and Conquerours cannot break.
Pluto Sings. No, fond Man, no, who comes within my Power,
From Death and Hell returns no more.
Proserpine Sings. If Hell's strict Laws have never alt'red bin,
Let us be kind and now begin.
Revoke her angry Doom,
That when on Earth they come;
To th'wondring World he in soft Aires may tell,
Mercy as well as Justice Rules in Hell.
Pluto Sings. Your love does with Success implore:
Conduct Her in, but in such State,
As fits the Court of Fate;
And to his Hand the fairest Guest restore,
That Ever Landed on the Stygian Shore.

Proserpine Exit, and Reenters with the young Queen Drest for Euridice

Orpheus. For this signal Grace to the World I'le declare,
In Heaven Earth and Hell Loves Pow'r is the Same.
No Law there nor here, no God so Severe,
But Love can Repeale, and Beauty can Tame.
Chorus. For this Signal Grace to the World I'le declare.
In Heaven &c.

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Item Code: ESTFQ1

First line: Come all ye songsters of the sky

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 2.1, pp.15-6.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie as three separate songs--p.197 (n.598), p.287 (n.2186) and p.333 (n.2980). [Music] Parts One and Two--Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book (1702), pp.8-9, 9-11 (and others); Part Three--Settle, Elkanah, Some Select Songs...in the Fairy Queen (1692), p.3 (UMI(2) 1158:17) et alia.

Text of song:

Tit. Let your Revels now begin,
Some shall Dance, and some shall Sing.
All Delights this place surround,
Every sweet Harmonious Sound,
That e're Charm'd a skilful Ear,
Meet, and Entertain us here.
Let Eccho's plac'd in every Grot,
Catch, and repeat each Dying Note.

A PRELUDE.

Then the First SONG.

Come all ye Songsters of the Sky,
Wake, and Assemble in this Wood;
But no ill-boding Bird be nigh,
None but the Harmless and the Good.
May the God of Wit inspire,
The Sacred Nine to bear a part;
And the Blessed Heavenly Quire,
Shew the utmost of their Art.
While Eccho shall in sounds remote,
Repeat each Note,
Each Note, each Note.
Chorus. May the God, &c.

Now joyn your Warbling Voices all,
Sing while we trip it on the Green;
But no ill Vapours rise or fall,
Nothing offend our Fairy Queen.
Chorus. Sing while we trip, &c.

At the end of the first Stanza, a Composition of Instrumental Musick, in imitation of an Eccho. Then a Fairy Dance.

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Item Code: ESTFQ2

First line: See even Night her self is here

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 2.1, pp.16-8.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell (Part one-- nwc) (Part Two-- nwc)

Source/s of Music: Stanzas 2 and 3 recorded in Day and Murrie, p.248 (n.1487) and p.312 (n.2625). [Music] Settle, Elkanah, Some Select Songs...in the Fairy-Queen (1692), p.5 (UMI(2) 1158:17) et alia.

Text of song:

Tit. Come Elves, another Dance, and Fairy Song;
Then hence, and leave me for a while alone.
Some to kill Kankers in the Musk-Rose-Buds;
Some War with Rere-mice for their Leathern Wings,
To make my small Elves Coats. And some keep back
The clamarous Owl, that hoots, and wonders at us.
Each knows her Office. Sing me now to Sleep;
And let the Sentinels their Watches keep. [She lyes down.

2. SONG.

Enter Night, Mystery, Secresie, Sleep; and their Attendants.

Night Sings.

Ni. See, even Night her self is here,
To favour your Design;
And all her Peaceful Train is near,
That Men to Sleep incline.
Let Noise and Care,
Doubt and Despair,
Envy and Spight,
(The Fiends delight)
Be ever Banish'd hence.
Let soft Repose,
Her Eye-lids close;
And murmuring Streams,
Bring pleasing Dreams;
Let nothing stay to give offence.

<Chorus.> See, even Night, &c.

Mys. I am come to lock all fast,
Love without me cannot last.
Love, like Counsels of the Wise,
Must be hid from Vulgar Eyes.
'Tis holy, and we must conceal it,
They profane it, who reveal it.

<Chorus.> I am come, &c.

Se. One charming Night
Gives more delight,
Than a hundred lucky Days.
Night and I improve the tast,
Make the pleasure longer last,
A thousand thousand several ways.

<Chorus.> Make the pleasure, &c.

Sl. Hush, no more, be silent all,
Sweet Repose has clos'd her Eyes.
Soft as feather'd Snow does fall!
Softly, softly, steal from hence.
No noise disturb her sleeping sence.
Rest till the Rosie Morn's uprise.
Chorus. Hush, no more, &c.

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Item Code: ESTFQ3

First line: The woosel-cock so black of hue

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 3.1, pp.26-7.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Bot. I find their Knavery; they would fain make an Ass of me, and fright me if they could. But I won't stir from this place, do what they can. I will walk up and down here, and I will sing, that they may hear I am not afraid.

SINGS.

The Woosel-Cock, so black of hue,
With Orange-tawny Bill;
The Thrustle, with his Note so true,
The Wren with little Quill.

Titania wakes.

Tit. What Angel wakes me from my Flowry Bed.

Bot. <sings> The Finch, the Sparrow, and the Lark,
The One-tun'd Cuckow gray;
Whose Note most Married Men do mark;
And dare not answer, Nay.

For indeed, who wou'd set his wit to so foolish a Bird? who wou'd give a Bird the lie, tho' he cry Cuckow never so often?

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Item Code: ESTFQ4

First line: If love's a sweet passion why does it torment

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 3.1, pp.29-30.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mrs. Dyer

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.259, n.1691 [Music] Settle, Elkanah, Some Select Songs...in the Fairy-Queen (1692), pp.5-6 (UMI(2) 1158:17) et alia.

Text of song:

Tit. <...> Shall we have Musick sweet?

Bot. Yes, if you please.

Tit. Away, my Elves; prepare a Fairy Mask
To entertain my Love; and change this place
To my Enchanted Lake.

The Scene changes to a great Wood <...>

A Song in two Parts.

If Love's a Sweet Passion, why does it torment?
If a Bitter, oh tell me whence comes my content?
Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain,
Or grieve at my Fate, when I know 'tis in vain?
Yet so pleasing the Pain is, so soft is the Dart,
That at once it both wounds me, and tickles my Heart.

I press her Hand gently, look Languishing down,
And by Passionate Silence I make my Love known.
But oh! how I'm Blest when so kind she does prove,
By some willing mistake to discover her Love.
When in striving to hide, she reveals all her Flame,
And our Eyes tell each other, what neither dares Name.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ5

First line: Now the maids and the men are making of hay

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 3.1, pp.30-1.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mr. Reading and Mrs. Ayliff

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.301, n.2419 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus (1698), pp.232-6 (UMI(2) 158:4) et al. First appeared as an addendum to Some Select Songs...in the Fairy-Queen (1692), ff.8-11 (addendum only survives in the British Museum copy).

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Co. <sings> Now the Maids and the Men are making of Hay,
We have left the dull Fools, and are stol'n away.
Then Mopsa no more
Be Coy as before,
But let us merrily, merrily Play,
And Kiss, and Kiss, the sweet time away.
Mo. Why how now, Sir Clown, how came you so bold?
I'd have you to know I'm not made of that mold.
I tell you again,
Maids must Kiss no Men.
No, no; no, no; no Kissing at all;
I'le not Kiss, till I Kiss you for good and all.
Co. No, no.
Mo. No, no.
Co. Not Kiss you at all.
Mo. Not Kiss, till you Kiss me for good and all.
Not Kiss, &c.
Co. Should you give me a score,
'Twould not lessen the store,
Then bid me chearfully, chearfully Kiss,
And take, and take, my fill of your Bliss.
Mo. I'le not trust you so far, I know you too well;
Should I give you an Inch, you'd take a whole Ell.
Then Lordlike you Rule,
And laugh at the Fool.
No, no, &c.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ6

First line: When I have often heard young maids complaining

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 3.1, pp.31-2.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mrs. Butler

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.376, n.3748 [Music] Settle, Elkanah, Some Select Songs...in the Fairy-Queen (1692), p.7 (UMI(2) 1158:17) et alia.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

A Song by a Nymph.

When I have often heard young Maids complaining,
That when Men promise most they most deceive,
Then I thought none of them worthy my gaining;
And what they Swore, resolv'd ne're to believe.

But when so humbly he made his Addresses,
With Looks so soft, and with Language so kind,
I thought it Sin to refuse his Caresses;
Nature o'recame, and I soon chang'd my Mind.

Should he employ all his wit in deceiving,
Stretch his Invention, and artfully feign;
I find such Charms, such true Joy in believing,
I'll have the Pleasure, let him have the pain.

If he proves Perjur'd, I shall not be Cheated,
He may deceive himself, but never me;
'Tis what I look for, and shan't be defeated,
For I'll be as false and inconstant as he.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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ITEM CODE: ESTFQ7

First line: A thousand thousand ways we'll find

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 3.1, p.32.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mr. Freeman

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.353, n.3337 [Music] Settle, Elkanah, Some Select Songs...in the Fairy-Queen (1692), pp.8-9 (UMI(2) 1158:17) et alia.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

A DANCE of Hay-Makers.

After the DANCE

Chorus. A Thousand Thousand ways we'll find,
To Entertain the Hours;
No Two shall e're be known so kind,
No Life so Blest as ours.

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Item Code: ESTFQ8

First line: Be as thou wert wont to be

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 4.1, p.39.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Ob. <...> think no more of this Night's Accidents,
Than of the fierce vexation of a Dream,
But first, I will release the Fairy Queen.

<sings?> Be, as thou wert wont to be;
See, as thou wert wont to see.
Cinthia's Bud, and Cupid's Flow'r,
Has such force, and Blessed Pow'r.
Now my Titania, wake.

[She rises.

<NOTE: Not clear whether recited or sung>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ9

First line: Now the night is chas'd away

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 4.1, pp.39-40.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Ob. Titania, call for Musick.

Tit. Let us have all Variety of Musick,
All that should welcome up the rising Sun.

The Scene changes to a Garden of Fountains. A Sonata plays <...> Then the 4 Seasons enter, with their several Attendants.

One of the Attendants begin.

Now the Night is chac'd away,
All salute the rising Sun;
'Tis the happy, happy Day,
The Birth-Day of King Oberon.

<NOTE: Not clear whether recited or sung>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ10

First line: Let the fifes and the clarions and shrill trumpets sound

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 4.1, p.40.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.277, n.2000 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book (1702), pp.20-1 (CT(1) 5662:10) et al.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Two others <Seasons> sing in Parts.

Let the Fifes, and the Clarions, and shrill Trumpets sound,
And the Arch of high Heav'n the Clangor resound.

<NOTE: Next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ11

First line: When a cruel long winter has frozen the earth

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 4.1, pp.40-1.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.373, n.3679 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book (1702), pp.64-5 (CT(1) 5662:10) et al.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

A Machine appears, the Clouds break from before it, and Phoebus appears in a Chariot drawn by four Horses; and Sings.

When a cruel long Winter has frozen the Earth,
And Nature Imprison'd seeks in vain to be free;
I dart forth my Beams, to give all things a Birth,
Making Spring for the Plants, every flower, and each Tree.

'Tis I who give Life, Warmth, and Being to all,
Even Love who rules all things in Earth, Air, and Sea;
Would languish, and fade, and to nothing woul<d> fall,
The World to its Chaos would return, but for me.

<NOTE: Next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ12

First line: Hail great parent of us all

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 4.1, p.41.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Chorus. Hail! Great Parent of us all,
Light and Comfort of the Earth;
Before thy Shrine the Seasons fall,
Thou who givest all Beings Birth.

<NOTE: Next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ13

First line: Thus the ever grateful spring

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 4.1, pp.41-2.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie as separate songs--p.354 (n.3357), p.240 (n.1367), p.295 (n.2315) and p.327 (n.2876), yet which are placed togather as one song entitled "The Four Seasons in the Fairy-Queen" in Henry Purcell's Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book (1702), pp.21-8 (CT(1) 5662:10). The stanzas by Spring and Summer first appear in Some Select Songs...in the Fairy-Queen (1692), pp.9-11, 11-2 (UMI(2) 1158:17) et alia.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Spring. <sings> Thus the ever Grateful Spring,
Does her yearly Tribute bring;
All your Sweets before him lay,
Then round his Altar Sing, and Play.

Summer. Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay,
Smiling, Wanton, Fresh, and Fair;
Adorn'd with all the Flowers of May,
Whose various Sweets perfume the Air.

Autumn. See my many Colour'd Fields,
And loaded Trees my Will obey;
All the Fruit that Autumn yields,
I offer to the God of Day.

Winter. Now Winter comes Slowly, Pale, Meager, and Old,
First trembling with Age, and then quiv'ring with Cold;
Benum'd with hard Frosts, and with Snow cover'd o're,
Prays the SUN to Restore him, and Sings as before.

<NOTE: Next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ14

First line: Hail great parent of us all (reprise)

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 4.1, p.41.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Chorus. Hail Great Parent, &c.

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Item Code: ESTFQ15

First line: Thrice happy lovers may you be forever free

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 5.1, p.48.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.353, n.3341 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book (1702), pp.2-3 (CT(1) 5662:10) et al.

Text of song:

JUNO Sings.

Thrice happy Lovers, may you be
For ever, ever free,
From that tormenting Devil, Jealousie.
From all that anxious Care and Strife.
That attends a married Life:
Be to one another true,
Kind to her as she to you.
And since the Errors of this Night are past,
May he be ever Constant, she be ever Chast.

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Item Code: ESTFQ16

First line: Thus the gloomy world [At first began to shine]

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 5.1, p.49.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.354, n.3358 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book (1702), pp.11-5 (CT(1) 5662:10) et al.

Text of song:

A Chinese Enters and Sings.

Thus the gloomy World
At first began to shine,
And from the Power Divine
A Glory round it hurl'd;
Which made it bright,
And gave it Birth in light.
Then were all Minds as pure,
As those Etherial Streams;
In Innocence secure,
Not Subject to Extreams.
There was no Room for empty Fame,
No cause for Pride, Ambition wanted aim.

<NOTE: Next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ17

First line: Thus happy and free [Thus treated are we]

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 5.1, pp.49-50.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mrs. Ayliff

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.354, n.3352 [Music] Settle, Elkanah, Some Select Songs...in the Fairy-Queen (1692), p.12 (UMI(2) 1158:17).

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

A Chinese Woman <Xansi> Sings.

Thus Happy and Free,
Thus treated are we
With Nature's chiefest Delights.

Chorus. Thus happy, &c.

<Xansi> We never cloy
But renew our Joy,
And one Bliss another Invites.

Chorus. We never, &c.

<Xansi> Thus wildly we live,
Thus freely we give,
What Heaven as freely bestows.

Chorus. Thus wildly, &c.

<Xansi> We were not made
For Labour and Trade,
Which Fools on each other impose.

Chorus. We were not &c.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ18

First line: Yes Xansi [Daphne] in your looks I find

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 5.1, p.50.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.394, n.4059 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book (1702), p.16 (CT(1) 5662:10) et al.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

A Chinese Man Sings.

Yes, Xansi, in your Looks I find
The Charms by which my Heart's betray'd;
Then let not your Disdain unbind
The Prisoner that your Eyes have made.

She that in Love makes least Defence,
Wounds ever with the surest Dart;
Beauty may captivate the Sence,
But Kindness only gains the Heart.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ19

First line: Hark how all things with one sound rejoice

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 5.1, pp.50-1.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.234, n.1252 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book (1702), pp.17-8 (CT(1) 5662:10) et al.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Two Women Sing in Parts.

1 Wo. Hark how all Things with one Sound rejoyce,
And the World seems to have one Voice.
2 Wo. Hark how the Echoing Air a Triumph Sings,
And all around pleas'd Cupids clap their Wings.
1 Wo. Sure the dull God of Marriage does not hear;
We'll rouse him with a Charm. Hymen appear!
Chorus. Appear! Hymen appear!
Both. Our Queen of Night commands you not to stay.
Chorus. Our Queen, &c.

Enter Hymen.

Hy. See, see, I obey.
My Torch has long been out, I hate
On loose dissembled Vows to wait.
Where hardly Love out-lives the Wedding-Night,
False Flames, Love's Meteors, yield my Torch no Light.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ20

First line: Turn then thy eyes upon those glories there

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 5.1, p.51.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.361, n.3486 [Music] Comes Amoris...Fourth Book (1693), pp.26-8 (UMI(2) 136:6) et al.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Both Wo. <sing> Turn then thy Eyes upon those Glories there,
And Catching Flames will on thy Torch appear.
Hy. My Torch, indeed, will from such Brightness shine:
Love ne'er had yet such Altars, so divine.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ21

First line: They shall be as happy as they're fair

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), 5.1, p.51.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.348, n.3261 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book, Third Edition (1721), pp.189-90, et alia.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

The Pedestals move toward the Front of the Stage, and the Grand Dance begins of Twenty four Persons; then Hymen and the Two Women sing together.

They shall be as happy as they're fair;
Love shall fill all the Places of Care:
And every time the Sun shall display
His Rising Light,
It shall be to them a new Wedding-Day;
And when he sets, a new Nuptial-Night.

A Chinese Man and Woman dance.

The Grand Cho. They shall be, &c.
All the Dancers join in it.

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Item Code: ESTFQ22

First line: Come let us leave the town

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), song not printed in the play.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.201, n.673 [Music] Comes Amoris...Fifth Book (1694), pp.6-8 (UMI(2) 136:7) et al.

Text of song:

Come let us leave the town:
And in some lonely place
Where Crowds and Noise were never known,
Resolve to spend our days.
In pleasane shades, upon the Grass at night
Our selves we'll lay, our days
In harmless sports shall pass;
Thus Time shall slide away.

<NOTE: Song is ascribed to this play in Day and Murrie>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ23

First line: O let me weep O let me forever weep

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), song not printed in the play.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.305, n.2488 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus (1698), pp.194-9 (UMI(2) 158:4) et al.

Text of song:

O let me weep, O let me forever weep!
My Eyes no more shall welcome sleep:
I'le hide me from the sight of Day,
And sigh, sigh, sigh my Soul away.
He's gone, he's gone, his loss deplore,
And I shall never see him more.

<NOTE: Song is ascribed to this play in Day and Murrie>.

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Item Code: ESTFQ24

First line: Ye gentle spirits of the air appear

Source Edition: The Fairy Queen (1692), song not printed in the play.

First performed: 2 May 1692 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 334:4

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.393, n.4041 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Second Book (1702), pp.43-5 et al.

Text of song:

Ye gentle Spirits of the Air appear,
Prepare, and joyn your tender Voices here.
Catch a repeat, the trembling sounds anew:
Soft as her sighs and sweet as pearly dew;
Run new Division, and such Measure keep,
As when you lull the God of Love asleep.

<NOTE: Song is ascribed to this play in Day and Murrie>.

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Item Code: ESTHOM1

First line: Song has no lyrics

Source Edition: The Heir of Morocco, with the Death of Gayland (1682), 3.1, p.22.

First performed: 11 March 1682

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:35

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

The King discovered in his Night Gown, sitting, Meroin by him. A Song and Musick.

The Scene a Bed-Chamber.

King. Stop your insipid croaking Throats, and practise <...>

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Item Code: ESTNAC1

First line: The trips of wives how does the world mistake in

Source Edition: The New Athenian Comedy (1693), 3.1, p.18.

First performed: 1692-3? (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 779:1

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Grub. Nay' there thou are i'th right on't. For not to be frighted at a hard name, a little common Popular Obloquy, a meer vulgar Error in that point, I remember an old Bard once sweetly Sung.

The Trips of Wives how do's the World mistake in?
The only Injury in Cuckold-making
Is where th' unhidden too bold Guests Carouse,
Without By'r leave Good Landlord of the House.
But helping Friend upon a good Ocasion
Is only Invitation not Invasion.

Stuff. I profess a sweet Distinction!

Grub. <sings> Besides there's that Reproach and shame of Life,
In Childless Husband and unteeming Wife,
That t'have that Flaw in Reputation stopt,
Nor Families fall for want of being propt,
What we can't raise 'tis prudent to adopt.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTNAC2

First line: Oh the sweet joys [Of girls and boys]

Source Edition: The New Athenian Comedy (1693), 3.1, p.19.

First performed: 1692-3? (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 779:1

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Stuff. Nay sweet Mr. Grub you speak such profound Reason, that I stand the most convinc'd and most confirm'd Convert in the whole world; and cant forbear answering you in a small Rhime of my own Composition.

Oh the Sweet Joys
Of Girls and Boys!
If my wives Parsly-bed, I thought could breed 'em!
I Swear by Athens Owles and my own Raven,
I'de give her Conscience Latitude and Freedom
To borrow Cock of Game to help her Craven.

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Item Code: ESTVP1

First line: War and battle rage no more

Source Edition: The Virgin Prophetess; or, The Fate of Troy (1701), 1.1, p.6.

First Performed: 12 or 15 May 1701 (L.S.)

CT(1) reel no.: 6713:07 (1702)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Here enters a Procession of Men-Singers, ranging on each side the Stage, and joining in Consort with the Women on the Castles.

The Vocal Musick.

War, War, and Battle, rage no more:
The Gods have giv'n their Vengeance o'er.
Paris is now Heav'ns darling Boy;
Whilst smiling Peace, and halcyon Joy,
And brood around the Walls of Troy.
The Gods by this a proof have giv'n,
That Love's the Care of Heav'n:
Love, Love's, the Care of Heav'n.
Then drive my Chariot, drive me round,
And let the loud tongu'd Trumpets sound.
The Earth, the Air, yet louder still,
With Io, Io Paeans fill.
Crack, crack your brazen Throats asunder,
So loud till list'ning Worlds shall wonder,
And Jove, Almighty Jove, shall eccho back in Thunder.

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Item Code: ESTVP2

First line: Thou goddess all celestial bright

Source Edition: The Virgin Prophetess; or, The Fate of Troy (1701), 2.1, p.12.

First Performed: 12 or 15 May 1701 (L.S.)

CT(1) reel no.: 6713:07 (1702)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

The Vocal Musick.

Thou Goddess all celestial bright,
Diana, Heav'ns fair Virgin Light.
Of all the Heav'nly Beauties, thine
The clearest Beams, the purest shine:
For, Oh, thou Chastity Divine,
There's spots in every Star but thine.
Thou Heav'n born Maid, yet greater still,
Who singly thy bright Orb to fill,
No sharer in thy Throne,
True Monarch reign'st alone.
See, round our Walls
What Tryumph calls?
Our Foes they fly;
Our Fears they die.
The kindest Powers
Of Heav'n, are ours,
Thou Guardian of the Trojan Tow'rs.
To thee these solemn Rites we pay,
The Laughing Joys of this great Day,
In Smiles we thank, when 'tis in Tears we pray.

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Item Code: ESTVP3

First line: See here my quiver see my darts

Source Edition: The Virgin Prophetess; or, The Fate of Troy (1701), 3.[2], pp.22-3.

First Performed: 12 or 15 May 1701 (L.S.)

CT(1) reel no.: 6713:07 (1702)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Cupid's Song.

See here my Quiver, see my Darts;
See here the Sovereign Lord of Hearts:
Love fills an Universal Throne;
'Tis I that Reign alone,
Alone,
The Young and Old, all bow their Knee,
The whole World bends to me,
To me.
O're Kings below and Gods above,
'Tis I the Empire boast;
'Twas I that dubb'd Almighty Jove,
The first great Knight of the Toast.
'Tis I make War; 'tis Peace I sign;
The Ties of Hearts and Souls are mine,
I rouze the Hero, give th'Alarms;
'Tis I that call to Arms,
To Arms.
But when the Nymph's in triumph led,
Oh then I call to Bed,
To Bed.
Nor wonder that a Pow'r so strong,
My blooming Years enjoy!
The God of Wit is always Young,
And love th'immortal Boy.

CHORUS.

To Love we'll sing, great Love to Thee
All humane Race must bend a Knee:
Love do's the whole Creation move,
And all Mankind's the Work of Love.
The Great, the Fair, the Rich, the Poor,
Love Natures Lord must all adore:
Let Jove the Worlds proud Scepter sway;
Love finds him Subjects to obey.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESTVP4

First line: I charge ye daughter once again

Source Edition: The Virgin Prophetess; or, The Fate of Troy (1701), 3.[2], pp.23-4.

First Performed: 12 or 15 May 1701 (L.S.)

CT(1) reel no.: 6713:07 (1702)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

A Dialogue between a Mother and a Daughter.

Moth. I charge ye Daughter once agen,
To fly those dangerous things call'd Men.
Daugh. And why so dang'rous, tell me why;
Where, Mother, do's the danger lie?
Moth. O Child! they cheat, deceive, betray,
A thousand treacherous Arts they play,
And all to steal your Hearts away.
Daugh. Are Men those Thieves? I'le ne'er believe;
What need they Rob, or Steal, or Thieve,
Those Hearts which we are so free give?
Moth. You know not Man so well as I,
Dear Child, from that destroyer fly:
Daugh. Can Men those dreadful Creatures be,
That we poor frighted Maids should flee
I hope my Father was a Man,
And had your self so frighted ran,
I am sure you had ne're had me.
Moth. But that false Sex, their treacherous Smiles,
Decoying Snares, deluding Wiles.
Daugh. No Mother, no, those Shams won't do,
I'le fear a man no more than You.

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Item Code: ESTVP5

First line: Flora calls where where's my train

Source Edition: The Virgin Prophetess; or, The Fate of Troy (1701), 4.1, pp.25-6.

First Performed: 12 or 15 May 1701 (L.S.)

CT(1) reel no.: 6713:07 (1702)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Flora enters and her Nymphs, who perform a piece of Vocal Musick directed to Paris; And then a Dance.

A Song of Flora and her Nymphs.

Flor. Flora calls, where, where's my Train;
Every Nymph and every Swain?
Nymph. When that commanding Voice we hear,
Dread Sovereign, we appear.
Flor. Say Nymph, how burns Loves fragant Fire?
Nymph. All Innocence, and chast Desire.
Flor. Where is't that Truth and Virtue dwels?
Nymph. Not in proud Courts, but humble Cells.
The Woods, the Plains, the Bow'r, the Grove,
Those Scenes of Innocence and Love;
There in endless Joys we Reign;
Loves pleasure all without the pain.
We fear no starting Dreams; nor dread
The Bolts hang o'er the Adulterer's Head.
We keep the Tyrant Conscience under;
The Gods we fear, but not their Thunder.
Degenerate World, what art thou grown,
When thus the Cott can shame the blushing Throne?

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Item Code: ESTVP6

First line: Hold yet hold mad boy

Source Edition: The Virgin Prophetess; or, The Fate of Troy (1701), 4.1, p.27.

First Performed: 12 or 15 May 1701 (L.S.)

CT(1) reel no.: 6713:07 (1702)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Here Cassandra makes a second Change, the whole Garden being in a moment vanish'd, and the Prospect fill'd up with a view of Heav'n, in which the whole Hierarchy of the Heathen Gods, with all their several Chariots, Palaces in the Air, &c. A new piece of Musick is perform'd, directed as before, to Paris.

The Vocal Musick.

Hold, hold, yet hold, mad Boy,
Stop, stop, the Fate of Troy:
Hold, hold, mad Phaeton,
Drive no more headlong on.
Tumbled and swallow'd all,
Death and Graves wait thy fall.
All the Gods,
Bolts and Rods,
Every Shaft, every Dart,
Strikes at the Adulterers Heart.
Down in the dark Abyss of Hell,
Where the Damn'd Groan, and Furies yell,
Lust lights the hottest Brand of Hell.

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Item Code: ESTVP7

First line: Come let us sing and merrily troll

Source Edition: The Virgin Prophetess; or, The Fate of Troy (1701), 5.[2], pp.38-9.

First Performed: 12 or 15 May 1701 (L.S.)

CT(1) reel no.: 6713:07 (1702)

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

3d M. <...> But hark the Musick's beginning.

Enter a Chorus of Bacchanals.

Bacch. Come, come let us Sing, and merrily troll
The praise of the Vine, and Charms of the Bowl.
Let Jove and his proud Host,
Their immortal Scepter boast,
'Tis the God of the Grape that rules the roast.
All, all to me,
They bend their Knee:
All, all, my own true roaring Boys,
Tune to no other Joys.
Bacch. Have ye heard the Thunder rattle in the Sky,
And seen the nimble Lightning fly,
And wot ye the cause Divine?
The Jolly Jolly Gods drink Wine.
All snug in a jovial tipling Cloud,
They Quaff and they Laugh,
With a ho, ho, ho:
They Quaff and they Laugh so loud.
Little AEolus and Boreas,
And the rest of the Mad Chorus,
They bluster, swagger, and roar:
All a pack of mad Fellows,
They burn, they burn the Bellows;
And thro' the whole House out o' Door.
The Health goes round,
And the Poles rebound;
For the Gods they are got
In a merry, merry knot;
Whilst the blow, and they huff,
They heave and they puff,
And all to take off the Pot.

The CHACON.

Our Foes are run,
The Wars are done;
And all our vanish'd Fears are gone.
Hemm'd in with Peace, wall'd round with Joy,
Stand the unshaken Walls of Troy.
Then come, let's join
Our Ayrs Divine,
In all the Charms of Love and Wine.
On Beds of Flow'rs, in Bow'rs of Bliss,
We'll Drink and Revel, Toy and Kiss.
A smiling Heav'n, and shining Throne,
Love, Love, and Empire, all our own.

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Item Code: ESWITM1

First line: Welcome beauty all the charms

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), Prologue, sig.a4v.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Set by Jeremiah Clarke, but music not extant (?)

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

PROLOGUE. Set to Musick by Mr. Jeremy Clark.

Welcome Beauty, all the Charms,
Sparkling in that Orb of Glory;
All to those Protecting Arms,
Thus we Bend and Kneel before Ye.
If the Fates that rule below,
All are smiling Heav'ns Creation;
We have no kind Stars but You,
All in that fair Constellation.

Smile then with a Beam divine,
We'll be blest if You but shine;
Happy then our Pains and Toils;
Wit only lives, when Beauty smiles.

Your Graces let the Muses share,
And in return they make this Pray'r.
In all your Quiver,
May there never,
Want a Shaft all Hearts to gain;
Whilst all their Duty,
Paid to Beauty,
The Great shall Kneel, and Fair shall Reign.

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Item Code: ESWITM2

First line: Within this happy world above

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 1.1, p.8.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Jeremiah Clarke (Part One-- nwc) (Part Two-- nwc)

Performer/s: Mrs. Cross and Messrs. Freeman and Leveridge.

Source/s of Music: Parts of the song recorded in Day and Murrie, p.212, n.862 and p.385, n.3894 [Music] Songs in...The World in the Moon (1697) npn (UMI(2) 2097:10) et al.

Text of song:

The Flat-Scene draws <...> Enter Cynthia's Train, being Twenty Singers, and other Retinue. The following Piece of Musick is Sung.

Composed by Mr. Jeremy Clark.

Within this happy World above,
The Realms of Innocence and Love,
(Love with his Rosy Chaplets crown'd)
Eternal Joy goes round.
Divine Astrea hither flew,
To Cynthia's brighter Throne:
She left the Iron World below,
To bless the Silver Moon.

Chor. Divine Astrea---

Sound sound the Trumpets, sound
Fair Cynthia's Name,
Through all the heavenly Round,
So vast her Empire and so loud her Fame,
Sound that proud triumphant Name,
Sound, sound, for ever sound.

Soft Peace on Earth so rarely shows her Head,
Scarce found within the Bridal Bed.
We know no Discords, know no Jars,
Unless the gentle amorous Wars:
We fear no Shafts but those that fly
From Phyllis, or from Celia's Eye;
Nor Death, but when in melting Charms we die.

Whilst thus our calmer Pleasures flow,
What Storms disturb the Globe below?
Tempests rattle,
Blood and Battle,
Fire and Ruin, War and Thunder,
Tear the lower World asunder.
Chor. Tempests rattle---

<NOTE: The score for the chorus provides the missing lyrics as follows>

Divine Astrea hither flew,
To Cynthia's brighter throne,
She left the Iron World below,
To bless the Sliver Moon.

Tho' Phoebus with his hotter beam's,
Do's Gold in Earth Create;
That lead's those Wretches to Extremes,
Of Av'rice Lust and Hate.

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Item Code: ESWITM3

First line: Come all you nymphs of Cynthia's train

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 2.1, p.14.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Set by Daniel Purcell, but music not extant (?)

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Wildblood and Stanmore sit on the Stage, whilst the Entertainment is perform'd <...>

The Entertainment Composed by Mr. Daniel Purcel.

Come all you Nymphs of Cynthia's Train,
That tread the Azure Plain,
That melt your Hours,
And tune your Loves,
In rosy Bow'rs,
Immortal Groves:
Come all, come all, come all, and join,
In some new Ayrs divine.

Nymphs. We come, we come; we need no more.
Then see that ever-soveraign Pow'r,
Our bended Knees adore.
Chor. We come, &c.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESWITM4

First line: To Cynthia then our homage pay

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 2.1, p.14.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Daniel Purcell ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mrs. Magnus and boy

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.358, n.3418 [Music] Songs in...The World in the Moon (1697), npn (UMI(2) 2097:10).

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

To Cynthia then our Homage pay,
And dedicate th' eternal Day:
Her Praises move the heavenly Round,
Her Songs with Jo Paeans crown'd,
Up to her Brother's Throne shall sound.
Chor. Her Praises, &c.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESWITM5

First line: In all our Cynthia's shining sphere

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 2.1, p.15.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Henry Purcell (or Daniel? see note below) ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mr. Leveridge and Mrs. Cross

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.358, n.3418 [Music] Purcell, Henry, Orpheus Britannicus...Book One of Third Edition (1721), pp.238-41. First appeared in Second Edition (1706), pp.238-41 (not on microfilm).

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

A Dialogue between Mr. Leveredge and Mrs. Cross.

Mr. Leveredge. In all our Cynthia's shining Sphere,
Methinks the fairest Face is here.
Say, lovely Thing, say what art thou?
Mrs. Cross. I came, Sir, from the World below.
I once was mortal Flesh and Blood,
And scarce my Beauties Bloom display'd,
I dropt a tender Virgin-bud,
I play'd the Fool and dy'd a Maid:
For which the Gods have sent me here,
To shine a Star in Cynthia's Sphere.
Leveredge. So fair a Face,
In a World so base,
Yet die a Maid!
Cross. A very, very Maid!
Leveredge. Have a care what you say.
Cross. A pure, pure Maid;
A pure, pure Maid.
Leveredge. Are you sure you don't lie?
Cross. A pure, pure Maid, and I'll tell you why.
The Truth that I tell will plainly be seen,
For I dy'd so very young, not full Thirteen.
Do you think I wou'd deceive ye?
Leveredge. No, no, I believe ye.
That Wonder in an Age may once be seen;
There may be a Maid not full Thirteen.
But were you to live your Life o're again;
Oh what wou'd you do, what wou'd you do then?
I am very much afraid,
You wou'd still die a Maid;
Keep your sweet Virgin-Innocence all unshaken;
I fear you'd die a Maid.
Cross. I fear you're mistaken.
Leveredge. How, not die a Maid?
Cross. No, no, not I;
Not die a Maid, and I'll tell you why.
These Eyes I am sure were for Love design'd,
And these Charms they were lent me to bless Mankind.
Then shall I die a Maid?
Leveredge. Oh no, no, no.
I hope you have more more Wit than so.
Cross. I am sure I have more more Wit than so.

<NOTE: Although Day and Murrie assign the composition of this song to Henry, who died in 1695, much of the score is set by Daniel>.

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Item Code: ESWITM6

First line: Look round and here behold [Fair Cynthia's shining roof of gold]

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 3.1, pp.21-2.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Set by Daniel Purcell, but music not extant (?)

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

The Musick set by Mr. Daniel Purcel.

Look round, look round, and here behold,
Fair Cynthia's shining Roof of Gold;
Bright as the blushing Morning's Beams,
And spangl'd like her Heaven with Jems:
So high, its touring Head it shrowds,
Above the Clouds;
And all her glitt'ring Turrets rise,
To kiss the Skies.
And now within her smiling Sphere,
To feast her Eye, and charm her Ear;
We'll call some airy Forms to play,
And dance the jovial Hours away.

If airy Forms can dance the measure,
We have those Delights can please her;
For oh! we'll raise up from below,
That Thing of Air, they call a BEAU.

Then Cynthia's Revels to attend,
Ascend, ye empty Forms, ascend:
Ascend, and dance your airy Round,
Ye Forms made up of Breath and Sound.
Chor. Ascend, &c.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESWITM7

First line: Oh dear sweet sir you look so gay

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 3.1, p.22.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Set by Daniel Purcell, but music not extant (?)

Performer/s: Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Lucas

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

A Dialogue between Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Lucas.

Mrs. Cross. Oh dear, sweet Sir, you look so gay,
So fair; you steal my Heart away:
That Mien, that Shape, that Face, that Air---
Mrs. Lucas. What does the Creature say?
Cross. In those sweet Eyes such Charms I see,
They wound, they kill; they wound, they slay:
Lucas. Alas, such little Things as Thee,
I kill a score a Day.
Cross. Oh turn but one kind Look on me,
My racking Pains to view;
Lucas. No foolish, pratling Thing, you see,
I have something else to do.
Cross. Then cannot you love?
Lucas. No, no; not I.
Cross. This too unkind Requital:
Ah Cruel! can you see me die?
Lucas. I care not, stop my Vital.
Cross. Nay, if I can't your Love subdue,
But find your Heart so coy;
By Jove, I'll be a Beau, like you,
And make my Glass my Joy.

Lucas. But Time perhaps---
Cross. Nay, now I've done.
Lucas. These Women act by Spight all;
You should not fly, when I come on:
Cross. I care not, stop my Vital.

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Item Code: ESWITM8

First line: Young Strephon met me to'ther day

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 4.1, p.27.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Daniel Purcell ( nwc)

Performer/s: "a little Girl"

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.399, n.4136 [Music] Single Songs in...The World in the Moon (1697), pp.4-6 (UMI(2) 1158:16).

Text of song:

A song sung by Miss -; set by Mr. Purcel.

Young Strephon met me to'ther Day,
And courted me to Toy and Play:
He talk'd of twenty pretty Things,
Of Darts, and Flames, and Cupid's Wings.
What need he tell me o're and o're,
I had a thousand Charms and more?
My Glass had told me that before.

And then he fell to Sobbing, Sighing,
Cooing, Wooing, Whining, Crying;
All but Dying.

I knew what he meant; I saw't in his Eyes,
'Twas all but a pack of flattering Lies:
'Twas all but a Sham,
All, all that he said;
For Young though I am,
Young, Young as I am;
I am too Old to be betray'd.

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Item Code: ESWITM9

First line: The nymphs of the plain [And swains of the grove]

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 4.1, pp.32-3.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Set by Daniel Purcell, but music not extant (?)

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

The Ceremony of a Nuptial Entertainment perform'd. Mrs. Cross, the Bride, and Mr. Leveridge the Bridegroom.

The Musick set by Mr. D. Purcel.

The Nymphs of the Plain,
And Swains of the Grove
All the whole Noble Train
Of Smiling Love:
A Jolly Jolly Troop in all our Pride,
Our happy Joys we'll summon;
To day we have made a Maid a Bride,
And to Night we shall make a Woman.

Let the Blushing Miss,
That steals to the Bliss,
Take a whole Load of Shame upon her:
All the true Joys of Life
Are i'th' Arms of a Wife,
In Love's fair Bed of Honour.

Chor. All the true Joys, &c.

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Item Code: ESWITM10

First line: So now we have done the work of the day

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 4.1, p.33.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Set by Daniel Purcell, but music not extant (?)

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

The Shepherds sing.

So now we have done the Work of the Day,
For the Work of the Night come all Hands away,
To lay the sweet Bride,
By her Bridegroom's Side:
To Bed, to Bed with the Bride.

This again in Chorus.

<NOTE: The next song follow immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESWITM11

First line: Come my dear love my soul's all o' fire

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 4.1, pp.33-4.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Set by Daniel Purcell, but music not extant (?)

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Bridegroom, Come, come, my dear Love, my Soul's all o' fire;
All burning Desire,
In thy Arms to expire;
To drink the sweet Nectar of Gods in Kisses,
And taste their whole Heav'n in Blisses.
Then come, come, come away.
Bride, Oh, What shall I do!
Bridegroom, Come, come, come away.
Bride, Oh, How shall I go to a Man, to Bed!
I vow, I shall blush all Scarlet Bed.
Bridegroom, Prethee, prethee, bush
All thoughts of a Blush.
Bride, Nay, fye, naughty Man; what is't that you want?
Bridegroom, All the warm sweet Blessings that Love can grant.
Then come, come, come.
Bride, I can't, I can't.
Bridegroom, Indeed, but you shall.
Bride, I vow, but I sha'n't.
Bridegroom, You must, you shall.
Bride, I won't, I can't.
Bridegroom, But come, come to Bed.
Bride, I shall die with Shame.
Bridegroom. Come, come, come away, and cast away Sorrow;
If thou blushest to night, thou wilt smile tomorrow.
Bride, Oh, let me but lie one Night more alone:
Bridegroom, No, no, no.
Bride, Not one Night more a Maid!
Bridegroom, Not one.
Bride, Well, well; if I must, I'll try what I can.
But what shall I do to lie by a Man!
You'll put out the Candle?
Bridegroom, Ay, ay, ay, ay.
Bride, And shut the Door?
Bridegroom, Ay, ay, ay, ay.
Bride, And shall no body see?
Bridegroom, No, no body see.
Bride, And no body hear?
Bridegroom, No, none but we.
Bride, Well, well; if I must, I'll try what I can.
But, what shall I do to lie by a Man!

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Item Code: ESWITM12

First line: All the true joys of life (reprise)

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 4.1, p.34.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Set by Daniel Purcell, but music not extant (?)

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one, and is a reprise of the final lines of ESWITM9>.

Chorus. All the true Joys of Life, &c.

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Item Code: ESWITM13

First line: Come Strephon Phyllis come let's troll

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 4.2, p.42.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Daniel Purcell ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mrs. Cross

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.203, n.709 [Music] Single Songs in...The World in the Moon (1697), p.1 (UMI(2) 1158:16).

Text of song:

Set by Mr. D. Purcel.

Mrs. Cross, Come Strephon, Phyllis come let's troll
A Jovial Hour away.
And whilst the Golden Minutes roll,
We'll Sing and Dance, and Play.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: ESWITM14

First line: See in the smiling month of May

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), 4.2, pp.42-3.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Daniel Purcell (Part One-- nwc) (Part Two-- nwc)

Performer/s: "a Girl" and Mrs. Linsey

Source/s of Music: Parts of the song recorded in Day and Murrie, p.327, n.2874 and p.345, n.3202 [Music] Songs in...The World in the Moon (1697) npn (UMI(2) 2097:10) et al.

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Miss. See in the smiling Month of May,
The Songsters of the Grove they play,
Must such a poor young thing as they
A little Bird so very small
That just can tattle, chirp and prattle:
I can but sing, and Oh that's all.
But if I live till past fifteen,
See such fine Sparks as here are seen.
I fear, I fear, you'l teach me then
To perch and plume, and dress and pride,
And more than tattle,
Chirp and prattle,
I then shall sing and love beside.
Let Monarchs boast their High Renown;
A Garland's fairer than a Crown.
Whilst Courts have all the Pomp and noise,
The Groves have all the Sweets and Joys.
Then come kind Damon, come away,
To Cynthia's Bower advance;
The Sylvanes they shall Pipe and Play,
And we'll lead up the Dance.

A Grand Dance of Shepherds.

Hark, hark! To Pleasure and Delight
The Earth, the Seas, and Air invite:
The Winds, they whistle; Woods, they ring;
The Brooks, they murmur; Birds, they sing:
The Turtles coo; and Lambs, they play:
And why not we as blithe as they?

Then, whilst we trip it o'er o'er the Plain,
Let Pan and Flora live and reign:
We'll envy not great Jove; and be
As bless'd, though not as great as He.

But, see! Our Goddess does appear!
She comes to grace our Rural Choir:
Then let the Muses all inspire
Our Joys to a Sublimer Air.

Let her Great Name go round;
Yet louder let it sound.
Cynthia! a Name so proud,
To chant her endless Song,
Jove's! Thunder's not too loud;
Eternity too long.
Grand Chorus, Let her Great Name, &c.

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Item Code: ESWITM15

First line: Song has no lyrics

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), Epilogue, p.44.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

EPILOGUE, Spoke by Miss Dennis Chock, Dress'd with a great Wig like a Beau.

She Enters Singing Part of an Old Tune.

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Item Code: ESWITM16

First line: Young Strephon he has wooed me long

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), not printed in play.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Daniel Purcell ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.399, n.4135 [Music] Single Songs 1697), p.7 (UMI(2) 1158:16) et al.

Text of song:

<I.>

Young Strephon he Woo'd me long,
And Courted me with Pipe and Song;
But I a silly, peevish Titt,
For want of Sense, for want of Witt,
Have poo'd and cry'd,
Have pish'd and fy'd,
And play'd the Foole, and lost my Time,
And almost slip't my Maiden prime.

II.

But now I thank my gracious Heav'n,
I hope my faults are all forgiven;
I've struck the Bargain, eas'd my pain,
And am resolv'd to take my Swain
To Poo, and cry,
And Pish, and Fye,
And make a Virgin's coy pretence,
Is all, all, all, is all, all, all, is all, all, all
For want of Sense.

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Item Code: ESWITM17

First line: I see<k> no more to Shady Coverts

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), not printed in play.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Jeremiah Clarke ( nwc)

Performer/s: Mrs. Temple

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.257, n.1653 [Music] Songs...in The World in the Moon (1697), npn (UMI(2) 2097:10) et al.

Text of song:

I'se no more to Shady Coverts,
Jock<e>y's Eyne are all my Joy,
Beauty's there I Ken that cannot,
Must not, shall not Dteal away;
What woo'd Jockey now doe too me,
Surely your to me unkind,
I'se nere See you nay you fly me,
Yet are nere from out my mind.

Tell me why tis thus you use me,
Take me quickly to your Armes,
Where in bllisses <sic> blithly basking,
Each may rivall the Other's Charm's,
O but fy, my Jock<e>y pray now,
What d'ye; doe not; lett me goe,
O I vow you will undoe me, what to doe I doe not know.

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Item Code: ESWITM18

First line: Smile then with a beam divine

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), not printed in play.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Jeremiah Clarke ( nwc)

Performer/s: Ms. Cross

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.334, n.3002 [Music] Songs...in The World in the Moon (1697), npn (UMI(2) 2097:10) et al.

Text of song:

Smile then with a beam Devine,
Weel be blest if you but Shine,
Happy then our Pains and Toyls,
Wit only Lives when Beauty Smiles.

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Item Code: ESWITM19

First line: Let those youths who freedom prize

Source Edition: The World in the Moon (1697), not printed in play.

First performed: Late June 1697 (Danchin)

UMI(2) reel no.: 511:39

Author: Elkanah Settle

Composer: Unrecorded (probably Daniel Purcell) ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.277, n.2011 [Music] Single Songs...in The World in the Moon (1697), p.8 (UMI(2) 1158:16) et al.

Text of song:

<I.>

Let those Youths who freedom prize,
Far from the conq'ring Sylvia run:
Never see her killing Eyes,
Or hear her soft enchanting Tongue.

<II.>

For such sure destruction waits,
On those darts with which she wounds,
o Shepherd ever can escape,
But falls if Sylvia does but frown.

III.

Damon, to his cost has prov'd,
All resistance is but vain:
Heav'n has form'd her to be lov'd,
And made her Queen of all the plain.

IV.

Damon, when he saw her face,
From her beauty wou'd have fled;
But the Charmer turn'd her voice,
And with a Song she struck him dead.

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Item Code: FBKBP1

First line: Nose nose jolly red nose

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 1.1, sig.[C3v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old Mer. within. Nose, Nose, iolly red Nose, and who gaue thee this iolly red nose?

Mist. Mer. Harke my Husband hee's singing and hoiting,
And Im'e faine to carke and care, and all little enough.
Husband, Charles, Charles Merithought.
Enter Old Merry-thought.

Old Mer. <singing> Nutmegs and Ginger, Cinamon and Cloues,
And they gave me this iolly red Nose.

Mist. Mer. If you would consider your state, you would haue little lust to sing, I-wisse.

Old Mer. It should neuer bee considered, while it were an estate, if I thought it would spoyle my singing.

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Item Code: FBKBP2

First line: Tell me dearest what is love

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 3.1, sig.[E4v]-F[1r].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Luce. I cannot sleepe,
Indeed I cannot friend.

Iasp. Why then wee'l sing,
And try how that will work vpon our sences.

Luce. Il'e sing, or say, or any thing but sleepe.

Iasp. Come little Mer-maid, rob me of my heart
With that inchanting voyce.

Luce. You mock me Iasper

Sung.

Iasp. Tell me (deerest) what is loue?
Luce. 'Tis a lightning from aboue,
'Tis an arrow, 'tis a fire,
'Tis a boy they call desire.
'Tis a smile
Doth beguile
Iasp. The poore hearts of men that proue,
Tell me more, are Women true?

Luce. Some loue change, and so do you.
Iasp. Are they faire, and neuer kind?
Luce. Yes, when men turne with the winde.
Iasp. Are they froward?
Luce. Ever toward
Those that loue, to loue a new.

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Item Code: FBKBP3

First line: Go from my window love go

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 3.1, sig.[G3v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old mer. <singing> Go from my window, loue goe:
Go from my window my deere,
The winde and the raine will driue you backe againe,
You cannot be lodged heere.

Hark you Mistriss Merrithought, you that walke vpon aduentures, and forsake your husband, because hee sings with neuer a peny in his purse; What shall I thinke my selfe the worse? Faith no, Il'e be merry.

Hey-ho, my heart is heavy.

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Item Code: FBKBP4

First line: I come not hither for thee to teach

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 3.1, sig.[G3v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old mer. I come not hither for thee to teach,
I have no pulpit for thee to preach,
I would thou hadst kist me under the breech,
As thou art a Lady gay.

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Item Code: FBKBP5

First line: You are no love for me Margret

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 3.1, sig.[G4r-G4v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old mer. Good woman, if you wil sing, Il'e giue you something, if not---

Song.

You are no loue for me Margret, I am no loue for you.
<spoken?> Come aloft Boyes, aloft.

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Item Code: FBKBP6

First line: Come you whose loves are dead

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 4.1, sig.[H4v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Luce. <...> first will I sing thy dirge,
Then kisse thy pale lips, and then dye my selfe,
And fill one Coffin and one graue together.

Song.

Come you whose loues are dead,
And whiles I sing
Weepe and wring
Euery hand and euery head,
Bind with Cipres and sad Ewe,
Ribands blacke, and Candles blew,
For him that was of men most true.
Come with heauy mourning,
And on his graue
Let him haue
Sacrifice of sighes and groaning,
Let him haue fair flowers enow,
White and purple, greene and yellow,
For him that was of men most true.

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Item Code: FBKBP7

First line: Who can sing a merrier note

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 4.1, sig.[I1v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Wife. Ah old Merry-thought, art thou there againe, let's hear some of thy Songs.

Old mer. Who can sing a merrier noate,
Then he that cannot change a groat?

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Item Code: FBKBP8

First line: For Jillian of Berry she dwells on a hill

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 4.1, sig.[I1v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old mer. Will they not? let am chuse, the best is I haue mirth at home, and neede not send abroad for that, let them keepe their drinke to themselues.

For Iillian of Berry shee dwels on a Hill,
And shee hath good Beere and Ale to sell.
And of good fellowes she thinks no ill,
And thether will we go now, now, now, now, and thether
Will wee go now.
And when you haue made a little stay,
You need not aske what is to pay,
But kiss your Hostesse and go your way, And thither, &c.

<NOTE: Not clear whether recited or sung>.

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Item Code: FBKBP9

First line: Ho ho no body at home

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 4.1, sig.I2.

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old mer. Hang bread and supper, let's preserue our mirth, and we shall neuer feele hunger, Il'e warrant you, let's haue a Catch, boy follow me, come sing this Catch.

Ho, ho, no body at home, meate, nor drinke, nor money ha wee none, fill the pot Eedy, neuer more need I.

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Item Code: FBKBP10

First line: London to thee I do present the merry month of May,

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 4.1, sig.I2-[I2v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Enter Raph.

Raph. London, to thee I do present the merry Month of May
Let each true Subiect be content to heare me what I say:
For from the top of Conduit head, as plainely may appeare,
I will both tell my name to you, and wherefore I came heere.
My name is Raph, by due descent, though not ignoble I,
Yet far inferior to the flock of gratious Grocery.
And by the Common-councell, of my fellowes in the Strand,
With guilded Staffe, and crossed Skarfe, the May-lord here I stand.
Reioyce, o English hearts, reioyce, reioyce o Louers deere,
Reioyce o Citty, Towne, and Country, reioyce eke euery Shire;
For now the flagrant Flowers do spring and sprout in seemely sort,
The little Birds do sit and sing, the Lambes do make fine sport.
And now the Burchin Tree doth bud that maks the Schoole boy cry
The Morrice rings while Hobby horse doth foote it feateously:
The Lords and Ladies now abroad for their disport and play,
Do kisse sometimes upon the Grasse, and sometimes in the Hey.
Now Butter with a leafe of Sage is good to Purge the bloud,
Fly Venus and Phlebotomy for they are neither good.
Now little fish on tender stone, beginne to cast their bellies,
And sluggish snails, that erst were mute, do creep out of their shelies,
The rumbling Riuers now do warme for little boies to padle,
The sturdy Steede, now goes to grasse, and up they hang his saddle.
The heauy Hart, the bellowing Bucke, the Rascal and the Pricket,
Are now among the Yeomans Pease, and leaue the fearefull thicket.
And be like them, o you, I say, of this same noble Towne,
And lift aloft your velvet heads, and slipping of your gowne:
With bels on legs, and napkins cleane unto your shoulders tide,
With Scarfes & Garters as you please, & Hey for our Town cri'd
March out and shew your willing minds by twenty and by twenty,
To Hogsdon or to Newington, where Ale and Cakes are plenty:
And let it nere be said for shame, that we the youths of London,
Lay thrumming of our Caps at home, and left our custome undone.
Up then, I say, both young and old, both man and maide a Maying
With Drums and Guns that bounce alowd, & mery Taber playing.
Which to prolong, God saue our King, and send his Country peace
And roote out Treason from the Land, and so, my friends I cease.

<NOTE: Not clear whether recited or sung>.

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Item Code: FBKBP11

First line: Come no more there boys come no more there

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 5.1, sig.K[1]-[K1v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old mer. Yet I thanke God, I breake not a rinkle more then I had, not a stoope boys: Care liue with Cats, I defie thee, my heart is as sound as an Oke; and though I want drinke to wet my whistle, I can sing:

Come no more there boyes, come no more there:
For we shall neuer whilst we liue, come any more there.

Enter a Boy with a Coffin.

Boy. God saue you sir.

Old mer. It's a braue boy: canst thou sing?

Boy. Yes sir, I can sing, but 'tis not so necessary at this time.

Old merri. Sing wee, and chaunt it, whilst loue doth grant it.

Boy. Sir, sir, if you knew what I haue brought you, you would haue little list
to sing.

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Item Code: FBKBP12

First line: It was a ladies daughter of Paris

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 5.1, sig.K2.

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old mer. Woman I take you to my loue againe, but you shall sing before you enter: therefore dispatch your song, and so come in.

Mist. mer. Well, you must haue your will when al's done. Micke what song canst thou sing boy?

Mich. I can sing none forsooth, but a Ladies daughter of Paris properly.

Mich., mer. Song.

It was, a Ladies Daughter, &c.

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Item Code: FBKBP13

First line: Fortune my foe

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 5.1, sig.K2.

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old mer. What are you? are you merry? you must bee very merry if you enter.

March. I am sir.

Old mer. Sing then.

March. Nay, good sir open to me.

Old mer. Sing, I say, or by the merry heart, you come not in.

March. Well sir, Il'e sing.

Fortune my foe, &c.

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Item Code: FBKBP14

First line: Better music ne'r was known

Source Edition: Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), 5.1, sig.[K3v].

First performed: revived 5 May 1662 (L.S)

UMI(1) reel no.: 734:10 (1613)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Old mer. Methinks all we, thus kindly and vnexpectedly reconciled should not part without a song.

Merch. A good motion.

Old mer. Strike up then.

Song.

Better Musicke nere was knowne,
Then a quire of hearts in one.
Let each other that hath beene,
Troubled with the gall or spleene:
Learne of vs to keepe his brow,
Smoth and plaine as ours are now.
Sing though before the houre of dying
He shall rise and then be crying,
Hey ho, 'tis nought but mirth.
That keepes the body from the earth.

Exeunt omnes.

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Item Code: FBLC1

First line: Turn thy beauteous face away

Source Edition: Love's Cure; or, The Martiall Mayde (1647), 3.2, pp.134-5.

First Performed: revived 1660? (assigned to King's Company, see L.S., p.152)

UMI(2) reel no.: 306:1

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Composer: John Wilson ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.361, n.3487 [Music] Wilson, John, Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (1660), pp.140-1 (UMI(2) 44:10).

Text of song:

Song.

Pio. Turn, turn they beauteous face away,
How pale and sickly looks the day,
In emulation of thy brighter beams!
Oh envious light, fly, fly, be gone,
Come night, and joyne two breasts as one;
When what love does, we will repeat in dreams.
Yet (thy eyes open) who can day hence fright,
Let but their lids fall, and it will be night.

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Item Code: FBM1

First line: Oh you powerful gods if I must be

Source Edition: Marcelia, or The Treacherous Friend (1669), 4.5, sig.I1v-I2.

First performed: c.July (H&S) 1669, August?(Danchin).

UMI(2) reel no.: 172:3

Author: Frances Boothby

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Eric. And I am sad to see your heart possest
Still with that Love, which gives your thoughts no rest.

Cal. Thy charming voice would make them clamer grow.

Eric. I'le sing, and ne're give off, if I thought so.

Cal. Sing then that Song my humor suits and mind,
I'le sit down here, if thou wilt be so kind.

She sits down, and leans melancholly upon her arm.

SONG.

I.

Eric. Oh, you powerful Gods if I must be,
An injur'd Off'ring to Love's Deity,
Grant my revenge, this Plague on men,
That Women ne're may love agen:
Then I'le with joy submit unto my Fate,
Which by your Justice gives their Empire date.

2.

Depose that proud insulting Boy,
Who most is pleas'd when he can most destroy:
O! let the World no longer govern'd be,
By such a Blind and Childish Deity:
For if you Gods be in your Power severe,
We shall adore you not from love, but fear.

3.

But if you'l his Divinity maintain
O're men, false men, confine his tort'ring raign:
And when their Hearts Love's greatest torments prove,
Let that not pity, but our laughter move.
Thus scorn'd and lost to all their wishes aim;
Let Rage, Despair, and Death, then end their flame.

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Item Code: FBTC1

First line: Tell me dearest what is love

Source Edition: The Captain [; or The Town Miss] (1647), 2.2, p.55.

First Performed: revived April 1677? (L.S)

UMI(2) reel no.: 306:1

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Fabr. Be softer prethee,
'Tis private musicke.

Jac. What a dyn it makes?
I had rather hear a Jews-trump then these Lutes,
They crye like Schoole-boyes.

Fabr. Prethee Jacamo.

Jac. Well I heare, or sleepe, I care not whether.

The SONG.

Enter at the window Francke and Clora.

1. Tell me dearest what is Love?
2. 'Tis a lightning from above,
'Tis an arrow, 'tis a fire,
'Tis a boy they call Desire.
Both. 'Tis a grave,
Gapes to have
Those poore fooles that long to prove.

1. Tell me more, are women true?
2. Yes, some are, and some as you.
Some are willing, some are strange,
Since you men first taught to change.
Both. And till troth
Be in both,
All shall love, to love anew.

1. Tell me more yet, can they grieve?
2. Yes, and sicken sore, but live:
And be wise, and delay,
When you men are as wise as they.
Both. Then I see
Faith will be,
Never till they both beleeve.

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Item Code: FBTC2

First line: Away delights go seek some other dwelling

Source Edition: The Captain [; or The Town Miss] (1647), 3.4, p.59.

First Performed: revived April 1677? (L.S)

UMI(2) reel no.: 306:1

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Iul. What, has she musique?

Wom. Yes; for Gods sake stay,
'Tis all she feedes upon.

Iul. Alas poore soule.

Ang. Now will I pray devoutly, for there's need ont.

The SONG.

Away delights, goe seeke some other dwelling,
For I must dye.
Farewell false Love, thy tongue is ever telling
Lye after lye.
For ever let me rest now from thy smarts,
Alas, for pitty goe,
And fire their hearts
That have been hard to thee, mine was not so.

Never againe deluding love shall know me,
For I will dye:
And all those griefes that thinke to over-grow me
Shall be as I.
For ever will I sleepe, while poore maids cry,
Alas for pity stay
And let us dye
With thee, men cannot mocke us in the day.

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Item Code: FBTC3

First line: Come hither you that love and hear me sing

Source Edition: The Captain [; or The Town Miss] (1647), 4.4, p.66.

First Performed: revived April 1677? (L.S)

UMI(2) reel no.: 306:1

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Composer: Robert Johnson ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.200, n.652 [Music] Wilson, John, Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (1660), pp.14-5 (UMI(2) 44:10)

Text of song:

Fa. <...> I will sound
My Daughters meaning, e're I speake to her,
If it be possible, for by my voyce--- Musique.
She will discover me! hark, whence is this.

The SONG.

Come hither you that love, and heare me sing
of joyes still growing
Green, fresh, and lusty, as the pride of Spring,
and ever blowing.
Come hither youths that blush, and dare not know
what is desire,
And olde men worse then you, that cannot blow
one sparke of fire.
And with the power of my enchanting Song,
Boyes shall be able men, and old men young.

Enter Angilo above.

Come hither you that hope, and you that cry,
leave off complaining,
Youth, strength, and beauty, that shall never dye,
are here remaining.
Come hither fooles, and blush, you stay so long
from being blest,
And mad men worse then you, that suffer wrong,
Yet seeke no rest.
And in an houre, with my enchanting Song,
You shall be ever pleas'd, and young maids long.

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Item Code: FBTMT1

First line: Cinthia to thy power and them

Source Edition: The Maid's Tragedy (1699), 1.2, pp.3-4.

First performed: revived pre-August 1699--first revived 17 November 1660 (L.S)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1030:17 (1686)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song: Cin. Dark night,
Strike a full silence, do a thorow right
To this great Chorus, that our Musick may
Touch high as heaven, and make the East break day
At mid-night. [Musick.

SONG.

Cinthia to thy power, and them
we obey.
Joy to this great company,
and no day
Come to steal this night away,
Till the rites of love are ended,
And the lusty Bridegroom say,
Welcome light of all befriended.
Pace out you watry powers below,
let your feet
Like the Gallies when they row,
even beat.
Let your unknown measures set
To the still winds, tell to all
That Gods are come immortal great,
To honour this great Nuptial.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: FBTMT2

First line: Hold back thy hours dark night till we have done

Source Edition: The Maid's Tragedy (1699), 1.2, p.4.

First performed: revived pre-August 1699

UMI(2) reel no.: 1030:17 (1686)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

Second Song.

Hold back thy hours dark night, till we have done,
The day will come too soon;
Young Maids will curse thee if thou steal'st away,
And leav'st their blushes open to the day.
Stay, stay, and hide
the blushes of the Bride.
Stay gentle night, and with thy darkness cover
The kisses of her Lover.
Stay, and confound her tears, and her shrill cryings,
Her weak denials, vows, and often dyings;
Stay and hide all,
but help not though she call.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: FBTMT3

First line: To bed come Hymen lead the bride

Source Edition: The Maid's Tragedy (1699), 1.2, p.4.

First performed: revived pre-August 1699

UMI(2) reel no.: 1030:17 (1686)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

Nep. Thy tunes my Amphitrite joyes to have,
When they will dance upon the rising wave,
And court me as the sails, my Trytons play
Musick to lead a storm, I'le lead the way.

Song.

Measure.

To bed, to bed; come Hymen, lead the Bride,
And lay her by her Husbands side:
Bring in the Virgins every one
That grieve to lie alone:
That they may kiss while they may say, a maid,
To morrow 'twill be other, kist and said:
Hesperus be long a shining,
Whil'st these Lovers are a twining.

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Item Code: FBTMT4

First line: Lay a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew

Source Edition: The Maid's Tragedy (1699), 1.2, p.4.

First performed: revived pre-August 1699

UMI(2) reel no.: 1030:17 (1686)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Evad. That's one of your sad songs Madam.

Asp. Believe me, 'tis a very pretty one.

Evad. How is it Madam?

SONG.

Lay a Garland on my Hearse of the dismal yew;
Maidens, Willow branches bear; say I died true:
My Love was false, but I was firm from my hour of birth;
Upon my buried body lay lightly gentle earth.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: FBTMT5

First line: I could never have the power

Source Edition: The Maid's Tragedy (1699), 1.2, p.5.

First performed: revived pre-August 1699

UMI(2) reel no.: 1030:17 (1686)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

Evad. Fie on't Madam, the words are so strange, they are able to make one Dream of Hobgoblins; I could never have the power, Sing that Dula.

Dula. I could never have the power
To love one above an hour,
But my heart would prompt mine eye
On some other man to flie;
Venus, fix mine eyes fast,
Or if not, give me all that I shall see at last.

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Item Code: FBTMT6

First line: Gentle Night befriend a lover

Source Edition: The Maid's Tragedy (1699), song written and set for a revival.

First performed: revived pre-August 1699

UMI(2) reel no.: Not applicable

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Composer: Unrecorded ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.226, n.1113. [Music] Mercurius Musicus, August 1699, pp.160-1.

Text of song:

Gentle Night, befriend a Lover,
Long has had his Bliss delay'd;
Long has sigh'd thy Watches over,
See him, see him now repay'd:
Thirsis eager for possessing,
Thinks the Bride too long undressing;
While the innocent Maid of her Wishes afraid, still delays, still delays;
Tho' she long for the Blessing.

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Item Code: FBTWH1

First line: Come sleep and with the sweet deceiving

Source Edition: The Woman-Hater (1606), 3.1, sig.E[1r]-[E1v].

First performed: revived 1667-8? (Danchin)

UMI(1) reel no.: 982:13 (1607)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Oriana. <...> let my voyce set to some pleasing corde, sound out
The sullen straines of my neglected loue.

Gond. Sing till thou cracke thy treble string in peeces,
And when thou hast done, put vp thy pipes and walke,
Doe any thing, sit still and tempt me not.

Oria. I had rather sing at dores for bread, then sing to this fellow, but for hate: if this should be told in the Court, that I begin to woe Lords, what a troop of the vntrust nobilitie should I haue at my lodging to morrow morning?

Song.

Come sleepe, and with the sweet deceiuing,
Lock me in delight a while,
Let some pleasing Dreames beguile
All my fancies that from thence,
I may feele an influence,
All my powers of care bereauing.

Though but a shaddow, but a sliding,
Let me know some little Ioy,
We that suffer long anoy
Are contented with a thought
Through an idle fancie wrought
O let my ioyes, haue some abiding.

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Item Code: FBTWH2

First line: No I will rather walk with thee alone

Source Edition: The Woman-Hater (1606), 4.1, p.481.

First performed: revived 1667-8? (Danchin)

UMI(1) reel no.: 982:13 (1607)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Gond. Fiue women! how many of my sences should I haue left me then? call in fiue Diuels first.

No, I will rather walke with thee alone,
And heare thy tedious tale of iniurie,
And giue thee answers; whisper in thyne eare,
And make thee understand; through thy French hood:
And all this with tame patience.

<NOTE: Not clear whether recited or sung>.

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Item Code: FBV1

First line: Now the lusty spring is seen

Source Edition: Valentinian (1647), 2.4, p.9.

First Performed: revived pre-1669? (see L.S. p.152)--songs being set to music suggests a revival.

UMI(2) reel no.: 306:1

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Composer: John Wilson ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.300, n.2418 [Music] Wilson, John, Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (1660), pp.136-7 (UMI(2) 44:10)

Text of song:

SONGS.

Now the lusty Spring is seene,
Golden yellow, gaudy Blew,
Daintily invite the view.
Every where, on every Greene,
Roses blushing as they blow,
And inticing men to pull,
Lillies whiter then the snow
Woodbines of sweet hony full.
All loves Emblems and all cry,
Ladyes, if not pluck't we dye.

Yet the lusty Spring hath stayd,
Blushing red and purest white,
Daintily to love invite,
Every Woman, every Mayd,
Cherries kissing as they grow;
And inviting men to taste,
Apples even ripe below,
Winding gently to the waste,
All loves emblems and all cry,
Ladies, if not pluckt we dye.

<NOTE: The next song follows immediately after this one>.

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Item Code: FBV2

First line: Hear ye ladies that despise

Source Edition: Valentinian (1647), 2.4, p.9.

First Performed: revived pre-1669? (see L.S. p.152)--songs set to music suggests a revival.

UMI(2) reel no.: 306:1

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

<NOTE: This song follows immediately after the previous one>.

SECOND.

Heare ye Ladies that despise,
What the mighty love has done,
Feare examples, and be wise,
Faire Calisto was a Nun,
Laeda sayling on the streame,
To deceive the hopes of man,
Love accounting but a dream,
Doted on a silver Swan,
Danae in a Brazen Tower,
Where no love was, lov'd a Flowre.

Heare yee Ladyes that are coy,
What the mighty love can doe,
Feare the fiercenesse of the Boy,
The chaste Moon he makes to woe:
Vesta kindling holy fires,
Circled round about with spies,
Never dreaming loose desires,
Doting at the Altar dies.
Ilion in a short Tower higher,
He can build, and once more fire.

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Item Code: FBV3

First line: Care charming sleep thou easer of all woes

Source Edition: Valentinian (1647), 5.2, pp.22-3.

First Performed: revived pre-1669? (see L.S. p.152)--songs set to music suggests a revival.

UMI(2) reel no.: 306:1

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Musick and Song.

Care charming sleep, thou easer of all woes,
Brother to death, sweetly thy life dispose
On this afflicted Prince, fall like a Cloud
In gentle showres, give nothing that is lowd,
Or painfull to her slumbers; easie, sweet,
And as a purling stream, thou son of night,
Passe by his troubled senses; sings his paine
Like hollow murmuring winde, or silver Rayne?
Into this gently, Oh gently slide,
And kiss him into slumbers like a Bride.

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Item Code: FBV4

First line: Honour that is ever living

Source Edition: Valentinian (1647), 5.[8], p.26.

First Performed: revived pre-1669? (see L.S. p.152)--songs set to music suggests a revival.

UMI(2) reel no.: 306:1

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

SONG.

Honour that is ever living,
Honour that is ever giving,
Honour that sees all and knowes,
Both the ebbs of man and flowes,
Honour that rewards the best,
Sends thee thy rich labours rest;
Thou hast studied still to please her,
Therefore now she calls thee Cesar:
Chorus. Hayle, hayle, Caesar, hayle and stand,
And thy name out live the Land,
Noble fathers to his browes,
Bind this wreath with thousand vows.

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Item Code: FBV5

First line: God Lizus [Lyeus] ever young

Source Edition: Valentinian (1647), 5.[8], p.26.

First Performed: revived pre-1669? (see L.S. p.152)--songs set to music suggests a revival.

UMI(2) reel no.: 306:1

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Composer: John Wilson ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.229, n.1163 [Music] Wilson, John, Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (1660), pp.130-1 (UMI(2) 44:10).

Text of song:

SONG.

God Lizus ever young,
Ever honourd ever sung;
Staind with bloud of lusty Grapes,
In a thousand lusty shapes;
Dance upon the Mazers brim,
In the Crimson liquor Swim
From thy plenteous hand divine,
Let a River runne with Wine;
God of youth, let this day here,
Enter neither care nor feare.

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ITEM CODE: FBWWM1

First line: The fit's upon me now

Source Edition: Wit Without Money (1647), 5.1, p.164.

First Performed: revived 16 October 1660 (L.S)

UMI(2) reel no.: 82:3 (1679)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Val. Any whither.

[Sings.

The fit's upon me now, the fit's upon me now,
Come quickly gentle Ladie, the fit's upon me now,
The world shall know they're fools,
And so shalt thou do too,
Let the Cobler meddle with his tools,
The fit's upon me now.

Take me quickly, while I am in this vein, away with me, for if I have but two hours to consider, all the widows in the world cannot recover me.

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Item Code: FFLITD1

First line: Song has no lyrics

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1671), 1.1, p.5.

First performed: 10 May 1675--first recorded performance (published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Int. What did Agesilaus ride on a Hobby-horse for, but to teach his Children Humility? What did Augustus lye with Senators Wives for? not for his Lechery, I warrant you; but to discover their Councils, as Tacitus admirably has it.---O brave! do you Trivultio <s/d> falls a singing & dancing.<speaks> ever think to be a Privy Counsellor, at this rate?---<s/d>[He sings on. <speaks> Well, Trivultio, I pity thee: thou hast a great deal of Wit, but no Judgement at all.

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Item Code: FFLITD2

First line: Let us turn usurers of time

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 1.1, p.7.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Sings a Song to the Theorbo.

Let us turn Usurers of Time,
And not mispend an hour;
The present, not the future's in our pow'r.
To think to spend what's not our own's a Crime.
He whose soft life's in mirth possest,
Enjoyes his time with interest.
Love, and a Muse,
Brings Use on Use;
For Money's but the Slave, and Time the Measure,
And Wit the Handmaid, Love the Queen of Pleasure.

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Item Code: FFLITD3

First line: Cupid I scorn to beg the art

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 2.1, pp.16-7.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Triv. <...> I'll give her a Song; but none of your whining Ditties to Women of experience. Boy, play the Tune I told you of.

The Boy Plays, and Bellinganna appears at the Window, Vigilia her Duegna in a Veil and Muffler peeping after her.

Bell. 'Tis Trivultio.

Boy or Trivultio Sing.

Cupid, I scorn to beg the Art
From thy imaginary Throne;
To learn to wound anothers Heart,
Or how to heal my own.
If she be coy, My Airy Mind
Brooks not a Siege: if she be kind,
She proves my Scorn, that was my Wonder;
For Towns that yield I hate to plunder.
Love is a Game, Hearts are the Prize,
Pride keeps the Stakes, Art throws the Dice:
When either's won
The Game is done.
Love is a coward, hunts the flying Prey;
But, when it once stands still, Love runs away.

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Item Code: FFLITD4

First line: Take hero take

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 3.1, p.41.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

After some Musick, a Cupid, or Angel held in the Air sings this Song.

SONG.

Take, Hero, take.
The Presents, Wealth, and Beauty make:
There's nothing else, that Mortals know.
Is worth receiving here below.
Time runs, Love flies;
He that thinks least, is the most wise:
And Fortune ever did approve.
A present Wit in War, or Love.

Stay, Hero, stay;
The Gods grow envious at thy Prey;
Or steal what's rare
In haste; for Heaven does seldom care.
Love and Ambition should conspire
Mortals to please in one desire.

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Item Code: FFLITD5

First line: Prepare prepare to turn thy self to air

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 3.[3], p.51.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Ach. Prepare, prepare, To turn thy self to Air. Sings to a dismal Tune.
An injur'd Turk, made fiercer by the shades,
Thy life invades.
Ibra. Stay, Achmet, stay; For I will share the Prey:
The Bloud of Man's too sweet. As thou drankst mine,
I'll quaff off thine.
Chorus of other Turks. Heroick Dust, Be not Unjust;
Each Mussleman, his vile hands have slain,
A piece obtain.
Altogether. By Pluto sent, we draw Terrestrial breath,
And offer thee too fair, or Love, or Death.

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Item Code: FFLITD6

First line: Song has no lyrics

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 4.[3], p.64.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Corn. A jolly company y'faith, if we had the Fiddles. [Walks about Singing.

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Item Code: FFLITD7

First line: Corna corna corna chi vuol hauer di corna

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 4.[3], p.66.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Corna, Corna, Corna chi vuol hauer di Corna [Sings.

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Item Code: FFLITD8

First line: Song has no lyrics

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 4.[3], p.66.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Mel. No other Lesson, Mounsieur, but the French Song:

[Sings a ridiculous French Song.

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Item Code: FFLITD9

First line: Song has no lyrics

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 4.[3], p.67.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Cor. If I might be hang'd, I cannot forbear talking to him. Hark you, Mounsieur Exang,---(Turns his Head and laughs.) are not you some Dancing-Master, or some such kind of fellow? pray throw off your fighting Tools a little, and teach me a Corante. [Walking about, and singing.

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Item Code: FFLITD10

First line: How happy's our fate

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 4.[5], p.72.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Triv. Now let us sing the Catch I show'd thee.

SONG.

How happy's our Fate,
To live thus in State,
With our Guards at our Gate!
None can have access
But must Court and Address
And their business confess:
Then take off thy Glass on thy dutiful Knee, Guard kneels and drinks.
For Princes are Pris'ners as well as we.

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Item Code: FFLITD11

First line: Tara tang

Source Edition: Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business (1675), 5.1, p.84.

First performed: 10 May 1675 (first recorded performance--published 1671)

UMI(2) reel no.: 1592:23 (1671)

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Cor. 'Tis thus much, Sir: I have enough for him, and for my self too; and he shall have your Daughter, in spight of your teeth, if you go to that, la! say I told you so. Tara tang. [Sings.

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Item Code: FFTS1

First line: Greatness I give thee my excuse

Source Edition: The Sacrifice (1686), 3.1, p.37.

First performed: Unacted

UMI(2) reel no.: 93:12

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Tamerlane, and Despina, sitting upon Thrones.

An Antick Dance, and a SONG.

Greatness, I give thee my my excuse,
For thee I have no leisure;
Nor care what Bus'ness can produce,
For Life's too short for Pleasure:
Count Griefs, Diseases, Lov's disdains,
What need these Artificial Pains?
Nature invites us to a Treat,
And gives us but short time to stay;
While Coxcombs Carve, and Wise Men Eat,
Death, the close Waiter, takes away.
Count Griefs, &c.

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Item Code: FFTS2

First line: Reason and time had once agreed

Source Edition: The Sacrifice (1686), 5.1, p.55.

First performed: Unacted

UMI(2) reel no.: 93:12

Author: Francis Fane

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

SONG.

Reason and Time had once agreed,
My Heart from Loving shou'd be freed;
But Cupid swore, he'd lay a Snare
Shou'd catch my Reason, Time repair.
Sylvia appear'd with all the Charms
And Witchcrafts of a Face,
Able to do all Mankind harms,
And Womankind disgrace:
Reason strait fled, Time wou'd have stay'd,
Mistaking for the Sun,
The glories of the brighter Maid,
By those his course to run.
Jove saw, and fear'd some strange surprise,
Lest all the World shou'd be
Immortal made by her bright Eyes,
And Scorn his Deity:
So Time was forc'd to fly, old Age remain;
But, Ah! poor Reason ne'r came back again.

Enter in Dumb-show, Time with his Hour-glass, The Parcoe, Death, speckled Fame drawn in a Chariot by Cerberus, follow'd by Furies and Infernal Spirits.

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Item Code: FKTPL1

First line: And the fit was come on him now

Source Edition: The Presbyterian Lash, or Noctroff's Maid Whipped (1661), Scene 5, p.B3r.

First performed: Unacted

UMI(2) reel no.: 1387:24

Author: Francis Kirkman (?)

Source/s of Music: Not recorded in Day and Murrie

Text of song:

Den. Alas poor man--

And the fit was come on him now now now
And the fit was come on him now--------

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Item Code: FKTPL2

First line: All Christians and lay elders too

Source Edition: The Presbyterian Lash, or Noctroff's Maid Whipped (1661), Scene 8, pp.C3v-C4r.

First performed: Unacted

UMI(2) reel no.: 1387:24

Author: Francis Kirkman (?)

Composer: Sir John Burtonhead(Birkenhead?) (or lyricist?) ( nwc)

Source/s of Music: Recorded in Day and Murrie, p.169, n.106.[Lyrics and Music] Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Second edition, Volume Three, 1707, pp.9-12 (CT(1) 8822:03).

Text of song:

<1.>

All Christians and Lay-Elders too,
for shame amend your lives,
I'le tell you of a Dog-trick now,
which much concerns your wives
And Elder's Maid near Temple Bar,
(ah what a Quean was she)
Did take an ugly Mastive Curre
where Christians use to be
Help House of Commons, House of Peers,
oh now or never help!
Th' Assembly having sat four years
have now brought forth a whelp!

2.

One Evening laste she stept aside,
pretending to fetch Eggs,
And there she made her self a Bride
to one that had four legs.
Her Master heard a rumblement,
and wonder'd she did tarry,
Not dreaming (without his consent)
his Dog would ever marry.
Help House of Commons, &c.

3.

He went to peep,but was afraid,
and hastily did run
To fetch a staff to help his Maid,
not knowing what was done;
He took his Ruling-Elders Cane,
and Cry'd out help, help here!
For Swash our Mastive, and poor Jane
are now fight Dog, fight Bear.
Oh house of Commons, &c.

4.

But when he came, he was ful sorry,
for he perceiv'd their strife,
That according to the Directory,
they two were Dog and Wife:
Ah (then said he) thou cruel quean,
why hast thou me beguil'd
I wonder'd Swash was grown so lean,
poor Dog he's almost spoil'd.
Oh house of Commons, &c.

5.

I thought thou had'st no carnal sense
but what's in other Lasses,
And could have quench'd thy cupiscence
according to the Classes
But all the Parish see it plain,
since thou art in this pickle,
Thou art an Independent quean,
and lov'st a Conventicle.
Oh house of Commons, &c.

6.

Alas now each Malignant Rogue
with all the world perswade,
That she that's Spouse unto a Dog,
may be an Elders Maid;
They'l jeer us if abroad we fly,
Good Master Elder stay,
Sir, of what Class is your Cur?
and then what can we say?
Oh house of Commons, &c.

7.

They'll many graceless Ballads sing
of a Presbyterian,
That a Lay-Elder is a thing
made up half-Dog, half-Man:
Out, out, (said he & smote her down)
was mankind grown so scant?
There's scarce another Dog in town
had took the Covenant,
Oh house of Commons, &c.

8.

Then Swash began to look full grim,
and Jane did thus reply,
Sir, you thought nought too good of him,
you fed your Dog so high:
Tis true, he took me in the lurch,
and leapt into my arm,
But (as I hope to come to Church)
I did your Dog no harm.
Oh house of Commons, &c.

9.

Then she was brought to Newgate Gaol,
and there was naked stript,
They whipt her till the Cords did fail,
as dogs use to be whipt:
Poor City Maids shed many a tear
(when she was lash'd and bang'd,
And had she been a Cavlier,
surely she had been hanged.
Oh House of Commons, &c.

10.

Hers was but Fornication found,
for which she felt the lash,
But his was Buggery presum'd
therefore they hang'd Swash.
What will become of Bishops then,
or Independency,
For now we find both Dogs and Men,
stand for Presbytery.
Oh House of Commons, &c.

11.

She might have took a Sow-gelder,
with Synod men good store,
But she would have a Lay-Elder
with two legs, and two more.
Go tell the Assembly of Divines,
tell Adoniram Blew,
Tell Burgess, Marshall, Case & Vines,
tell Now-and-Anon too.
Oh House of Commons, &c.

12.

Some said she was a Scotish Girl,
or else (at least) a witch,
But she was born in Colchester,
was ever such a Bitch!
Take heed all Christian Virgins now,
the Dog-star now prevails;
Ladyes beware your Monkeys too,
for Monkeys have long tails.
Oh House of Commons, &c.

13.

Bless King and Queen, & send us peace,
as we had seven years since,
For we remember no Dog days
while we enjoy'd our Prince
Bless sweet Prince Char. 2. Dukes, 3. Girls,
O save his Majesty
Grant that his Commons, Lords and Earls,
may lead such lives as He.
Oh house of Commons, &c.

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