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| Song First Line | Author | Play | Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| [O--see also Oh ] | |||
| O cheated mortals what has life so sweet | Davenant, Charles | Circe | CDC10 |
| O Chrysostom look down and see | Lee, Nathaniel | Theodosius | NLT5 |
| O cuckold thou men most blessed | Polwhele, Elizabeth | The Frolicks | EPTF5 |
| O Cupid the bow-man I am not thy foe man | T.T. (Thomson, Thomas?) | The Life of Mother Shipton | TTTLOMS3 |
| O divine star of Heaven | Fletcher, John | The Mad Lover | JFTML4 |
| O draw your curtains and appear | Davenant, William | Love and Honour | WDLAH3 |
| O fair sweet goddess queen of loves | Fletcher, John | The Mad Lover | JFTML3 |
| O fly then far | Flecknoe, Richard | Love's Kingdom | RFLK3 |
| O gentle Fate my beauty spare | Duffett, Thomas | Beauties Triumph | TDBT2 |
| O glorious youth true child of Hercules | Fanshawe, Richard | Il Pastor Fido | RFIPF7 |
| O happy couple that hath sown in tears | Fanshawe, Richard | Il Pastor Fido | RFIPF11 |
| O happy nymph is she [Who leads a rural life] | Ravenscroft, Edward | The Italian Husband | ERTIH2 |
| O Hermes I thy godhead know | Congreve, William | The Judgment of Paris | WCTJOP2 |
| O how you protest and solemnly lye | Scott, Thomas | The Mock Mariage | TSTMM2 |
| O Hymen must we always see | Gildon, Charles | Phaeton | CGPFD8 |
| O jealousy thou raging ill | Dryden, John | Albion and Albanius | JDAAA10 |
| O Juno suadela O mighty Jove | Gildon, Charles | The Roman Bride's Revenge | CGTRBR1 |
| O let me weep O let me forever weep | Settle, Elkanah | The Fairy Queen | ESTFQ23 |
| O let us howl some heavy note | Webster, John | The Duchess of Malfi | JWTDOM2 |
| O London wicked London town | Anonymous | The Woman Turn'd Bully | ANTWTB3 |
| O love how potent and how great thou art | Fanshawe, Richard | Il Pastor Fido | RFIPF6 |
| O Love some says thou art a boy | Cavendish, Margaret | II Love's Adventures | MC2LA2 |
| O mistress mine where are you roming | Shakespeare, William | Twelfth Night | WSTN1 |
| O mork giff men ein man | Heywood, Thomas | The Rape of Lucrece | THTROL12 |
| O pass not on but stay [And waste the joyous day] | Dryden, John | King Arthur | JDKA14 |
| O powerful law which Heaven or nature | Fanshawe, Richard | Il Pastor Fido | RFIPF1 |
| O rareeshow brave show [Who see my fine show] | Motteux, Peter Anthony | Europe's Revels | PMER9 |
| O ravishing delight | Congreve, William | The Judgment of Paris | WCTJOP4 |
| O sacred sacred love | Bailey, Abraham | The Spightful Sister | ABTSS1 |
| O sacrid Isis and Apollo hear | Gildon, Charles | Phaeton | CGPFD12 |
| O she is she is a matchless piece | Powell, George | A Very Good Wife | GPAVGW8 |
| O she's a dainty widow | Behn, Aphra (?) | The Debauchee | ABTD4 |
| O sweet Diana virtuous queen | T.T. (Thomson, Thomas?) | The Life of Mother Shipton | TTTLOMS4 |
| O take him gently from the pile | Banks, John | Cyrus the Great | JBCTG3 |
| O that I were so happy once | Cavendish, Margaret | The Publique Wooing | MCTPW1 |
| [O the charms of a beauty--see Ah the charms ] | |||
| O the joys and delights of the marry'd pair | Boyle, Roger (?) | King Saul | RBKS3 |
| O the little delights that a lover takes | Anonymous | The Woman Turn'd Bully | ANTWTB1 |
| [O the sweet--see Ah the sweet ] | |||
| O the twelfth day of December | Shakespeare, William | Twelfth Night | WSTN4 |
| O to bed to me | Lee, Nathaniel | The Princess of Cleve | NLTPOC2 |
| O what is that to you my fool | Fletcher, John | Monsieur Thomas | JFMT2 |
| O what joys does conquest yield | Congreve, William | The Judgment of Paris | WCTJOP13 |
| O why did e'er my thoughts aspire | Southerne, Thomas | The Disappointment | TSTD3 |
| O ye fine smug country lasses | Heywood, Thomas | The Rape of Lucrece | THTROL13 |
| O you gods pure angels send her | Cavendish, Margaret | II Bell in Campo | MC2BIC1 |
| Occasion's swift and bald behind | Craufurd, David | Courtship a la Mode | DCCALM1 |
| Occidentalium legionum spiritualium imperator | D'Urfey, Thomas | Bussy D'Ambois | TDBDA2 |
| Of all delights the earth does yield | Smythe (or Underhill?) | Win Her and Take Her | JSWHTH8 |
| Of all my whole infernal brood | Powell and Verbruggen | Brutus of Alba | GPBOA3 |
| Of all the professions that ever were nam'd | Jordan, Thomas | London's Glory | TJLG1 |
| Of all the simple things we do | Dogget, Thomas | The Country Wake | TDTCW3 |
| Of all the world's enjoyments | D'Urfey, Thomas | I Massaniello | TD1M3 |
| Of folly or of melancholy (reprise) | Ravenscroft, Edward | The Citizen Turned Gentleman | ERTCTG7 |
| Of noble race was Shinken | D'Urfey, Thomas | The Richmond Heiress | TDTRH5 |
| Oft have I heard our poets sing | Manning, Francis | All for the Better | FMAFTB3 |
| Oft have you told me that you lov'd | 'Ariadne' | She Ventures and He Wins | ANSVHW4 |
| Oft on the troubled ocean's face | Davenant, Charles | Circe | CDC20 |
| [Oh--see also O ] | |||
| Oh all ye gods of holy truth | D'Urfey, Thomas (?) | A Wife for Any Man | TDAWFAM2 |
| Oh be kind my dear be kind | Crowne, John | Sir Courtly Nice | JCSCN1 |
| Oh cease urge no more the god to swell my breast | Motteux, Peter Anthony | The Island Princess | PMTIP6 |
| Oh dear sweet sir you look so gay | Settle, Elkanah | The World in the Moon | ESWITM7 |
| Oh derry derry my rent is paid | Shaw, Samuel | Poikilophronesis | SSP1 |
| Oh Diana whose dread eyes | Boyer, Abel | Achilles | ABAIIA2 |
| Oh fair sweet face Oh eyes celestial bright | Fletcher, John | Women Pleas'd | JFWP1 |
| Oh fie what mean I foolish maid | Crowne, John | The Married Beau | JCTMB1 |
| Oh give your sweet temptations o'er | Pix, Mary | The Innocent Mistress | MPTIM2 |
| Oh glorious youth true child of Hercules | Settle, Elkanah | Pastor Fido | ESPF3 |
| Oh Heav'nly virgin from thy starry throne | Davenant, Charles | Circe | CDC9 |
| Oh her lips are as white as milk | Pankhurst, Ferdinando | Ignoramus | FPITAL1 |
| Oh how delightful is love and how strong | Duffett, Thomas | Beauties Triumph | TDBT24 |
| Oh how I abhor the tumult and smoke of the town | Shadwell, Thomas | Epsom-Wells | TSEW8 |
| Oh how sweet it is to reign | Duffett, Thomas | Beauties Triumph | TDBT19 |
| Oh lead me to some peaceful gloom | Anonymous | Bonduca | ANBOTBH4 |
| Oh Love how mighty are thy joys | Philips, William | The Revengeful Queen | WPTRQ7 |
| Oh Love if e're thou'lt ease a heart | Crowne, John | Charles VIII of France | JCC8OF1 |
| Oh Love that stronger art than wine | Behn, Aphra | The Luckey Chance | ABTLC6 |
| Oh lovely virgin Look down | Mountfort, William | The Successfull Straingers | WMTSS4 |
| Oh Morpheus gentle god that dwells | Lee, Nathaniel | The Rival Queens | NLTRQ2 |
| Oh my cruel perjur'd fair | Fletcher, John | The Mad Lover | JFTML17 |
| Oh my dear pretty soul | Cavendish and Shadwell | The Triumphant Widow | WCTTW9 |
| Oh my poor husband for ever he's gone | Motteux, Peter Anthony | The Island Princess | PMTIP11 |
| Oh Oh Oh Oh [Never was there greater woe] | Flecknoe, Richard | Love's Kingdom | RFLK8 |
| Oh rival you must happy be | Motteux, Peter Anthony | The Loves of Mars and Venus | PMTLMV16 |
| Oh she's a dainty widow | Powell, George | A Very Good Wife | GPAVGW10 |
| Oh sight the mother of desires | Dryden, John | King Arthur | JDKA10 |
| Oh sorrow say where dost thou dwell | Rowley, Samuel | The Noble Souldier | SRTNS1 |
| Oh stay thy foul and bad intent | Duffett, Thomas | Psyche Debauch'd | TDPD17 |
| Oh tell me have you ever seen | Heywood, Thomas | Love's Mistress | THLM4 |
| Oh that I were a bee to sing | Middleton and Rowley | The Spanish Gypsy | TMTSG1 |
| Oh that we understood [Our good] | Jonson, Ben | The Gypsies Metamorphos'd | BJTGM10 |
| Oh the brave jolly gypsy | Cavendish and Shadwell | The Triumphant Widow | WCTTW5 |
| Oh the little house that lies under the hill | Motteux, Peter Anthony | Love's a Jest | PMLAJ5 |
| Oh the mighty pow'r of love | Anonymous | The Self Conceipt | ANTSC1 |
| Oh the sweet joys [Of girls and boys] | Settle, Elkanah | The New Athenian Comedy | ESTNAC2 |
| Oh turn and be kind my dear nymph of the flood | Powell and Verbruggen | Brutus of Alba | GPBOA4 |
| Oh what is that to you ye fool | D'Urfey, Thomas | Trick for Trick | TDTFT4 |
| Oh whither are our poor despairing shepherds gone | Crowne, John | Calisto | JCCCN7 |
| Oh who wou'd be anothers slave | Ravenscroft, Edward | The Italian Husband | ERTIH5 |
| Oh why thus alone must I pass the long day | Motteux, Peter Anthony | The Island Princess | PMTIP9 |
| Oh yes [All you that delight to be merry come see] | Shirley, James | Cupid and Death | JSCAD6 |
| Oh you powerful gods if I must be | Boothby, Frances | Marcelia | FBM1 |
| Old coal of London | Lacy, John | Sauny the Scot | JLSTS3 |
| Old father Ocean calls my tide | Dryden, John | Albion and Albanius | JDAAA15 |
| The old man he peep'd through the barn-door | Anonymous | The Rampant Alderman | ANTRA1 |
| Old sack and old songs and a merry old crew | Brome, Richard | A Jovial Crew | RBAJC11 |
| The old wife she sent to the miller her daughter | D'Urfey, Thomas | III Don Quixote | TD3DQ9 |
| On earth by unkindness are often destroy'd | Shadwell, Thomas | Psyche | TSP18 |
| On the bed I'll throw thee down | Fletcher and Rowley | The Maid in the Mill | JFTMITM6 |
| On the poplars and oaks | Stapylton, Robert | The Stepmother | RSTS2 |
| On two white columns arched she stands | Heywood, Thomas | The Rape of Lucrece | THTROL17 |
| On yonder bed supinely laid | Steele, Richard | The Funeral | RSTF6 |
| Once I lay with another man's wife | Southerne, Thomas | The Maid's Last Prayer | TSTMLP2 |
| Once more to these arms my lov'd pick-axe and spade | Shakespeare, William | Hamlet | WSH10 |
| Once on a time a nightingale | Vanbrugh, John | Aesop | JVA2 |
| Once on a time the Hands and Feet | Vanbrugh, John | Aesop | JVA3 |
| One hand<s> up a loft [Swab the coach fore and aft] | Higden, Henry | The Wary Widdow | HHTWW4 |
| One night walking in a wood | Shadwell, Thomas | A True Widow | TSATW2 |
| One night when [while] all the village slept | Lee, Nathaniel | Mithridates | NLM3 |
| Open blest Elizium grove | Shirley, James | Cupid and Death | JSCAD10 |
| Open those casements which confine | Boyle, Roger | Guzman | RBG1 |
| Orpheus I am come from the deep's below | Fletcher, John | The Mad Lover | JFTML1 |
| Orpheus with his lute made trees | Shakespeare, William | Henry the Eighth | WSHTE1 |
| Our hearts are griev'd to see | Lesley, George | Fire and Brimestone | GLFAB1A |
| Our joys are immortal (reprise) | Granville, George | The She-Gallants | GGTSG5 |
| Our ruler has got the vertigo of state | Davenant, William | The Law Against Lovers | WDTLAL3 |
| Our seeming friends who join'd alone | Dryden, John | Albion and Albanius | JDAAA23 |
| Our work at an end we'll awhile go to play | Oldmixon, John | The Grove | JOTG11 |
| Our youth and form declare | Gildon, Charles | Measure for Measure | CGMFM12 |
| Pack clouds away and welcome day | Heywood, Thomas | The Rape of Lucrece | THTROL16 |
| Pan grant that I may never prove | Behn, Aphra | The Wavering Nymph | ABTWN2 |
| Peace no noise you'll wake my love | Powell, George | The Imposture Defeated | GPTID3 |
| Peace tunes the world harmonious peace | Motteux, Peter Anthony | Europe's Revels | PMER3 |
| Peace wayward bairn O cease thy moan | Brome, Richard | The Northern Lasse | RBTNL8 |
| Peleus unjustly you complain | Granville, George | The Jew of Venice | GGTJOV2 |
| The person and his power's gone | Sadler, Anthony | The Subject's Joy for the King's Restoration | ASTSJ3 |
| Philander was a jolly swain | Behn, Aphra | The City-Heiress | ABTCH1 |
| Phillida was a fair maid | M.W. | The Marriage-Broaker | MWTMB1 |
| Phillis do not slight your prize | Ravenscroft, Edward | King Edgar and Alfreda | ERKEAA2 |
| Phillis for shame let us improve | Bourne, Reuben | The Contented Cuckold | RBTCC2 |
| Phillis is soft Phillis is plump | Lee, Nathaniel | The Princess of Cleve | NLTPOC4 |
| Phillis whose heart was unconfin'd | Behn, Aphra | II The Rover | ABSPTR4 |
| Phoebus [Who calls the world's great light] | Stapylton, Robert | The Slighted Maid | RSTSM6 |
| Phoebus god belov'd by men | Dryden and Lee | Oedipus | JDO1 |
| Phoebus unto thee we sing | Heywood, Thomas | Love's Mistress | THLM1 |
| Please you monsieurs entertain | Porter, Thomas | The Villain | TPTV6 |
| Pleasures beauty youth attend ye | Ford, John | The Lady's Trial | JFTLT1 |
| The pleasures of love and the joys of good wine | Etherege, George | The Man of Mode | GETMOM5 |
| Plenty mirth and gay delights | Oldmixon, John | The Grove | JOTG12 |
| Pluto arise [from those blest shades] | Davenant, Charles | Circe | CDC5 |
| Plutus I am the mighty god of gold | Powell, George | A Very Good Wife | GPAVGW3 |
| The poets and wits of all ages and times | Rhodes, Richard | Flora's Vagaries | RRFV1 |
| Pompie I will shew thee the way to know | Heywood, Thomas | The Rape of Lucrece | THTROL11 |
| The poor Endymion lov'd too well | D'Urfey, Thomas | Cinthia and Endimion | TDCAE9 |
| Poor honest fool I wonder what I meant | Dover, John | The Mall | JDTM1 |
| Poor ill-instructed wretched woman-kind | Southerne, Thomas | The Disappointment | TSTD2 |
| Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below | Howard and Dryden | The Indian Queen | RHTIQ1 |
| Poor silly diminutive chit | Harris, Joseph | Love's a Lottery | JHLAL2 |
| The poor soul sat singing by a sycamour tree | Shakespeare, William | Othello | WSTMOV3 |
| Pourpassa tempio | Ravenscroft, Edward | Scaramouch | ERS2 |
| Prais'd be the deities above | Flecknoe, Richard | Love's Kingdom | RFLK2 |
| Praised be love does all command | Flecknoe, Richard | Love's Kingdom | RFLK6 |
| Prepare a solemn sacrifice prepare | Norton, Richard | Pausanias | RNPBHC3 |
| Prepare blest sons of art prepare | Cibber, Colley | Xerxes | CCX1 |
| Prepare our altar make it clean | Hopkins, Charles | Boadicea Queen of Britain | CHBQOB1 |
| Prepare prepare new guests draw near | Shadwell, Thomas | The Libertine | TSTL8 |
| Prepare prepare to turn thy self to air | Fane, Francis | Love in the Dark | FFLITD5 |
| Prepare the rites begin | Lee, Nathaniel | Theodosius | NLT1 |
| Pressed with my griefs who can my sorrows end | S.C. | The Rape of Europa by Jupiter | SCREBJ3 |
| Presumptuous slave rival to Jove | Granville, George | The Jew of Venice | GGTJOV4 |
| Pretty miss let's talk together | Motteux, Peter Anthony | Love's a Jest | PMLAJ16 |
| Prick up your ears for and that yon may hear | Duffett, Thomas | Psyche Debauch'd | TDPD14 |
| Princes that rule and empires sway | Otway, Thomas | Alcibiades | TOA3 |
| Prithee Cynthia look behind you | Steele, Richard | The Funeral | RSTF3 |
| Prithee fill me the glass | Congreve, William | The Way of the World | WCTWOTW2 |
| Prithee my dear do not be so peevish | Southerne, Thomas | The Maid's Last Prayer | TSTMLP1 |
| Prithee Phillis | Farquhar, George | The Inconstant | GFTI1 |
| Prithee tell me Amarellis | Powell, George | The Imposture Defeated | GPTID9 |
| Prithee widow give o'er I cannot comply | Behn, Aphra (?) | The Debauchee | ABTD3 |
| Prospero Prospero | Duffett, Thomas | The Mock Tempest | TDTMT14 |
| Proud monuments of royal dust | Philips, Katherine | Pompey | KPP4 |
| Purge me the temple round | Fletcher, John | The Mad Lover | JFTML5 |
| Pursuing beauty men descry | Southerne, Thomas | Sir Anthony Love | TSSAL1 |
| Reason and time had once agreed | Fane, Francis | The Sacrifice | FFTS2 |
| Rebellious discord 'tis in vain | Motteux, Peter Anthony | Europe's Revels | PMER13 |
| Refrain your tears you shall no pris'ner be | Shadwell, Thomas | Psyche | TSP16 |
| Rejoice the world has rest | Motteux, Peter Anthony | Europe's Revels | PMER10 |
| Relieve the fair Belinda said | Pix, Mary | The Beau Defeated | MPTBD3 |
| Remember ye prigs [Whigs] what was formerly done | D'Urfey, Thomas | Love for Money | TDLFM9 |
| Renown assume thy trumpet | Dryden, John | Albion and Albanius | JDAAA27 |
| Rest thy soul in bliss dear friend | Anonymous | The Royal Voyage | ANTRV1 |
| Restless in thoughts disturb'd in mind | 'Ariadne' | She Ventures and He Wins | ANSVHW2 |
| Retir'd from any mortal's sight | Tate, Nahum | King Richard the Second | NTHKRS2 |
| Revenge me Hell new pains invent | Motteux, Peter Anthony | The Loves of Mars and Venus | PMTLMV23 |
| Rich mines of hot love are rooted here | Dilke, Thomas | The Lover's Luck | TDTLL1 |
| The riddle of nature [Is a female creature] | Dilke, Thomas | The Pretenders | TDTP1 |
| Rinaldo in the enchanted grove | Dennis, John | Rinaldo and Armida | JDRAA4 |
| Rinaldo [Look up behold the mournful shade] | Dennis, John | Rinaldo and Armida | JDRAA3 |
| Rise arise arise rise and come away | Payne, Nevil | The Fatal Jealousie | NPTFJ3 |
| Rise Cloris charming maid arise | Behn, Aphra | The Luckey Chance | ABTLC1 |
| Rise from the shades below | Fletcher, John | The Humorous Lieutenant | JFTHL1 |
| Rise up thou mournful swain | Cowley, Abraham | Love's Riddle | ACLR1 |
| Rogues that from their liquor shrink | Duffett, Thomas | The Mock Tempest | TDTMT2 |
| Rome's great commander Nero lately dead | Hemings, William | The Jewes Tragedy | WHTJT1 |
| Room for a man of the town | D'Urfey, Thomas | The Fool Turned Critic | TDTFTC6 |
| Room for the melancholy wight | Shirley, James | Hyde Park | JSHP2 |
| Rosy cheeks and dimpled chin | D'Urfey, Thomas | A Virtuous Wife | TDAVW2 |
| The rosy morn looks blithe and gay | Anonymous | Love at First Sight | ANLAFS1 |
| Round thy coasts fair nymph of Britain | Dryden, John | King Arthur | JDKA18 |
| Rouse god of war to arms to arms | Motteux, Peter Anthony | The Loves of Mars and Venus | PMTLMV31 |
| Rouse ye tuneful sons of art | Motteux, Peter Anthony | The Island Princess | PMTIP7 |
| Royal and fair great Willy's dear blessing | D'Urfey, Thomas | Love for Money | TDLFM7 |
| Run to love's lottery run maids and rejoice | Davenant, William | The Unfortunate Lovers | WDTUL2 |
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