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Title: A song
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Dispute between man and wife, he regretting marriage, she pleading with him
to give up his pleasures of drinking and hunting. Song, in symmetrical
dialogue
Title: The amorous courtier, a new song
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Song expressing the pains of love but also the value of the beloved
Jolly Roger: a song probably by Thomas D'Urfey.
D'urfey, Thomas
c. 1730
A comic song in 73 lines, beginning "Jolly Roger Twangdillo of Plowden Hill", published in the collection "Pills to Purge Melancholy", compiled by D'Urfey (vol. 1 of 1719 edition).
Title: A new song in honour of the glorious assembly at Court on the Queens
birthday; made to a pretty Scotch tune
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Attribution: Mr Durfey
Date(s): 1712
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Panegyric on Queen Anne and the splendour of her birthday celebrations, seen
as reconciling warring factions and anticipating peace in Europe. Marginal
note on Prince Eugene's sword.
Wit and mirth: or, Pills to purge melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set (v.1)
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)
1719-20
Includes music. Running title: Pills to purge melancholy. Vol. 6 has imprint date 1720. Compiled by T. D'Urfey.
Wit and mirth: or, Pills to purge melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set (v.2)
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)
1719-20
Includes music. Running title: Pills to purge melancholy. Vol. 6 has imprint date 1720. Compiled by T. D'Urfey.
Wit and mirth: or, Pills to purge melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set (v.3)
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)
1719-20
Includes music. Running title: Pills to purge melancholy. Vol. 6 has imprint date 1720. Compiled by T. D'Urfey.
Wit and mirth: or, Pills to purge melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set (v.4)
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)
1719-20
Includes music. Running title: Pills to purge melancholy. Vol. 6 has imprint date 1720. Compiled by T. D'Urfey.
Wit and mirth: or, Pills to purge melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set (v.5)
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)
1719-20
Includes music. Running title: Pills to purge melancholy. Vol. 6 has imprint date 1720. Compiled by T. D'Urfey.
Wit and mirth: or, Pills to purge melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set (v.6)
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)
1719-20
Includes music. Running title: Pills to purge melancholy. Vol. 6 has imprint date 1720. Compiled by T. D'Urfey.
Title: [unknown]
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1693 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: On Shinkin's downfall through love, a song from D'Urfey's play 'The Richmond Heiress'
Title: The kings health, sung to Farrinels ground
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1684 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Royalist pro-Tory drinking song, praising Charles II and the future James II,
and castigating Whigs