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Brotherton Collection21
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse14
English Literature7

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ballads, english6
songs, english6
folk songs, english1
incidental music1
music1
songs1
songs with continuo1

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D'Urfey, Thomas22
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)8
Eccles, John (1668-1735)1
Mr Durfey1

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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

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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

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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).

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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.

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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'

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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

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