Produced by David Newman, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni. [Transcriber's Note: This e-book is volume 5 of Thomas D'Urfey's _Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy_, published in six volumes in 1719-20 by J. Tonson, London. It was prepared from a 1959 facsimile reprint by Folklore Library Publishers, Inc., New York, of an 1876 reprint (publisher unidentified). The 1719-20 edition was published in two issues. The first issue was published under the title _Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive_; the second, under the _Wit and Mirth_ title. The 1876 reprint apparently used a combination of the two issues, and volume 5 bears the _Songs Compleat_ title. Moreover, the 1876 reprint was not an exact facsimile of the 1719-20 edition, as the typography and music notation were modernized. For more information on the various editions, see Cyrus L. Day, "Pills to Purge Melancholy," _The Review of English Studies_, Vol. 8, No. 30 (Apr. 1932), pp. 177-184, available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/508831 (login required). Archaic and inconsistent spellings and hyphenation have been preserved as they appear in the original, except that "VV" is rendered as "W." The original order of titles in the Alphabetical Table has also been preserved. Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Some words are rendered in the original in blackletter font. They are rendered here in uppercase letters. Italics are indicated with underscores.] WIT and MIRTH: OR PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY EDITED BY THOMAS D'URFEY IN SIX VOLUMES VOLUME V FOLKLORE LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, INC. NEW YORK 1959 _This edition is a facsimile reproduction of the 1876 reprint of the original edition of 1719-1720._ Copyright (C) 1959 PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. by Noble Offset Printers, Inc. New York 3, New York SONGS Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; SET TO MUSICK By Dr. JOHN BLOW, Mr. HENRY PURCELL, and other Excellent Masters of the Town. Ending with some ORATIONS, made and spoken by me several times upon the PUBLICK STAGE in the THEATER. Together with some Copies of VERSES, PROLOGUES, and EPILOGUES, as well as for my own PLAYS as those of other Poets, being all Humerous and Comical. VOL. V. _LONDON:_ Printed by _W. Pearson_, for _J. Tonson_, at SHAKESPEAR'S Head, against _Catherine_ Street in the _Strand_, 1719. AN Alphabetical TABLE OF THE SONGS and POEMS Contain'd in this BOOK. Page A _All Christians and_ Lay-Elders _too_, 1 _As I went by an Hospital_, 29 _A Shepherd kept Sheep on a_, 35 _As I was a walking under a Grove_, 37 _A Councel grave our King did hold_, 49 _A Heroe of no small Renown_, 56 _As the Fryer he went along_, 58 _A Bonny Lad came to the Court_, 88