Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6
General
Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6
Ballads, English; Songs, English
_A Pox on those Fools, who exclaim_, 91
_Amongst the pure ones all_, 105
_As Oyster_ Nan _stood by her Tub_, 107
_Ah!_ Caelia _how can you be_, 111
_Are you grown so Melancholy_, 118
_As_ Collin _went from his Sheep_, 122
_A Wife I do hate_, 173
_A Thousand several ways I try'd_, 181
_A_ Whig _that's full_, 207
_As_ Cupid _roguishly one Day_, 217
_A Young Man sick and like to die_, 267
_At Noon in a sultry Summer's Day_, 282
_Ah! how lovely sweet and dear_, 287
_Advance, advance, advance gay_, 288
_Ah! foolish Lass, what mun I do_, 322
B
_Bold impudent_ Fuller _invented_, 5
_By Moon-light on the Green_, 103
_Bonny_ Peggy Ramsey _that any_, 139
_By shady Woods and purling_, 161
Belinda! _why do you distrust_, 213
_Born to surprize the World_, 250
_Bring out your Coney-Skins_, 303
_Bonny_ Scottish _Lads that keens_, 326
C
_Come bring us Wine in Plenty_, 15
_Come pretty Birds present your_, 120
_Come fill up the Bowl with_, 138
_Cease lovely_ Strephon, _cease to_, 189
_Cease whining_ Damon _to complain_, 202
Caelia _my Heart has often rang'd_, 230
Corinna, _if my Fate's to love you_, 254
Caelia's _Charms are past expressing_, 257
_Come Beaus, Virtuoso's, rich Heirs_, 265
_Cease, cease of_ Cupid _to complain_, 298
_Come, come ye Nymphs_, 300
Chloe _blush'd, and frown'd, and swore_, 345
Caelia _hence with Affectation_, 350
D
_Did you not hear of a gallant_, 80
_Divine_ Astrea _hither flew_, 275
_Draw_ Cupid _draw, and make_, 306
Damon _if you will believe me_, 327
_Drunk I was last Night that's_, 329
Delia _tir'd_ Strephon _with her_, 343
F
_Fair_ Caelia _too fondly contemns_, 169
_Fly_ Damon _fly, 'tis Death to stay_, 247
_Fear not Mortal, none shall harm_, 248
_Farewel ungrateful Traytor_, 335
G
Gilderoy _was a bonny Boy_, 39
_Good Neighbour why do you_, 73
H
_How now Sister_ Betteris, _why look_, 68
_Heaven first created Woman to_, 135
_Hears not my_ Phillis _how_, 149
_How happy's the Mortal whose_, 179
_He himself courts his own Ruin_, 188
_How happy and free is the_, 193
_How charming_ Phillis _is_, 201
_Hither turn thee, hither turn thee_, 211
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