Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 6 of 6
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Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 6 of 6
Ballads, English; Songs, English
I'll tell thee _Dick_ where I have lately been,
_There's rare doings at_ Bath,
Amongst Beauties divine, the like was ne'er seen,
_There's rare doings at_ Bath,
And some dismal Wits that were eat up with Spleen,
_There's rare doings at_ Bath.
_There's rare doings at_ Bath.
_Raffling and Fidling, and Piping and Singing,_
_There's rare doings at_ Bath.
Where all drink the Waters to recover Health,
And some sort of Fools there throw off their Wealth,
And now and then Kissing, and that's done by stealth,
_There's rare doings_, &c.
And now for the Crew that pass in the Throng,
That live by the Gut, or the Pipe, or the Song,
And teaze all the Gentry as they pass along,
_There's rare doings_, &c.
First _Corbet_ began my Lord pray your Crown,
You'll hear a new Boy I've Just brought to Town,
I'm sure he will please you, or else knock me down,
_There's rare doings_, &c.
Besides I can boast of my self and two more,
And _Leveridge_ the Bass, that sweetly will roar,
'Till all the whole Audience joins in an ancore,
_There's rare doings_, &c.
Next _H----b L----r_ and _B----r_ too,
With Hautboy, one Fidle, and Tenor so bleu,
And fusty old Musick, not one Note of New,
_There's rare doings_, &c.
Next _Morphew_ the Harper with his Pigg's Face,
Lye tickling a Treble and vamping a Bass,
And all he can do 'tis but Musick's disgrace,
_There's rare doings_, &c.
Then comes the Eunuch to teaze them the more,
Subscribe your two Guineas to make up fourscore,
I never Perform'd at so low rate before,
_There's rare doings_, &c.
Then come the Strolers among the rest,
And little Punch _Powel_ so full of his Jest,
With pray Sir, good Madam, it's my Show is best,
_There's rare doings_, &c.
Thus being Tormented, and teaz'd to their Souls,
They thought the best way to get rid of these Fools,
The Case they referr'd to the Master of the R----ls,
_There's rare doings_, &c.
Says his Honour, and then he put on a Frown,
And since you have left it to my Thoughts alone,
I'll soon have them all whipp'd out of the Town,
O _rare doings at_ Bath, _Raffling, and Fidling_, &c.
_The Distress'd_ SHEPHERD, _A_ SONG.
[Music]
I am a poor Shepherd undone,
And cannot be Cur'd by Art;
For a Nymph as bright as the Sun,
Has stole away my Heart:
And how to get it again,
There's none but she can tell;
To cure me of my Pain,
By saying she loves me well:
And alass poor Shepherd,
Alack and a welladay;
Before I was in Love,
Oh every Month was _May_.
If to Love she cou'd not incline,
I told her I'd die in an Hour;
To die says she 'tis in thine,
But to Love 'tis not in my Power.
I askt her the Reason why,
She could not of me approve;
She said 'twas a Task too hard,
To give any Reason for Love:
_And alass poor Shepherd_, &c.
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