Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 197 pages of information about Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732).

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 197 pages of information about Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732).

VII.  OH!  LONDON IS A FINE TOWN,
     Old English.  Published by Playford in 1665.

VIII.  GRIM KING OF THE GHOSTS. 
     Old Irish.  Adapted by Henry Purcell to “Hail to the Myrtle Shades,”
     in Theodosius, 1680.  Also adapted to “Rosalind’s Complaint,” by
     Mr. Baker, in 1727.

IX.  O JENNY!  O JENNY! 
     Old Irish air, 1600.  Adapted to “May Fair,” 1703.

X. THOMAS, I CANNOT. 
     Sung in Weaver’s Perseus and Andromede, 1717.  Published in
     Playford’s Dancing Master, in 1719.

XI.  A SOLDIER AND A SAILOR. 
     Composed by John Eccles for Congreve’s Love for Love, 1696.

XII.  NOW PONDER WELL. 
     Old English.  “The Children in the Wood.”  Seventeenth Century.

XIII.  LE PRINTEMPS RAPPELLE. 
     Old French chanson.

XIV.  PRETTY PARROT, SAY. 
     Old English.  Published by Playford in 1719.

XV.  PRAY, FAIR ONE, BE KIND. 
     Old English air, 1715.

XVI.  OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY. 
     Old Irish.  Atkinson’s MS. in 1694.  By Farquhar in his Recruiting
     Officer
, in 1706.  Published by Durfey in 1709.

XVII.  GIN THOU WERT MINE AWN THING. 
     Old Scotch.  Published by Ramsay in 1726, in his “Musick for the
     Songs in the Tea Table Miscellany.”

XVIII.  O THE BROOM! 
     Old Irish.  Quoted by Bishop Wadding in 1680.

XIX.  FILL EVERY GLASS. 
     A French Drinking Song.  “Que chacun remplisse son verre”; adapted
     by Durfey in 1710.

XX.  MARCH IN “RINALDO.” 
     Composed by Handel.  Produced in 1711.

XXI.  WOULD YOU HAVE A YOUNG VIRGIN? 
     Old Irish.  Published as “Poor Robin’s Maggot” in 1652.  Adapted by
     Durfey to a song in Modern Prophets in 1709.

XXII.  COTILLON. 
     A French Dance tune.  Printed in a Frankfort book of the year
     1664, and by Playford as “Tony’s Rant,” in 1726.

XXIII.  ALL IN A MISTY MORNING. 
     Old English.  “The Friar and the Nun” (Friar Foxtail).  Printed by
     Playford in 1651.  Durfey’s Pills, 1719.

XXIV.  WHEN ONCE I LAY WITH ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE. 
     Old English.  Sung in Durfey’s The Wiltshire Maid.

XXV.  WHEN FIRST I LAID SIEGE TO MY CHLORIS. 
     Old Irish.  Adapted by Durfey in his Pills, 1720.

XXVI.  COURTIERS, COURTIERS, THINK IT NO HARM. 
     Old English air, 1720.

XXVII.  A LOVELY LASS TO A FRIAR CAME. 
     Old Irish.  Printed in 1721.

XXVIII.  ’TWAS WHEN THE SEA WAS ROARING. 
     Composed by Handel.  Sung in Gay’s What d’ye call it (1715).

XXIX.  THE SUN HAD LOOS’D HIS WEARY TEAMS.
     Old English.  “The Hemp Dresser.”  Published by Playford in 1651.

XXX.  HOW HAPPY ARE WE. 
     Composed by Dr. Pepusch. 1716.

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