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).

XXXI.  OF A NOBLE RACE WAS SHENKIN. 
     Introduced in Henry Purcell’s Richmond Heiress, 1693.

XXXII.  No name, but evidently intended for HOW SHOULD I YOUR TRUE LOVE
KNOW.  Ophelia’s song. 
     Published by Playford in 1713.

XXXIII.  LONDON LADIES. 
     Old English.

XXXIV.  ALL IN THE DOWNS. 
     Composed by Henry Carey. 1720.

XXXV.  HAVE YOU HEARD OF A FROLICKSOME DITTY. 
     Old Irish.  “Molly Roe.”  Published as “The Rant” in Apollo’s
     Banquet, in 1690.

XXXVI.  IRISH TROT. 
     Old Irish.  Printed as “Hyde Park,” by Playford, in 1651.

XXXVII.  No name given, but evidently CONSTANT BILLY, published in 1726. 
     Sir H. Bishop says that it was composed by Geminiani.

XXXVIII.  GOOD-MORROW, GOSSIP JOAN. 
     Old English.  Printed in 1705.

XXXIX.  IRISH HOWL. 
     Old Irish.  Printed as “The Irish Howl,” by Playford, in the third
     volume of his Dancing Master, in 1726.

XL.  THE LASS OF PATIE’S MILL. 
     Old Scotch.  Printed in Orpheus Caledonius. 1725.

XLI.  IF LOVE’S A SWEET PASSION. 
     Composed by Henry Purcell. Fairy Queen (1692).

XLII.  SOUTH-SEA BALLAD. 
     Old English.  Printed in 1720.

XLIII.  PACKINGTON’S POUND. 
     Old English.  Melody in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

XLIV.  LILLIBULLERO. 
     Old Irish.  Printed in 1688.  Adapted by Purcell.

XLV.  DOWN IN THE NORTH COUNTRY. 
     Old English.

XLVI.  A SHEPHERD KEPT SHEEP. 
     Old English.

XLVII.  ONE EVENING, HAVING LOST MY WAY. 
     Printed as “Walpole, or the Happy Clown,” in 1719.  Words by
     Birkhead.  The tune also occurs in the Overture.

XLVIII.  NOW, ROGER, I’LL TELL THEE BECAUSE THOU’RT MY SON. 
     Old English.

XLIX.  O BESSY BELL! 
     Old Scotch.  Printed by Playford in 1700.

L. WOULD FATE TO ME BELINDA GIVE. 
     Composed by John Wilford.  Printed in 1710.

LI.  COME, SWEET LASS. 
     The tune was printed as “Greenwich Park,” by Playford. 1688.  Song
     from The Compleat Academy (1685).  Music composed by Jeremiah
     Clarke, 1685.

LII.  THE LAST TIME I WENT O’ER THE MOOR. 
     Old Scotch.  Printed in Ramsay’s Tea Table Misc. 1726.

LIII.  TOM TINKER’S MY TRUE LOVE. 
     Old English.  Printed by Playford in 1664.

LIV.  I AM A POOR SHEPHERD UNDONE. 
     Old English.  Printed by Playford in 1716.

LV.  IANTHE THE LOVELY. 
     Composed by John Barret, 1701.

LVI.  A COBLER THERE WAS. 
     Old English.

LVII.  BONNY DUNDEE. 
     Old Scotch.  The melody is in the Skene MS., 1630.

LVIII.  HAPPY GROVES. 
     Adapted from “The Pilgrim,” composed by J. Barret in 1701.

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