Chapter I: Front Matter

[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

_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