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Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to purge melancholy : Lewd songs and low ballads from the 18th century.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- City Waites (Musical group)
- Series:
- Naxos Music Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs with instrumental ensemble.
- Ballads, English.
- Genre:
- Downloadable audio file.
- Sound recordings.
- Songs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file)
- Other Title:
- Pills to purge melancholy.
- Place of Publication:
- Wotton-Under-Edge, England : Saydisc, [1990]
- System Details:
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Sometimes I am a tapster new
- Honest shepher'd, since you're poor
- Blowzabella my bouncing doxie
- As oyster nan stood by her tub
- There was a lass of Islington
- Poor Celia once was very fair
- Oh fie! What mean I foolish maid
- What life can compare with the jolly town rakes
- I hate a fop that at his glass
- Would ye have a young virgin of fifteen years
- Weep all ye nymphs, your floods unbind
- A soldier and a sailor, a tinker and a taylor
- Then jockey wou'd a wooing away
- With my strings of small wire lo I come
- How vile are the sordid intrigues of the town
- Like a ring without a finger
- Through the cold shady woods
- When for air I take my mare
- Young Collin, cleaving of a beam
- One Sunday at St. James's prayers
- There was an old woman liv'd under a hill
- Oh! my panting, panting heart
- Now listen a while, and I will tell
- Oh mother, Roger with his kisses
- Do not rumple my top-knot
- Come jug, my honey, let's to bed.
- Participant:
- The City Waits [sic] (Lucie Skeaping, Richard Wistreich, singers ; Roderick Skeaping, strings, voice ; Mike Brain, winds, voice ; Robin Jeffrey, lutes, voice). Directed by Roderick Skeaping.
- Notes:
- For voice with ensemble of various period instruments.
- Description based on hard copy version record.
- Contains:
- D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723. Wit and mirth, or pills to purge melancholy.
- Other Format:
- Source record: City Waites (Musical group). Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to purge melancholy.
- OCLC:
- 811334676
- Publisher Number:
- GBAJX9038201
- GBAJX9038202
- GBAJX9038203
- GBAJX9038204
- GBAJX9038205
- GBAJX9038206
- GBAJX9038207
- GBAJX9038208
- GBAJX9038209
- GBAJX9038210
- GBAJX9038211
- GBAJX9038212
- GBAJX9038213
- GBAJX9038214
- GBAJX9038215
- GBAJX9038216
- GBAJX9038217
- GBAJX9038218
- GBAJX9038219
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- GBAJX9038221
- GBAJX9038222
- GBAJX9038223
- GBAJX9038224
- GBAJX9038225
- GBAJX9038226
- CDSDL382 Saydisc
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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