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Songs Compleat,
The Beggars Delight.
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GOurtiers, Courtiers, think it no harm,
That silly poor Swains in Love should be ;
For Love lies hid in Rags all torn,
As well as Silks and Bravery :
For the Beggar he loves his Lass as dear,
As he that hath Thousands, Thousands, Thousands.
He that hath Thousand Pounds a Year.
State and Title are pitiful things,
A lower State more happy doth prove ;
Lords and Ladies, Princes and Kings,
With the Beggar hath equal Joys in Love :
And my pretty brown Cloris upon the Hay,
Hath always as killing, killing, killing,
Hath always as killing Charms as they.
A Lord will purchase a Maiden-head,
Which perhaps hath been lost some Years before ;
A Beggar will pawn his Cloak and his Trade,
Content with Love to lye, and live Poor : '
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Songs Compleat,
The Beggars Delight.
#=*-*-! 1— 1 — &-
HEES Igigyi£ i£ ±rE3£ii
^t
I
EE53
• e»-
eg§Ei
m^sum
GOurtiers, Courtiers, think it no harm,
That silly poor Swains in Love should be ;
For Love lies hid in Rags all torn,
As well as Silks and Bravery :
For the Beggar he loves his Lass as dear,
As he that hath Thousands, Thousands, Thousands.
He that hath Thousand Pounds a Year.
State and Title are pitiful things,
A lower State more happy doth prove ;
Lords and Ladies, Princes and Kings,
With the Beggar hath equal Joys in Love :
And my pretty brown Cloris upon the Hay,
Hath always as killing, killing, killing,
Hath always as killing Charms as they.
A Lord will purchase a Maiden-head,
Which perhaps hath been lost some Years before ;
A Beggar will pawn his Cloak and his Trade,
Content with Love to lye, and live Poor : '
v ' Oar
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| Special collections of printed music > Glen Collection of printed music > Printed music > Wit and mirth, or, Pills to purge melancholy > Volume 4 > (154) Page 142 - Beggar's delight |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.145c |
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| Description | Being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set. 6 volumes. London, Printed by W. Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719-20. A 19th century reprint from a broken set of the two issues of the 1719-1720 edition. Volumes 1, 3-5 belong to the first issue; Volumes 2 and 6 to the second. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.145-145e |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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