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Mad MAUDLIN,
To find out Tom of Bedlam.
mssmm sm^sm
TO find my Tom of Bedlam Ten Thousand Years
I'll Travel,
Mad Maudlin goes with dirty Toes to save her Shoes
from Gravel.
Yet will I sing Bonny Boys, bonny Mad Boys, Bedlam
Boys are Bonny ;
They still go bare and live by the Air, and want no
Drink, nor Money.
I now repent that ever poor Tom was so disdain'd,
My Wits are lost since him I crost, which makes me
go thus Chain'd :
Yet will I sing, &c.
My Staff hath Murder'd Gyants, my Bag a long Knife
carries,
To cut Mince-pyes from Children's Thighs, with which
I feast the Faries :
Yet I will sing, &c.
My Horn is made of Thunder, I stole it out of Heav'n,
The Rain-bow there is this I wear, for which I thence
was driv'n :
Yet will I sing, &c.
Mad MAUDLIN,
To find out Tom of Bedlam.
mssmm sm^sm
TO find my Tom of Bedlam Ten Thousand Years
I'll Travel,
Mad Maudlin goes with dirty Toes to save her Shoes
from Gravel.
Yet will I sing Bonny Boys, bonny Mad Boys, Bedlam
Boys are Bonny ;
They still go bare and live by the Air, and want no
Drink, nor Money.
I now repent that ever poor Tom was so disdain'd,
My Wits are lost since him I crost, which makes me
go thus Chain'd :
Yet will I sing, &c.
My Staff hath Murder'd Gyants, my Bag a long Knife
carries,
To cut Mince-pyes from Children's Thighs, with which
I feast the Faries :
Yet I will sing, &c.
My Horn is made of Thunder, I stole it out of Heav'n,
The Rain-bow there is this I wear, for which I thence
was driv'n :
Yet will I sing, &c.
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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 > (201) Page 189 - Mad Maudlin, to find out Tom of Bedlam |
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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.There are more than 330 publications contained in about 320 selected from the collection of John Glen (1833-1904). Also available are a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | Over 400 volumes from three internationally renowned special collections of printed music. The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent excellent archives of 18th-19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The Hopkinson Verdi Collection contains contemporary and later editions of the works of Verdi, collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson. |
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