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Pleasant and Diver tive. 7 1
We then so sweetly were employ'd,
The height of Pleasure we enjoy 'd ;
Could you but see, could you but see,
You'd say so too, if you saw me,
You'd say so too, if you saw me,
If you saw me.
She was so Charming, Kind, and Free,
None ever could more Happy be ;
Could you but see, could you but see,
Where I was then, you'd wish to be,
Where I was then, you'd wish to be,
You'd wish to be.
All the Delights we did express,
Yet craving more still to possess ;
Could you but see, could you but see,
You'd Curse, and say, why was't not me,
You'd Curse, and say, why was't not me,
Why was't not me.
Ladies, if how to Love you'd know,
She can inform what we did do ;
But cou'd you see, but cou'd you see,
You'd cry aloud, the next is me,
You'd cry aloud, the next is me,
The next is me.
We then so sweetly were employ'd,
The height of Pleasure we enjoy 'd ;
Could you but see, could you but see,
You'd say so too, if you saw me,
You'd say so too, if you saw me,
If you saw me.
She was so Charming, Kind, and Free,
None ever could more Happy be ;
Could you but see, could you but see,
Where I was then, you'd wish to be,
Where I was then, you'd wish to be,
You'd wish to be.
All the Delights we did express,
Yet craving more still to possess ;
Could you but see, could you but see,
You'd Curse, and say, why was't not me,
You'd Curse, and say, why was't not me,
Why was't not me.
Ladies, if how to Love you'd know,
She can inform what we did do ;
But cou'd you see, but cou'd you see,
You'd cry aloud, the next is me,
You'd cry aloud, the next is me,
The next is me.
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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 3 > (83) Page 71 |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/87644527 |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.145b |
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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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