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Pleasant and Diver tive.
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HOW blest are Shepherds, how happy their Lasses,
While Drums and Trumpets are sounding
Alarms !
Over our lowly sheds all the Storms passes,
And when we Die, 'tis in each others Arms :
All the Day on our Herds and Flocks employing,
All the Night on our Flutes, and in enjoying.
All the Day, &c.
Bright Nymphs of Britain, with Graces attended,
Let not your days without Pleasure expire ;
Honour's but empty, and when Youth is ended,
All Men will praise you, but none will desire :
Let not Youth fly away without Contenting,
Age will come time enough, for your Repenting.
Let not Youth, &c.
A SONG.
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291
HOW blest are Shepherds, how happy their Lasses,
While Drums and Trumpets are sounding
Alarms !
Over our lowly sheds all the Storms passes,
And when we Die, 'tis in each others Arms :
All the Day on our Herds and Flocks employing,
All the Night on our Flutes, and in enjoying.
All the Day, &c.
Bright Nymphs of Britain, with Graces attended,
Let not your days without Pleasure expire ;
Honour's but empty, and when Youth is ended,
All Men will praise you, but none will desire :
Let not Youth fly away without Contenting,
Age will come time enough, for your Repenting.
Let not Youth, &c.
A SONG.
:-:**-.
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W— \-h-f — 5-F— P- -r- hj- *J ! I ^ h- *-#-£— #^
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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 > (303) Page 291 - How blest are shepherds, how happy their lasses |
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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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