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Pleasant and Divertive.
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She lives not far off in the Parish of St Clements,
She never liv'd in Cellar nor sold Oranges and Lemons :
Then why should Play-house Trulls with Paint and
such Temptations, [Nation.
Be an Eye sore to me & more to the best part o'th'
Now you that all this while have listened to my Dity,
With streightened Hands pray drink a Health unto this
noble City :
And let us pray to Jove, these Suburb folks to mend,
And having now no more to say, I think it fit to end.
The Old Woman's WISH.
s—m — 1 — 1
^~ l >| I T
A SI went by an Hospital,
jr\^ I heard an Old Woman cry,
Kind Sir, quoth she, be kind to me,
Once more before I Die.
And
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She lives not far off in the Parish of St Clements,
She never liv'd in Cellar nor sold Oranges and Lemons :
Then why should Play-house Trulls with Paint and
such Temptations, [Nation.
Be an Eye sore to me & more to the best part o'th'
Now you that all this while have listened to my Dity,
With streightened Hands pray drink a Health unto this
noble City :
And let us pray to Jove, these Suburb folks to mend,
And having now no more to say, I think it fit to end.
The Old Woman's WISH.
s—m — 1 — 1
^~ l >| I T
A SI went by an Hospital,
jr\^ I heard an Old Woman cry,
Kind Sir, quoth she, be kind to me,
Once more before I Die.
And
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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 5 > (41) Page 29 - Old woman's wish |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.145d |
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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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