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CHARMS OF MELODY,
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SIREN MEDLEY,
The Plan of the Publifher is to embody in one Grand Folio Volume, all the Songs, ancient and modern, in the Englilh Liinguage;
l^'forming an Univcrfal Magazine of Love, Sentimental.War, Hunting, Drinking, Sea, and Political Songs; as well as Old Englilh, Irifl*
•f -.and Scotch Ballads, -Legendaries, Sec. dec. To which will be added, a complete Index.
To the Greenwood gang wi' me.
'O fpeer my love with glances fair.
The woodland laddie came.
He vow'd he would be aw lincere.
And- thus he fpolie his flame :
The morn is blithe, May blooming fair,
As fair as fair can be,
To the greenwood gang, my laffie dear,
To the greenwood gang wi' me.
Gang wi' me, i^c^
The lad I love is fa opprefs'd,
I could na fay him nay.
He tifs'd my lips, my hand he prefs'd.
As tripping o'er the bray :
Dear lad I cry'd, fa trig and fair,
As fair as fair can be,
To the greenwood gan^, my laddie dear,
To the greenwood ^ang wi' me.
Gang -wi' me, ^c.
The bridal day is come to pafs.
Sic joy was never feen.
And now I'm call'd the woodland lafs,
The woodland laddie's queen ; - '
: I blefs the morn fo blithe and fair,
I fpeak my mind fa free.
To the greenwood gang, my laddie dear.
To the greenv;ood gang wi' me.
Women and Wine.
WITH women and wine, T defy ev'ry care,
.For life without thcfe is a bubble of air ;
With one and the other, in pleafure I roll,
And a full flow of fpirits enlivens my foul.
Let grave, fober mortals my miycims condemn,
I never fhall alter my conduft for them :
I care not how much they my maxims decline ;
Let them have their humour and I will have mine.
Wine prudently us'd 'Wiilour fenfes improve,
'Tis the fpring-tide of lite, 'tis the fuel of love ;
And "\ enus ne'er look'd with afmile fo divine,
As when Mars bound his head with a branch from
the vine.
Then come, ■a\j dear charmer, thou nymph half
divine,
Firft pledge me with kiffes, aext jiledge me witli
wine ;
Then sjiving and taking in mutual return.
The torch of our loves fhall eternally burn.
But fliould'H thou my pa'flion for wine difapprove,
My bumper I'll q»it to be bleit.with my love;
For rather than forfeit the joys of my lafs,
. My bottle I'll break, and demolifh my glafs.
G. A. Stevens.
Sweet Paflipn of'Lpye.
i HIS cold flinty heartitisyouthathayewarm'dt
You've waken'd my pafllons, my fenfes have charm'd
In vain againft merit and Cymon I ftrove.
What's life without pafiion, fweet paflion of love ?
The froft nips the bud, and the rofe cannot blow»
From youth that is froft-nipt no rapture can flow,
Elyfium to him but a defert will proVe.
What's life withou t paflion, fweet paflion of Ipvp ?
The fpring fhould be warm, the feafon be gay,
The birds and the flow'rets.jnake blithfome fweet
May,
Love ble/Tes the cottage, and fings thro' the grove.
What's life without paflion, fweet pafRon of love ?
Garrick.
The merry Sailor.
HOW pleafant a failor's life paffes.
Who roams o'er the watery main ;
No treafure he ever amalTes,
But cheerfully fpends ail his gain ;
We're ftrangers to party and faftion,
To honour and honefty true,
And would not commit a bafe adlion,
For power or profit in view.
Then why fkould we quarrel for riches,
Or any fuch glittering toys ?
A light heart.and a thin pair of breeches
Goes thorough the world my boys.
The world is a beautiful garden
Enrich'd with the bleflings of life;
The toiler with plenty rewarding.
Which plenty too often breeds flrife.
When terrible t^mpefts affail us,
And mountainous billows affright ;
No grandeur or wealth can avail us.
But fkilful induftry fleers right.
ThentoliyJhould'We-, l^c-
■The courtier's more fubjefl: to dangers,
Who rules at the helm of the ftate,
Thar, we, who to politics ftrangers,
Efcape the fnares laid for the great.
,The various bleflings of nature
In various nations we try;
No mortals than us can be greateri
• AVho merrily live till we die.
Then why Jhouldwe, &c.
PUBLISHED at N°- 10, BEDFORD-ROW, Dublin,;
Where complete Sets, or fingle Numbers, may be had.
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