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4 The Fajhionable Lady$ or,
SCENE IV. Mean well, Modely, Ballad, and
Drama.
Bal. Well, Gentlemen, are you convinced ? Are you become
Converts to Englijh Opera's ? Has Mr. Drama enlightned your
Eyes, and improv'd your Understandings? Has he given ycu
new Ears, Signior Italiam ? Has he drove your Outlandifli
Flourifhers off the Stage ? Hah ! poor Rogues ! How they
look ! How they (tare ! My Eloquence confounds them. I am
certainly irifpir'd. I'll write Opera's my felf. 1*11 be the Hur-
hthrumbo of the Age, and have a Statue in Moor-Fields erected
to my Memory. What Papers are thofe, Drama 7 . Songs !
let's hear them, my dear Rogue! let them be a Prologue to our
Play : Come, tune, my Sons of Cat-gut ; my little Orpheus \r,
tickle it away. Law ! I wifh I was an Actor. I would fing
mod melodioufly, I would ravilh the Ladies with the Harmony
of my Voice. The Beaux from the Side- Box fhould cry, Bravo I
Braviffimo ! the Criticks in the Pit, Encore! Encore! the Gal-
lery crack with Applaufe; and the Knights of the Rainbow
thunder from on high, like a Herd of wild Afles in the Moun-
tains.
Drama. The Gentlemen of the Shoulder-Knot are much o-
blig'd to you for your Simile. But, fince your Voice is fo good,
pray entertain your Friends with this Song of your own com-
pofing.
Bal. Ay, ay, with all my Heart, faith : Singing one's own
Songs is a double Pleafure, 'tis like a beautiful ProfpeS on one's
own Eftate. Hem! hem! hem!
[ Reads. ] A Song, by way of Prologue, to the F*i(hionable
Lady, or Harlequin'/ Opera, by the IVorJhipful Chaunter
Ballad, Efq;
That's I, Gentlemen, that's I. I am the worfhipful Chaunter
Ballad, Efq; and the Author of this Song. Strike up, Fiddles.
AIR
SCENE IV. Mean well, Modely, Ballad, and
Drama.
Bal. Well, Gentlemen, are you convinced ? Are you become
Converts to Englijh Opera's ? Has Mr. Drama enlightned your
Eyes, and improv'd your Understandings? Has he given ycu
new Ears, Signior Italiam ? Has he drove your Outlandifli
Flourifhers off the Stage ? Hah ! poor Rogues ! How they
look ! How they (tare ! My Eloquence confounds them. I am
certainly irifpir'd. I'll write Opera's my felf. 1*11 be the Hur-
hthrumbo of the Age, and have a Statue in Moor-Fields erected
to my Memory. What Papers are thofe, Drama 7 . Songs !
let's hear them, my dear Rogue! let them be a Prologue to our
Play : Come, tune, my Sons of Cat-gut ; my little Orpheus \r,
tickle it away. Law ! I wifh I was an Actor. I would fing
mod melodioufly, I would ravilh the Ladies with the Harmony
of my Voice. The Beaux from the Side- Box fhould cry, Bravo I
Braviffimo ! the Criticks in the Pit, Encore! Encore! the Gal-
lery crack with Applaufe; and the Knights of the Rainbow
thunder from on high, like a Herd of wild Afles in the Moun-
tains.
Drama. The Gentlemen of the Shoulder-Knot are much o-
blig'd to you for your Simile. But, fince your Voice is fo good,
pray entertain your Friends with this Song of your own com-
pofing.
Bal. Ay, ay, with all my Heart, faith : Singing one's own
Songs is a double Pleafure, 'tis like a beautiful ProfpeS on one's
own Eftate. Hem! hem! hem!
[ Reads. ] A Song, by way of Prologue, to the F*i(hionable
Lady, or Harlequin'/ Opera, by the IVorJhipful Chaunter
Ballad, Efq;
That's I, Gentlemen, that's I. I am the worfhipful Chaunter
Ballad, Efq; and the Author of this Song. Strike up, Fiddles.
AIR
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| Description | In the manner of a rehearsal. As it is perform'd at the Theatre in Goodman's-Fields. Written by Mr. Ralph. |
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| Shelfmark | Ing.59 |
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| Description | Scottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). 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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