THOMAS

LYRICUS

raise

Whilft D'urfey's voice his verse do's ruise.
When Durfey Sings his Tunefull Layes,
Give Durfey Lyrick-muse the Bayes

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PILLS

TO PURGE

Melancholy;

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.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed by W. Pearson, for F. Tonson, at
SHAKESPEAR'S Head, over- against
Catherine Street in the Strand, 1719.

To the Right Honourable the Lords and Ladies, and also to the Honoured Gentry of both kinds, that have been so Generous to be Subscribers to these Volumes of SONGS ; which end with some Orations, Copys of Verses, Prologues and Epilogues.

My Lords, Ladies and Gentry,

Once thought to have been particular in my Dedication, and have assign'd it to one or two of the Nobility or Gentry; but considering that it would lessen