 | William Lawes - 2002 - 242 pagine
...IV: Fourteen Italian Songs Composed by Giovanni Giacomo Castoldi da Carravaggio. [sig. k] 1707 Wit and Mirth: Or Pills To Purge Melancholy; Being A Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New . . . With Several New Songs by Mr. D'Urfey. The Second Edition with large Additions. Carefully Corrected.... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1898 - 806 pagine
...Donland was the friend of Shakespeare, and is alluded to in the Passionate Pilgrim. H D'URFEY. Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy; being a collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and Xcw . . having each theii- proper tune for either Voice or Instrument . . To which is added all Mr.... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1989 - 588 pagine
...or "incident." 18. Among the verses mentioning Lethe [ie, the river Leith] in Thomas D'Urfey's Wi'f and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy; Being A Collection of the best Mern/ Ballads and Songs Old and New, are "Salley's Answer to Sawney: A New Song," beginning "As I gang'd... | |
 | Linda Phyllis Austern - 1992 - 406 pagine
...Fletcher's The Faithful Shepherdess (Act III, scene i), probably written for a 1633 Court performance. 5. Wu and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection of the Best mery Ballads and Songs. Old and New, published by Henry Playford (1699 and 1700; reissued in 1719).... | |
 | 1995 - 524 pagine
...Ballad" which appears in the KEGISTER, ix. 206-7, copied from the fourth volume of a work entitled " Wit and Mirth ; or Pills to Purge Melancholy ; being a...of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New," etc., Edited by T. D'Urfey, London, 1719, were probably written during this interim. " Now this was... | |
 | Guy Logsdon - 1995 - 420 pagine
...Handbook of American Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. D'Urfey, Thomas, ed. Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy; Being a...of the Best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. 6 vols. London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1719-20. Dwyer, Richard A., and Richard Lingenfelter, eds. The... | |
 | R. C. Alston, Robin Alston - 1997 - 232 pagine
...for the presence of a large number of publications such as The Fatal Beauty of Agnes de Castro, Wit and Mirth or Pills to purge melancholy: being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs old and new, Laugh and be fat: or, an antidote against melancholy, Cupids garland set round about with gilded roses.4... | |
 | Valerie Traub - 2002 - 516 pagine
...229. I am grateful to Bruce Smith for sending me a copy of this poem. 95. "My Thing Is My Own," in Wit and Mirth: OR, PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY: BEING A...of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New, ed. Thomas D'Urfey (London: l700); republished in l707, l7l2, and l7l9. The l7l9 edition is published... | |
 | Samuel J. Rogal - 2002 - 508 pagine
...the literary scene. — The Editor 856 D'URFEY (T. ) . Wit and Mirth, or Pills To Purge Melancholy; a collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New, fitted to all Humors, having each their proper Tune for either Voice or lnstrument. Facsimile reprint... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - 2006 - 504 pagine
...refrain "My thing is my own ..." follows each verse. The poem was first published in Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection...of the Best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New, London, 1719-1720. I have reproduced but a few of all the extant verses here. SeeTraub, The Renaissance... | |
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WIT AND MIRTH ; or, 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. 
