Transcriber’s Note

This e-book is volume 5 of Thomas D’Urfey’s Wit and Mirth: Or Pillsto Purge Melancholy, published in six volumes in 1719-20 by J.Tonson, London. It was prepared from a 1959 facsimile reprint byFolklore Library Publishers, Inc., New York, of an 1876 reprint(publisher unidentified).

The 1719-20 edition was published in two issues. The first issue waspublished under the title Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive;the second, under the Wit and Mirth title. The 1876 reprintapparently used a combination of the two issues, and volume 5 bearsthe Songs Compleat title. Moreover, the 1876 reprint was not anexact facsimile of the 1719-20 edition, as the typography and musicnotation were modernized. For more information on the variouseditions, see Cyrus L. Day, “Pills to Purge Melancholy,” The Reviewof English Studies, Vol. 8, No. 30 (Apr. 1932), pp. 177-184,available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/508831 (login required).

Midi files have been provided for the songs in this e-book. To hear asong, click on the [Listen] link. Lyrics within the music notation areset forth in text below the music images.

Archaic and inconsistent spellings and hyphenation have been preservedas they appear in the original, except that “VV” is rendered as “W.”The original order of titles in the Alphabetical Table has also beenpreserved. Obvious printer errors in both text and music have been corrected.

Some words in the first song are rendered in the original in blackletter font. They arerendered here in bold italics.

 

WIT and MIRTH:
OR
PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY

EDITED BY
THOMAS D’URFEY

IN SIX VOLUMES
VOLUME V

FOLKLORE LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, INC.
NEW YORK
1959


This edition is a facsimile reproduction
of the 1876 reprint of
the original edition of 1719-1720.

Copyright © 1959

Printed in the U.S.A.
by Noble Offset Printers, Inc.
New York 3, New York

title page

Songs Compleat,

Pleasant and Divertive;

SET TO

MUSICK

By Dr. John Blow, Mr. Henry Purcell,and other Excellent Masters of the Town.

Ending with some Orations, made andspoken by me several times upon thePublick Stage in the Theater. Togetherwith some Copies of Verses, Prologues,and Epilogues, as well as for myown Plays as those of other Poets, beingall Humerous and Comical.


VOL. V.


LONDON:

Printed by W. Pearson, for J. Tonson, at

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