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Brotherton Collection	6
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songs	1
folk songs, english	1
music	1

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D'Urfey, Thomas	6
Mr Durfey	1

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 128

Jolly Roger: a song probably by Thomas D'Urfey.

c. 1730

A comic song in 73 lines, beginning "Jolly Roger Twangdillo of Plowden Hill", published in the collection "Pills to Purge Melancholy", compiled by D'Urfey (vol. 1 of 1719 edition).

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/3662

The amorous courtier, a new song

1719 (published)

Song expressing the pains of love but also the value of the beloved

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/49

The milk-maid

1702 (published)

A pastoral song, sung by a milkmaid in D'Urfey's play "Comical history of Don

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/73

The Spankeim

1708 (published)

A poem mocking the French and praising Marlborough after the latter's victory

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/845

A song

1716 (published)

Dispute between man and wife, he regretting marriage, she pleading with him to give up his pleasures of drinking and hunting. Song, in symmetrical

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/865

A new song in honour of the glorious assembly at Court on the Queens birthday; made to a pretty Scotch tune

1712

Panegyric on Queen Anne and the splendour of her birthday celebrations, seen as reconciling warring factions and anticipating peace in Europe. Marginal