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Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/1136

1696 (published)

Pastoral love song from D'Urfey's play "The Comical History of Don Quixote", Part III, moving from joyful anticipation to despair, contemplating suicide

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/1140

1694 (published)

Part of the mad Cardenio's song from Act 4 of D'Urfey's play "The Comical

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/1189

1694 (published)

The mad Cardenio's song from Act 4 of D'Urfey's play "The Comical History of

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 128

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/2185

1684 (published)

Royalist pro-Tory drinking song, praising Charles II and the future James II,

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2192

1683 (published)

Pastoral love song in which a beautiful young country woman is persuaded by

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2207

1684 (published)

Love song asserting the primacy of love, making out it would be sin not to

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2233

1684 (published)

Bawdy pastoral song in which a youth succeeds in making love to an initially

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2773

1691 ?

Extract from "On affairs abroad, and K. William's expedition", commenting satirically on the quarrelsome condition of England at the time of William III's war with France

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/3662

1719 (published)

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

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/3991

1693 (published)

On Shinkin's downfall through love, first stanza of a song from D'Urfey's play 'The Richmond Heiress'. Complete version given later in the manuscript.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/4038

1693 (published)

On Shinkin's downfall through love, a song from D'Urfey's play 'The Richmond Heiress'