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Title: Dispair
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1696 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Pastoral love song from D'Urfey's play "The Comical History of Don Quixote",
Part III, moving from joyful anticipation to despair, contemplating suicide
and madness
Title: The mad-man
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1694 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Part of the mad Cardenio's song from Act 4 of D'Urfey's play "The Comical
History of Don Quixote", Part 1, expressing his anger, despair and love
Title: The mad-lover
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1694 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: The mad Cardenio's song from Act 4 of D'Urfey's play "The Comical History of
Don Quixote", Part I, expressing anger, despair and love. Slightly abridged.
Title: The kings health, sung to Farrinels ground
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1684 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Royalist pro-Tory drinking song, praising Charles II and the future James II,
and castigating Whigs
Title: [unknown]
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1683 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Pastoral love song in which a beautiful young country woman is persuaded by
her courtly lover to leave her spinning, but is abandoned by him
Title: [unknown]
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1684 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Love song asserting the primacy of love, making out it would be sin not to
follow divine examples (Jove and Leda) and urging present enjoyment
Title: [unknown]
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1684 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Bawdy pastoral song in which a youth succeeds in making love to an initially
reluctant young woman after plying her with drink
Title: [unknown]
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.108
Date(s): 1691 ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: 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
Title: [unknown]
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1693 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: 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.
Title: [unknown]
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1693 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: On Shinkin's downfall through love, a song from D'Urfey's play 'The Richmond Heiress'