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Title: The amorous courtier, a new song
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Song expressing the pains of love but also the value of the beloved
Title: The milk-maid
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1702 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: A pastoral song, sung by a milkmaid in D'Urfey's play "Comical history of Don
Quixote", Part II, here with an additional stanza at the end
Title: The Spankeim
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1708 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: A poem mocking the French and praising Marlborough after the latter's victory
at Oudenarde in 1708
Title: A song
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Dispute between man and wife, he regretting marriage, she pleading with him
to give up his pleasures of drinking and hunting. Song, in symmetrical
dialogue
Title: A new song in honour of the glorious assembly at Court on the Queens
birthday; made to a pretty Scotch tune
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas
Attribution: Mr Durfey
Date(s): 1712
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Panegyric on Queen Anne and the splendour of her birthday celebrations, seen
as reconciling warring factions and anticipating peace in Europe. Marginal
note on Prince Eugene's sword.