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

D'urfey, Thomas

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).

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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