The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.

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The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.
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London :: Printed by J. Playford for Henry Playford and R.C. ...,
1685-1687.
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Songs, English -- England.
Songs with continuo.
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"The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54969.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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〈♫〉〈♫〉 OH Mother! Roger with his Kis—ses almost stops my Breath I vow! why does he gripe my Hand to pieces, and yet says, he loves me too? Tell me, Mother, pray now do, pray now do, pray now do! tell me, Mother, pray now do, pray now, pray now, pray now do, what Ro—ger means when he does so? For ne—ver stir I long to know.

II.
Nay more, the naughty man beside it Something in my Mouth did put; I call'd him Beast, and try'd to bite it, But for my life I cannot do't. Tell me, Mother, pray now do, {repeat} {repeat} For never stir I long to know.
III.
He sets me in his Lap whole Hours, Where I feel I know not what; Something I never felt in yours, Pray tell me, Mother, what is that? Tell me, Mother, what is that? For never stir I long to know.
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