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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Subject terms
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 19, 2024.

Pages

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A TABLE of the SONGS contained in this Book.

A.
  • A Curse on all Cares Page 10
  • A Pox of dull Mortals 12.
  • Awake, Oh Constantine! awake, 14
  • Ah Phillis! cast those thoughts away 26
  • Ah Phillis! had you never lov'd 29
  • As May in all her youthfull Dress 34
  • All my past Life is mine no more 58
B.
  • Believe me Jenny, for I tell you true. 11
  • Bright was the Morning, and cool the Air 28
  • Break, Cupid, break thy feeble Bow 48
C.
  • Come, come away, let's to the May-pole go 54
F.
  • Farewell all Joys, when he is gone 21
  • Fancelia's Heart is still the same 35
  • Fly from Olinda, young and fair 38
G.
  • Go tell Amintor, gentle Swain 30
H.
  • Hard Fate! that we have Eyes to see 6
  • Hark! I hear the Ecchoing Nation 18
  • How sweet is the Passion of Love 41
  • How blest is the Passion 49
  • Happy as Man in his first Innocence 62
I.
  • I never saw a Face 'till now 1
  • Jenny my blithest Maid 16
  • If absent I from Phillis am 33
  • If Love did make his chief Abode 50
  • If I live to be Old Ibid.
  • In vain we dissemble 61
L.
  • Long by Disdain has Celia strove 36
  • Love, Love's the dear talk 43
  • Love is now become a Trade 45
M.
  • My Heart, when ever you appear Page 31
  • My Life and my Death 32
  • Madhin, why does Love torment you 52
O.
  • Oh! why did e're my Thought aspire 4
  • Of my dear Celia's Sight depriz'd 8
  • Once my Shepherdess was true. [A Dialog.] 64
P.
  • Pleasure by Angels unenjoy'd 27
  • Phillis and Strephon. [A Dialogue.] 73
R.
  • Rebellions Fools! that scorn to bow 20
S.
  • See how fair Corinna lies 2
  • Such loy Kisses Anchorites that live 17
  • Shot from Orinda's brighter Eyes 23
  • Say my Heart, what shall I do 40
  • Septimnius and Acme. [A Dialogue.] 68
T.
  • To hollow Rocks, and far-sought Plains 8
  • There never was Swain so unhappy as I 13
  • 'Twas in a dismal Cypress Grove 15
  • Too high, Oh Cupid! cries the Swain 22
  • Tho you may boast you'r fairer than the rest, 25
  • The Pleasures that I now possess 42
W.
  • When absent from the Nymph I love 5
  • When Lucinda's blooming Beauty 7
  • When Celia wept, the Heaven wept too 37
  • When absent from my fair Corinna I 39
  • Why should all things bow to Love 46
  • Weep all ye Nymphs, your Floods unbind 47
  • Who can resist my Celia's Charms 58
Y.
  • Ye happy Swains, whose Nymphs are kind 24
  • Ye Virgin-Power's, defend my Heart 44
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