The second book of the Pleasant musical companion being a new collection of select catches, songs and glees : for two and three voices.

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The second book of the Pleasant musical companion being a new collection of select catches, songs and glees : for two and three voices.
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London :: Printed for John Playford ...,
1686.
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Subject terms
Glees, catches, rounds, etc.
Part-songs, English.
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Pages

Page [unnumbered]

An Alphabetical Table of the Catches and Rounds for Three and Four Parts, in this Book.

Note: Those Catches that are marked thus ☞ were not printed before.

A. Number.
  • ALtho' jolly Tom, great Fame thou hast won 18
  • A Health to the Nut-brown Lass 27
  • As I went over Tawny Marsh 33
  • A Hogshead was offer'd to Bacchus his Shrine 56
B.
  • Be gone old Care, and I prethee be gone from me 13
  • ☞ Be jolly my friend for the money we spend 15
C.
  • ☞ Come fill all the Glasses 5
  • ☞ Come let us drink, and never think 36
  • Come my Hearts, how are you inclin'd 41
  • Come my pretty Wenches more nimble than Eels 51
  • Come my Hearts, play your parts 53
D.
  • ☞ Drink on, 'till Night be spent 3
F.
  • ☞ Full Bags, a brisk Bottle, and a beautiful Face 4
  • Fy! nay! prethee John! do not quarrel, Man, 10
  • From twenty to thirty, good night, and good morrow 58
G.
  • God preserve His MAJESTY 23
  • Good indeed! the Herb's good Weed. [On Tobacco.] 64
H.
  • Hark, the bonny Christchurch Bells 1
  • Here's that will challenge all the Fair 7
  • ☞ Here's the Rarities of the whole Fair 8
  • ☞ Honest Ralph was a Merchant's man 11
  • Had she not care enough of the old man 38
  • How happy a thing were a Wedding 40
  • Here lyeth Simon, cold as Clay 45
  • Have you not in a Chimney seen, a Fagot that is moist 47
I.
  • ☞ I would I were in my Father's Mill 16
  • Joan Easie got her a Nag and a Sledge 19
  • Joan has been gallopping 20
  • I'le tell my Mother, my Jenny cries, 25
  • John ask'd his Landlady, thinking no ill 28
  • Joan, Joan, for your part, you love kissing 31
  • ☞ I have lost my dear Dy╌na, therefore will I cry 39
  • I lay with an old man all the night 54
  • If all true Friends of good Liquor now 61
L.
  • ☞ Let us love and drink our Liquor 50
  • Let Chrystal White-wine chear the drowzy mind 55
M.
  • My Wife has a Tongue as good as e're twang'd 60
O.
  • Once I did see a Maid with a Basket 26
  • Once in our lives let's drink to our Wives 35
Q.
  • Quoth the Thatcher to his man 48
S.
  • Strange News from the Rose boys 46
  • Sing merrily now my Lads, here's a Catch 62

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    T.
    • The Crab of the Wood is Sawce very good 9
    • Tom Jolly's Nose I mean to abuse 17
    • This Gallopping Joan I conclude 21
    • ☜ Tom Tory told Titus, the Whigs did design 34
    • 'Tis easie to force to the water your Horse 49
    • The Hart he loves the high Wood 52
    • There's an odd sort of Liquor new come 63
    V.
    • ☜ Vnder this Stone lies Gabriel John 7
    • ☜ Vnder a green Elm, lies Luke Shepherd's Helm 30
    • Vds nigs, here ligs John Diggs, and Richard Digger, 59
    W.
    • When Judith had laid Holifernes in bed 2
    • ☜ When a Woman that's Buxom 12
    • Who comes there? stand, and come before the Constable, 14
    • ☜ Well rung Tom-boy, Ding-dong 29
    • ☜ Would you know how we meet o're our jolly full Bouls, 32
    • ☜ Will you go by water Sir? I'm the next Sculler 65
    • Wine in a morning makes us frolick and gay 66
    • ☜ Well play'd Stephen! he that love a Parson's Wife, 67
    Y.
    • Young John the Gard'ner having lately got 22
    • Ye Cats that at midnight spit Love at each other 24
    • You may talk of brisk Claret 57
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