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Short Title Charms, 1788 
Title Charms of Melody, The 
Pages 96 
Publisher Seddon, Thomas 
Location AoA 
Date 1788 
Place Philadelphia 
Data Place AoA: E20996 
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Sleep on, sleep on, my Kathleen, dear 
Wealthy fool, with gold in store, The  5-6 
Rose tree in full bearing, A 
Dear Tom, this brown jug, that now foams with mild ale  6-7 
Come haste to the wedding, ye friends and ye neighbours  7-8 
O Sandy, why leav'st thou thy Nelly to mourn?  8-9 
O Nelly! no longer thy Sandy now mourns  9-10 
Wand'ring sailor ploughs the main, The  10-11 
Encompass'd in an angel's frame  11-12 
My lodging is on the cold ground  12 
Ah! sure a pair was never seen  13 
Let Masonry from pole to pole  13-14 
O the days when I was young  14-15 
Come, jolly Bacchus, god of wine  15 
My temples with clusters of grapes I'll entwine  16 
With women and wine I defy ev'ry care  16-17 
O bonny lass, will you lie in a barrack  17-18 
There was a jolly miller once  18-19 
Ye fair married dames, who so often deplore  20 
Ye fair, possess'd of ev'ry charm  20-21 
Ye fair, who shine throughout this land  21-22 
Wanton god, who pierces hearts, The  23 
To ease his heart, and own his flame  23-24 
While the lads of the village shall merrily, ah!  24-25 
Shepherds, I have lost my love  25 
How oft, Louisa, hast thou said  25-26 
Down the burn, and thro' the mead  26-27 
My heart's my own, my will is free  27 
What bard, O time, discover  27-28 
Come now, all ye social pow'rs  28-29 
Silver moon's enamour'd beam, The  29-30 
Farewell to Lochaber, and farewell, my Jean  30 
World, my dear Myra, is full of deceit, The  31 
Had I a heart for falshood fram'd [sic]  31-32 
Cease, gay seducers, pride to take  32 
Let rakes and libertines, resign'd  32-33 
Soldier, tir'd of war's alarms, The  33 
Though prudence may press me  33 
When war's alarms entic'd my Willy from me  34 
Could I her faults remember  34- 
Give Isaac the nymph, who no beauty can boast  35 
Give me but a wife, I expect not to find  35-36 
Hope! thou nurse of young desire!  36-37 
How blest the maid, whose bosom  37   
How imperfect is expression  37-38 
Leave off this idle prating  38-39 
When trees did bud, and fields were green  39-40 
Jolly mortals, fill your glasses  41 
Let's be jovial, fill your glasses  42-43 
Oh! had I been by fate decreed  43 
My banks are all furnish'd with bees  43-44 
Fill your glasses: banish grief  44-45 
Ye belles, and ye flirts, and ye pert little things  45-46 
Ye virgins attend  47 
Pride of all nature was sweet Willy O, The  48 
Bird, that hears her nestlings cry, The  48-49 
'Twas summer, and softly the breezes were blowing  49-50 
How happy were my days till now  50 
Come, live with me, and be my love  51 
With tuneful pipe and merry glee  51-52 
Young Jamie loo'd me weel, and ask'd me for his bride  52-53 
Here's to the lass of bashful fifteen  53-54 
When all the Attic Fire was fled  54-55 
Bumper of good liquor, A  55 
As I went to the wake that is held on the green  55-56 
Ask if yon damask rose is sweet  56 
Attend, ye nymphs, while I impart  56-57 
I have seriously weigh'd it, and find it but just  57-58 
Blow, blow, thou winter's wind  58 
By him we love offended  59 
Go, rose, my Chloe's bosom grace  59-60 
In penance for past folly  60-61 
Lowland lads think they are fine, The  62 
When the trees are all bare, not a leaf to be seen  62-63 
Contented I am, and contented I'll be  63-64 
Heavy hours are almost past, The  65 
O lock'd up all my treasure  65-66 
Dear heart! what a terrible life I am led! [sic]  66 
Farewell ye green fields, and sweet groves  66-67 
Push about the brisk bowl: 'twill enliven the heart  67-68 
Well met, pretty nymph, says a jolly young swain  68-69 
There was once---it is said  69-73  19 
Modes of the court so common are grown, The  73 
Virgin, when soften'd by May, The  74 
Blest as th' immortal gods is he  75 
What shepherd. or nymph of the grove  75-77 
Would you taste the noon-tide air  77 
As you mean to set sail for the land of delight  77-78 
Believe my sighs, my tears, my dear  78-79 
By the gayly-cicling glass  79 
If love's a sweet passion, how can it torment  79-80 
I winna marry any mon but Sandy o'er the lee  80-81 
My Sandy is the sweetest swain  81-82 
Vows of love should ever bind  82 
Water parted from the sea  82 
In love should there meet a fond pair  82-83 
Rail no more, ye learned asses  83 
To heal the smart a bee had made  83 
Was I a shepherd's maid, to keep  84 
When innocent pastime our pleasure did crown  84-85 
My Nancy quits the rural train  85   
As down on Banna's banks I stray'd, one ev'ning in May  85-87 
Dear Chloe, come give me sweet kisses  87-88 
Sun from the East tips the mountains with gold, The  88-89 
If o'er the cruel tyrant, love  89 
In the social amusements of life let me live  90 
Since wedlock's in vogue, and stale virgins despis'd  90-91 
How blithe was I each morn to see  92 
How blest has my time been! what days have I known  93 
When late I wander'd o'er the plain  94 
Ye sportsmen draw near, and ye sportswomen too  94-95 
You tell me I'm handsome, (I know not how true)  95- 
Since laws are made for ev'ry degree  96 
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