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Short Title Dibdin Collection, 1799 
Title Collection of Songs, A, by Dibdin 
Pages 328 
Publisher Rice, H. & P. 
Location AoA 
Date 1799 
Place Rowe 
Data Place AoA: E35407 
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I saw what seem'd a harmless child 
There was a miller's daughter  1-2 
Two youths for my love are contending in vain  2-3 
And did you not hear of a jolly young waterman 
Then farewel my trim-built wherry [sic] 
Indeed, miss, such sweethearts as I am 
'Twas in a village, near Castlebury  4-5 
World's a strange world, child, it must be confest. The 
Blow high, blow low, let tempests tear 
Little birds, as well you know, The  6-7 
Venus now no more behold me 
That nature's every where the same  7-8 
Moment Aurora peep'd onto my room, The 
Come all ye gem'men volunteers  8-9 
Come every man now give his toast  9-10 
Madam, you know my trade is war  10 
When Serjeant Belswagger, that masculine brute  11 
I lock'd up all my treasure  11-12 
Women are will o' th' wisps 'tis plain  12 
Kernel from an apple's core, A  12-13 
While the lads of the village shall merrily ah  13 
I lost my poor mother  13-14 
Here's all her geer, her wheel, her work  14-15 
There was a jolly shepherd lad  15 
Excuse me, pray ye do, dear neighbour  16 
Young, and void of art or guile  16-17 
They tell me you listen to all he says  17 
'Tis true that oft, in the same mead  18 
Plague take all such grumbling elves, A  18-19 
My Lord, and please you, he and I  19 
Brother soldiers why cast down?  19-20 
Sing the loves of John and Jean  20-21 
When thou shalt see his bosom swelling  21 
'Twas not her eyes, though orient mines  22 
Let your courage boy be true t' ye  22 
While up the shrouds the sailor goes  23 
I sail'd in the good ship the Kitty  23-24 
If 'tis love to wish you near  24 
Yet though I've no fortune to offer  24-25 
Come here ye rich, come here ye great  25-26 
How kind and how good of his dear majesty  26 
Parents may fairly thank themselves  26 
This life is like a troubled sea  27 
My name's Ted Blarney, I'll be bound  27 
Curtis was old Hodge's wife  28 
Young Paris was blest just as I am this hour  28-29 
When jealous out of season  29 
By love and fortune guided  29 
Rising sun Lysander found, The  30 
My tears---alas! I cannot speak!  30 
Coy Pastora Damon woo'd, The  31 
Ah men! what silly things you are  31-32 
Bright gems that twinkle from afar  32 
Here sleeps in peace, beneath this rustic vase  32-33 
In all your dealings take good care  33 
Sun's a free-mason, he works all the day, The  33-34 
At a jovial meeting of gods once on high  34 
Here I was, my good masters, my name's Teddy Clinch  35 
Ladies' faces, now a-days, The  35 
Did fortune bid me chuse a state  36 
When Yanko dear fight far away  36 
I'll mount the cliffs, I'll watch the coast  37 
Orra no talk, no say fine word  37 
Poor Orra tink of Yanko dear  37-38 
Passion is torrent rude  38 
Bed of moss we'll straight prepare, A  38 
Come, courage lads, and drink away  38-39 
Thou'st heard those old proverbs, ne'er lean on a rush  39 
O think on the time when you were home at night  39-40 
What naughty things we women are  40 
By roguery, 'tis true, I opulent grew  41 
Of dainties I've had of them all  42 
Is't my story you'd know?---I was Patrick Mulrooney  42-43 
Were patience kind to me  43 
When faintly gleams the doubtful sky  43-44 
Who to my wounds a balm advises  44 
Jack Ratlin was the ablest seaman  44-45 
What if my pleasures fools condemn  45 
When fairies are lighted by night's silver queen  45-46 
See the course throng'd with gazers, the sports are begun  46-47 
Do salmonds love a lucid stream?  47 
Plague of those musty old lubbers, A  47-48 
What argufies pride and ambition?  48-49 
Sailor's love is void of art, A  49 
Sweet ditties would my Patty sing  50 
As Dermot toil'd one summer's day  50-51 
This, this my lad's a soldier's life  51-52 
Is it little Tom Thumb that you mean, and his battles  52 
That all the wor'd is up in arms  52-53 
I thought we were fiddle and bow  53 
I sing of a war set on foot for a toy  54 
I sing Ulysses and those chiefs  54-55 
We, on the present hour relying  56 
I've made to marches Mars descend  56-57 
When last from the straights we had fairly cast anchor  57 
Thou man of firmness turn this way  57 
In Paris, as in London  58 
Behold the fairies' jocund band  58-59 
Chairs to mend, old chairs to mend  59-60 
Tinker I am, My name's Natty Sam, A  60-61 
Art one of those mad wags, whose brain  61 
When in order drawn up, and adorn'd in his best  62 
Novice in love, and a stranger to art, A  62 
Say Fanny, wilt thou go with me?  63-64 
Nosegays I cry, and, though little you pay  64 
Younker, who his first essay, The  64-65 
'Tis said we venturous die-hards, when we leave the shore  65-66 
Grey-ey'd Aurora, in taffron array, The  66-67 
From prudence let my joys take birth  67 
Spangled green confess'd the morn, The  68 
Of all sensations pity brings  68-69 
Go patter to lubbers and swabs d' ye see  69-70 
What though from Venus Cupid sprung  70-71 
Smiling grog is the sailor's best hope  71-72 
Yanko he tell, and he no lie  72-73 
I am a jolly fisherman  73-74 
Arm'd with jav'lin, arm'd with dart  74-75 
Be it known to all whosoe'er it regards  75 
Look fairly all the world around  75-76 
At first like an infant appearing  76-77 
Say, fluttering heart  77 
That girl who fain would chuse a mate  77-78 
'Twas in the good ship Rover  78-79 
Morning breaks, The  79-80 
Come around me and weep, to your hearts take despair  80 
'Tis true the marks of many years  80-81 
Come painter, with thy happiest sight  81 
Sailor's life's a life of woe, A  82-83 
Here lies a philosopher, knowing and brave  83 
Away and join the rendezvous  83-84 
To Bachelor's-Hall we good fellows invite  84-85 
Let bards elate, of Sue and Kate  85-86 
'Twas Saturday night the twinkling stars  86-87 
Than marriage and music can ought be more like?  87 
Alas where shall I comfort find?  87-88 
How much I love thee girl would'st know  88-89 
Wind was hush'd, the fleecy wave, The  89-90 
Why I be squire Ned of Gobble-hall  90-91 
Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna  91-92 
Abergavney is fine, Aberistwith also  92 
Resplendent gleam'd the ample moon  92-93 
Crown me Bacchus, mighty god  93-94 
Of the ancients is't speaking my soul you'd be after  94-95 
I sail'd from the downs in the Nancy  95-96 
Sure 'ent the world a masquerade [sic]  96-97 
Dear Yanko say, and true he say  97 
I'm jolly Dick the lamplighter  97-98 
Sweet is the dew-drop on the thorn  98-99 
First chuse a pretty melody  99-100 
I am the world's epitome  100-101 
What a plague cried young Colin would Chloe be at  101-102 
What thos I be a country clown [sic]  102-103 
To look upon dres, upon shew, upon birth [sic]  103-104 
I was, d' ye see, a waterman  104-105 
Cotchelin sat all alone  106 
Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling  106-107 
Storm had ceas'd. the vessel, striving, The  107-108 
I vow I thought you, at first sight  108 
Once on a time to mighty Jove  108-109 
When last in the Dreadful your honour set sail  109 
Far from strife and loves alarms  109-110 
I went to sea with heavy heart  110 
Boatswain calls, the wind is fair, The  110-111 
And did you hear what sad disaster  112 
Sailor, and an honest heart, A  112-113 
Wounds, here's such a coil! I am none of your poor  113-114 
Away, pale fear and ghastly terror!  114 
Truly friend Gil thou choosest well  114 
Ah let not an instant of life pass in vain  114-115 
This life's a days journey, we rise in the morn  115 
Forgive me if thus I presuming  115-116 
Our Jupiter has near his throne  116 
Celia's an angel, by her face  116-117 
Wind blew hard, the sea ran high, The  117-118 
I pray you when your sweetheart pouts  118-119 
If, my hearty, you'd not like a lubber appear  119 
In which of all thy various joys  119-120 
Like a very gallant will I compliment all  120 
If tars of their money are lavish  120-121 
Would ye know where freedom dwells  121 
Infant defence'ess, of succour bereft, An  121-122 
Devoted to Celia, and blest in her arms  122-123 
To a slight common wound it is some dimunition  123 
Curs'd be the sordid wretch of yore  123-124 
Propitious gods that rule our fate  124 
Such love as holy hermits bear  124-125 
Give round the word dismount, dismount  125 
Would you hear a sad story of woe  126 
To ask would you come for to go  126-128 
We bipeds, made up of frail clay  128-129 
Adieu, adieu, my only life  129-130 
I be one of they sailors who thinks 'tis no lie  130-131 
Sun's descending in the wave, The  131 
I was the pride of all the Thames  131-133 
Bold Jack the sailor here I come  133-134 
Hark the din of distant war  134 
Wind was hush'd, the storm was over, The  134-135 
Lovely woman, pride of nature  135-136 
Two real tars, whom duty call'd  136-137 
I'm dashing Dick the dustman  137-138 
If bold and brave thou can'st not bear  138-139 
Why don't you know me by my scars?  139 
Avert yon omen, gracious heaven  139-140 
One negro, wi my banjer  140-141 
Bards call themselves a heav'nly race  141-142 
While whim, and glee, and jest and song  142-143 
Tar's a jolly tar that can hand, reef, and steer, The  143-144 
Far remov'd from noise and smoak  144-145 
Time was, for oh there was a time  145-146 
So sweet I'll dress my Zootka fair  146 
In peace, when sprightly drum and fife  146-148  10 
Jack dances and sings, and is always content  148-149 
Blest friendship hail! thy gifts possessing  149-150 
What song shall I sing?  150-151 
But, perhaps, while thus boldly exposing each elf  151 
Tight lads have I sail'd with, but none e'er so sightly  151-152 
Beauty I sell, who'll buy? Who'll buy?  152-153 
To the plain, to the plain, hark! hark we are summon'd away  153-154 
I that once was a ploughman, a sailor am now  154-155 
Peasant in his humble cot, The  155-156 
Sweet sung the lark, high pois'd in air  156 
Dear John prithee tell me, cried Ruth  157-158 
Let sons of sloth dream time away  158-159 
Poor Peggy lov'd a soldier lad  159-160 
Mankind a'l get drunk, ay and womankind too  160-161 
Dapper Ted Tattoo is my natty name  161-162 
Ladies and gentlemen I'm a beau  162-163 
Alas! the battle lost and won  164 
Adieu my gallant sailor, obey thy duty's call  164-165 
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant so jolly  165-166 
Arrah if 'tis no lie in this world we are living  166-167 
Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy  167-168 
Life's a jest, says the poet, arrah sure 'tis a pun  168-169 
Who calls? Who calls?  169-170 
Mighty sultan once for fun, A  170-171 
In the motley feather'd race  171-172 
When I comes to town with a load of hay  172-173 
I sing of that life of delight beyond measure  174 
This here's what I does--I, d' ye see, forms a notion  174-175 
Lawyers pay you with words, and fine ladies with vapours  175-176 
Oh money, thou master of all things below  176 
Alas! where is my lover gone?  176-177 
To be mad for a husband is not a thing new  177 
He ran to the farm yard, and there bit a hog  177-178 
Young Doll a comely village girl [sic]  178-179 
Why is the devil in you  179 
On Crochetini loves attend  180 
Willing soul well pleas'd delights, The  180 
For wedlock's a voyage, where, should boisterous billows  180-181 
For I am the girl that was made for my Joe  181 
I am a chairman my name is McGee  181-182 
Word in your ear if you please Mr. Fop, A  182 
To ev'ry fav'rite village sport  182-183 
I've health, and I have spirits too  183 
Falcon, tow'ring high in air, The  183 
Come, all you maids who fain would--marry  184 
This life is like a country dance  184-185 
Pray ladies think not I presume  185-186 
Would ye see the world in little  187-188 
Young Mog, arrived at woman's growth  188-189 
What art thou, facinating war [sic]  189-190 
Passing bell was heard to toll, The  190-192 
Rail on at joys that are not thine  192-193 
Come all hands ahoy to the anchor  193-194 
Surge hoarsely murm'ring, young Fanny's grief mocking, The  194-195 
As Wit and Beauty, for an hour  195-196 
Oh the camp's delightful rigs  196-198 
While woman, like soft music's charms  198-199 
While Fancy, as she rules the mind  199-200 
Why am not I that fragrant flow'r  200 
Love's a cheat; we over-rate it  200-201 
Praise is a mirror, that flatters the mind  201 
Go, proud lover, go!  201 
Yes, yes, thank heaven, I've broke my chain  202 
When we promise an heir or a miser  202 
Contentment lost, each other treasure  203 
Come here, ye fair; come here each lover  203 
In vain, dear friends, each art you try  203-204 
Cupid, cried Vulcan, 'tis no jest  204 
Too yielding a carriage, has oft before marriage  205 
Be others the ungracious task  205 
Such usage as this is, what wife but myself  205-206 
Ah have you forgot then, unkind as you are  206 
She who linked by her fate  206-207 
Saying 'twas, when I was young, A  207 
Alas! when once the book of life  208 
There's something in women their lovers engage  208 
Bacchus come, thou vot'ry own me  209 
Would'st error leave, to follow truth  209 
Gay Bacchus, and Mercury, and I  209-210 
Sweetly, sweetly, let's enjoy  210 
With mingled sound of drum and fife  211 
Tell me, neighbour, tell me plain  211 
While in every nation, A  211-212 
When well one knows to love and please  212 
In the month of May  212-213 
This strange emotion at my heart  213 
I made a promise to be wise  213-214 
Oft has the world been well defin'd  214-215 
Breeze was fresh, the ship in stays, The  215-216 
If ever a sailor was fond of good sport  216-217 
Martial pomp, the mournful train, The  217-218 
Since Zeph'rus first tasted the charms of coy Flora  218-219 
World's a good thing, ah how sweet and delicious, The  219-220 
Be quiet that blackbird and thrush  220-221 
Come away then at my call  221-222 
Lord what be all the rich and great  222-223 
Auctioneer mounts, and--first hawing and hemming, The  223-225 
When to man the distinguishing form  225-226 
Village was jovial, the month was May, The  226227 
Tom Tackle was noble, was true to his word  227-228 
Says my father, says he, one day to I  228-230 
As dulcet sound on aether floats  230-231 
Watchman I am, and I knows all the round, A  231-232 
Tom Turnwell is my name, my boys  233 
All endeavors fruitless prove  233-234 
Trifling maid, who, idly vain, The  234 
My bosom is proof against transports and vows  234 
Ye flowers that bloom in yonder mead  235 
Turn, O turn, relentless fair  235 
In ev'ry fertile valley  236 
Haughty Caelia, still disdaining  236 
Since artful man so oft betrays  237   
God of love will ever, The  237 
Shepherd long sigh'd for a beautiful fair, A  237-238 
Phoenix, we're told, has the Sun for his foe, The  238-239 
I'm up to all your tricks, my dear  239 
Think not here to drive your gig  239-240 
With that begirt, each dowdy girl [sic]  240 
Who calls on her whose powerful art  240   
Fine sport, indeed, for god and godlin  240-241 
Hear the merry minstrel sound  241 
How happy she, who ne'er can know  242 
Sportsmen who are staunch and true  242-243 
Meek I'll be as Venu's dove [sic]  243 
Come buy my straw, and I'll give you a song  243-244 
Beseech you, wou'd ye, gentle folks  244-245 
Inspired by so grateful a duty  245 
Sweet is the ship that under sail  245-246 
Don't you see that as how I'm a sportsman in style  246-247 
See, see to join the revel rout  247-248 
Say soldier which of glory's charms  249 
Anacreon tells us that mortals mere clods  249-250 
Where a learned physician who writes for all ills  251 
Squirrel that jingles his bells in his cage, The  252 
'Twas one day at Wapping his dangers o'erhauling  253-254 
In one thou'd'st find variety  254-255 
If you'll only just promise you'll none of you laugh  255-256 
When first I went to school it was all my delight  256-257 
Tell me not of men's follies, their whims and caprices  257-258 
Tom Truelove woo'd the sweetest fair  258-259 
I've thought and I've said it sin I were a boy [sic]  259-260 
Now you shall see what you shall see  260-262 
I never shall survive it, cried Lumkin in despair  262-263 
On Olympus blue summit as loud vacant mirth  263-264 
'Twas a hundred years ago  264-265 
While music lends its heavenly art  266-267 
If lubberly landsmen to gratitude strangers  267-269 
Is't my country you'd know? I'm an Irishman born  269-270 
'Twas post meridian, half past four  270-271 
Life's as like as can be to an Irish wake  272-273 
Gloomy night stalk'd slow away, The  273-274 
World still judges by the mien, The  274-275 
I'm a cook for the public, can suite every palate  275-276 
You have heard of the man who such virtues possessed  276-277 
No more of waves and winds the sport  277-278 
I am one of those pretty, tonish smarts, my good old man  279-280 
I've heard, cried out one, that you tars tack and tack  280-281 
Look all over the world, round and square, and through-out  281-282 
Poet says that love's like fire, The  282-283 
Life's a general chase, and the world is the field  283-284 
Bard in yonder corner see, A  284-286 
Though hard the valiant soldier's life  286-287 
Oh yes, Oh yes, Oh yes!  287-288 
As a plain case in point's the best mode of explaining  289-290 
When freedom knew not where to rove  290-291 
When I told you your cheeks were the blush of the rose  291-292 
Come here, come here, my pretty dear  292-293 
Standing one summer's day on the Tower Slip  293-295 
There were Farmer Thrasher, and he had a cow  295-297  11 
My grandfather's grandfather, valiant and stout  297-298 
Give ear to me, both high and low  298-299 
Poor negroe say one ting you no take offence  299-300 
Come around me ye lasses, and lend me an ear  300-301 
Come all who love, through pleasure's grove  301-302 
Poll dang't how d' ye do  302-303 
Sup of good whiskey will make you glad, A  303-304 
Behold two mighty chiefs come on!  304-306 
Dick Dock, a tar at Greenwich moor'd  307-308 
Have you heard of the tax, such strange consternation  308-309 
Dear Maudlin come give me bright guineas  309-310 
Though pleasure's easily defin'd  310-311 
Yarmouth roads are right ahead, The  311-312 
Hail Columbia! happy land  313-314 
Poets may sing of their Mellicon streams [sic]  314-315 
Ye sons of Columbia who bravely have fought  315-317 
Our country is our ship, d' y' see  317-318 
Come all grenadiers whom your country invites  318-319 
Lo! I quit my native skies  319-320 
Columbians all, the present hour  320-321 
Whilst Europe is wrapt in the horrors of war  321-322 
Come genius of our happy land  322-323 
There's Ichabod has come to town  323-325  10 
Ye sons of Columbia, determin'd to keep  326-329  11 
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