Bibliography - Village Songster, 1817

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Short Title Village Songster, 1817 
Title Village Songster, The 
Pages 72 
Publisher Burrill and Tileston 
Location MWA/AoA 
Date 1817 
Place Haverhill 
Data Place AoA S42791 
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First Line Page Verses
There was once, it was said, when is out of my head (fl)  3-5  17 
There was once it is said (fl)  78-79  19 
Landlady of France she loved an officer, 'tis said, A (fl) 
In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining (fl)  7-8 
As thro' the grove the other day (fl)  8-9 
O Yes, O yes, O yes! (fl)  9-11 
Says Plato, why should man be vain (fl)  11-12 
Ye sportsmen draw near, and ye sportswomen too (fl)  12-13 
Begone, dull care, I pray thee begone from me (fl)  13 
Come now all ye social powers (fl)  14 
Ye virgins attend (fl)  15 
My temples with clusters of grapes I'll entwine (fl)  16 
Ye youths, wheresoever ye wander so free (fl)  16-17 
There was an ancient fair, O she lov'd a nate young man (fl)  18-19 
Traveller stopt at a widow's gate, A (fl)  19-20 
Mr. Cook, he kept an eating house (fl)  20-21 
In Yorkshire I wur born and bred (fl)  21-22 
There was a gay man-milliner, his name was Tommy Twist (fl)  22-23   
Mr. Spriggs the grocer married Miss Revel (fl)  27 
Cobler liv'd at York, A (fl)  28 
Mr. Fog he conducted a chandlers shop (fl)  28-29 
Four-and-twenty Barbers sat 'em down to dine (fl)  29-34 
In a Post-Office bred, what a life I sure led (fl)  34-36 
Kilkenny is a charming place, as any town in Shamrockshire (fl)  36-37 
What can a woman poor thing do (fl)  37-38 
Chieftain to the highlands bound, cries "Baotman do not tarry!" (fl)  38-39 
Wreaths for the Chieftain we honor! who planted (fl)  39-40 
Come, none of your nonsense, I'm not to be had (fl)  41-42 
Sun had gone down o'er the lofty Benlomond, The (fl)  42-43 
'Tis the last rose of summer left blomming alone (fl)  43-44 
My seventeenth year scarce over, blythe Damon a wooing came (fl)  44 
Ah! what is the bosom's commotion (fl)  46   
Wilt thou say farewell, love, and from Rosa part? (fl)  46-47 
Claudine liv'd contented, and peace was her lot (fl)  47-48 
'Twas at the town of nate Clogheen (fl)  48-50 
What is love? why but a name (fl)  51 
Is there a heart that never lov'd, nor felt soft woman's sigh (fl)  52 
When first I saw Flora, so sprightly and blooming (fl)  52-53 
Knight with a gay and gallant mien, A (fl)  53-54 
Tell me ye maidens, have you seen (fl)  54-55 
Returning from the fair one eve (fl)  55-56 
When I was a pert little Miss in my teens (fl)  56-57 
To Liberty's enraptur'd sight (fl)  57-58 
In April when primroses paint the sweet plain (fl)  58-59 
Oh! slumber my darling (fl)  59-60 
Coo and crow to roost are gone, The (fl)  60-61 
I married a wife, who cares says I (fl)  61-62 
John tripp'd up the stairs by night (fl)  63 
I'm a most singular Gem'man (fl)  63-64 
My father was once a great Marchant (fl)  64-66 
There were two Tom cats on a wall (fl)  66-68 
Fill high the goblet and crown it with roses (fl)  68-69 
This world is a stage (fl)  70-72  15 
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