[Amusement for the ladies : being a selection of favorite catches, glees and madrigals, several of which have gained the prize medals of the noblemen & gentlemen's Catch Club / Composed by Dr. Arne and others.
For 3-5 voices, unacc. Book II-IX: "Amusement for the ladies, being a selection of the favorite catches, glees, canons and madrigals...by...Lord Mornington..."
Contents:
v. 1. A cruel fate hangs thrat'ning o'er / Aylward -- A gen-rous friendship / Webbe -- Amidst the myrtles as I walk'd / Battishil -- Blest pair of syrens / Smith -- Come shepherds, we'll follow / Dr. Arne -- Come live with me / S. Webbe -- Come come all noble souls / Dr. Rogers -- Could gold prolong / Ireland -- Come follow me to the greenwood / Dr. Hayes -- Discord, dire sister / Webbe -- Fair the op'ning lilly blows / Dr. Arne -- Fair Phillis I saw / Morley -- Flora gave me fairest flowers / Wilbye -- Fair sweet cruel / Ford -- Fairest isle of isles / Purcell -- Fair Susan did her wifehode / Dr. Cooke -- Hush to peace each ruder wind / Dr. Arne -- Hark the lark at heav'ns gate / Dr. Cooke -- Hail lovely shade / Jenner -- How merrily we live / Este -- How sleep the brave / Dr. Cooke -- Hail ever pleasing solitude / Dr. Alcock -- Here in coll Grot / Lord Mornington -- How sweet how fresh / Paxton -- Happy the youth / Long -- In vain you tell your -- In the merry month of May / Dr. Cooke -- If the prize you mean to get / Dr. Cooke -- I lov'd thee beautiful and kind / Battishill -- Joan said to John / Atterbury -- Let us my Lesbia / Smith -- Let happy lovers fly / Smith -- Let us drink and be merry / Berg -- Lady when I behold / Wilbye -- Melting airs / Dr. Haye -- Mr. Speaker tho' tis late -- Now the bright morning star / Dr. Cooke -- Now is the month of Maying / Morley -- On thy sweet lips -- O fancy parent of the Muse -- O'er William's tomb / Norris -- One a penny two a peony / Atterbury -- Pretty warbler cease to hover / Webbe -- Return blest days / Smith -- Rise my joy / Webbe -- Sister oh, fay dost thou / Dr. Harington -- Swell the song in strains / Berg -- Sweet Muse inspire thy / Dr. Arne -- Sweet enslaver can you tell / Atterbury -- So che vanti -- To the old long life -- Thou'rt gone away from me / Jenner -- Tread soft ye lovers -- Turn Amaryilis / Brewer -- The nightingale, the organ / Weelks -- Tell me ye pow'rs / Webbe -- To me the wanton girls / Webbe -- The silver swan / Gibbons -- Underneath this myrtle shade -- Where weeping yews / Ireland -- Where e'er you tread / Long -- We be three poor mariners / Ravenscroft -- When gay Bacchus / Dr. Harington -- Weep gentle shepherd / Dr. Harington -- Winde gentle evergreens / Dr. Hayes -- We'll drink and we'll never / Dr. Alcock -- Welcome sweet pleasure / Weelks -- Which is the properest day / Dr. Arne -- When all alone my pretty love / Converso -- You gave me your heart / Webbe -- Ye birds for whom I rear'd / Battishill -- Ye Heav'ns if innocence / Baildon -- v. 2. Adieu ye streams / As now the shades -- Breathe soft ye winds -- Come shepherds come away -- Delightfull scene -- Daughter of heav'n -- Give me the sweet delights -- Hand in hand with fairy grace -- Lift up your heads o ye gates -- Make haste to meet -- Now I'm prepar'd -- Once in Arcadia -- Of all the brave birds -- Pity the sorrows -- Slaves are they that heap up -- While fools their time -- A long fare well, since we must part / T. Norris -- Blessed is he that considereth the poor / J.W. Callcott -- Come unto me all ye that labour / S. Webbe -- Farewell to Lochaber / J.W. Callcott -- Fear no danger to ensue / H. Purcell -- Go Damon go, Amarillis bids adieu / S. Paxton -- Gently hear me charming maid / Ld. Mornington -- Her partial taste / Dr. Cooke -- In friendship's mask to cheat our eyes / W. Paxton -- Now round the board my friends / L. Atterbury -- Oh thou sweet bird / L. Atterbury -- Poor little pretty flutt'ring thing / Dr. Arne -- Return return my lovely maid -- Round the hapless Andre's urn / S. Paxton -- Stray not to those distant scenes / J.W. Callcott -- Take oh take those lips away / J.S. Smith -- Upon the poplar bough / S. Paxton -- When Britain on her sea girt shore / Dr. Arne -- When Sappho tun'd the raptur'd strain / J. Danby -- What shall he have that kill'd the deer / J.S. Smith -- We be soldiers three / Freeman -- When Arthur first in court began / J.W. Callcott -- Are the white hours for ever fled / J.W. Callcott -- Flora now calleth forth each flow'r / J.S. Smith -- Go idle boy I quit thy bow'r / J.W. Callcott -- Happy are they whom bounteous heav'n / S. Paxton -- Have you Sir John Hawkin's history / J.W. Callcott -- Here rests his head upon the lap of earth / J.W. Callcott -- In vain I strike the sounding string / S. Paxton -- Make there my tomb / S. Paxton -- Non fidi al mar che freme / S. Webbe -- O Lord shew us thy mercy / S. Webbe -- Sigh no more ladies / J.R.S. Stevens -- Sweet is the soft the sunny breeze / S. Webbe -- Swiftly from the mountain's brow / S. Webbe -- The fairest flowrs the vale prefer / J. Danby -- When winds breathe soft / S. Webbe -- v. 3. Are the white hours for ever fled / Dr. Callcott -- Cupid my pleasure / S. Webbe -- Come buy my cherries / Dr. Stevenson -- Come and let us live / S. Webbe Jun. -- Ere sin could blight / W. Linley -- Fear no more the heat of the sun / Dr. Nares -- Fair Flora decks the flow'ry ground / J. Danby -- From thy waves stormy Lannow / Dr. Callcott -- Fill the bowl with rosy wine / J. Dyne -- Glorious Apollo / S. Webbe -- Gently touch the warbling lyre / Dr. Hayes -- Go plantive breeze / Dr. Callcott -- Hark the hollow woods resounding / I.S. Smith -- How shall we mortals spend our hours / W. Shield -- Halcyon days now wars are ending / Dr. Cooke -- Hail all hail Britannia / Dr. Cooke -- Had I but the torrents might / R. Cooke -- Help me each harmonious grove / I.C. Pring -- In paper case / Dr. Cooke -- In rural innocence / S. Webbe -- It is night and I am alone / R. Sprofferth -- Methinks I hear the full celestial choir / Dr. Crotch -- O come o bella / S. Webbe -- O gentle sleep / Dr. Cooke -- O nightingale that on yon bloomy spray / R.I.S. Stevens -- Peace to the souls of the heroes / Dr. Callcott -- Sweet thrush / I. Danby -- Since first I saw your face / Thos. Ford -- Stay Sir Knight / Dr. Smith -- The mighty conquror of hearts / S. Webbe -- Thyrsis when he left me / Dr. Callcott -- The laughing powers / Wm. Horsley -- Who comes so dark / Dr. Callcott -- Ye spotted snakes / R.I.S. Stevens.
Indexed by:
RISM B/II, p. 87: Amusement for the ladies.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)29298660
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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