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Short Title Songs Comic, 1777 
Title Songs, Comic, Satyrical and Sentimental 
Pages 259 
Publisher Bell, Robert 
Location AoA 
Date 1777 
Place Philadelphia 
Data Place AoA: E15603 
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Through gloomy grove along the lawn  Fr.Mtr. 10-12 
Once the gods of the Greeks, at ambrosial feast  1-4  16 
In hist'ries of heathens, by which tutors train us  4-6  11 
As the farmer went over his corn ripen'd land  6-8 
Keep your distance, quoth King, who in lead coffin lay  8-10  10 
Wishing well to good folks both on this and that  10-12  11 
Cupid sent down on a message one ev'ning by Venus  12-13 
No more let defections of wedlock be blam'd  14-15  10 
Now we're free from college rules  16-18 
To a stage-coach we aptly may line this nation  18-20  10 
Now safe moor'd. with bowl before us  20-24  11 
What the heart feels oppose to the phrases of schools  24-26  12 
Behold on the brow the leaves play in the breeze  26-27 
Prude Pallas observ'd to the demirep Queen  28-29 
By a whirlwind methought I through Aether was hurl'd  30-32  12 
Let us laugh at the common distinctions of state  32-33 
One day at home in a maudlinish mood  33-35 
When diety's word  35-37 
I'll sing you a song, and I'll sing all about it  37-39 
Ye makers of nabobs who millions amass  39-40 
Cards were sent, the Muses came, The  40-42 
Let those who love Helicon sip at it's streams [sic]  42-43 
Contented I am, and contented I'll be  44-45  11 
By the side of a green stagnate pool  46-47 
Not one of the wise men, though ever so knowing  47-49 
One evening Good Humour took Wit as his guest  49-50 
From face of the sun, see the mists disappear  50-51 
Wit, love, and reputation, walk'd  52-53 
Papilio the rich, in the hurry of love  53-55 
If I was a wit, like a wit I'd presume  55-57  12 
Dictates of nature prove school knowledge week, The  57-58 
Tho' with puffs daily papers are cramm'd, sir  59-60 
Last night I attended at Robinhood's group  61-62  11 
Come liberty, damme boys, but we'll be free  63-64  11 
Ruby-finger'd Aurora, fair lady of light  65-66 
When prudence declaims how time passes  66-67 
Ye delicate lovelies, with leave, I maintain  67-69  10 
While gentlefolks strut in their silver sattins  69-71 
Let court lovers pay attention to crowns  71-73  10 
Ye lads of true spirit pay courtship to claret  73-75 
Good people all, both great and small  75-77 
Since life's but a jest, let us follow this rule  77-78  10 
Town's a raree-shew, some say  79-80 
To excel in bon ton both as genius and critic  81-82 
Come care-curing mirth  82-84  10 
As one bright summer's sultry day  85-86 
Aurora, lady grey  87-89  12 
Why shou'd you lov'd sensible, shou'd be pale  89-90 
Suppose twelve has struck, wherefore pray all this fuss?  90-92 
Great A was alarm'd at B's bad behav'our  92-93   
One night having nothing to do, nor to drink  94-96  11 
Do you see, as a sailor, I'll heave off  96-98 
That the world is a stage, and the stage is a school  98-100 
Eve tempted to err, ill betide the sad time  100-102  10 
Cleopatra the gay, as old stories declare  102-104 
Bleak winter is drove, by the warm winds to the north  105-106 
Wou'd you know the way that Eve  106-108 
On a brook's grassy brink, in the willow's cool shade  108-110  10 
All things have their time by the Hebrew King's rule  110-111 
Turn'd off forty!--what then? Why 'twixt that and threescore  112-113  11 
Now Old England's flag is Commander in Chief  114-115  11 
One promrose time a maiden brown  116-117 
Coxcomb once said, A  117-119 
One day at her toilet as Venus began  119-120 
Let him fond of fibbing invoke which he'll chuse  120-122 
Blue clouds from the skies are fled, The  122-124 
Dinner o'er, and grace said, we'll for business prepare  124-126  13 
As a choice-spirit bred so I'll choicely behave  126-129  15 
Old Homer! but with him what have we to do?  129-131  10 
One eve from whist table Amelia withdrew  131-132 
That living's a joke, Johnny Gay has express'd  133-134 
Younglings fond of female chaces  134-136  10 
Had I old Homer here I wou'd make that wretch see  136-138 
Ye learn'd of the age  139-140 
Mark Anthony gave up the world for a girl  140-142  10 
It was as one morning on Ida Jove shone  142-145 
Let others sing of flames and darts  145-146 
Ye hardy sons of honour's land  147-148 
As home I return'd, it was late in the day  149-150 
Astrologers lately a bustle have made  150-151 
One day, by appointment, Maria I met  151-153 
See this bumper, bucks be gay  153-155 
Friends, Britons, and countrymen, heed what you say  155-157 
Circe was a precious piece  157158 
I wonder, quoth dame, as her spouse she embraces  159-160 
Tho' news-papers puff ev'ry nostrum to town  160-162 
Of Griskins I sing  162-164 
Draw the cork, the cloth's drawn, a toast to the King  164-165 
Come, bustle, bustle, drink about  165-166 
Ingratitude's crime worse than witchcraft is nam'd  167-168  10 
Come, neighbours, neighbours, drink about  169-170 
Our reck'ning we've paid, here's to all ben repos  171-172 
Old Homer nodded long ago  172-174 
As an Englishman ought, I wish well to my King  175-176   
Man's all contradiction, a medley machine  176-178  12 
Ariadne one morning  179-180 
When the early cock crows at the day's dappl'd dawn  181-182 
I'll strive to sing something, yet wou'd not do wrong  183-184 
Push the bottle about, name the toast, and away  184-186 
Once Jupiter's lady, call'd Juno the Scold  186-187 
Tho' Austria and Prussia, France, Flanders, and Russia  188-189 
Sages of old, and the learn'd of this day, The  189-191   
Sleep, thou leaden, lazy God  191-193 
Tho' far from field sports, we will field sports apply  193-194 
It is he who's unaw'd by the sound of a name  195-196 
While people call'd poets, in blank verse or rhime  196 
White winter has left us, with all its chill train  198-199 
On Ida one day, at Olympic feast  200-201 
Ye bibbers who sip limpid Helicon's Rill  202-203   
When running life's race  204-205 
World, and its works, which we grieve to forsake, The  206-207 
Let those who have nothing to do but to hear  207-208 
Look round, my love! how chang'd the scene  209-210 
Wonder! a wonder! a wonder I'll shew, A  210-211  10 
Let those attend who seek the choice  212-213 
One ev'ning alone in the grove  214 
How weak is the wisdom of man?  215-216 
See the pall-supporting bearers  217-218 
Tho' a cobler is call'd but a low occupation  218-220  10 
Ye gossips who blab out the secrets of State  220-221 
Fond father's bliss is to number his race, A  221-222 
Push about the brisk bowl, 'twill enliven the heart  222-223   
Says I to my tutor, sir, what shall I do  224-225  11 
Since at last I am free  226-227 
Bare-foot and head-bare, his blanket tight scor'd  228-229   
Extinguish the candles, give Phoebus fair play  230-231  10 
Poachers for fortune who damsels ensnare, The  232-233  10 
There is one thing, my friends, I must offer to you  234-235  10 
One day meeting Momus, it was upon 'Change  236-237 
Story, or song, you have left to my choice, A  237-239  11 
Our chorus to Bacchus, to Bacchus we'll raise  239-240 
In a neighbourly way, with an honest man's fame  241-242 
Since the world is so old, and the times are so new  243-244 
Ye lexicon critics, whose classical pride  244-245 
Wits were wont, in ancient times, The  246-247 
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