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PL.778.136
2 May 1778:31 (149)
The following songs are selected from the new comic opera of
Love finds the Way, as performed for the first time at
Covent Garden Theater.
AIR. Miss Courtenay.
As mourns the soft songster confin'd from the spray,
And changes to notes of lamenting his lay;
So I, with my freedom, my spirits forego,
And my ditties, alas! all are ditties of woe;
. . . [4 more lines]
AIR. Miss Brown.
At ruddy eve, and rosy dawn,
I rov'd the fields at leisure,
I danc'd at freedom on the lawn,
And took my fill of pleasure;
. . . [4 more lines, 1 more verse]
AIR. Mrs Farrell
Sweet peace, restore my wonted rest,
No longer let me prove
The pangs that rend the hapless breast,
Of unrequited love;
. . . [2 more lines, one more verse.]
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Wanted for the use of the Theatre, the tragedy of Douglass,
and a farce called the Citizen. Any person having them,
will much oblige the gentlemen of the Theatre, if they will
either lend or dispose of them, and are requested to leave
them with the printer.
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