Literary Dinner of the Library Committee: J.J. Baddeley, Esq., in the Chair : Cannon Street Hotel, May 7th, 1894 : Programme of Music, with a Short Account of the Guildhall Library and the Art Gallery |
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ALBERT FAIRBAIRN Alderman Sir Allmaine ARNOLD DOLMETSCH Art Gallery Bafs Viol Bart BEE SUCKS bloffome that hangs City of London Common Council Corporation of London Court of Common custody DEPUTY ding a ding Ding dong EFFIGIES PRECLAR executors Exhibition FANTAZIES FULL FATHOM FIVE Galliardo gareland George Shaw greene willo muſt Guildhall Library H. L. Nelthropp Hark hey nonne indice qualserat SIR J. J. BADDELEY JOHN CARPENTER Johnſon Laſs Library and Museum Library Committee London collection Lord Mayor 1398 lovers merrily MISS FLORENCE MONK MISS HÉLÈNE DOLMETSCH monftrant indice qualserat Mufic NIWOⱭ presented prirfariri teta benefacta PROFESSOR BRIDGE purchase qualserat SIR RICHARD Reply RICHARD WHITTINGTON save the Queen Simpſon Singe willo SIR REGINALD HANSON SONG TAKE THOSE LIPS teta benefacta porer thefe yellow sands Theſe Thomas Morley Thoſe THY MERCIES total number Treble Viol unani unto thefe yellow VIOLA DA GAMBA VIRGINALS volumes WHITINGTON EQUI Wilfon William Burie
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Page 13 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming ? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 18 - Full fadom five thy father lies, " Of his bones are corrall made ; " Those are pearles that were his eyes ; " Nothing of him, that doth fade, " But doth suffer a sea-change " Into something rich and strange : " Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell, " Harke now I heare them, Ding dong bell.
Page 15 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 23 - Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands : Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd, The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there ; And, sweet Sprites, the burthen bear.
Page 31 - to enquire and examine into the best mode of arranging and carrying into effect, in the Guildhall, a Library of all matters relating to this City, the Borough of Southwark, and the County of Middlesex, and to report thereon to this Court.
Page 30 - Sixth, sent for by Edward, Duke of Sommerset, Lord Protector, with promise to be restored shortly : men laded from thence three Carriers •with them, but [they were] never returned.
Page 11 - GOD save our gracious Queen, Long live our noble Queen ; God save the Queen ! Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the Queen ! O Lord our God, arise, Scatter her enemies, And make them fall.
Page 31 - ... returned. This library was built by the executors of Richard Whittington, and by William Burie: the arms of Whittington are placed on the one side in the stone work, and two letters, to wit, W. and B., for William Bury, on the other side: it is now lofted through, and made a storehouse for clothes.
Page 30 - Guildhall, for the profit of the students there and those discoursing to the common people...
Page 11 - Thy choicest gifts in store on her be pleased to pour, long may she reign. May she defend our laws, and ever give us cause to sing with heart and voice, God save the Queen.