 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1860 - 374 pages
...Ed. by Dryden. 8 vols. Isted. 1684-1708. Ed.of 1716* contains ballads not in the earlier ones. " Wit and Mirth : or Pills to Purge Melancholy ; being a...of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice or Instrument : most of the Songs... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1861 - 372 pages
...Ed. by Dryden. 6 vols. Isted. 1684-1708. Ed.of 1716* contains ballads not in the earlier ones. " Wit and Mirth : or Pills to Purge Melancholy ; being a...Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and JJew. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice or Instrument : most of... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1863 - 354 pages
...teeth in vain, The glory of the British line, Old Jemmy's come again. THE CLOAK'S KNAVEEY. From " "Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy ; being a...of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old and new." London, 1714. COMB buy my new ballad, I have't in my wallet, But 'twill not I fear please every pallate... | |
 | Bibliography, National - 1869 - 956 pages
...Meliades (in verse), same date, and equally rare ; small 4to. , extra calf, $127. T. D'Urfey : " Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy;" being a...of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new, each having their proper tune, for either voice or instrument ; 6 vole. 12mo., calf, portrait and music,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 818 pages
...poems, prologues, and epilogues written by himself, and gave the whole collection the title of ' Wit and Mirth, or Pills to purge Melancholy ; being a...of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old and new, fitted to all humours ; having each their proper Tune for either Voice or Instrument.' In this collection,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1863 - 344 pages
...teeth in vain, The glory of the British line, Old Jemmy's come again. THE CLOAK'S KNAVEEY. From "Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; being a Collection...of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old and new." London, 1714. / COME buy my new ballad, I have't in my wallet, But 'twill not I fear please every pallate... | |
 | François-Joseph Fétis - Music - 1865 - 544 pages
...avancé. Il a publié le recueil de ses chansons et de plusieurs autres sous le titre singulier: Wit and Mirth, or Pills to purge melancholy, being a collection of the best merry Ballads und songs, old and new, fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice or instrument... | |
 | Sidney Gilpin - Ballads, English - 1866 - 594 pages
...have the pains o' hell to dree " And the lyon shall be lord of a'. THE CUMBERLAND LASS. [From "Wit and Mirth; or, Pills to purge Melancholy, being a...of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new, fitted to all humours, &c." Vol. II., and Edition, 1707. The air and a full history of this old song... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - Antiquarian booksellers - 1866 - 272 pages
...(pub. at 42sj hf. morocco, gilt top, uncut, a most interesting work, 34s Edinb. 1839 1205 D'URFEY'S Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, being a Collection...of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, old and new, 6 vols. 12mo. WITH THE TUNES, old English green morocco, gilt edges, scarce, £12. 12« 1709-12-14-20... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch - Booksellers' catalogs - 1868 - 1846 pages
...has no taste for the insipidity of truth." — Johnson. 1904 D'UBFEY'S Wit and Mirth, or PILLS то PURGE MELANCHOLY, being a Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, old and new, 6 vols. 12шо. WITH THE TUNES, portrait by Vertue, good copy, very neat in old Cambridge calf gilt,... | |
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WIT AND MIRTH ; or, PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY. Being a Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice or Instrument ; most of the Songs being new set. 
