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Wou'd you sing a Catch with Pleasure

Anon
© 2020 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2020 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. CONTENTS IX
  3. CATCHES AND CANONS
  4. Now we are met let mirth abound 1
  5. Wou'd you sing a Catch with Pleasure 1
  6. Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La 2
  7. I cannot sing this Catch 3
  8. Cuckow 3
  9. Sweep, Chimney Sweep 4
  10. Uxor mea 5
  11. Come, my boys, let's sing a Catch 6
  12. Curs'd be the Wretch 8
  13. Buz, quoth the blue Flie 9
  14. Yah—Atchee—Oh—Ha 9
  15. See, Bob, see, the Play is done 10
  16. Sir you are a comical Fellow 12
  17. Ars longa, vita brevis 13
  18. If neither Brass nor Marble 13
  19. Two Lawyers when a knotty Cause 14
  20. You beat your Pate 15
  21. If Eve in her Innocence 16
  22. Give me the sweet Delights of Love 17
  23. Says Damon to Chloe 18
  24. I've lost my Mistress 19
  25. Pretty Maidens 20
  26. Sweet enslaver, can you tell 20
  27. Tis hum drum 21
  28. White Sand and gray Sand 21
  29. Ding dong boam Bell 21
  30. Ye Heav'ns, if Innocence 22
  31. Sure Women and Wine 22
  32. Half an Hour past twelve o'clock 23
  33. Viva Londra! 24
  34. Chairs to Mend 25
  35. Mister Speaker tho' 'tis late 26
  36. Let us be merry in our old Cloaths 27
  37. Wilt thou lend me thy Mare 27
  38. How happy are we now the Wind is abaft 28
  39. Oh ever against eating Cares 29
  40. Here Innocence and Beauty lies 30
  41. So peaceful rests 30
  42. Tis thus and thus 31
  43. Come follow me 32
  44. Here's a Health to all them 33
  45. GLEES (CANZONETS, BACCHANALS, AND ELEGIES)
  46. This Bottle's the Sun of our Table 34
  47. A bumper of good Liquor 36
  48. Time has not thin'd my flowing Hair 38
  49. Which is the properest day to drink 42
  50. Colla bottiglia in mano 45
  51. All in the Downs 47
  52. Come live with me 48
  53. Sigh no more, Ladies 52
  54. Blow blow thou Winter's Wind 54
  55. Hush to peace, each ruder Wind 55
  56. To fair Fidele's grassy Tomb 58
  57. Come Shepherds (Elegy on the Death of Mr. Shenstone) 59
  58. How sleep the Brave 63
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