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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, ahving each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set

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Main Author: D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Corporate Author: May Atherton Leach Collection
Contributors: Playford, Henry, 1657-, Young, John., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695., Blow, John, -1708.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed by W. Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719-1920
Subjects and Genres:
Songs, English.
Ballads, English.
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245 1 0 |a Wit and mirth; or, Pills to purge melancholy  |b being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, ahving each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set 
260 |a London :  |b Printed by W. Pearson for J. Tonson,  |c 1719-1920 
300 |a 6 v. :  |b front. (port.), music ;  |c 19 cm. 
500 |a Running title varies: Songs compleat, pleasant and divertive, v. 1, 3-5; Pills to purge melancholy, v. 2 & 6 
500 |a "A re-issue of Songs compleat, 1719 ... Vols. I and II ... consist of his own songs." Cambridge bibliography of English literature 
500 |a Publication originally begun in 1698, edited by Henry Playford; continued in 1707 by John Young. "In 1719-1720 ... Jocab Tonson published a final edition of Pills in six volumes. The songs were drastically re-arranged, and more than two hundred new ones, all written by Thomas D'Urfey, were added. These, together with nearly all the songs by D'Urfey which had already been included in the collection, were carefully brought together in volumes I and II."--C.L. Day. 
500 |a From: May Atherton Leach Collection. 
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700 1 |a Playford, Henry,  |d 1657- 
700 1 |a Young, John. 
700 1 |a Purcell, Henry,  |d 1659-1695. 
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