Matthew Prior

Volume 1 (1767, 1774, & 1786 Editions)

SONGS FOR TWO VOICES (often just treble and bass, or treble and treble, w/no bass)

1. Anon: God save great George our King [1786 edition lists composer as Purcell]

2. Lawes: Gather your rose buds while you may

3. +Markham: A Song on a Bowl of Punch ("The jolly bowl does glad the soul")

4. +Weldon: Let ambition fire thy mind

5. +Carey: He comes, he comes, the hero comes

6. +Felton: Fill, fill, fill the glass, briskly put it round

7. Anon: Smile, smile Britannia smile (A Favourite Song)

8. Carey°: Britons where is your great magnanimity

9. Anon: Fame let thy trumpet sound (A Loyal Song)

10. +Carey: 'Tis Masonry unites mankind (A Song on Masonry)

11. +Winn: Happy is a county life

12. Anon: Britannia's sons rejoice, to George exalt your voice

13. Anon: You bid me, Fair, conceal my love

1774/1786 Edition/13. Arnold: The echoing horn, sounds well in the morn (A NF Hunting Song)

14. Anon: The morning is charming, all nature is gay (A New Hunting Song)

15. Anon: Say lovely peace that grac'd our Isle (A Loyal Song) [Chorus: "For Mars is rous'd"] [p.16]

16. Purcell: To arms, you ensigns strait display [Chorus: "Britons strike home, revenge"] [p.18]

17. Alcock Sr.: How faint a joy the maid imparts (Alcock, organist to the Right Honourable the Earl of Denegall, and of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire) [p.21]

18. Greene: The Fly ("Busy, curious thirsty fly") [p.22]

19. Handel: The Advice ("Mortals wisely learn to measure") [p.23]

20. Arnold: Blooming Bacchus, ever young [Chorus/a3: "Let us by thine influ'nce fir'd"] [p.24]

21. Arnold: When Cloe was by Damon seen [p.26]

22. Purcell: Cease, the rovers, cease to range [p.27]

23. Hayden: Fair Clora ("As I saw fair Clora walk alone") [p.29]

24. Travers°: Plenty, mirth and gay delights [p.32]

25. Cannington: Damon and Celia ("As Celia near a fountain lay") [p.35]

26. Anon: Earth's treasure, Love's delight [p.36]

27. Wise: Old Chiron's Advise to Achilles ("Old Chiron thus preach'd to his pupil Achilles") [p.41]

28. Henry Cook°: An Epithilamium ("Joy to the happy pair") [Chorus/a3: "Come Nymphs and shepherds"] [p.45]

29. Leveridge: Cupid, my pleasure, soft love, I thee implore (words & music by L.) [p.48]

30. Lampe: The Power of Drinking ("Fly, care, to the winds") [p.50]

31. Anon: Bury Delights ("Bury delights, my roving eye") [p.52]

32. Eccles: The Power of Wine ("Wine does wonders") (3 VOICES) [p.54]

33. Leveridge: Whilst health and blooming youth combine [p.58]

34. Hicks: Boast no more fond love thy Pow'r [Chorus/a3: "Like the sun that gilds the morning"] [p.63]

35. Purcell: My dearest, my fairest, I languish [p.66]

36. Travers: I like the bee with toil and pain [p.70]

37. +Boyce: Since nature mankind for society fram'd (A Drinking Song) [p.72]

38. Travers: When Bibo thought fit from this world to retreat (Words by Matthew Prior) [p.76]

39. +Harington: Damon and Clora ("Turn, fair Clora/Go, false Damon") [p.80]

40. Greene: Why all this whining [p.84]

1786 EDITION/40. Arnold: The King's Health ("Here's a health to the King") (Glee, a3) [p.84]

1786 Ed./41. #Rameau: Beauty and Music ("Ye swains whom radiant beauty moves") [p.87]

1786 Ed./42. #Carey°: Love in Perfection, Sonnet ("I'll range around the shady bow'rs") [p.88]

1786 Ed./43. #Carey°: Hark away, 'tis the merry ton'd horn (A Favourite Hunting Song) [p.89]

1786 Ed./44. #Barnard: The Absent Lover ("Ye gentle gales that fan the air") [p.91)

1786 Ed./45. #Markwell: The Whining Lover ("Woman, thoughtless, giddy creature") [p.92]

1786 Ed./46. #Galliard: The celebrated Early Horn ("With early horn, salute the morn") [p.93]

1786 Ed./47. #Fisher Tench: An Address to Vulcan ("Vulcan contrive me such a cup") [p.96]

1786 Ed./48. #Prelleur: The Lover's Passion ("Damon if thou wilt believe me") [p.97]

1786 Ed./49. #Arne: Wou'd you taste the noontide Air (The celebrated Noon-tide Air") [p.98]

1786 Ed./50. #Eccles: : As Cupid roguishly one day (A favourite Song) [p.102]

1786 Ed./51. Riley: Cupid's Mistake ("As afternoon one summer's day") [p.106]

1786 Ed./52. Popely: The Lover's Vow ("No more shall buds on branches spring") [p.110]

1786 Ed./53. #Carey°: I am in truth, a country youth (from The Honest Yorkshire-Man) [p.111]

1786 Ed./54. #Carey°: The Modern Beau ("Come hither my country squire") (from The Honest Yorkshire-Man) [p.112]

1786 Ed./55. #Carey(?)°: On Masons and Masonry ("By Masons art the aspiring dome") [p.113]

1786 Ed./56. Carey°: Come learn by this (Chorus from The Honest Yorkshire-Man) [p.114]

1786 Ed./57. East: Warley Camp. Glee [a3] ("How merrily we live") [p.115]

41/58. Travers: An Epigram, by Matthew Prior ("Says Pontius in rage"] [p.89/119]

42. Travers: Chanson Francos ("Why thus from the plain") (translated by Matthew Prior) [p.92]

1774/42. & 1786/59. Anon: Bacchus, god of mortal pleasure [a2+b.c.] [p.92/122]

43/60. Travers: Fair and ugly, false and true (FOR THREE VOICES) [p.95/125]

44/61. Handel: When Phaebus the tops of the hills do adorn (A Favourite Song) [p.100]

1774 & 1786 Ed./44/61 [same as above, but a3, with bass by Arnold]

45/62. Howard: Ye cheerful virgins have you seen [p.104]

1786 Ed./63. Arnold: The Spinning Wheel ("Young Colin fishing near the mill") [p.136]

CATCHES (& EPITAPHS & EPIGRAMS)

1. Carey: The Free Election ("Curs'd be the wretch that's bought and sold") [a3] [p.106/138]

2. Anon: Ill fares the family that shews [a3] [p.107/139]

3. Purcell: On a Widow, who married an old Widower ("Had she not care enough") [a3] [p.107/139]

4. Blow: A Chiding ("Fie! nay, prithee, John!") [a3] [p.108/140]

5. Blow: Galloping Joan ("Joan has been galloping") [a3] [p.109/141]

6. Aldrich: Hark! the bonny Christ Church bells [a3] [p.110/142]

7. Purcell: Soldier take off thy wine [a4] [p.111/143]

8. Battishill: Here on his back doth lay, Sir Andrew Keeling [Epitaph, a4] [p.112]**

9/8. Hilton: Call George again boy [a3] [p.113/144]

10. Alcock Sr.: Pray remember the poor confin'd debtors [a3] [p.114]**

11. Hayes: The Power of Time ("I neither brass, or marble can withstand") [a3] [p.115]**`

12. Greene: On the poor confin'd debtors [a3] [p.116]**

13/9. Purcell: The Parting ("When V and I together meet") [a3] [p.117/145]

14/10. Alcock Sr.: When Troy town for ten years [a4] [p.117/145]

15/11. Hayes: Three Oxford Cries ("Chairs to mend, old chairs") [a3] [p.118/146]

1786 Ed./12. Arnold: Three Toasts ("May we never want a friend") [a3] [p.147]

1786 Ed./13. Arnold: Joan's ale is new, boys [a4] [p.147]

1786 Ed./14. Mornington°: Says Sue to Prue [a3] [p.148]

16. Greene: Come let us laugh, let us drink [a3] [p.119]**

17. White: New oysters, new oysters [a3] [p.120]**

18. Hayes: Come buy my fine wares [a3] [p.121]**

19/16. Purcell: Jack, thou'rt a Toper [a3] [p.122/150]**

20/17. Anon: Prepare your hearts for mirth [a3] [p.124/152]**

21. Blow: The King's Health ("God preserve his Majesty") [a4] [p.125]**

22. King: O! Absalom my son (late Almoner, &c. of St. Paul's) [a3] [p.125]**

23. Hayes: Ink, ink, come by my fine writing ink [a4] [p.126]**

24/15. Harington: Love and Musick ("How great is the pleasure") [a3] [p.128/149]

25. Hayes: Let's drink, and let's go together (Canon, 4 in 1] [p.129]**

26. Arnold: Old chairs to mend [a3] [p.129]**

27. Greene: I've lost my mistress, horse and wife [a3] [p.130]**

28/18. Berg: Not a day more than thirty [Epigram, a3] [p.132/153]

29/21. Boyce: Long live King George, most happy days to see [a4] [p.133/155]

30/22. Marella: Half an hour past twelve o'clock [a4] [p.133/155]

31/23. Anon: 'Twas you, Sir, 'twas you [a3] [p.134/156]

32/24. Warren: To our musical club, here's long life, and prosperity [a3] [p.135/157]

33. Berg: Let us drink and be merry, dance, joke and rejoice [a3] [p.136]**

34. Anon: Chloe, Chloe, yielded; on the morrow sighing [a3] [p.137]**

35. Arne: The Street Intrigue ("Hark, you, my dear, come hither") [a3] [p.138]**

36. Baildon: On a Dream ("When is it best, said John to Joan") [a4] [Prize Medal catch, 1763] [p.140]**

37. Giardini: Quaker's Catch ("'Tis strange sister Ruth, that the spirit within") [a3] [p.142]**

38. Arne: The Catch Club/The Singing Club ("Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Sol Fa") [a5] [p.144]**

39/27. Nares: Wilt thou lend me thy mare to go a mile [a3] [p.146/160]

40. Yates: Here lies, her lies, the Lord have mercy upon her [Epitaph, a4] [p.147]**

41. Hayes: Here waiter, bring a bottle [a3] [p.148]**

42/25. Anon: There were three cooks in Colnbrook [a3] [p.149/158]

1786 Ed./26. Bates: Come follow me, with merry glee [CANON, 4 in 1] [p.159]

43. Hayes: A Catch, on Anacreon, by Antipater ("This tomb be thine Anacreon") [a3] [p.150]**

44/19. Anon: Lie still, my dear [a3] [p.151/154]

45/20. Anon: Go to Joan Glover [a4] [p.151/154]

46. Ives: Come honest friends, and jovial boys [a3] [p.152]**

47. Boyce: A blooming youth lies buried here, Euphemus [Epitaph, a3] [p.153]**

48. Anon: Buy my dainty fin beans [a3] [p.154]**

Errata

A Table of the Songs [by page number; not alphabetical]

A Table of the Catches [by page number; not alphabetical]

Volume 2 (1769 & 1777 Editions)

[The 1795 Bland & Wellers Volume 2 edition contains all the same pieces as the 1769 edition (except for one - No.31, Burney: "Jack and Jill, went up the hill"), but it is in a different typeset, page arrangement and order.]

SONGS FOR TWO, THREE and FOUR VOICES (songs and glees)

1/2. +Arnold: Since Celia's my foe [a2] [p.1/2]

1777 Edition/1. Arnold: In a full flowing bowl [a2] [p.1]

2/20. Anon: Let's live, and let's love [glee, a3] [p.2/34]

3/21. Rogers: The Jolly Vicar ("Let the bells now ring") [glee, a4] [p.4/36]

1777 Ed./3. #Carey: Love's a gentle gen'rous passion [a2] [p.3]

4/22. Freeman: Of all the brave birds that ever I see [a3] [p.9/41]

1777 Ed./4. Anon: To thee O gentle sleep alone [glee a3] [p.4]

5. Henley: Fairest flow'r, all flow'rs excelling [glee, a4] [p.12]**

1777 Ed./5. Anon: Blow on ye winds, descend soft rains [glee, a3] [p.5]

6. Morley: Now is the month of Maying [glee, a5] [p.15]**

1777 Ed./6. Anon: Hail England! old England, for glory renown'd (An occasional Ode, on the Success of our Arms) [a2; Chorus a3] [p.6]

7/19. Holcombe: Arno's Vale ("When here Lucinda first we came") [glee, a4; 3 additional parts by Dr Hayes] [p.19/31]

1777 Ed./7. #Galliard: Jolly mortals fill your glasses [a2] [p.8]

8. Eccles: Inspire us, genius of the day [a3] [p.22]**

1777 Ed./8. Arnold: Toby Swill has ne'er his fill [a2] [p.9]

9/31. Travers: Soft Cupid wanton am'rous boy [a3] [p.31/67]

10/32. Travers: The Old Baccanalian ("Old I am, yet can") [a canzonette, a3] [p.43/79]

11/26. Arne: Which is the properest day to drink [glee/1763 Prize, a4] [p.53/49]

1777 Ed./11. Anon: Cupid no more shall give me grief [a2] [p.13]

12/27. Hayes: Melting airs soft joys inspire [glee, a4] [p.58/54]

1777 Ed./12. Anon: Bacchus, he it is who fires me [a2] [p.14]

13/28. Battishill: Amidst the myrtles as I walk [glee, a2] [p.59/55]

1777 Ed./13. Smart: With my jug in one hand [glee, a3] [p.16]

14/29. Fletcher: A pox on reflection, be jolly [drinking song, a2] [p.60/56]

1777 Ed./14. Playford: Come swain, why sits thou so? [a2] [p.19]

15/17. Olive: Bacchus, god of joys devine [a2] [p.65/29]

1777 Ed./15. Smart: To be jovial and gay [glee, a3] [p.20]

16. Fletcher: The British Hero ("By beat of drum proclaim") [a2] [p.66]**

1777 Ed./16. Taylor: Farewell sorrow, farewell pain (Organist of Chelmsford, Essex) [glee, a3] [p.22]

17/10. Arnold: Three children sliding on the ice [a2] [p.71/12]

18. Ives: Now we are met, let's merry [a3] [p.72]**

19/25. Arnold: Fill about, let's drink away [a2] [p.74/48]

20. Arnold: Little Jack Horner [a2] [p.75]**

21. Arnold: When Gammer Gurton first I knew [a2] [p.76]**

22/30. Baildon: When gay Bacchus fills my breast (Prize Medal 1766) [glee, a2] [p.77/61]

23. Arne: Punch, an Emblem of the Medium of Life ("You ask me, dear Jack") [glee, a2] [p.83]**

24/18. Arnold: Music, how pow'rful is thy charm [glee, a2] [p.88/30]

25/9. Arne: Water parted from the sea [a2] [p.89/10]

26/23. Palma: When first I saw thee graceful move [glee, a3] [p.91/44]

27/24. Corelli: Bacchus asset us to sing thy great glory [a3] [p.93/46]

1777 Ed./33. Berg: I marry'd a wife on Sunday [glee, a2] [p.89]

1777 Ed./34. #Anon: The dusky night rides down the sky [A NF Hunting Song, a2] [p.90]

1777 Ed./35. Harington: How sweet in the woodlands [Duetto, a2] [p.92]

1777 Ed./36. Anon: Come thou rosy dimpled boy [A Favorite Glee, a2] [p.95]

CATCHES (& EPIGRAMS & EPITAPHS)

1/48. Morgan: Quoth Jack on a time, to Tom [a3] [p.94/142]

1777 Ed./1: Arnold: Women shou'd their time divide [a3] [p.97]

2/7. Anon: Now God be with old Simeon [a3] [p.95/103]

1777 Ed./2: Arnold: She that thinks upon her honour [a4] [p.98]

3/8. Webbe: The moon, and woman [a3] [p.96/104]

1777 Ed./3: Arnold: My beer is stout, by ale is good (Wrote under a Sign at a Public House) [a3] [p.98]

4/9. Berg: Come friends and companions [a3] [p.97/105]

1777 Ed./4: Arnold: Such a lyar is Tom [Epigram, a3] [p.99]

5/10. Edward Mulso: The Amourous Parley ("Don't push my tender passion") [Prize Medal catch 1766, a4] [p.98/106]

1777 Ed./5: Bates: The Comical Fellows (Sir, you are a comical fellow") [a3] [p.99]

6/11. Thomas Wood: Prithee is not miss Chloe's a comical case [a3] [p.99/107]

1777 Ed./6: Arnold: As Celia with her catcher play'd [a3] [p.102]

7/12. Lampe: Jack, I hear you're good at Pinking [a4] [p.100/108]

8/13. Anon: My heart, once as light as a feather [a3] [p.102/110]

9/14. Baildon: Adam catch'd Eve by the furbelow [a3] [p.103/111]

10. Arne: Lady Fanny ("Bewitch'd Lady Fanny") [a4] [p.104]**

11/16. Travers: Life is a jest [a4] [p.106/114]

12. Baildon: Epitaph on a Lady ("Here lies a lady") [a3] [p.107]**

13/15. Woodward: Quoth Roger to Nelly [a4] [p.110/112]

14/17. Anon: O beauteous eyes discover [a3] [p.111/114]

15/18. Arne: The Family Quarrel ("Good neighbours be quiet") [Prize Medal catch 1764, a4] [p.112/115]

16/19. Atterbury: With horns and hounds in chorus [a3] [p.114/117]

17/20. Holmes: Do not say me No [a3] [p.115/118]

18/21. Holmes: What are we met? [a3] [p.116/119]

19/22. Holmes: Shew a room, here's a knot [a3] [p.117/120]

20. Dennis: Fill your bowls, ye loyal souls (A New Loyal Song) [song, a2] [p.118]**

21/23. Burney: Mortals learn your lives to measure [a3] [p.120/121]

22/24. Boyce: The Maiden Rose ("'Mongst other roses thorns grown thick") [a3] [p.121/122]

23/25. Marella: Catch of Catches ("Jack, thou'rt a come once more") [a3] [p.122/123]

24/26. Anon: A boat, a boat, hast to the ferry [a3] [p.123/124]

25/27. Clark: Since my Phillis is fall'n to my share [a3] [p.124/125]

26/28. Hayes: Phillis, my fairest, how can you deny me [a3] [p.125/126]

27/29. Hayes: Unbending thy working mind awhile [a3] [p.126/127]

28/30. Arnold: Suppose, the King, he shou'd command [a4] [p.127/128]

29/31. Brewer: A fig for care, why shou'd we spare [a4] [p.128/129]

30/32. Hilton: Come let us all a Maying go [a3] [p.129/130]

31/33. Burney: Jack and Jill, went up the hill [a4] [p.129/130]

32/34. Brewer: Why shou'd not we three be merry? [a3] [p.130/131]

33/35. Arnold: John run so long, and run so fast [Epigram, a4] [p.130/131]

34/36. Hayes: Alike in temper, and in life [a3] [p.131/132]

35/37. Arnold: Moll, Doll, the dairy maid [a3] [p.132/133]

36/38. Anon: Let's have a peal for John Cook's soul [Canon, 9 in 1] [p.132/133]

37/39. Hayes: Tipple away this is my Granum's wedding day [Canon, 3 in 1] [p.133/134]

38/40. Arnold: Here lies the body of all Fours [Epitaph, a3] [p.133/134]

39/41. Arnold: At the Cross Keys, you may have what you please [a3] [p.134/135]

40/42. Atterbury: Joan said to John when he stopt her t'other day [a3] [p.135/136]

41/43. Webbe: I love to be merry and wise [a4] [p.136/137]

42/44. Webbe: Tell me ye pow'rs, what can surpass [a3] [p.138/139]

43/45. Burney: Peter White, who never goes right [a4] [p.139/140]

44/46. Anon: I love my Fanny, with all my soul [a3] [p.140/141]

45/47. Travers: Doubtless the pleasure is as great [a3] [p.140/141]

46. Boyce: 'Moungst other roses, thorns grow thick [a3] [p.141]**

47/49. Barsanti: Fye! what mean you drunken elves [a4] [p.142/143]

48/50. Baildon: Cry'd Strephon panting in dear Cloe's arms [a3] [p.145/145]

49/51. Hayes: Come follow me to the greenwood tree [Canon, 3 in 1] [p.148/148]

50/52. Arne: The Weeders ("Joan marching forth") [a4] [p.149/149]

51/53. Baildon: Says my lord to his lady [a3] [p.152/152]

52/54. Brewer: Wind gentle evergreens to form a shade [Epitaph, a3] [p.154/154]

A Table of the Songs and Glees [by page number; not alphabetical]

A Table of the Catches, Epigrams, and Canons [by page number; not alphabetical]