Songs from the Williamsburg theatre : [electronic resource] a selection of fifty songs performed on the stage in Williamsburg in the eighteenth century / arranged for voice and keyboard and with introduction and historical commentaries by John W. Molnar ; foreword by Carleton Sprague Smith.

Color facsimiles of playbills on lining papers.

The trifle / Daniel Purcell -- The serenade / Thomas A. Arne -- Jessica's song / Joseph Baildon -- Come here, fellow servant / Jonathan Battishill -- My heart was so free ; Come, fair one, be kind / Richard Leveridge -- Sweet is the budding spring of love -- A soldier and a sailor ; A fox may steal your hens, sir ; O all ye powers above / John Eccles -- Over the hills and far away -- 'Tis true, my good dear / Mr. Seedo -- Let's have a dance upon the heath / Richard Leveridge -- Ye gods, ye gave to me a wife / Mr. Seedo -- The early horn / John E. Galliard -- Sabina with an angel's face / Daniel Purcell -- Indiana's song / John E. Galliard -- Love's a sweet and soft musician -- Water parted from the sea / Thomas A. Arne -- Castalio's complaint / William Royce -- The life of a beau / Henry Carey -- Ballynamony -- Farewell, ungrateful traytor / Simon Pack -- Dirge / Thomas A. Arne -- Aileen Aroon / Carrol O'Daly -- The serenading song / Daniel Purcell -- Dear pretty youth / Henry Purcell -- Wher' did you borrow that last sigh / William Lawes -- There's not a swain / Henry Purcell -- When Damon languish'd / James Oswald -- If the swain we sigh for -- All around the Maypole -- While gentle Parthenisa walks / Daniel Purcell -- The modern beau / Henry Carey -- My passion in vain / Giacchino Cocchi -- Solemn dirge / Thomas A. Arne -- Let's sing of stage coaches / John Eccles -- Cupid, god of soft persuasion / Felice de Giardini -- My Dolly was the fairest thing / George Frederick Handel -- If ever I'm catch'd / William Royce -- Ally Croaker -- Dear heart, what a terrible life am I led / Charles Dibdin -- Ye mortals whom fancies and troubles perplex -- She walks as she dreams / Daniel Purcell -- No ice so hard, so cold as I / Thomas A. Arne -- The tragical history of the life and death of Billy Pringle's pig / Francesco Geminiani -- Attend, all ye fair / Smith -- Would you with her you love be blest / Thomas A. Arne -- Long have I been with grief opprest -- The romp's song / Henry Carey -- The echoing horn / Thomas A. Arne -- Epilogue song / Joseph Vernon.