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CLASS I.

SONG I. Ah Chloris, could I now but fit.
SONG II. When first upon your tender cheek.

Mifs Aikin.

No air to the first of these fongs has been met with, and the other is not fuppofed to have been fet, or to have any tune.

SONG III. When first I saw thee graceful move.

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meant my throbbing breaft? Say foft con-fu-fion,

art thou love? If love thou art, then farewell reft.

Vol. I.

art thou love? If love thou art, then farewell rest. A 2 SONG IV.

SONG IV. I did but look and love a while. Otway.

Air unknown. *

SONG V. Almerias face, her shape, her air. Vifc. Molefworth. Set by mr. John Alcock, organist of Plymouth.

Almerias face, her fhape, her air, With charms refiftlefs

wound the heart. In vain you for defence prepare; When from

her eyes love fhoots his dart. So ftrong, fo swift the arrow

flies, Such fure destruction flying makes, The bold op-pofer

quickly dies, The fugitive it

over-takes.

SONG VI. Ah gaze not on thofe eyes! forbear. Mrs.Cockburn. SONG VII. Oh forbear to bid me flight her. Hill.

No airs known.

SONG VIII. While from my looks fair nymph you guess. Set by mr. Dieupart.

While from my looks, fair nymph, you guess The fecret

paffions

This and fuch like expreffions (ufed for the fake of brevity) generally mean no more than that the tune has not come to the Editors knowledgć. I fome places they imply certainty. The different inftapces are det orth pointing out.

paffions of my mind, My heavy eyes, you fay confefs A

heart to love and grief in-clin❜d.

SONG IX. White as her hand fair Julia threw, Jenyns. Was poorly fer by a mr. Hawkins; and no other air is known. SONG X. I fmile at Love and all his arts. Vanbrugh.

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SONG X.

SONG X. Whilft on thofe lovely looks I gaze. E. of Rochester

Air unknown.

SONG XI. I lik'd, but never lov'd, before.

Set by mr. William Turner.

I lik'd, but never lov'd, be-fore I faw thy charming

face; Now ev'ry feature I adore, And dote on ev'ry grace. She

ne'er fhall know the kind defire, Which her cold look de

nies, Unles my heart that's all on fire Should sparkle thro' my

eyes, Then if no gentle glance return A fi-lent leave to

fpeak, My heart which would for ever burn, Alas! must

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figh and break.

SONG XIII. My love was fickle once and changing. Addison.

Air not known.

SONG XIV. I never faw a face till now;

Is fet by capt, Pack, but the tune was not thought worth inferting.

SONG XV. With women I have pafs'd my days.

Air not known,

SONG XVI,

SONG XVI. Why will Florella when I gaze.

Was originally fet by mr. Berenclow, whofe compofition has not been met with. There are notes to it in Bickhams Musical Entertainer, but they did not appear worth copying.

SONG XVII. Say Myra why is gentle love. Lord Lyttelton. Set by mr. (fince dr.) Howard.

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Say Myra why is gentle love, A

ftran-ger to that mind Which pity and ef—

teem can move, Which can be juft and kind?

Is it because you fear to know The ills which love mo

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left ? The ten--der care, the anxious fear, Which

racks the am'rous breast? Alas! by fome de→→

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of woe, We.

ev'ry blifs obtain. The A 4

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