The Beggar's Opera. John Gay

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       John Gay

      The Beggar's Opera

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664157010

      Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       ACT I. SCENE I.

       AIR I. An old Woman clothed in Gray, &c.

       AIR II. The bonny gray-ey’d Morn, &c.

       AIR III. Cold and raw, &c.

       AIR IV. Why is your faithful Slave disdain’d? &c.

       AIR V. Of all the simple Things we do, &c.

       AIR VI. What shall I do to shew how much I love her, &c.

       AIR VII. Oh London is a fine Town.

       AIR VIII. Grim King of the Ghosts, &c.

       AIR IX. O Jenny , O Jenny , where hast thou been.

       AIR X. Thomas , I cannot, &c.

       AIR XI. A Soldier and a Sailor.

       AIR XII. Now ponder well, ye Parents dear.

       AIR XIII. Le printems rapelle aux armes.

       AIR XIV. Pretty Parrot, say—

       AIR XV. Pray, Fair one, be kind—

       AIR XVI. Over the Hills and far away.

       AIR XVII. Gin thou wert mine awn thing—

       AIR XVIII. O the Broom, &c.

       ACT II. SCENE I.

       AIR XIX. Fill every Glass, &c.

       AIR XX. March in Rinaldo , with Drums and Trumpets.

       AIR XXI. Would you have a young Virgin, &c.

       AIR XXII. Cotillon.

       AIR XXIII. All in a misty Morning, &c.

       AIR XXIV. When first I laid Siege to my Chloris , &c.

       SCENE II. Newgate.

       AIR XXV. Courtiers, Courtiers, think it no Harm, &c.

       AIR XXVI. A lovely Lass to a Friar came, &c.

       AIR XXVII. ’Twas when the Sea was roaring, &c.

       AIR XXVIII. The Sun had loos’d his weary Teams, &c.

       AIR XXIX. How happy are we, &c.

       AIR XXX. Of a noble Race was Shenkin .

       AIR XXXI.

       AIR XXXII. London Ladies.

       AIR XXXIII. All in the Downs, &c.

       AIR XXXIV. Have you heard of a frolicksome Ditty, &c.

       AIR XXXV. Irish Trot.

       AIR XXXVI.

       AIR XXXVII. Good-morrow, Gossip Joan .

       AIR XXXVIII. Irish Howl.

       SCENE III. The Same.

       AIR XXXIX. The Lass of Patie’s Mill, &c.

       ACT III. SCENE I.

       AIR XL. If Love’s a sweet Passion, &c.

       AIR XLI. South-Sea Ballad.

       AIR XLII. Packington’s Pound.

       SCENE II. A Gaming-House .

       AIR XLIII.