| Uniform title | Beggar's opera. Vocal score. English. |
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Wesleyan music collection
Wesleyan music collection. UNAUTHORIZED
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Act I. Through all the employments of life -- Tis woman that seduces all mankind -- If any wench Venus' girdle wear -- If love the virgin's heart invade -- A maid is like the golden ore -- Virgins are like the fair flower -- Our Polly is a sad slut -- Can love be controul'd by advice -- O Polly you might have toy'd and kiss'd -- I, like a ship in storms, was tost -- A fox may steal your hens, sir -- O ponder well -- The turtle thus with plaintive crying -- Pretty Polly, say -- My heart was so free -- Were I laid on Greenland's coast -- Oh what pain it is to part -- The Miser thus a shilling sees -- |
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Act II. Fill ev'ry glass -- Let us take the road -- If the heart of man -- Music for the Harper -- A Dance a la Ronde in the French manner -- Youth's the season made for joys -- Before the barn door crowing -- The Gamesters and Lawyers are jugglers alike -- At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure -- Man may escape from rope and gun -- Thus when a good housewife sees a rat -- How cruel are the traitors -- The first time at the looking glass -- When you censure the age -- Is then his fate decreed, Sir -- You'll think, ere many days ensure -- If you at an Office solicit your due -- Thus when the swallow -- How happy could I be with either -- I'm bubbled -- Cease your funning -- Why how now madam flirt -- No power on earth can e'er divide -- I like the fox shal grieve -- |
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Act III. When young at the bar -- My love is all madness and folly -- Thus Gamesters united in friendship are found -- The Modes of the Court so common are grown -- What Gudgeons are we men -- In the days of my youth -- I'm like a skiff on the Ocean tost -- When a wife's in her pout -- A curse attends that woman's love -- Among the men coquets we find -- Come, sweet lass -- Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes -- Which way shall I turn me -- When my hero in court appears -- When he holds up his head -- Ourselves, like the great -- The Charge is prepar'd -- A Dance of prisoners in chains -- O cruel, cruel case -- Wou'd I might be hang'd -- Thus I stand like the Turk. |
| General note | Includes introduction with synopsis, production notes, sources of the songs, and cast details. |
| LCCN | m 57000630 |
