Title: Poems, song texts and epigrams :
Authors: John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Year: 1700
Subjects: Country dancing.
Contents: A new song, by Tom Short -- To hope -- Margaret Scotts epitaph in the church yard of Dunkell -- Lines by the honble. Chas. J. Fox -- To love -- The choice -- Epigram to the Rt. Hon. Henry Boyle -- The waves were hushed the sky serene, song -- The lucky exchange -- Address to the British ladies -- By a boy of 10 -- Virgins while your beauty's blooming -- Matilda, a fragment -- The musick of intellect -- Colin that lives in the vale -- The Bacchus may boast, song -- Epitaph on the tomb of Miss Rose of Kilavoch -- Dear lad I am not twenty, song -- To the unknown author of the sacred ode -- Songs in the comic opera of Inkle and Ignacio -- My heavy heart -- A lovely rose -- Laughing song -- Music is the voice of love -- Mrs. Casey -- The sweets of retirement -- The flower basket -- The duke of Endsheim -- Lucy the fair queen of hearts -- The sigh -- Ye happy nymphs -- Emma and the fly -- The honey moon, country dance -- O lett my harbour be your arms, song -- Ways and means, country dance -- Cot pless hur, song -- Drops of brandy, country dance -- Where's the harm of that, song -- My bonny lowland laddie -- Strew the buds & roses of life o'er with flowers -- An acrostic on Miss - -- Augustus Briatannicus to his song -- Gather your rose buds -- With horns and hounds -- Why is love so past defining -- Little piggy's love, country dance -- The shepherd boy, song -- West's hornpipe, country dance -- On Mr. Pitt's resigning the seats, 1761 -- On Mr. Pitt's resignation -- The modern choice, Isle of Wight, Decm. 17th 1759 -- Written by Lord Melcombe, Augt. 1780 -- Hints by the cobler of Cripplegate -- The roast beef of old England -- Lines from Mr. Garrick.