Songs compleat, pleasant and divertive
Subtitle: set to musick by Dr. John Blow, Mr Henry Purcell, and other excellent masters of the town ; ending with some orations, made and spoken by me several times upon the publick stage in the theater ; togher with some copies of verses, prologues, and epilogues, as well for my own plays as those of other poets, being all humerous and comical
By: written by Mr. D'Urfey ....
Contributors: Playford, Henry, b. 1657.; Young, John.; Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.; Blow, John, d. 1708.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 22316-18.
Publisher: Printed by W. Pearson, for J. Tonson
Published: 1719
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Songs, English; Ballads, English
Other titles: Wit and mirth; Pills to purge melancholy
Notes: Filmed from a facsimile reprint, probably published shortly before 1876. cf. C.L. Day. "Pills to purge melancholy," Review of English studies 8 (1932)

Vols. 2 and 6 with title: Wit and mirth; or, Pills to purge melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument, most of the songs being new set.

Publication originally begun in 1698, edited by Henry Playford; continued in 1707 by John Young. "In 1719-1720 ... Jocab Tonson published a final edition of Pills in six volumes. The songs were drastically re-arranged, and more than two hundred new ones, all written by Thomas D'Urfey, were added. These, together with nearly all the songs by D'Urfey which had already been included in the collection, were carefully brought together in volumes I and II."--C.L. Day.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 3 microfiches : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 22316-18)

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