Assertion: folk music | /r/HasProperty | influenced by mirth
Facets:
value: to purge melancholy
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: strongly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of collections of what was now beginning to be defined as "folk" music, strongly influenced by the Romantic movement, including Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719–20) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765).