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1. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

First Line:: A shepherd boy all in an evening fair
Last Line:: To slumbers soft his sorrowing breast invite
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Confident)
DMI number:: 6478

2. As I to cool me bathed one sultry day

First Line:: As I to cool me bathed one sultry day
Last Line:: Yet often stopped and often turned her eye
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25226

3. As when the sun with his meridian light

First Line:: As when the sun with his meridian light
Last Line:: Removed the lovely object to a dark shade
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Speculation)
DMI number:: 29554

4. Attend my soul the early birds inspire

First Line:: Attend my soul the early birds inspire
Last Line:: Shakes off his sleep but shakes not off his sin
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6983

5. Attend my soul the early birds inspire

First Line:: Attend my soul the early birds inspire
Last Line:: Shakes off his sloth but shakes not off his sin
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23367

6. Blessed as the immortal Gods is he

First Line:: Blessed as the immortal Gods is he
Last Line:: I fainted sunk and died away
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 577

7. Breathe soft ye winds ye waters gently flow

First Line:: Breathe soft ye winds ye waters gently flow
Last Line:: My love in yonder vale asleep does lie
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22507

8. Beneath the covert of a grove

First Line:: Beneath the covert of a grove
Last Line:: Think on thy own mortality
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6979

9. Can we forget how every creature moaned

First Line:: Can we forget how every creature moaned
Last Line:: And thorns and thistles overspread the fields
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22505

10. Come fill me a glass fill it high

First Line:: Come fill me a glass fill it high
Last Line:: If once we grow sober we die
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 790

11. Dimply damsel sweetly smiling

First Line:: Dimply damsel sweetly smiling
Last Line:: Tender and averse from killing
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 2128

12. From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow

First Line:: From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow
Last Line:: And as he goes in transient vision mourns
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11749

13. From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow

First Line:: From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow
Last Line:: And as he goes the transient vision mourns
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 31216

14. George came to the crown without striking a blow

First Line:: George came to the crown without striking a blow
Last Line:: Ah quoth the pretender would I could do so
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12483

15. From Utrecht's silent walks by winds I send

First Line:: From Utrecht's silent walks by winds I send
Last Line:: And dying finds too late he lived in vain
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11777

16. Hark hark my soul let the early birds inspire

First Line:: Hark hark my soul let the early birds inspire
Last Line:: Shakes off his sleep but shakes not off his sin
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42567

17. How ill the motion with the music suits

First Line:: How ill the motion with the music suits
Last Line:: So Orpheus fiddled and so danced the brutes
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Speculation) & George Jeffreys (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8394

18. Inhuman Sacharissa not to love

First Line:: Inhuman Sacharissa not to love
Last Line:: For Waller's muse has Sacharissa's scorn
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3490

19. Long have the writers of this warlike age

First Line:: Long have the writers of this warlike age
Last Line:: And we resist the poet's will in vain
DMI number:: 8451

20. If ever I quit the single life

First Line:: If ever I quit the single life
Last Line:: I give my love I give my life
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33078

21. Man only from himself can suffer wrong

First Line:: Man only from himself can suffer wrong
Last Line:: And dying finds too late he lived in vain
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30652

22. Now frowning winter knits his awful brow

First Line:: Now frowning winter knits his awful brow
Last Line:: And journeys sad beneath the dropping trees
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Speculation)
DMI number:: 17961

23. O Venus beauty of the skies

First Line:: O Venus beauty of the skies
Last Line:: And give me all my heart desires
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 688

24. Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined

First Line:: Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined
Last Line:: Condemn me shepherd if I did amiss
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25254

25. Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined

First Line:: Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined
Last Line:: Condemn me shepherds if I did amiss
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25228

26. Patron of verse O Halifax attend

First Line:: Patron of verse O Halifax attend
Last Line:: And listens to the concert of the year
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20624

27. So when the sun with his meridian light

First Line:: So when the sun with his meridian light
Last Line:: We view his glory lessened in a shade
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6981

28. So when the sun with his meridian light

First Line:: So when the sun with his meridian light
Last Line:: We view his glory softened by a shade
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 29635

29. Soft Venus love's too anxious Queen

First Line:: Soft Venus love's too anxious Queen
Last Line:: Coals that beneath the kettle glow
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25658

30. The hermit's solace in his cell

First Line:: The hermit's solace in his cell
Last Line:: The mad man's sport the wise man's pain
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6980

31. The mind to virtue is by verse subdued

First Line:: The mind to virtue is by verse subdued
Last Line:: And the muse triumphed where the patriot failed
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24889

32. The rose's age is but a day

First Line:: The rose's age is but a day
Last Line:: It blows at morn and fades at night
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Speculation)
DMI number:: 16064

33. Then never let me see her more

First Line:: Then never let me see her more
Last Line:: At once my self and Amoret
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6976

34. This place may seem for shepherds leisure made

First Line:: This place may seem for shepherds leisure made
Last Line:: And after dewy pastures bleat in vain
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6479

35. This posture and these tears that heaven might move

First Line:: This posture and these tears that heaven might move
Last Line:: The plaintive waters utter as they flow
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6982

36. Thou speakest always ill of me

First Line:: Thou speakest always ill of me
Last Line:: The world believes nor one nor the other
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12573

37. Thou speakest always ill of me

First Line:: Thou speakest always ill of me
Last Line:: The world believes not one nor t'other
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27819

38. Though plunged in ills and exercised in care

First Line:: Though plunged in ills and exercised in care
Last Line:: By unforeseen expedients brings relief
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 28296

39. Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears

First Line:: Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears
Last Line:: And unyoked heifers pacing homewards low
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6961

40. Timely blossom infant fair

First Line:: Timely blossom infant fair
Last Line:: This picture once resembled thee
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 2127

41. When gamesome youth and love's unruly fire

First Line:: When gamesome youth and love's unruly fire
Last Line:: As infants sleep upon their mother's breast
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6984

42. When Lucy decks with flowers her swelling breast

First Line:: When Lucy decks with flowers her swelling breast
Last Line:: Condemn me shepherds if I did amiss
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25220

43. When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign

First Line:: When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign
Last Line:: Down breathless on the guilty harp she fell
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22766

44. When Virgil thought no shame the Doric reed

First Line:: When Virgil thought no shame the Doric reed
Last Line:: Thy name and sweet remembrance shall remain
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6477

45. Why do thy cloudy looks thus melt in tears

First Line:: Why do thy cloudy looks thus melt in tears
Last Line:: And th'unyoked heifers pacing homeward low
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6476

46. Why so coy my lovely maid

First Line:: Why so coy my lovely maid
Last Line:: Me the lily you the rose
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6978

47. Why we love and why we hate

First Line:: Why we love and why we hate
Last Line:: Seek the riddle in the skies
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6977

48. A collection of old ballads. Corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. [3rd ed] [ESTC N939]

Publication Date:: 1727
ESTC number:: N939
DMI number:: 551

49. A collection of old ballads. Corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. [Vol II] [2nd ed] [ESTC T144721]

Publication Date:: 1726
ESTC number:: T144721
DMI number:: 537

50. A collection of old ballads. Corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. [Vol III] [2nd ed] [ESTC N395]

Publication Date:: 1738
ESTC number:: N395
DMI number:: 560

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1. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

2. As I to cool me bathed one sultry day

3. As when the sun with his meridian light

4. Attend my soul the early birds inspire

5. Attend my soul the early birds inspire

6. Blessed as the immortal Gods is he

7. Breathe soft ye winds ye waters gently flow

8. Beneath the covert of a grove

9. Can we forget how every creature moaned

10. Come fill me a glass fill it high

11. Dimply damsel sweetly smiling

12. From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow

13. From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow

14. George came to the crown without striking a blow

15. From Utrecht's silent walks by winds I send

16. Hark hark my soul let the early birds inspire

17. How ill the motion with the music suits

18. Inhuman Sacharissa not to love

19. Long have the writers of this warlike age

20. If ever I quit the single life

21. Man only from himself can suffer wrong

22. Now frowning winter knits his awful brow

23. O Venus beauty of the skies

24. Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined

25. Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined

26. Patron of verse O Halifax attend

27. So when the sun with his meridian light

28. So when the sun with his meridian light

29. Soft Venus love's too anxious Queen

30. The hermit's solace in his cell

31. The mind to virtue is by verse subdued

32. The rose's age is but a day

33. Then never let me see her more

34. This place may seem for shepherds leisure made

35. This posture and these tears that heaven might move

36. Thou speakest always ill of me

37. Thou speakest always ill of me

38. Though plunged in ills and exercised in care

39. Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears

40. Timely blossom infant fair

41. When gamesome youth and love's unruly fire

42. When Lucy decks with flowers her swelling breast

43. When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign

44. When Virgil thought no shame the Doric reed

45. Why do thy cloudy looks thus melt in tears

46. Why so coy my lovely maid

47. Why we love and why we hate

48. A collection of old ballads. Corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. [3rd ed] [ESTC N939]

49. A collection of old ballads. Corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. [Vol II] [2nd ed] [ESTC T144721]

50. A collection of old ballads. Corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. [Vol III] [2nd ed] [ESTC N395]