BHT

Judicious Collection of the most Popular and Captivating
SONGS

ON EVERY SUBJECT THAT CHARM THE EAR,
OR ENLIVEN THE HEART.

Selected from the Harmonic Treasures of the
SISTER MUSES OF THE THREE KINGDOMS.

INTERSPERSED WITH MANY

Driginals and Translations :

WITH AN

ESSAY ON SINGING AND SONG WRITING :

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES

OF THE

MOST CELEBRATED SONG WRITERS.

VOL. II.

BY C. H. WILSON, Esq.

THIRD EDITION.

"I have often wished that fome perfon of tafte would collect a number of those fongs,
which have been written in moments propitious to that fpecies of poetry; at the fame
time it would be cruel to try any of those writers at the bar of criticism, who have
devoted their talents to foothe our fweetest or bitterest moments, to enliven our fpirits,
er to prolong a roar of heart-felt laughter along the lines of the festive board."

FARQUHAR.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. DEAN, 107, NEWGATE STREET,

By T. Plummer, Seething Lane,

L$03.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

MAR 5 1941

ADVERTISEMENT.

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