The songs of England : a collection of 200 English melodies, including the most popular traditional ditties, and the principal songs and ballads of the last three centuries [music] / edited, with new symphonies and accompaniments, by J. L. Hatton

Lettered on cover: Royal edition.

VOLUME I : I attempt from love's sickness to fly / Purcell -- The Wolf / Shield -- Hearts of oak / Boyce -- Now Phoebus sinketh in the west / Arne -- Safely follow him / T. Cooke -- Vicar of Bray / 17th Century -- Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen / Sheridan -- Oh! say not woman's heart is bought / Whitaker -- O, willow, willow / words and music in Shakespeare's time -- Drink to me only -- Gaily the Troubadour / Bayly -- The Leather bottle / 17th Century -- The British Grenadiers / 16th Century -- Sally in our alley / 17th Century -- Meet me by moonlight / Wade -- Away to the mountain's brow / Lee -- Bid me discourse / Bishop -- Begone! dull care / 17th Century -- Then farewell! my trim-built wherry / Dibdin -- While the lads of the village / Dibdin -- I am a friar of orders grey / Reeve -- Should he upbraid / Bishop -- Flow, thou regal purple stream / Arnold -- O, bid your faithful Ariel fly / Linley -- Love has eyes / Bishop -- Pretty mocking bird / Bishop -- The Pilgrim of love / Bishop -- The Bay of Biscay / Davy -- Lo! here the gentle lark / Bishop -- The Banks of Allan Water -- The Anchorsmiths / Dibdin We all love a pretty girl under the rose / Arne -- The heaving of the lead / Shield -- With lowly suit and plaintive ditty / Storace -- When Vulcan forg'd the bolts of Jove / Braham -- Oh! the Oak, and the Ash / 17th Century -- Near Woodstock town / 17th Century -- My lodging is on the cold ground / 17th Century -- The Plough-boy -- Oh! rest thee, babe / Whitaker -- Those Evening Bells / music attributed to Beethoven -- The girl I left behind me / 18th Century -- Under the greenwood tree / Arne -- The Three Ravens / 16th Century -- Oh! firm as oak / Bishop -- The Baliff's daughter of Islington / Traditional -- Barbara Allen / Old Tune -- Tell me, my heart / Bishop -- Hope told a flattering tale -- Tell her I'll love her / Shield -- We met - 'twas in a crowd / Bayly -- Come, lasses and lads / 17th Century -- The arrow and the song / Balfe -- It was a lover and his lass / Morley -- I've been roaming / Horn -- Early one morning / Old English -- Blow high, blow low / Dibdin -- Down among the dead men / About 1700 -- Cherry ripe / Horn -- Cease your funning / Gay -- Oh, no, we never mention her / Bishop -- The Thorn / Shield -- Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Arne -- The Soldier's Tear / Lee -- The Farewell / Robert Cooke -- When forced from dear Hebe / Arne -- Pray, Goody -- Alice Gray / Millard -- The Lass of Richmond Hill / Old Tune -- All in the downs (Black-eyed Susan) / Leveridge -- The Token / Dibdin -- I lock'd up all my treasure / Dibdin -- Tom Bowling / Dibdin -- The Woodpecker / M. Kelly -- The Sailor's Journal / Dibdin -- The Arethusa / Shield -- There was a jolly miller / 17th Century -- The Jolly young Waterman / Dibdin -- The Dashing White Sergeant / Bishop -- Primroses deck the bank's green side / Linley -- Jockey to the fair -- Where the bee sucks / Arne -- Wapping old stairs / Percy -- The Roast Beef of Old England / Leveridge -- A hunting we will go / 18th Century-- Rule, Britannia / Arne -- The deep, deep sea / Horn -- The soldiers tried of war's alarms / Arne -- The anchor's weigh'd / Braham -- Home, sweet home / Bishop -- The death of Nelson / Braham -- Rocked in the cradle of the deep / Knight -- Tell me, Mary, how to woo thee / Hodson -- The Streamlet that flow'd round / Shield -- What whall I do to show how much I love her / Purcell -- Lovely Nan / Dibdin -- Sigh no more, ladies / Stevens -- A Thousand a Year / Millard -- The Deserter's meditation -- Ye twice ten hundred Deities / Purcell --

VOLUME II : Titania's song (Child of Earth with golden hair) / Horn -- The high-mettled racer / Dibdin -- The banks of the blue Moselle / G.H. Rodwell -- Let fame sound the trumpet / Shield -- The mountain maid / Sinclair -- True courage / Dibdin -- To-morrow / W. Reeve -- The hunt is up! / Old English -- The lass that loves a sailor / Dibdin -- Love will find out the way / 17th Century -- The rose had been washed / Webbe -- Thine am I, my faithful fair / John Whitaker -- Said a smile to a tear / Braham -- 'Tis but Fancy's sketch / Braham -- Poor Joe, the marine / J. Ashley -- Who deeply drinks of wine / J. Emdin -- Amo, amas, I love a lass (tune - "The Mouse and the Frog") / Dr. Arnold -- My dog and my gun / Dr. Arne -- Is there a heart that never lov'd? / Braham -- The storm (Cease, rude boreas, blustering railer) / Shield -- On, by the spur of valour goaded / Shield -- Poor Jack / Dibdin -- Old towler / Shield -- The kiss, dear maid / L. Jausen -- He was famed for deeds of arms / D. Corri -- Dulce domum / (Winchester College) 17th century -- Fly away, pretty moth / T.H. Bayly -- The soldier's adieu / Dibdin -- May we ne'er want a friend, nor a bottle to give him / John Davy -- Phillida flouts me / Old Song -- Sweet day, so cool / 17th century -- To the maypole haste away (Morris dance) / Time of Queen Elizabeth -- The milking pail / Time of Shakespeare -- Rest, warrior, rest / Michael Kelly -- Bring me, boy, a bowl of wine / Hook -- The old commodore / W. Reeve -- Julia to the wood-robin / Spofforth -- To the may-pole away / Time of Charles I -- A well there is in the west country / Cornish Air -- From Oberon in fairyland / 16th century -- The garden gate / W.T. Parke -- Jack Rattlin / Dibdin -- The bee proffers honey but bears a sting ("Tink a tink") / C. Dibdin Junr - The beautiful maid / Braham -- All's one to jack / Dibdin -- Haste to the wedding / 18th century -- Come where the aspens quiver / Alexander Lee -- Follow, follow over mountain / S.T. Smith -- He loves, and rides away / C. Horn -- The breaking of the day (The sun is on the mountain) / C. Horn -- Since first I saw your face / Ford -- I remember, I remember (How my childhood fleeted by) / Mrs. E. FitzGerald -- Just like love is yonder rose / John Davy -- My friend and pitcher / Shield -- No more by sorrow / Braham -- No more by sorrow / Braham -- Come you not from Newcastle? / 1600 -- O give me but my Arab steed / G.A. Hodson -- When that I was a little tiny boy / Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" -- Cupid's Garden / Old Song -- The poacher / Old Song -- We be three poor mariners / 1609 -- Tobacco is an Indian weed / Very old -- Fresh and strong the breeze is blowing / Dr. Arne -- Fresh and strong the breeze is blowing / Dr. Arne -- Ere around the huge oak / Shield -- Love me little, love me long / 17th century -- Love's ritornella (Gentle zitella) / T. Cooke -- When pensive I thought of my love / M. Kelly -- My heart with love is beating / Shield -- The Queen of May / 1650 -- Thou soft-flowing Avon / Dr. Arne -- Huntsman, rest! / Mazzinghi -- Oh! 'tis the melody (Lays of a minstrel) / T. H. Bayly -- Will watch / John Davy -- How stands the glass around? / Old Song -- Isle of beauty / F. H. Bayly ; C. S. Whitmore -- Our country is our ship / Reeve -- By the gaily circling glass / Dr. Arne -- The flowing bowl / C. Dibdin -- The Woodman / C. Dibdin -- You gentlemen of England / Old English Ballad -- The minstrel's request -- The sapling oak / Storace -- Crabbed age and youth / C. Horn -- Faint and wearily (The way-worn traveeler) / Dr. Arnold -- All things love thee, so do I / C. Horn -- By dimpled brook / Dr. Arne -- The heart should be happy and merry / Reeve -- Stand to your guns / Carter -- A southerly wind and a cloudy sky (the fox-chase) / Old Song -- The soldier's dream / T. Attwood -- Yarico to her lover / F.H. Himmel -- County guy / Sir H.R. Bishop -- Come live with me, and be my love / Sir H.R. Bishop -- And has she then fail'd in her truth? / Sir H.R. Bishop -- Little love is a mischevious boy / Sir H.R. Bishop -- My boat is on the shore / Sir H.R. Bishop -- The sun is o'er the mountain / Sir H.R. Bishop -- The bloom is on the rye (My pretty jane) / Sir H.R. Bishop -- Tom starboard / J. Mazzinghi -- Bird in the wilderness / J. Blewitt -- The rose of the valley / W. Reeve.