Purcell: 40 Songs

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Contents:
• We sing to him
• Music for a while
• Ah! how pleasant 'tis love
• Thrice happy Lovers
• Sweeter than Roses
• What can we poor Females do
• Fairest Isle
• If Music be the Food of Love (3rd version)
• If Music be the Food of Love (1st version)
• I saw tha tyou were grown so high
• Man is for the Woman made
• From Rosy Bowers
• Ah, Belinda, I am prest
• Thy hand, Belinda! When I am laid in Earth
• What shall I do
• Your Awful Voice
• More Love and more Disdain
• Since from my dear
• The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
• The Fatal Hour
• I'll sale upon the Dog Star
• Silvia, now your scorn
• Tis Nature's Voice
• Bess of Bedlam
• Cease, o my sad Soul
• Strike the Viol
• Lord, what is man
• Sound the Trumpet
• Hark! The ech'ing Air
• Not all the torments
• O, lead me to some peaceful gloom
• Sweet, be no longer sad
• I attempt from Love's sickness to fly
• An Evening Hymn
• There's not a Swain on the Plain
• Nymphs and Shepherds
• Hark! how all things
• Come all we songsters
• The Queen's Epicedium
• The knotting Song