Wit and mirth; or pills to purge melancholy [electronic resource] : being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. ... having each their proper tune ...

Wit and mirth; or pills to purge melancholy [electronic resource] : being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. ... having each their proper tune ...

London : printed by W. Pearson, for J. Tonson, 1719-20.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

English

6v. : ill.,music ; 12⁰.

Dedication signed: T. D'Urfey.
Includes orations, poems, prologues and epilogues by D'Urfey.
A reissue of 'Songs compleat, pleasant and divertive' published in 1719, with the drop-head title on p. 1 and the running title in vols. 1 to 5 changed to: 'Pills to purge melancholy' and with the addition of a sixth and final volume dated 1720.
The first two volumes mostly contain songs by the editor Thomas D'Urfey, with the remainder being those originally collected and published by Henry Playford.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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English Short Title Catalog, T134713.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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