Contains excerpts from musico-dramatic works in piano-vocal score, and songs.
v. 1. We sing to Him. Music for a while. Ah, how pleasant 'tis to 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 that you were grown so high -- v. 2. From Rosy Bowers. Ah, Belinda, I am prest with torment. Thy hand, Belinda; When I am laid in earth. What shall I do to show. Your awful voice I hear. More love and more disdain I crave. Since from my dear. Man is for the woman made. The knotting song. The blessed Virgin's expostulation
v. 3 The fatal hour. I'll sail upon the Dog Star. Silvia, now your scorn give over. '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 -- v. 4. Not all my torments. Lead, o lead me to some peaceful gloom. Sweet, be no longer sad. I attempt from love's sickness to fly. Evening hymn. There's not a swain on the plain. Nymphs and shepherds. Hark, how all things in one
sound rejoice. Come, all ye songsters. Queen's epicedium