'Shakespearian Miscellanies': Halliwell-Phillipps Papers

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Songs, with music, viz: - `Thirsis is my only treasure' (conclusion only, MS, f. 41) - `A Song for two voices in ye Fairy Queen. Mr. Hen. Purcell', beginning `Let ye Fifes and ye Clarions' (MS, f. 41v) - `A song set by Mr. [John] Welldon', beginning `Take heed, Belinda' (MS, f. 42v) - `Sung by Mr. Mason in Magbeth sett by Mr. Purcell' beginning `Cease, cease, gentle, gentle swain' (f. 43) - `Minuet sung by Mrs. Anastasia Robinson in the opera called Coriolanus', beginning `Charmer, hear your faithfull lover' (f. 44) - `Sung by Mrs. Catherine Clive in the Blind Beggar of Bethnall Green', beginning `The Boy thus of a bird possest' (f. 45) - `The serenade sung by Mr. Thomas Lowe in the Merchant of Venice', beginning `My bliss too long my bride denies' (f. 45v) - `Love Relaps'd', beginning `If all that I love is her face' (f. 46) - `Sung by Mr. Thomas Lowe in the Merchant of Venice', beginning `To keep my gentle Jessy' (f. 46v) - `The Owl written by Shakespeare in Love's Labour Lost' beginning `When icicles hang on the wall' (f. 47) - `Polly Willis', beginning `Attend ye Nymphs and tunefull swains' (f. 47v)