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Title: Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6

Author: Various

Editor: Thomas d'Urfey

Release Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #26679]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's Note: This e-book is volume 5 of Thomas D'Urfey's _Wit
and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy_, published in six volumes in
1719-20 by J. Tonson, London. It was prepared from a 1959 facsimile
reprint by Folklore Library Publishers, Inc., New York, of an 1876
reprint (publisher unidentified).

The 1719-20 edition was published in two issues. The first issue was
published under the title _Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive_;
the second, under the _Wit and Mirth_ title. The 1876 reprint
apparently used a combination of the two issues, and volume 5 bears
the _Songs Compleat_ title. Moreover, the 1876 reprint was not an
exact facsimile of the 1719-20 edition, as the typography and music
notation were modernized. For more information on the various
editions, see Cyrus L. Day, "Pills to Purge Melancholy," _The Review
of English Studies_, Vol. 8, No. 30 (Apr. 1932), pp. 177-184,
available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/508831 (login required).

Archaic and inconsistent spellings and hyphenation have been preserved
as they appear in the original, except that "VV" is rendered as "W."
The original order of titles in the Alphabetical Table has also been
preserved. Obvious printer errors have been corrected.

Some words are rendered in the original in blackletter font. They are
rendered here in uppercase letters. Italics are indicated with
underscores.]

WIT and MIRTH:

OR

PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY

EDITED BY
THOMAS D'URFEY

IN SIX VOLUMES
VOLUME V

FOLKLORE LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, INC.
NEW YORK
1959

_This edition is a facsimile reproduction
of the 1876 reprint of
the original editio