Life;
But _London_ Wives Coquet by Rule,
Discreetly please the Men they Fool.

How happy's he who weds a Wife,
Well practis'd, well practis'd in the _London_ Life.

_A_ SONG. _Set by Mr._ RAMONDON. _Sung at the_ Theatre.

[Music]

How Charming _Phillis_ is, how Fair,
How Charming _Phillis_ is, how Fair,
O that she were as willing,
To ease my wounded Heart of Care,
And make her Eyes less killing:
To ease my wounded Heart of Care,
And make her Eyes less killing,
To ease my wounded Heart of Care,
And make her Eyes less killing,
To ease my wounded Heart of Care,
And make her Eyes less killing:
I sigh, I sigh, I languish now,
And Love will not let me rest;
I drive about the Park and Bow,
Where'er I meet my Dearest.

_A_ SONG. _Set by Mr._ BERENCLOW.

Why will _Clemene_, when I gaze,
My ravish'd Eyes reprove;
And chide 'em from the only Face,
That they were made to Love:
Was not I born to wear your Chain,
I should delight to rove;
From your cold Province of Disdain,
To some warm Land of Love.

But shou'd a gentle Nymph when try'd,
To me prove well inclin'd;
My destin'd Heart must yet reside,
With you the most unkind;
So destin'd Exiles as they roam,
While kindly us'd elsewhere;
Still languish after Native home,
Tho' Death, Death is threatned there.

FINIS.

Transcriber's Note

Publication Date: 1719/1720

Author Lifespan: 1653-1723

[from English Song-Books by Day and Murrie:

The origins of Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy,
the most famous song book of its day, may be traced back to
a single volume of 'witty ballads, jovial songs, and merry
catches' by an earlier generation of lyricists, published
without music in 1661 under the title An Antidote against
Melancholy: made up in Pills. For the third edition, still
without music but livened up by more recent songs, the title
was changed to Wit and Mirth: An Antidote against Melancholy
(1682), and in 1699, still in one volume, it was published
by Henry Playford with music. Over the course of the next
two decades it was expanded and republished again and again,
eventually to become this six-volume 'standard edition'
of contemporary popular comic and bawdy ballads, with an
increasing emphasis on the work of the stammering dramatist
and lyricist