CONTENTS
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| The Village Coquettes (1836), | [3] |
| Round. Hail to the merry Autumn days, | [7] |
| Lucy’s Song. Love is not a feeling to pass away, | [8] |
| Squire Norton’s Song. That very wise head, old Æsop, said, | [9] |
| George Edmunds’ Song. Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, | [10] |
| Rose’s Song. Some folks who have grown old and sour, | [11] |
| Duet (Flam and Rose). ’Tis true I’m caressed by the witty, | [12] |
| Squire Norton’s Song. The child and the old man sat alone, | [13] |
| Duet (The Squire and Lucy). In rich and lofty station shine, | [14] |
| Sestet and Chorus. Turn him from the farm, | [15] |
| Quartet. Hear me, when I swear that the farm is your own, | [17] |
| Squire Norton’s Song. There’s a charm in Spring, | [20] |
| Young Benson’s Song. My fair home is no longer mine, | [21] |
| Duet (The Squire and Edmunds). Listen, though I do not fear you, | [22] |
| Lucy’s Song. How beautiful at even-tide, | [23] |
| Chorus. Join the dance, with step as light, | [23] |
| Quintet. No light bound of stag or timid hare, | [24] |
| The Lamplighter (1838), | [29] |
| Duet (Tom and Betsy). There comes a new moon twelve times a year, | [31] |
| The Pickwick Papers (1837), | [35], [41], [47], [51] |
| The Ivy Green. Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, | [36] |
| A Christmas Carol. I care not for Spring, | [42] |
| Gabriel Grub’s Song. Brave lodgings for one, | [48] |
| Romance (Sam Weller’s Song). Bold Turpin vunce, on Hounslow Heath, | [53] |
| The Examiner (1841), | [57] |
| The Fine Old English Gentleman. I’ll sing you a new ballad, | [59] |
| The Quack Doctor’s Proclamation. An astonishing doctor has just come to town, | [67] |
| Subjects for Painters. To you, Sir Martin, | [73] |
| The Patrician’s Daughter (1842), | [79] |
| Prologue. No tale of streaming plumes and harness bright, | [81] |
| The Keepsake (1844), | [87] |
| A Word in Season. They have a superstition in the East, | [89] |
| The Daily News (1846), | [93] |
| The British Lion. Oh, p’r’aps you may have heard, | [95] |
| The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers. Oh God, who by Thy Prophet’s hand, | [101] |
| Lines addressed to Mark Lemon (1849), | [107] |
| New Song. Lemon is a little hipped, | [109] |
| The Lighthouse (1855), | [113] |
| Prologue. A story of those rocks where doom’d ships come, | [115] |
| The Song of the Wreck. The wind blew high, the waters raved, | [119] |
| The Frozen Deep (1856), | [125] |
| Prologue. One savage footprint on the lonely shore, | [127] |
| The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856), | [131] |
| A Child’s Hymn. Hear my prayer, O! Heavenly Father, | [133] |
SONGS, CHORUSES,
AND CONCERTED PIECES FROM
‘THE VILLAGE COQUETTES’
A COMIC OPERA
1836
THE VILLAGE COQUETTES