When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly (O.C.S. 56)
‘Do my pretty Olivia,’ cried she, ‘let us have that little melancholy air your papa was so fond of; your sister Sophy has already obliged us. Do, child, it will please your old father.’ She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic, as moved me.
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds, too late, that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?(Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, ch. xxiv.)
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds, too late, that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?(Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, ch. xxiv.)
When the Heart of a Man (D.C. 24, O.M.F. iii. 14)
Words by Gay (Beggar's Opera). Set to a seventeenth-century air.
If the heart of a man is depressed with care,
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears,
Like the notes of a fiddle she sweetly, sweetly
Raises our spirits and charms our ears.
When the Stormy Winds (D.C. 21, D. & S. 23)
Words by Campbell, who may have taken them from an earlier source. See ‘[You Gentlemen of England].’
White Sand (L.D. i. 32)
An old glee. See p. [106].