Air XV: "Bailiff's Song" has no tune and is not traceable.
Air XVI: "Mind the Golden Rule" is not identifiable.
Air XVII: "Tune 'Mary's Lamentation'" is the old ballad (set to the music of "Crimson Velvet"), the "lamentable complaint" of Queen Mary for the "unkind departure" of King Philip, "in whose absence she fell sick, and died," which begins "Mary doth complain;/Ladies be you moved," and appears in Richard Johnson's Crown Garland of Roses (1659), ed. Chappell, 1895. Though popular in the seventeenth century, it may have been written soon after Queen Mary's death in 1558 (Simpson, p. 141). Verses similar to Air XVII ("I Sigh and lament me in vain,/These Walls can but echo my moan,") appeared in Signior Giordani's "Queen Mary's Lamentation," printed in Domenico Corri's Select Collection of 1779 (III, No. 71).
Air XVIII: The "Clown's Song" seems to have been specially composed for this work.
Air XIX: "Tune: 'Let us take the Road'" is the famous "March in Rinaldo" by Handel. See Air XX, The Beggar's Opera (Act II, ed. Roberts, pp. 130-131).
Air XX: "Ballad Tune: 'The Race Horse'" with the title "The Rake's Progress." Thomas D'Urfey's tune is called "The Race Horse," and begins "To Horse, brave Boys of Newmarket, to Horse," and is "set to an excellent Scotch tune" called "Cock up thy Beaver" (Simpson, p. 112). It was first published with the music in D'Urfey's Choice New Songs (1684) and appears as an untitled air in Kane O'Hara's comic opera Midas (1764; ARS 167). It is also called "Newmarket," or "Newmarket Horse Race," Air XXII of the 1730 and 1750 versions of Fielding's The Author's Farce. The music is printed in Woods's edition of The Author's Farce, p. 133.
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