The Beggar's Opera

About this eBook

Author

Gay, John, 1685-1732

Credits

Transcribed from the 1922 William Heinemann (1765 text) edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Ballad operas -- Librettos

Category

Text

eBook-No.

2421

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2421

Release Date

December 1, 2000

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE BEGGAR’S OPERA
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.ACT I. SCENE I. — AIR I. An old Woman clothed in Gray, &c. — AIR II. The bonny gray-ey’d Morn, &c. — AIR III. Cold and raw, &c. — AIR IV. Why is your faithful Slave disdain’d? &c. — AIR V. Of all the simple Things we do, &c. — AIR VI. What shall I do to shew how much I love her, &c. — AIR VII. Oh London is a fine Town. — AIR VIII. Grim King of the Ghosts, &c. — AIR IX. O Jenny , O Jenny , where hast thou been. — AIR X. Thomas , I cannot, &c. — AIR XI. A Soldier and a Sailor. — AIR XII. Now ponder well, ye Parents dear. — AIR XIII. Le printems rapelle aux armes. — AIR XIV. Pretty Parrot, say— — AIR XV. Pray, Fair one, be kind— — AIR XVI. Over the Hills and far away. — AIR XVII. Gin thou wert mine awn thing— — AIR XVIII. O the Broom, &c.
4. 4.ACT II. SCENE I. — AIR XIX. Fill every Glass, &c. — AIR XX. March in Rinaldo , with Drums and Trumpets. — AIR XXI. Would you have a young Virgin, &c. — AIR XXII. Cotillon. — AIR XXIII. All in a misty Morning, &c. — AIR XXIV. When first I laid Siege to my Chloris , &c. — SCENE II. Newgate. — AIR XXV. Courtiers, Courtiers, think it no Harm, &c. — AIR XXVI. A lovely Lass to a Friar came, &c. — AIR XXVII. ’Twas when the Sea was roaring, &c. — AIR XXVIII. The Sun had loos’d his weary Teams, &c. — AIR XXIX. How happy are we, &c. — AIR XXX. Of a noble Race was Shenkin . — AIR XXXI. — AIR XXXII. London Ladies. — AIR XXXIII. All in the Downs, &c. — AIR XXXIV. Have you heard of a frolicksome Ditty, &c. — AIR XXXV. Irish Trot. — AIR XXXVI. — AIR XXXVII. Good-morrow, Gossip Joan . — AIR XXXVIII. Irish Howl. — SCENE III. The Same. — AIR XXXIX. The Lass of Patie’s Mill, &c.
5. 5.ACT III. SCENE I. — AIR XL. If Love’s a sweet Passion, &c. — AIR XLI. South-Sea Ballad. — AIR XLII. Packington’s Pound. — SCENE II. A Gaming-House . — AIR XLIII. Lillibullero. — SCENE III. Peachum’s Lock . — AIR XLIV. Down in the North Country, &c. — AIR XLV. A Shepherd kept Sheep, &c. — SCENE IV. Newgate . — AIR XLVI. One Evening, having lost my Way, &c. — AIR XLVII. Now Roger , I’ll tell thee because thou ’rt my Son. — AIR XLVIII. O Bessy Bell . — AIR XLIX. Would Fate to me Belinda give. — AIR L. Come, sweet Lass. — AIR LI. The last time I went o’er the Moor. — AIR LII. Tom Tinker’s my true Love. — AIR LIII. I am a poor Shepherd undone. — AIR LIV. Ianthe the lovely, &c. — AIR LV. A Cobler there was, &c. — AIR LVI. Bonny Dundee . — SCENE V. The Condemn’d Hold. — AIR LVII. Happy Groves. — AIR LVIII. Of all the Girls that are so smart. — AIR LIX. Britons strike home. — AIR LX. Chevy Chase. — AIR LXI. To old Sir Simon the King. — AIR LXII. Joy to Great Cæsar . — AIR LXIII. There was an old Woman. — AIR LXIV. Did you ever hear of a gallant Sailor. — AIR LXV. Why are mine Eyes still flowing. — AIR LXVI. Green Sleeves. — AIR LXVII. All you that must take a Leap, &c. — AIR LXVIII. Lumps of Pudding, &c.

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