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Dublin Bay, or We'll Wed and We'll Bed
Dance: "Dublin Bay"
Song: "We’ll Wed and We’ll Bed", tune by Henry Purcell,
lyrics
by Thomas D’Urfey, from The Wonders in the Sun, or the Kingdom of the Birds
She:
Oh Love if a god thou wilt be,
do justice in favour of me
For
yonder approaching I see,
A man with a beard, who as I have heard,
Has
often undone poor maids who have none
With sighing, and toying,
And
crying and lying,
And such kind of foolery. He:
Fair maid by your leave,
my heart does receive,
Strange pleasures to meet you here.
Pray
tremble not so,
nor offer to go –
I’ll do you no harm, I swear!
I’ll do
you no harm, I swear!
She:
My mother is spinning at home,
My
father works hard at his loom,
And here we a-milking are come.
Their
dinner they want, pray gentlemen don’t
Make more ado on’t, nor give us
affront.
We’re none of the town
Will lie down for a crown.
Then away,
sir, and give us room!
He:
By Phoebus, by Jove,
By honour, by
love,
I’ll do ye dear sweet no harm.
You’re fresh as a rose,
I want one
of those.
Ah, how such a wife would charm.
Ah, how such a wife would
charm. She:
And can you then like the old rule,
Be conjugal, honest and
frugal,
And marry and look like a fool?
For I must be plain, all tricks are in
vain,
There’s nothing can gain, the thing you’d obtain
But moving, and
proving
By wedding, true loving -
My lesson I’ve learnt at
school. He:
I’ll do’t by this hand,
I’ve houses, I’ve land,
Estate too in
good freehold.
My dear, let us join.
It all shall be thine –
Besides a good
purse of gold.
Besides a good purse of gold. She:
You make me to
blush, now I vow.
Oh Lord, shall I too baulk my cow?
But since the late oath
you have swore –
Your soul shall not be in danger of me.
I’d rather agree, of
two to make three.
We’ll wed and we’ll bed,
There’s no more to be
said
And I’ll ne’er go a-milking more. He:
I’ll do’t by this hand,
I’ve
houses, I’ve land,
Estate too in good freehold.
My dear, let us join.
It all
shall be thine –
Besides a good purse of gold.
Besides a good purse of
gold.
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