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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay
+
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+
+Title: The Beggar's Opera
+       to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song
+
+Author: John Gay
+
+Editor: Claud Lovat Fraser
+
+Release Date: April 13, 2008 [EBook #25063]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEGGAR'S OPERA ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Louise Hope
+
+
+
+
+
+[Transcriber's Note:
+
+This e-text is based on the same printed edition as Project Gutenberg
+e-text 2421. Readers who prefer a "cleaner", less cluttered-looking text
+file may choose to use that version instead.
+
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+includes pdf and midi (sound) files for all Airs. More information is
+at the end of this e-text.]
+
+
+
+
+THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+  The
+  BEGGAR'S
+  OPERA.
+
+
+  WRITTEN by Mr. _GAY_.
+
+
+  To which is Prefixed the
+  MUSICK to each SONG.
+
+  [Decoration]
+
+  _Nos hæc novimus esse nihil._ --MART.
+
+
+  LONDON:
+  William Heinemann
+  1921
+
+
+
+
+_To J. G. and to G. L. F., without whom I should have been powerless,
+do I dedicate my share in this book. C. L. F._
+
+
+_Note.-- The Text here given is taken from the edition of 1765. The
+scenes have been re-numbered in the modern method denoting actual
+changes of place or intervals of time._
+
+
+_First published September 1921_
+
+_New Impression October 1921_
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF THE PLATES
+
+     I. THE BEGGAR                      Frontispiece
+    II. MRS. PEACHUM                 To face page  6
+   III. POLLY PEACHUM                     "       18
+    IV. SCENE: A TAVERN NEAR NEWGATE      "       28
+     V. CAPTAIN MACHEATH                  "       40
+    VI. LUCY LOCKIT                       "       56
+   VII. PEACHUM                           "       70
+  VIII. LOCKIT                            "       82
+
+
+
+
+CLAUD LOVAT FRASER
+
+  That when I die this word may stand for me--
+  He had a heart to praise, an eye to see,
+  And beauty was his king.
+
+
+Dead at the age of thirty-one after a sudden operation, Claud Lovat
+Fraser was as surely a victim of the war as though he had fallen in
+action. He was full of vigour for his work, but shell-shock had left him
+with a heart that could not stand a strain of this kind, and all his own
+fine courage could not help the surgeons in a losing fight. We are not
+sorry for him--we learn that, not to be sorry for the dead. But for
+ourselves? This terror is always so fresh, so unexampled. I had
+telephoned to him to ask whether he would help me in a certain
+theatrical enterprise. I was told by his servant that he was ill, but
+one hears these things so often that one gave but little thought to it
+beyond sending a telegram asking for news; and now this. Personal griefs
+are of no public interest, but here is as sad a public loss as has
+befallen us, if the world can measure truly, in our generation.
+
+But it is not, I think, of our loss that we should speak now. These
+desolations, strangely, have a way of bringing their own fortitude.
+A few hours after hearing, without any warning, of Lovat Fraser's death,
+I was walking among the English landscape that he loved so well, and I
+felt there how poor and inadequate a thing death really was, how little
+to be feared. This apparent intention to destroy a life and genius so
+young, so admirable, and so rich in promise, seemed, for all the hurt,
+in some way wholly to have failed. We all knew that, given health, the
+next ten years would show a splendid volume of work from the new power
+and understanding to which he had been coming in these later days. But
+just as it seems to me not the occasion to lament our own loss, so does
+it seem idle to speculate with regret upon what art may have lost by
+this sudden stroke. It is, rather, well to be glad that so few years
+have borne so abundantly. Not only is the work that Lovat Fraser has
+left full in volume, it is decisive in character beyond all likelihood
+in one of his years. Greatly as he would have added to our delight, and
+wider as his influence would have grown, nothing he might have done
+could have added to our knowledge of the kind of distinction that was
+his and that will always mark his fame.
+
+The man himself had a charm of unusual definition. One might go to his
+studio at five o'clock and find him lumbering with his great frame among
+a chaos of the rare and curious books that he loved, stacked pell-mell
+on to the shelves, littered on tables and the floor, his clothes and
+face and fingers streaked with paint. And then an hour or two later he
+would come dressed ready for the theatre, an immaculate beau of the
+'fifties, his top coat with waist and skirts, his opera hat made to
+special order by a Bond Street expert on an 1850 last. And then, before
+setting off, he would talk of some fellow-artist who was a little down
+and out, and wonder whether some of his drawings might not be bought at
+a few guineas apiece. Then to book, as it were, such an order gave salt
+to his evening, and if the evening meant contact with some of his own
+exquisite work, a word of admiration was taken with that wistful
+gratitude that it is now almost unbearable to remember.
+
+The theatre is a complex, co-operative affair, and it is idle to inquire
+who gives more than another to it. But on one side of its effort nobody
+in these later years has fought for light and beauty more surely and
+courageously than Claud Lovat Fraser. Like every fine artist, he was
+sometimes a little puzzled, a little hurt, that the critics could not
+see the clear motives inspiring his work. But the purpose never
+faltered. _As You Like It_, _The Beggar's Opera_, _If_, the exquisite
+designs for Madame Karsavina's later ballets--these made it plain enough
+that a new genius of extraordinary power and fertility was at work on
+the stage. With a knowledge of tradition that combined the widest
+learning with profound intuition, Lovat Fraser in his design touched the
+life of five hundred years with the English spirit of our own time, with
+a certainty that every one of his colleagues, I know, will be proud to
+allow was beyond them all. The fertility of which I speak was perhaps
+his peculiar distinction, and it had no touch of common facility. He
+could not draw a line that was not hard with thought and rooted in
+imaginative decision. But he could invent with immense rapidity. It was
+the old, though rare, story. Alike in his theatre design and his tender
+landscape, beauty of spirit flowed in everything he did into beauty of
+execution. He was a man in whose presence everything mean or slipshod
+withered.
+
+But perhaps it is most fitting at this time that we should think of our
+dead friend in yet another way. We are governed by two influences, our
+own character, and example. For each man his own character is for his
+meditation apart, but of example we may sometimes speak together in the
+open with profit. Those of us who live always striving towards creative
+effort believe passionately that the thing towards which we aim makes
+for all that is most chivalrous and most intelligent in life, that it is
+indeed the one true honesty in the world. And yet we know how easily
+that effort is beset by fears and jealousies and failure in generosity,
+how lightly we who should together give all our energy to the service of
+our art, waste it in little concerns of spite and self-interest. And it
+is in just such ways as this that great example may serve us nobly, and
+there has surely never lived an artist in whom such example more clearly
+shone. Art, which for him embraced and crystallised all that was brave
+and adventurous and tender, was the worship of Lovat Fraser's life,
+a worship which he kept with an absolute loyalty.
+
+It is my privilege to know most of the best artists, in all kinds, of my
+age. One has this distinction, another that. But I think that he had the
+loveliest of them all. I have known nobody who brought to his art a
+devotion so pure and utterly removed from self-interest. If he could
+serve the beauty that he loved, he was eager always to do so with
+perfect indifference to his own reward. Nobody could be with him for ten
+minutes without feeling that art was a thing far greater than any
+artist. He had the lovely, humorous humility that is the one sure sign
+of greatness. One felt always that if he should think that another might
+do given work better than he, there could be for him nothing but
+distress if the best was not done, even though it meant the loss of
+personal opportunity. But it is one of the happy things of genius that
+this exquisite humility can only live with great creative gifts, so that
+Lovat Fraser knew from day to day the supreme joy of mastery. The
+humility, however, is our example, and the thought that seems most
+worthy to-day is that he stands at this moment, for all he was younger
+than most of us, as a challenging leader to us all. It will, I think,
+always be impossible to remember him without feeling that anything mean
+or grudging in the spirit in which we do our work is a betrayal and an
+intolerable thing. With all his gaiety, his fun, his simplicities, and
+his powers, he showed us not only what a fine artist can do but what a
+fine artist can be. And under his leadership at this moment may we not
+go back to our work in the world with renewed courage and faith,
+
+  "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."
+
+For his fame none of us have any fear. There is in his public
+achievement and his portfolios a solid body of work that more and more
+must establish itself. However futile prophecy in these things must be,
+one is confident that a hundred years hence his name will be highly
+honoured among the little band who helped to bring back some life and
+truth to the English theatre of this age. He would wish for nothing
+better than that. And idle though it is to ask what his death, at little
+more than youth, may mean in the way of loss to the art that he lived
+for, his friends know that as dear a life as any of our time has gone
+suddenly, inexplicably, taking with it the tenderest love of every one
+who knew him. And he leaves with us an example without any stain.
+
+JOHN DRINKWATER.
+
+_London_,
+
+_Midsummer 1921_.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
+
+NOTE ON THE SCENE AND COSTUMES AT THE LYRIC THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH
+
+
+Superficially the task of staging _The Beggar's Opera_ was one of
+supreme ease. Indeed, so easy was it that it became a matter of some
+embarrassment to prune and select the required amount of data. Here was
+Hogarth and his actual scene of Newgate with Macheath in chains; here
+was Laroon's _Cries of London_ falling, in its edition of 1733, pat into
+the period; here was the National Portrait Gallery and, added to these,
+here was the benefit of all Mr. Charles E. Pearce's research.[1] After a
+month or two of work in designing, the ease became so marked and
+apparent that it engendered in me the beginnings of mistrust. Still,
+I persevered in scene and costume with historically accurate
+reproduction and, until three weeks before the actual work was due to be
+carried out at the costumier's and in the painting shops, I felt
+comparatively cheerful. Then I reviewed my forces--the little scale
+models of the scenes, the characters in painted cardboard--all exact and
+accurate. Something was wrong and the result was, I confess, appalling.
+I had not made allowances either for my theatre or for my audience.
+I had forgotten that it required a spacious Georgian theatre, the
+intimacy of the side-boxes, the great personages sitting on the stage.
+The Duke of Bolton, Major Pauncefoot and Sir Robert Fagg were not in
+their places as in Hogarth's painting; the pit would not be filled with
+tye-wigs and hoops and there would be a sharper line of division between
+the actors and the spectators than ever existed in 1728. Something else
+had to be done. As reproduction was a failure one would try to give an
+impression of the same thing. Impressionism proved even worse than
+accuracy. It was neither one thing nor the other. It merged into "making
+a picture of it"--a crime that is without parallel in the staging of a
+play. To make a pretty picture at the expense of drama is merely to
+pander to the voracity of the costumier and scene-painter.
+
+    [Footnote 1: _Polly Peachum and The Beggar's Opera_, by
+    Charles E. Pearce. Messrs. Stanley Paul & Company, 1913.]
+
+What was then to be done? Added to all these objections was the
+important fact that I had designed scenes that would have seriously
+hampered the resources at Hammersmith. The theatre would have required
+more space for storage than could possibly have been given and, in
+addition, an army of stage hands would be wanted for whom there was not
+in this little theatre the accommodation.
+
+The solution was, of course, to forget one's past work, to scrap the
+models, and to start feverishly afresh. The only method left untried was
+the symbolic. That is to say, to hint at the eighteenth century and to
+suggest that through the doors on the stage existed the London of 1728.
+The scene demanded to be simple and one which, with slight modifications
+in doors and windows, remained before the audience for the whole action
+of the play. It was, therefore, to be a scene of which people did not
+easily tire and that remained interesting, unobtrusive and formally
+neat. To find such a scene it is necessary to refer back to days when
+the Comic and the Tragic scenes were architectural and permanent. This I
+did and, taking Palladio's magnificent scene at Vicenza, by a shameless
+process of _reductio ad absurdum_, evolved the scene that is now in use
+at Hammersmith. Palladio and Gay have much to forgive.
+
+So far the scene, but it called for a corresponding treatment in the
+dresses. In _The Beggar's Opera_ no one is in the height of fashion.
+Macheath and certain Ladies of the Town alone "keep Company with
+Lords and Gentlemen," and even then there must have been apparent a
+distinction. Macheath is unaltered. Here it was essential to keep to
+tradition. Macheath in a blue coat is unthinkable. The rest of the
+characters are frankly in the neighbourhood of Newgate. The clothes
+of Peachum and Lockit would be as equally unfashionable and just as
+possible thirty years before as thirty years after 1728, whilst the
+footpads are clad in whatever Georgian rags that happened to come their
+way. With the women I have taken greater licence. I have kept faithfully
+to the outlines of the age, the close-fitting bodice, the flat hoops,
+the square-toed shoes, but I have taken considerable liberties in the
+manner in which I have shorn them of ribbons and laces and--for the sake
+of dramatic simplicity, be it remembered--I have eliminated yards of
+trimming.
+
+Just so much explanation is, I consider, due to the public, but whether
+I have been justified by results or whether, under the sacred mask of
+Drama, I have erred unpardonably, are points which, so long as this
+revival draws attention to a forgotten masterpiece, can be of no very
+great importance.
+
+C. LOVAT FRASER.
+
+_Chelsea_,
+
+_February 1921_.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
+
+
+MEN.
+
+  MR. PEACHUM
+  LOCKIT
+  MACHEATH
+  FILCH
+  JEMMY TWITCHER      }
+  CROOK-FINGER'D JACK }
+  WAT DREARY          }
+  ROBIN OF BAGSHOT    } _Macheath's_ Gang.
+  NIMMING NED         }
+  HARRY PADDINGTON    }
+  MAT OF THE MINT     }
+  BEN BUDGE           }
+  BEGGAR
+  PLAYER
+
+
+WOMEN.
+
+  MRS. PEACHUM
+  POLLY PEACHUM
+  LUCY LOCKIT
+  DIANA TRAPES
+  MRS. COAXER    }
+  DOLLY TRULL    }
+  MRS. VIXEN     }
+  BETTY DOXY     } _Women of the Town_.
+  JENNY DIVER    }
+  MRS. SLAMMEKIN }
+  SUKY TAWDRY    }
+  MOLLY BRAZEN   }
+
+
+Constables, Drawers, Turnkey, etc.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+BEGGAR, PLAYER.
+
+Beggar.
+
+If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure no-body can dispute mine.
+I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly
+Festivals at _St. Giles's_. I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches,
+and am welcome to a Dinner there whenever I please, which is more than
+most Poets can say.
+
+_Player._ As we live by the Muses, it is but Gratitude in us to
+encourage Poetical Merit wherever we find it. The Muses, contrary to all
+other Ladies, pay no Distinction to Dress, and never partially mistake
+the Pertness of Embroidery for Wit, nor the Modesty of Want for Dulness.
+Be the Author who he will, we push his Play as far as it will go. So
+(though you are in Want) I wish you success heartily.
+
+_Beggar._ This piece I own was originally writ for the celebrating the
+Marriage of _James Chaunter_ and _Moll Lay_, two most excellent
+Ballad-Singers. I have introduced the Similes that are in all your
+celebrated _Operas_: The _Swallow_, the _Moth_, the _Bee_, the _Ship_,
+the _Flower_, &c. Besides, I have a Prison-Scene, which the Ladies
+always reckon charmingly pathetic. As to the Parts, I have observed such
+a nice Impartiality to our two Ladies, that it is impossible for either
+of them to take Offence. I hope I may be forgiven, that I have not made
+my Opera throughout unnatural, like those in vogue; for I have no
+Recitative; excepting this, as I have consented to have neither Prologue
+nor Epilogue, it must be allowed an Opera in all its Forms. The Piece
+indeed hath been heretofore frequently represented by ourselves in our
+Great Room at _St. Giles's_, so that I cannot too often acknowledge your
+Charity in bringing it now on the Stage.
+
+_Player._ But I see it is time for us to withdraw; the Actors are
+preparing to begin. Play away the Overture.
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+
+OVERTURE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ACT I. SCENE I.
+
+_SCENE, _Peachum's_ House._
+
+  _Peachum_ sitting at a Table with a large Book of Accounts before him.
+
+
+AIR I. An old Woman clothed in Gray, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Through all the Employments of Life
+    Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;
+  Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:
+    All Professions be-rogue one another:
+  The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,
+    The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:
+  And the Statesman, because he's so great,
+    Thinks his Trade as honest as mine.
+
+A Lawyer is an honest Employment, so is mine. Like me too he acts in a
+double Capacity, both against Rogues and for 'em; for 'tis but fitting
+that we should protect and encourage Cheats, since we live by them.
+
+  Enter _Filch_.
+
+_Filch._ Sir, _Black Moll_ hath sent word her Trial comes on in the
+Afternoon, and she hopes you will order Matters so as to bring her off.
+
+_Peachum._ As the Wench is very active and industrious, you may satisfy
+her that I'll soften the Evidence.
+
+_Filch._ _Tom Gagg_, Sir, is found guilty.
+
+_Peachum._ A lazy Dog! When I took him the time before, I told him what
+he would come to if he did not mend his Hand. This is Death without
+Reprieve. I may venture to Book him [writes.] For _Tom Gagg_, forty
+Pounds. Let _Betty Sly_ know that I'll save her from Transportation, for
+I can get more by her staying in _England_.
+
+_Filch._ _Betty_ hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year than any
+five of the Gang; and in truth, 'tis a pity to lose so good a Customer.
+
+_Peachum._ If none of the Gang take her off, she may, in the common
+course of Business, live a Twelve-month longer. I love to let Women
+scape. A good Sportsman always lets the Hen Partridges fly, because the
+Breed of the Game depends upon them. Besides, here the Law allows us no
+Reward; there is nothing to be got by the Death of Women-- except our
+Wives.
+
+_Filch._ Without dispute, she is a fine Woman! 'Twas to her I was
+obliged for my Education, and (to say a bold Word) she hath trained up
+more young Fellows to the Business than the Gaming table.
+
+_Peachum._ Truly, _Filch_, thy Observation is right. We and the Surgeons
+are more beholden to Women than all the Professions besides.
+
+
+AIR II. The bonny gray-ey'd Morn, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Filch._ 'Tis Woman that seduces all Mankind,
+    By her we first were taught the wheedling Arts:
+  Her very Eyes can cheat; when most she's kind,
+    She tricks us of our Money with our Hearts.
+  For her, like Wolves by Night we roam for Prey,
+    And practise ev'ry Fraud to bribe her Charms;
+  For Suits of Love, like Law, are won by Pay,
+    And Beauty must be fee'd into our Arms.
+
+_Peachum._ But make haste to _Newgate_, Boy, and let my Friends know
+what I intend; for I love to make them easy one way or other.
+
+_Filch._ When a Gentleman is long kept in suspence, Penitence may break
+his Spirit ever after. Besides, Certainty gives a Man a good Air upon
+his Trial, and makes him risk another without Fear or Scruple. But I'll
+away, for 'tis a Pleasure to be the Messenger of Comfort to Friends in
+Affliction.    [Exit _Filch_.
+
+_Peachum._ But 'tis now high time to look about me for a decent
+Execution against next Sessions. I hate a lazy Rogue, by whom one can
+get nothing 'till he is hang'd. A Register of the Gang, [Reading.]
+Crook-finger'd _Jack_. A Year and a half in the Service; Let me see how
+much the Stock owes to his industry; one, two, three, four, five Gold
+Watches, and seven Silver ones. A mighty clean-handed Fellow! Sixteen
+Snuff-boxes, five of them of true Gold. Six Dozen of Handkerchiefs, four
+silver-hilted Swords, half a Dozen of Shirts, three Tye-Periwigs, and a
+Piece of Broad-Cloth. Considering these are only the Fruits of his
+leisure Hours, I don't know a prettier Fellow, for no Man alive hath a
+more engaging Presence of Mind upon the Road. _Wat Dreary_, alias _Brown
+Will_, an irregular Dog, who hath an underhand way of disposing of his
+Goods. I'll try him only for a Sessions or two longer upon his
+Good-behaviour. _Harry Paddington_, a poor petty-larceny Rascal, without
+the least Genius; that Fellow, though he were to live these six Months,
+will never come to the Gallows with any Credit. Slippery _Sam_; he goes
+off the next Sessions, for the Villain hath the Impudence to have Views
+of following his Trade as a Tailor, which he calls an honest Employment.
+_Mat of the Mint_; listed not above a Month ago, a promising sturdy
+Fellow, and diligent in his way; somewhat too bold and hasty, and may
+raise good Contributions on the Public, if he does not cut himself short
+by Murder. _Tom Tipple_, a guzzling soaking Sot, who is always too drunk
+to stand himself, or to make others stand. A Cart is absolutely
+necessary for him. _Robin of Bagshot_, alias _Gorgon_, alias _Bluff
+Bob_, alias _Carbuncle_, alias _Bob Booty_.
+
+  Enter _Mrs. Peachum_.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ What of _Bob Booty_, Husband? I hope nothing bad hath
+betided him. You know, my Dear, he's a favourite Customer of mine. 'Twas
+he made me a present of this Ring.
+
+_Peachum._ I have set his Name down in the Black List, that's all, my
+Dear; he spends his Life among Women, and as soon as his Money is gone,
+one or other of the Ladies will hang him for the Reward, and there's
+forty Pound lost to us for-ever.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ You know, my Dear, I never meddle in matters of Death;
+I always leave those Affairs to you. Women indeed are bitter bad Judges
+in these cases, for they are so partial to the Brave that they think
+every Man handsome who is going to the Camp or the Gallows.
+
+
+AIR III. Cold and raw, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If any Wench _Venus's_ Girdle wear,
+    Though she be never so ugly;
+  Lilies and Roses will quickly appear,
+    And her Face look wond'rous smugly.
+  Beneath the left Ear so fit but a Cord,
+    (A Rope so charming a Zone is!)
+  The Youth in his Cart hath the Air of a Lord,
+    And we cry, There dies an _Adonis_!
+
+But really, Husband, you should not be too hard-hearted, for you never
+had a finer, braver set of Men than at present. We have not had a Murder
+among them all, these seven Months. And truly, my Dear, that is a great
+Blessing.
+
+_Peachum._ What a dickens is the Woman always a whimpring about Murder
+for? No Gentleman is ever look'd upon the worse for killing a Man in his
+own Defence; and if Business cannot be carried on without it, what would
+you have a Gentleman do?
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ If I am in the wrong, my Dear, you must excuse me, for
+no body can help the Frailty of an over-scrupulous Conscience.
+
+_Peachum._ Murder is as fashionable a Crime as a Man can be guilty of.
+How many fine Gentlemen have we in _Newgate_ every Year, purely upon
+that Article! If they have wherewithal to persuade the Jury to bring it
+in Manslaughter, what are they the worse for it? So, my Dear, have done
+upon this Subject. Was Captain _Macheath_ here this Morning, for the
+Bank-Notes he left with you last Week?
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Yes, my Dear; and though the Bank hath stopt Payment, he
+was so chearful and so agreeable! Sure there is not a finer Gentleman
+upon the Road than the Captain! if he comes from _Bagshot_ at any
+reasonable Hour, he hath promis'd to make one this Evening with _Polly_
+and me, and _Bob Booty_ at a Party of Quadrille. Pray, my Dear, is the
+Captain rich?
+
+_Peachum._ The Captain keeps too good Company ever to grow rich.
+_Marybone_ and the Chocolate-houses are his Undoing. The Man that
+proposes to get Money by play should have the Education of a fine
+Gentleman, and be train'd up to it from his Youth.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Really, I am sorry upon _Polly's_ Account the Captain
+hath not more Discretion. What Business hath he to keep Company with
+Lords and Gentlemen? he should leave them to prey upon one another.
+
+_Peachum._ Upon _Polly's_ Account! What, a Plague, does the Woman mean?
+--Upon _Polly's_ Account!
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Captain _Macheath_ is very fond of the Girl.
+
+_Peachum._ And what then?
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ If I have any Skill in the Ways of Women, I am sure
+_Polly_ thinks him a very pretty Man.
+
+_Peachum._ And what then? You would not be so mad to have the Wench
+marry him! Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their
+Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ But if _Polly_ should be in Love, how should we help
+her, or how can she help herself? Poor Girl, I am in the utmost Concern
+about her.
+
+
+AIR IV. Why is your faithful Slave disdain'd? &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If Love the Virgin's Heart invade,
+  How, like a Moth, the simple Maid
+    Still plays about the Flame!
+  If soon she be not made a Wife,
+  Her Honour's sing'd, and then for Life,
+    She's-- what I dare not name.
+
+_Peachum._ Look ye, Wife. A handsome Wench in our way of Business is as
+profitable as at the Bar of a _Temple_ Coffee-House, who looks upon it
+as her livelihood to grant every Liberty but one. You see I would
+indulge the Girl as far as prudently we can. In any thing, but Marriage!
+After that, my Dear, how shall we be safe? Are we not then in her
+Husband's Power? For a Husband hath the absolute Power over all a Wife's
+Secrets but her own. If the Girl had the Discretion of a Court-Lady, who
+can have a Dozen young Fellows at her Ear without complying with one,
+I should not matter it; but _Polly_ is Tinder, and a Spark will at once
+set her on a Flame. Married! If the Wench does not know her own Profit,
+sure she knows her own Pleasure better than to make herself a Property!
+My Daughter to me should be, like a Court-Lady to a Minister of State,
+a Key to the whole Gang. Married! If the Affair is not already done,
+I'll terrify her from it, by the Example of our Neighbours.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ May-hap, my Dear, you may injure the Girl. She loves to
+imitate the fine Ladies, and she may only allow the Captain Liberties in
+the view of Interest.
+
+_Peachum._ But 'tis your Duty, my Dear, to warn the Girl against her
+Ruin, and to instruct her how to make the most of her Beauty. I'll go to
+her this moment, and sift her. In the meantime, Wife, rip out the
+Coronets and Marks of these Dozen of Cambric Handkerchiefs, for I can
+dispose of them this Afternoon to a Chap in the City.
+
+    [Exit _Peachum_.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Never was a Man more out of the way in an Argument than
+my Husband! Why must our _Polly_, forsooth, differ from her Sex, and
+love only her Husband? And why must _Polly's_ Marriage, contrary to all
+Observations, make her the less followed by other Men? All Men are
+Thieves in Love, and like a Woman the better for being another's
+Property.
+
+
+AIR V. Of all the simple Things we do, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  A Maid is like the Golden Ore,
+    Which hath Guineas intrinsical in't,
+  Whose Worth is never known before
+    It is try'd and imprest in the Mint.
+  A Wife's like a Guinea in Gold,
+    Stampt with the Name of her Spouse;
+  Now here, now there; is bought, or is sold;
+    And is current in every House.
+
+  Enter _Filch_.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Come hither, _Filch_. I am as fond of this Child, as
+though my Mind misgave me he were my own. He hath as fine a Hand at
+picking a Pocket as a Woman, and is as nimble-finger'd as a Juggler. If
+an unlucky Session does not cut the Rope of thy Life, I pronounce, Boy,
+thou wilt be a great Man in History. Where was your Post last Night, my
+Boy?
+
+_Filch._ I ply'd at the Opera, Madam; and considering 'twas neither dark
+nor rainy, so that there was no great Hurry in getting Chairs and
+Coaches, made a tolerable Hand on't. These seven Handkerchiefs, Madam.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Colour'd ones, I see. They are of sure Sale from our
+Warehouse at _Redriff_ among the Seamen.
+
+_Filch._ And this Snuff-box.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Set in Gold! A pretty Encouragement this to a young
+Beginner.
+
+_Filch._ I had a fair Tug at a charming Gold Watch. Pox take the Tailors
+for making the Fobs so deep and narrow! It stuck by the way, and I was
+forc'd to make my Escape under a Coach. Really, Madam, I fear I shall be
+cut off in the Flower of my Youth, so that every now and then (since I
+was pumpt) I have Thoughts of taking up and going to Sea.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ You should go to _Hockley in the Hole_, and to
+_Marybone_, Child, to learn Valour. These are the Schools that have bred
+so many brave Men. I thought, Boy, by this time, thou hadst lost Fear as
+well as Shame. Poor Lad! how little does he know as yet of the _Old
+Baily_! For the first Fact I'll insure thee from being hang'd; and going
+to Sea, _Filch_, will come time enough upon a Sentence of
+Transportation. But now, since you have nothing better to do, ev'n go to
+your Book, and learn your Catechism; for really a Man makes but an ill
+Figure in the Ordinary's Paper, who cannot give a satisfactory Answer to
+his Questions. But, hark you, my Lad. Don't tell me a Lye; for you know
+I hate a Liar. Do you know of anything that hath pass'd between Captain
+_Macheath_ and our _Polly_?
+
+_Filch._ I beg you, Madam, don't ask me; for I must either tell a Lye to
+you or to Miss _Polly_; for I promis'd her I would not tell.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ But when the Honour of our Family is concern'd--
+
+_Filch._ I shall lead a sad Life with Miss _Polly_, if ever she comes to
+know that I told you. Besides, I would not willingly forfeit my own
+Honour by betraying any body.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Yonder comes my Husband and _Polly_. Come, _Filch_, you
+shall go with me into my own Room, and tell me the whole Story. I'll
+give thee a Glass of a most delicious Cordial that I keep for my own
+drinking.
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+  Enter _Peachum_, _Polly_.
+
+_Polly._ I know as well as any of the fine Ladies how to make the most
+of myself and of my Man too. A Woman knows how to be mercenary, though
+she hath never been in a Court or at an Assembly. We have it in our
+Natures, Papa. If I allow Captain _Macheath_ some trifling Liberties,
+I have this Watch and other visible Marks of his Favour to shew for it.
+A Girl who cannot grant some Things, and refuse what is most material,
+will make but a poor hand of her Beauty, and soon be thrown upon the
+Common.
+
+
+AIR VI. What shall I do to shew how much I love her, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Virgins are like the fair Flower in its Lustre,
+    Which in the Garden enamels the Ground;
+  Near it the Bees in play flutter and cluster,
+    And gaudy Butterflies frolick around.
+  But, when once pluck'd, 'tis no longer alluring,
+    To _Covent-Garden_ 'tis sent (as yet sweet),
+  There fades, and shrinks, and grows past all enduring,
+    Rots, stinks, and dies, and is trod under feet.
+
+_Peachum._ You know, _Polly_, I am not against your toying and trifling
+with a Customer in the way of Business, or to get out a Secret, or so.
+But if I find out that you have play'd the Fool and are married, you
+Jade you, I'll cut your Throat, Hussy. Now you know my Mind.
+
+  Enter _Mrs. Peachum_, in a very great Passion.
+
+
+AIR VII. Oh _London_ is a fine Town.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Our _Polly_ is a sad Slut!
+      nor heeds what we have taught her.
+  I wonder any Man alive
+      will ever rear a Daughter!
+  For she must have both Hoods and Gowns,
+      and Hoops to swell her Pride,
+  With Scarfs and Stays, and Gloves and Lace;
+      and she will have Men beside;
+  And when she's drest with Care and Cost,
+      all tempting, fine and gay,
+  As Men should serve a Cucumber,
+      she flings herself away.
+  Our _Polly_ is a sad Slut! &c.
+
+You Baggage! you Hussy! you inconsiderate Jade! had you been hang'd, it
+would not have vex'd me, for that might have been your Misfortune; but
+to do such a mad thing by Choice; The Wench is married, Husband.
+
+_Peachum._ Married! the Captain is a bold Man, and will risk any thing
+for Money; to be sure he believes her a Fortune. Do you think your
+Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we
+had been married? Baggage!
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ I knew she was always a proud Slut; and now the Wench
+hath play'd the Fool and Married, because forsooth she would do like the
+Gentry. Can you support the Expence of a Husband, Hussy, in Gaming,
+Drinking and Whoring? Have you Money enough to carry on the daily
+Quarrels of Man and Wife about who shall squander most? There are not
+many Husbands and Wives, who can bear the Charges of plaguing one
+another in a handsom way. If you must be married, could you introduce no
+body into our Family but a Highwayman? Why, thou foolish Jade, thou wilt
+be as ill-us'd, and as much neglected, as if thou hadst married a Lord!
+
+_Peachum._ Let not your Anger, my Dear, break through the Rules of
+Decency, for the Captain looks upon himself in the Military Capacity, as
+a Gentleman by his Profession. Besides what he hath already, I know he
+is in a fair way of getting, or of dying; and both these ways, let me
+tell you, are most excellent Chances for a Wife. Tell me, Hussy, are you
+ruin'd or no?
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ With _Polly's_ Fortune, she might very well have gone
+off to a Person of Distinction. Yes, that you might, you pouting Slut!
+
+_Peachum._ What is the Wench dumb? Speak, or I'll make you plead by
+squeezing out an Answer from you. Are you really bound Wife to him, or
+are you only upon liking?    [Pinches her.
+
+_Polly._ Oh!    [Screaming.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ How the Mother is to be pitied who hath handsom
+Daughters! Locks, Bolts, Bars, and Lectures of Morality are nothing to
+them: They break through them all. They have as much Pleasure in
+cheating a Father and Mother, as in cheating at Cards.
+
+_Peachum._ Why, _Polly_, I shall soon know if you are married, by
+_Macheath's_ keeping from our House.
+
+
+AIR VIII. Grim King of the Ghosts, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ Can Love be control'd by Advice?
+    Will _Cupid_ our Mothers obey?
+  Though my Heart were as frozen as Ice,
+    At his Flame 'twould have melted away.
+  When he kist me so closely he prest,
+    'Twas so sweet that I must have comply'd:
+  So I thought it both safest and best
+    To marry, for fear you should chide.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Then all the Hopes of our Family are gone for ever and
+ever!
+
+_Peachum._ And _Macheath_ may hang his Father and Mother-in-law, in hope
+to get into their Daughter's Fortune.
+
+_Polly._ I did not marry him (as 'tis the Fashion) coolly and
+deliberately for Honour or Money. But, I love him.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Love him! worse and worse! I thought the Girl had been
+better bred. Oh Husband, Husband! her Folly makes me mad! my Head swims!
+I'm distracted! I can't support myself-- Oh!    [Faints.
+
+_Peachum._ See, Wench, to what a Condition you have reduc'd your poor
+Mother! a Glass of Cordial, this instant. How the poor Woman takes it to
+heart!
+
+  [_Polly_ goes out, and returns with it.
+
+Ah, Hussy, now this is the only Comfort your Mother has left!
+
+_Polly._ Give her another Glass, Sir! my Mama drinks double the Quantity
+whenever she is out of Order. This, you see, fetches her.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ The Girl shews such a Readiness, and so much Concern,
+that I could almost find in my Heart to forgive her.
+
+
+AIR IX. O _Jenny_, O _Jenny_, where hast thou been.
+
+[Music]
+
+  O _Polly_, you might have toy'd and kist.
+  By keeping Men off, you keep them on.
+
+  _Polly._ But he so teaz'd me,
+      And he so pleas'd me,
+  What I did, you must have done.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Not with a Highwayman. --You sorry Slut!
+
+_Peachum._ A Word with you, Wife. 'Tis no new thing for a Wench to take
+Man without Consent of Parents. You know 'tis the Frailty of Women, my
+Dear.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a
+Woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never
+is the time to make her Fortune. After that, she hath nothing to do but
+to guard herself from being found out, and she may do what she pleases.
+
+_Peachum._ Make yourself a little easy; I have a Thought shall soon set
+all Matters again to rights. Why so melancholy, _Polly_? since what is
+done cannot be undone, we must all endeavour to make the best of it.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Well, _Polly_; as far as one Woman can forgive another,
+I forgive thee. --Your Father is too fond of you, Hussy.
+
+_Polly._ Then all my Sorrows are at an end.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ A mighty likely Speech in troth, for a Wench who is just
+married!
+
+
+AIR X. _Thomas_, I cannot, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ I, like a Ship in Storms, was tost;
+  Yet afraid to put in to Land:
+  For seiz'd in the Port the Vessel's lost,
+  Whose Treasure is contreband.
+    The Waves are laid,
+    My Duty's paid.
+  O Joy beyond Expression!
+    Thus, safe a-shore,
+    I ask no more,
+  My All is in my Possession.
+
+_Peachum._ I hear Customers in t'other Room: Go, talk with 'em, _Polly_;
+but come to us again, as soon as they are gone. --But, hark ye, Child,
+if 'tis the Gentleman who was here Yesterday about the Repeating Watch;
+say, you believe we can't get Intelligence of it 'till to-morrow. For I
+lent it to _Suky Straddle_, to make a figure with it to-night at a
+Tavern in _Drury-Lane_. If t'other Gentleman calls for the Silver-hilted
+Sword; you know _Beetle-brow'd Jemmy_ hath it on, and he doth not come
+from _Tunbridge_ 'till _Tuesday_ Night; so that it cannot be had 'till
+then.
+
+    [Exit _Polly_.
+
+_Peachum._ Dear Wife, be a little pacified, Don't let your Passion run
+away with your Senses. _Polly_, I grant you, hath done a rash thing.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ If she had only an Intrigue with the Fellow, why the
+very best Families have excus'd and huddled up a Frailty of that sort.
+'Tis Marriage, Husband, that makes it a Blemish.
+
+_Peachum._ But Money, Wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for Reputations,
+there is not a Spot or a Stain but what it can take out. A rich Rogue
+now-a-days is fit Company for any Gentleman; and the World, my Dear,
+hath not such a Contempt for Roguery as you imagine. I tell you, Wife,
+I can make this Match turn to our Advantage.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ I am very sensible, Husband, that Captain _Macheath_ is
+worth Money, but I am in doubt whether he hath not two or three Wives
+already, and then if he should die in a Session or two, _Polly's_ Dower
+would come into Dispute.
+
+_Peachum._ That, indeed, is a Point which ought to be consider'd.
+
+
+AIR XI. A Soldier and a Sailor.
+
+[Music]
+
+  A Fox may steal your Hens, Sir,
+  A Whore your Health and Pence, Sir,
+  Your Daughter rob your Chest, Sir,
+  Your Wife may steal your Rest, Sir.
+    A Thief your Goods and Plate.
+  But this is all but picking,
+  With Rest, Pence, Chest and Chicken;
+  It ever was decreed, Sir,
+  If Lawyer's Hand is fee'd, Sir,
+    He steals your whole Estate.
+
+The Lawyers are bitter Enemies to those in our Way. They don't care that
+any body should get a clandestine Livelihood but themselves.
+
+  Enter _Polly_.
+
+_Polly._ 'Twas only _Nimming Ned_. He brought in a Damask
+Window-Curtain, a Hoop-Petticoat, a pair of Silver Candlesticks,
+a Periwig, and one Silk Stocking, from the Fire that happen'd last
+Night.
+
+_Peachum._ There is not a Fellow that is cleverer in his way, and saves
+more Goods out of the Fire than _Ned_. But now, _Polly_, to your Affair;
+for Matters must not be left as they are. You are married then, it
+seems?
+
+_Polly._ Yes, Sir.
+
+_Peachum._ And how do you propose to live, Child?
+
+_Polly._ Like other Women, Sir, upon the Industry of my Husband.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ What, is the Wench turn'd Fool? A Highwayman's Wife,
+like a Soldier's, hath as little of his Pay, as of his Company.
+
+_Peachum._ And had not you the common Views of a Gentlewoman in your
+Marriage, _Polly_?
+
+_Polly._ I don't know what you mean, Sir.
+
+_Peachum._ Of a Jointure, and of being a Widow.
+
+_Polly._ But I love him, Sir; how then could I have Thoughts of parting
+with him?
+
+_Peachum._ Parting with him! Why, this is the whole Scheme and Intention
+of all Marriage-Articles. The comfortable Estate of Widow-hood, is the
+only Hope that keeps up a Wife's Spirits. Where is the Woman who would
+scruple to be a Wife, if she had it in her Power to be a Widow, whenever
+she pleas'd? If you have any Views of this sort, _Polly_, I shall think
+the Match not so very unreasonable.
+
+_Polly._ How I dread to hear your Advice! Yet I must beg you to explain
+yourself.
+
+_Peachum._ Secure what he hath got, have him peach'd the next Sessions,
+and then at once you are made a rich Widow.
+
+_Polly._ What, murder the Man I love! The Blood runs cold at my Heart
+with the very thought of it.
+
+_Peachum._ Fie, _Polly_! What hath Murder to do in the Affair? Since the
+thing sooner or later must happen, I dare say, the Captain himself would
+like that we should get the Reward for his Death sooner than a Stranger.
+Why, _Polly_, the Captain knows, that as 'tis his Employment to rob, so
+'tis ours to take Robbers; every Man in his Business. So that there is
+no Malice in the Case.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Ay, Husband, now you have nick'd the Matter. To have him
+peach'd is the only thing could ever make me forgive her.
+
+
+AIR XII. Now ponder well, ye Parents dear.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ O ponder well! be not severe;
+    So save a wretched Wife!
+  For on the Rope that hangs my Dear
+    Depends poor _Polly's_ Life.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ But your Duty to your Parents, Hussy, obliges you to
+hang him. What would many a Wife give for such an Opportunity!
+
+_Polly._ What is a Jointure, what is Widow-hood to me? I know my Heart.
+I cannot survive him.
+
+
+AIR XIII. Le printems rapelle aux armes.
+
+[Music]
+
+  The Turtle thus with plaintive Crying,
+      Her Lover dying,
+  The Turtle thus with plaintive Crying,
+      Laments her Dove.
+  Down she drops quite spent with Sighing.
+  Pair'd in Death, as pair'd in Love.
+
+Thus, Sir, it will happen to your poor _Polly_.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ What, is the Fool in Love in earnest then? I hate thee
+for being particular: Why, Wench, thou art a Shame to thy very Sex.
+
+_Polly._ But hear me, Mother. --If you ever lov'd--
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Those cursed Play-Books she reads have been her Ruin.
+One Word more, Hussy, and I shall knock your Brains out, if you have
+any.
+
+_Peachum._ Keep out of the way, _Polly_, for fear of Mischief, and
+consider of what is proposed to you.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Away, Hussy. Hang your Husband, and be dutiful.
+
+    [Exit _Polly_.
+
+  Re-enter _Polly_, and listens behind column.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ The Thing, Husband, must and shall be done. For the sake
+of Intelligence we must take other measures, and have him peached the
+next Session without her Consent. If she will not know her Duty, we know
+ours.
+
+_Peachum._ But really, my Dear, it grieves one's Heart to take off a
+great Man. When I consider his Personal Bravery, his fine Stratagem, how
+much we have already got by him, and how much more we may get, methinks
+I can't find in my Heart to have a hand in his Death. I wish you could
+have made _Polly_ undertake it.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ But in a Case of Necessity-- our own Lives are in
+danger.
+
+_Peachum._ Then, indeed, we must comply with the Customs of the World,
+and make Gratitude give way to Interest. --He shall be taken off.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ I'll undertake to manage _Polly_.
+
+_Peachum._ And I'll prepare Matters for the _Old-Baily_.
+
+    [Exeunt severally.
+
+_Polly._ Now I'm a Wretch, indeed. --Methinks I see him already in the
+Cart, sweeter and more lovely than the Nosegay in his Hand! --I hear the
+Crowd extolling his Resolution and Intrepidity! --What Vollies of Sighs
+are sent from the Windows of _Holborn_, that so comely a Youth should be
+brought to Disgrace! --I see him at the Tree! The whole Circle are in
+Tears! --even Butchers weep! --_Jack Ketch_ himself hesitates to perform
+his Duty, and would be glad to lose his Fee, by a Reprieve. What then
+will become of _Polly_! --As yet I may inform him of their Design, and
+aid him in his Escape. --It shall be so-- But then he flies, absents
+himself, and I bar myself from his dear dear Conversation! That too will
+distract me. --If he keep out of the way, my Papa and Mama may in time
+relent, and we may be happy. --If he stays, he is hang'd, and then he is
+lost for ever! --He intended to lie conceal'd in my Room, 'till the Dusk
+of the Evening: If they are abroad I'll this Instant let him out, lest
+some Accident should prevent him.
+
+    [Exit, and returns with _Macheath_.
+
+
+_Macheath._
+
+AIR XIV. Pretty Parrot, say--
+
+[Music]
+
+    _Macheath._ Pretty _Polly_, say,
+    When I was away,
+  Did your fancy never stray
+    To some newer Lover?
+
+      _Polly._ Without Disguise,
+      Heaving Sighs,
+      Doting Eyes,
+  My constant Heart discover.
+    Fondly let me loll!
+
+    _Macheath._ O pretty, pretty _Poll_.
+
+_Polly._ And are _you_ as fond as ever, my Dear?
+
+_Macheath._ Suspect my Honour, my Courage, suspect any thing but my
+Love. --May my Pistols miss Fire, and my Mare slip her Shoulder while I
+am pursu'd, if I ever forsake thee!
+
+_Polly._ Nay, my Dear, I have no Reason to doubt you, for I find in the
+Romance you lent me, none of the great Heroes were ever false in Love.
+
+
+AIR XV. Pray, Fair one, be kind--
+
+[Music]
+
+    _Macheath._ My Heart was so free,
+    It rov'd like the Bee,
+  'Till _Polly_ my Passion requited;
+    I sipt each Flower,
+    I chang'd every Hour,
+  But here every Flower is united.
+
+_Polly._ Were you sentenc'd to Transportation, sure, my Dear, you could
+not leave me behind you-- could you?
+
+_Macheath._ Is there any Power, any Force that could tear me from thee?
+You might sooner tear a Pension out of the Hands of a Courtier, a Fee
+from a Lawyer, a pretty Woman from a Looking-glass, or any Woman from
+Quadrille. --But to tear me from thee is impossible!
+
+
+AIR XVI. Over the Hills and far away.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Were I laid on _Greenland's_ Coast,
+  And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass;
+  Warm amidst eternal Frost,
+  Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.
+
+  _Polly._ Were I sold on _Indian_ Soil,
+  Soon as the burning Day was clos'd,
+  I could mock the sultry Toil
+  When on my Charmer's Breast repos'd.
+
+  _Macheath._ And I would love you all the Day,
+
+  _Polly._ Every Night would kiss and play,
+
+  _Macheath._ If with me you'd fondly stray
+
+  _Polly._ Over the Hills and far away.
+
+_Polly._ Yes, I would go with thee. But oh! --how shall I speak it?
+I must be torn from thee. We must part.
+
+_Macheath._ How! Part!
+
+_Polly._ We must, we must. --My Papa and Mama are set against thy Life.
+They now, even now are in Search after thee. They are preparing Evidence
+against thee. Thy Life depends upon a moment.
+
+
+AIR XVII. Gin thou wert mine awn thing--
+
+[Music]
+
+  Oh what Pain it is to part!
+  Can I leave thee, can I leave thee?
+  O what pain it is to part!
+  Can thy _Polly_ ever leave thee?
+  But lest Death my Love should thwart,
+  And bring thee to the fatal Cart,
+  Thus I tear thee from my bleeding Heart!
+    Fly hence, and let me leave thee.
+
+One Kiss and then-- one Kiss-- be gone-- farewel.
+
+_Macheath._ My Hand, my Heart, my Dear, is so riveted to thine, that I
+cannot unloose my Hold.
+
+_Polly._ But my Papa may intercept thee, and then I should lose the very
+glimmering of Hope. A few Weeks, perhaps, may reconcile us all. Shall
+thy _Polly_ hear from thee?
+
+_Macheath._ Must I then go?
+
+_Polly._ And will not Absence change your Love?
+
+_Macheath._ If you doubt it, let me stay-- and be hang'd.
+
+_Polly._ O how I fear! how I tremble! --Go-- but when Safety will give
+you leave, you will be sure to see me again; for 'till then _Polly_ is
+wretched.
+
+
+AIR XVIII. O the Broom, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ The Miser thus a Shilling sees,
+    Which he's oblig'd to pay,
+  With sighs resigns it by degrees,
+    And fears 'tis gone for ay.
+
+    [Parting, and looking back at each other with fondness; he at one
+    Door, she at the other.
+
+  _Polly._ The Boy, thus, when his Sparrow's flown,
+    The Bird in Silence eyes;
+  But soon as out of Sight 'tis gone,
+    Whines, whimpers, sobs and cries.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ACT II. SCENE I.
+
+_A TAVERN near _Newgate_._
+
+  _Jemmy Twitcher_, _Crook-finger'd Jack_, _Wat Dreary_, _Robin of
+  Bagshot_, _Nimming Ned_, _Henry Paddington_, _Matt of the Mint_,
+  _Ben Budge_, and the rest of the Gang, at the Table, with Wine,
+  Brandy and Tobacco.
+
+_Ben._ But pr'ythee, _Matt_, what is become of thy Brother _Tom_? I have
+not seen him since my Return from Transportation.
+
+_Matt._ Poor Brother _Tom_ had an Accident this time Twelve-month, and
+so clever a made fellow he was, that I could not save him from those
+fleaing Rascals the Surgeons; and now, poor Man, he is among the Otamys
+at _Surgeons Hall_.
+
+_Ben._ So it seems, his Time was come.
+
+_Jemmy._ But the present Time is ours, and no body alive hath more. Why
+are the Laws levell'd at us? are we more dishonest than the rest of
+Mankind? What we win, Gentlemen, is our own by the Law of Arms, and the
+Right of Conquest.
+
+_Crook._ Where shall we find such another Set of Practical Philosophers,
+who to a Man are above the Fear of Death?
+
+_Wat._ Sound Men, and true!
+
+_Robin._ Of try'd Courage, and indefatigable Industry!
+
+_Ned._ Who is there here that would not die for his Friend?
+
+_Harry._ Who is there here that would betray him for his Interest?
+
+_Matt._ Shew me a Gang of Courtiers that can say as much.
+
+_Ben._ We are for a just Partition of the World, for every Man hath a
+Right to enjoy Life.
+
+_Matt._ We retrench the Superfluities of Mankind. The World is
+avaritious, and I hate Avarice. A covetous fellow, like a Jackdaw,
+steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it. These
+are the Robbers of Mankind, for Money was made for the Free-hearted and
+Generous, and where is the Injury of taking from another, what he hath
+not the Heart to make use of?
+
+_Jemmy._ Our several Stations for the Day are fixt. Good luck attend us
+all. Fill the Glasses.
+
+
+AIR XIX. Fill every Glass, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Matt._ Fill every Glass, for Wine inspires us,
+    And fires us
+  With Courage, Love and Joy.
+  Women and Wine should life employ.
+  Is there ought else on Earth desirous?
+
+  _Chorus._ Fill every Glass, &c.
+
+_To them enter _Macheath_._
+
+_Macheath._ Gentlemen, well met. My Heart hath been with you this Hour;
+but an unexpected Affair hath detain'd me. No Ceremony, I beg you.
+
+_Matt._ We were just breaking up to go upon Duty. Am I to have the
+Honour of taking the Air with you, Sir, this Evening upon the Heath?
+I drink a Dram now and then with the Stagecoachmen in the way of
+Friendship and Intelligence; and I know that about this Time there will
+be Passengers upon the Western Road, who are worth speaking with.
+
+_Macheath._ I was to have been of that Party-- but--
+
+_Matt._ But what, Sir?
+
+_Macheath._ Is there any Man who suspects my Courage?
+
+_Matt._ We have all been Witnesses of it.
+
+_Macheath._ My Honour and Truth to the Gang?
+
+_Matt._ I'll be answerable for it.
+
+_Macheath._ In the Division of our Booty, have I ever shewn the least
+Marks of Avarice or Injustice?
+
+_Matt._ By these Questions something seems to have ruffled you. Are any
+of us suspected?
+
+_Macheath._ I have a fixed Confidence, Gentlemen, in you all, as Men of
+Honour, and as such I value and respect you. _Peachum_ is a Man that is
+useful to us.
+
+_Matt._ Is he about to play us any foul Play? I'll shoot him through the
+Head.
+
+_Macheath._ I beg you, Gentlemen, act with Conduct and Discretion.
+A Pistol is your last Resort.
+
+_Matt._ He knows nothing of this Meeting.
+
+_Macheath._ Business cannot go on without him. He is a Man who knows the
+World, and is a necessary Agent to us. We have had a slight Difference,
+and 'till it is accommodated I shall be oblig'd to keep out of his way.
+Any private Dispute of mine shall be of no ill consequence to my
+Friends. You must continue to act under his Direction, for the moment we
+break loose from him, our Gang is ruin'd.
+
+_Matt._ As a Bawd to a Whore, I grant you, he is to us of great
+Convenience.
+
+_Macheath._ Make him believe I have quitted the Gang, which I can never
+do but with Life. At our private Quarters I will continue to meet you.
+A Week or so will probably reconcile us.
+
+_Matt._ Your Instructions shall be observ'd. 'Tis now high time for us
+to repair to our several Duties; so 'till the Evening at our Quarters in
+Moor-Fields we bid you farewel.
+
+_Macheath._ I shall wish myself with you. Success attend you.
+
+    [Sits down melancholy at the Table.
+
+
+AIR XX. March in _Rinaldo_, with Drums and Trumpets.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Matt._ Let us take the Road.
+    Hark! I hear the Sound of Coaches!
+    The Hour of Attack approaches,
+  To your Arms, brave Boys, and load.
+    See the Ball I hold!
+  Let the Chymists toil like Asses,
+  Our Fire their Fire surpasses,
+    And turns all our Lead to Gold.
+
+    [The Gang, rang'd in the Front of the Stage, load their Pistols,
+    and stick them under their Girdles; then go off singing the first
+    Part in Chorus.
+
+_Macheath._ What a Fool is a fond Wench! _Polly_ is most confoundedly
+bit. --I love the Sex. And a Man who loves Money, might as well be
+contented with one Guinea, as I with one Woman. The Town perhaps have
+been as much obliged to me, for recruiting it with free-hearted Ladies,
+as to any Recruiting Officer in the Army. If it were not for us, and the
+other Gentlemen of the Sword, _Drury-Lane_ would be uninhabited.
+
+
+AIR XXI. Would you have a young Virgin, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If the Heart of a Man is deprest with Cares,
+  The Mist is dispell'd when a Woman appears;
+  Like the Notes of a Fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly
+  Raises the Spirits, and charms our Ears,
+  Roses and Lilies her Cheeks disclose,
+  But her ripe Lips are more sweet than those.
+    Press her,
+    Caress her,
+    With Blisses,
+    Her Kisses
+  Dissolve us in Pleasure, and soft Repose.
+
+I must have Women. There is nothing unbends the Mind like them. Money is
+not so strong a Cordial for the Time. Drawer-- [Enter Drawer.] Is the
+Porter gone for all the Ladies according to my Directions?
+
+_Drawer._ I expect him back every Minute. But you know, Sir, you sent
+him as far as _Hockley in the Hole_ for three of the Ladies, for one in
+_Vinegar-Yard_, and for the rest of them somewhere about
+_Lewkner's-Lane_. Sure some of them are below, for I hear the Bar-Bell.
+As they come I will shew them up. Coming, Coming.
+
+  Enter Mrs. _Coaxer_, _Dolly Trull_, Mrs. _Vixen_, _Betty Doxy_, _Jenny
+Diver_, Mrs. _Slammekin_, _Suky Tawdry_, and _Molly Brazen_.
+
+_Macheath._ Dear Mrs. _Coaxer_, you are welcome. You look charmingly
+to-day. I hope you don't want the Repairs of Quality, and lay on Paint.
+--_Dolly Trull!_ kiss me, you Slut; are you as amorous as ever, Hussy?
+You are always so taken up with stealing Hearts, that you don't allow
+yourself Time to steal any thing else. --Ah _Dolly_, thou wilt ever be a
+Coquette! Mrs. _Vixen_, I'm yours, I always lov'd a Woman of Wit and
+Spirit; they make charming Mistresses, but plaguy Wives-- _Betty Doxy!_
+Come hither, Hussy. Do you drink as hard as ever? You had better stick
+to good wholesom Beer; for in troth, _Betty_, Strong-Waters will in time
+ruin your Constitution. You should leave those to your Betters. --What!
+and my pretty _Jenny Diver_ too! As prim and demure as ever! There is
+not any Prude, though ever so high bred, hath a more sanctify'd Look,
+with a more mischievous Heart. Ah! thou art a dear artful Hypocrite.
+--Mrs. _Slammekin!_ as careless and genteel as ever! all you fine
+Ladies, who know your own Beauty, affect an Undress. --But see, here's
+_Suky Tawdry_ come to contradict what I was saying. Every thing she gets
+one way she lays out upon her Back. Why, _Suky_, you must keep at least
+a Dozen Tallymen. _Molly Brazen!_ [She kisses him.] That's well done.
+I love a free-hearted Wench. Thou hast a most agreeable Assurance, Girl,
+and art as willing as a Turtle. --But hark! I hear Music. The Harper is
+at the Door. _If Music be the Food of Love, play on._ Ere you seat
+yourselves, Ladies, what think you of a Dance? Come in. [Enter Harper.]
+Play the _French_ Tune, that Mrs. _Slammekin_ was so fond of.
+
+    [A Dance _a la ronde_ in the _French_ manner; near the end of it
+    this song and Chorus.
+
+
+AIR XXII. Cotillon.
+
+[Music]
+
+    Youth's the Season made for Joys,
+      Love is then our Duty,
+    She alone who that employs,
+      Well deserves her Beauty.
+        Let's be gay,
+        While we may,
+  Beauty's a Flower, despis'd in Decay.
+    Youth's the Season, &c.
+
+    Let us drink and sport to-day,
+      Ours is not to-morrow.
+    Love with Youth flies swift away,
+      Age is nought but Sorrow.
+        Dance and sing,
+        Time's on the Wing.
+  Life never knows the Return of Spring.
+
+  _Chorus._ Let us drink, &c.
+
+_Macheath._ Now, pray Ladies, take your Places. Here Fellow. [Pays the
+Harper.] Bid the Drawer bring us more Wine. [Exit Harper.] If any of the
+Ladies choose Ginn, I hope they will be so free to call for it.
+
+_Jenny._ You look as if you meant me. Wine is strong enough for me.
+Indeed, Sir, I never drink Strong-Waters, but when I have the Cholic.
+
+_Macheath._ Just the Excuse of the fine Ladies! Why, a Lady of Quality
+is never without the Cholic. I hope, Mrs. _Coaxer_, you have had good
+Success of late in your Visits among the Mercers.
+
+_Mrs. Coaxer._ We have so many Interlopers-- Yet with Industry, one may
+still have a little Picking. I carried a silver-flowered Lutestring, and
+a Piece of black Padesoy to Mr. _Peachum's_ Lock but last Week.
+
+_Mrs. Vixen._ There's _Molly Brazen_ hath the Ogle of a Rattle-Snake.
+She rivetted a Linen-Draper's Eye so fast upon her, that he was nick'd
+of three Pieces of Cambric before he could look off.
+
+_Brazen._ Oh dear Madam! --But sure nothing can come up to your handling
+of Laces! And then you have such a sweet deluding Tongue! To cheat a Man
+is nothing; but the Woman must have fine Parts indeed who cheats a
+Woman.
+
+_Mrs. Vixen._ Lace, Madam, lies in a small Compass, and is of easy
+Conveyance. But you are apt, Madam, to think too well of your Friends.
+
+_Mrs. Coaxer._ If any woman hath more Art than another, to be sure, 'tis
+_Jenny Diver_. Though her Fellow be never so agreeable, she can pick his
+Pocket as coolly, as if money were her only Pleasure. Now that is a
+Command of the Passions uncommon in a Woman!
+
+_Jenny._ I never go to the Tavern with a Man, but in the View of
+Business. I have other Hours, and other sort of Men for my Pleasure. But
+had I your Address, Madam--
+
+_Macheath._ Have done with your Compliments, Ladies; and drink about:
+You are not so fond of me, _Jenny_, as you use to be.
+
+_Jenny._ 'Tis not convenient, Sir, to shew my Fondness among so many
+Rivals. 'Tis your own Choice, and not the Warmth of my Inclination that
+will determine you.
+
+
+AIR XXIII. All in a misty Morning, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Before the Barn-Door crowing,
+    The Cock by Hens attended,
+  His Eyes around him throwing,
+    Stands for a while suspended.
+
+  Then One he singles from the Crew,
+    And cheers the happy Hen;
+  With how do you do, and how do you do,
+    And how do you do again.
+
+_Macheath._ Ah _Jenny!_ thou art a dear Slut.
+
+_Jenny._ A Man of Courage should never put any thing to the Risk but his
+Life. These are the Tools of a Man of Honour. Cards and Dice are only
+fit for cowardly Cheats, who prey upon their Friends.
+
+    [She takes up his Pistol. _Tawdry_ takes up the other.
+
+_Tawdry._ This, Sir, is fitter for your Hand. Besides your Loss of
+Money, 'tis a Loss to the Ladies. Gaming takes you off from Women. How
+fond could I be of you! but before Company 'tis ill bred.
+
+_Macheath._ Wanton Hussies!
+
+_Jenny._ I must and will have a Kiss to give my Wine a Zest.
+
+    [They take him about the Neck and make signs to _Peachum_ and
+    Constables, who rush in upon him.
+
+_Peachum._ I seize you, Sir, as my Prisoner.
+
+_Macheath._ Was this well done, _Jenny_? --Women are Decoy Ducks; who
+can trust them! Beasts, Jades, Jilts, Harpies, Furies, Whores!
+
+_Peachum._ Your Case, Mr. _Macheath_, is not particular. The greatest
+Heroes have been ruin'd by Women. But, to do them Justice, I must own
+they are a pretty sort of Creatures, if we could trust them. You must
+now, Sir, take your Leave of the Ladies, and if they have a mind to make
+you a Visit, they will be sure to find you at home. This Gentleman,
+Ladies, lodges in _Newgate_. Constables, wait upon the Captain to his
+Lodgings.
+
+
+AIR XXIV. When first I laid Siege to my _Chloris_, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ At the Tree I shall suffer with Pleasure,
+  At the Tree I shall suffer with Pleasure,
+    Let me go where I will,
+    In all kinds of Ill,
+  I shall find no such Furies as these are.
+
+_Peachum._ Ladies, I'll take care the Reckoning shall be discharged.
+
+    [Exit _Macheath_, guarded with _Peachum and Constables_.
+
+_Mrs. Vixen._ Look ye, Mrs. _Jenny_, though Mr. _Peachum_ may have made
+a private Bargain with you and _Suky Tawdry_ for betraying the Captain,
+as we were all assisting, we ought all to share alike.
+
+_Mrs. Coaxer._ I think Mr. _Peachum_, after so long an Acquaintance,
+might have trusted me as well as _Jenny Diver_.
+
+_Mrs. Slammekin._ I am sure at least three Men of his hanging, and in a
+Year's time too (if he did me Justice) should be set down to my Account.
+
+_Trull._ Mrs. _Slammekin_, that is not fair. For you know one of them
+was taken in Bed with me.
+
+_Jenny._ As far as a Bowl of Punch or a Treat, I believe Mrs. _Suky_
+will join with me. --As for any thing else, Ladies, you cannot in
+Conscience expect it.
+
+_Mrs. Slammekin._ Dear Madam--
+
+_Trull._ I would not for the World--
+
+_Mrs. Slammekin._ 'Tis impossible for me--
+
+_Trull._ As I hope to be sav'd, Madam--
+
+_Mrs. Slammekin._ Nay, then I must stay here all Night--
+
+_Trull._ Since you command me.
+
+    [Exeunt with great Ceremony.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE II. _Newgate._
+
+  _Lockit_, Turnkeys, _Macheath_, Constables.
+
+_Lockit._ Noble Captain, you are welcome. You have not been a Lodger of
+mine this Year and half. You know the Custom, Sir. Garnish, Captain,
+Garnish. Hand me down those Fetters there.
+
+_Macheath._ Those, Mr. _Lockit_, seem to be the heaviest of the whole
+Set. With your Leave, I should like the further Pair better.
+
+_Lockit._ Look ye, Captain, we know what is fittest for our Prisoners.
+When a Gentleman uses me with Civility, I always do the best I can to
+please him. --Hand them down I say. --We have them of all Prices, from
+one Guinea to ten, and 'tis fitting every Gentleman should please
+himself.
+
+_Macheath._ I understand you, Sir. [Gives Money.] The Fees here are so
+many, and so exorbitant, that few Fortunes can bear the Expence of
+getting off handsomly, or of dying like a Gentleman.
+
+_Lockit._ Those, I see, will fit the Captain better-- Take down the
+further Pair. Do but examine them, Sir. --Never was better work. --How
+genteely they are made! --They will fit as easy as a Glove, and the
+nicest Man in _England_ might not be asham'd to wear them. [He puts on
+the Chains.] If I had the best Gentleman in the Land in my Custody I
+could not equip him more handsomly. And so, Sir-- I now leave you to
+your private Meditations.
+
+    [Exeunt leaving _Macheath_ solus.
+
+
+_Macheath._
+
+AIR XXV. Courtiers, Courtiers, think it no Harm, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Man may escape from Rope and Gun;
+  Nay, some have out liv'd the Doctor's Pill;
+  Who takes a Woman must be undone,
+    That Basilisk is sure to kill.
+  The Fly that sips Treacle is lost in the Sweets,
+  So he that tastes Woman, Woman, Woman,
+    He that tastes Woman, ruin meets.
+
+To what a woful Plight have I brought myself! Here must I (all Day long,
+'till I am hang'd) be confin'd to hear the Reproaches of a Wench who
+lays her Ruin at my Door-- I am in the Custody of her Father, and to be
+sure, if he knows of the matter, I shall have a fine time on't betwixt
+this and my Execution. --But I promis'd the Wench Marriage-- What
+signifies a Promise to a Woman? Does not Man in Marriage itself promise
+a hundred things that he never means to perform? Do all we can, Women
+will believe us; for they look upon a Promise as an Excuse for following
+their own Inclinations. --But here comes _Lucy_, and I cannot get from
+her. --Wou'd I were deaf!
+
+  Enter _Lucy_.
+
+_Lucy._ You base Man you, --how can you look me in the Face after what
+hath passed between us? --See here, perfidious Wretch, how I am forc'd
+to bear about the Load of Infamy you have laid upon me-- O _Macheath_!
+thou hast robb'd me of my Quiet-- to see thee tortur'd would give me
+Pleasure.
+
+
+AIR XXVI. A lovely Lass to a Friar came, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Thus when a good Housewife sees a Rat
+    In her Trap in the Morning taken,
+  With Pleasure her Heart goes pit-a-pat,
+    In Revenge for her Loss of Bacon.
+      Then she throws him
+      To the Dog or Cat,
+    To be worried, crush'd and shaken.
+
+_Macheath._ Have you no Bowels, no Tenderness, my dear _Lucy_, to see a
+Husband in these Circumstances?
+
+_Lucy._ A Husband!
+
+_Macheath._ In ev'ry Respect but the Form, and that, my Dear, may be
+said over us at any time. --Friends should not insist upon Ceremonies.
+From a Man of Honour, his Word is as good as his Bond.
+
+_Lucy._ 'Tis the Pleasure of all you fine Men to insult the Women you
+have ruin'd.
+
+
+AIR XXVII. 'Twas when the Sea was roaring, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  How cruel are the Traitors,
+    Who lye and swear in jest,
+  To cheat unguarded Creatures
+    Of Virtue, Fame, and Rest!
+  Whoever steals a Shilling,
+    Through Shame the Guilt conceals:
+  In Love the perjur'd Villain
+    With Boasts the Theft reveals.
+
+_Macheath._ The very first Opportunity, my Dear, (have but Patience) you
+shall be my Wife in whatever manner you please.
+
+_Lucy._ Insinuating Monster! And so you think I know nothing of the
+Affair of Miss _Polly Peachum_. --I could tear thy Eyes out!
+
+_Macheath._ Sure, _Lucy_, you can't be such a Fool as to be jealous of
+_Polly_!
+
+_Lucy._ Are you not married to her, you Brute, you.
+
+_Macheath._ Married! Very good. The Wench gives it out only to vex thee,
+and to ruin me in thy good Opinion. 'Tis true, I go to the House; I chat
+with the Girl, I kiss her, I say a thousand things to her (as all
+Gentlemen do) that mean nothing, to divert myself; and now the silly
+Jade hath set it about that I am married to her, to let me know what she
+would be at. Indeed, my dear _Lucy_, these violent Passions may be of
+ill consequence to a Woman in your Condition.
+
+_Lucy._ Come, come, Captain, for all your Assurance, you know that Miss
+_Polly_ hath put it out of your Power to do me the Justice you
+promis'd me.
+
+_Macheath._ A jealous Woman believes every thing her Passion suggests.
+To convince you of my Sincerity, if we can find the Ordinary, I shall
+have no Scruples of making you my Wife; and I know the Consequence of
+having two at a time.
+
+_Lucy._ That you are only to be hang'd, and so get rid of them both.
+
+_Macheath._ I am ready, my dear _Lucy_, to give you Satisfaction-- if
+you think there is any in Marriage. --What can a Man of Honour say more?
+
+_Lucy._ So then, it seems, you are not married to Miss _Polly_.
+
+_Macheath._ You know, _Lucy_, the Girl is prodigiously conceited. No Man
+can say a civil thing to her, but (like other fine Ladies) her Vanity
+makes her think he's her own for ever and ever.
+
+
+AIR XXVIII. The Sun had loos'd his weary Teams, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  The first time at the Looking-glass
+    The Mother sets her Daughter,
+  The Image strikes the smiling Lass
+    With Self-love ever after,
+  Each time she looks, she, fonder grown,
+    Thinks ev'ry Charm grows stronger.
+  But alas, vain Maid, all Eyes but your own
+    Can see you are not younger.
+
+When Women consider their own Beauties, they are all alike unreasonable
+in their Demands; for they expect their Lovers should like them as long
+as they like themselves.
+
+_Lucy._ Yonder is my Father-- perhaps this way we may light upon the
+Ordinary, who shall try if you will be as good as your Word. --For I
+long to be made an honest Woman.
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+  Enter _Peachum_ and _Lockit_ with an Account-Book.
+
+_Lockit._ In this last Affair, Brother _Peachum_, we are agreed. You
+have consented to go halves in _Macheath_.
+
+_Peachum._ We shall never fall out about an Execution-- But as to that
+Article, pray how stands our last Year's Account?
+
+_Lockit._ If you will run your Eye over it, you'll find 'tis fair and
+clearly stated.
+
+_Peachum._ This long Arrear of the Government is very hard upon us! Can
+it be expected that we would hang our Acquaintance for nothing, when our
+Betters will hardly save theirs without being paid for it. Unless the
+People in Employment pay better, I promise them for the future, I shall
+let other Rogues live besides their own.
+
+_Lockit._ Perhaps, Brother, they are afraid these Matters may be carried
+too far. We are treated too by them with Contempt, as if our Profession
+were not reputable.
+
+_Peachum._ In one respect indeed our Employment may be reckon'd
+dishonest, because, like Great Statesmen, we encourage those who betray
+their Friends.
+
+_Lockit._ Such Language, Brother, any where else, might turn to your
+Prejudice. Learn to be more guarded, I beg you.
+
+
+AIR XXIX. How happy are we, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+    When you censure the Age,
+    Be cautious and sage,
+  Lest the Courtiers offended should be:
+    If you mention Vice or Bribe,
+    'Tis so pat to all the Tribe;
+  Each cries-- That was levell'd at me.
+
+_Peachum._ Here's poor _Ned Clincher's_ Name, I see. Sure, Brother
+_Lockit_, there was a little unfair Proceeding in _Ned's_ Case: for he
+told me in the Condemn'd Hold, that for Value receiv'd, you had promis'd
+him a Session or two longer without Molestation.
+
+_Lockit._ Mr. _Peachum_-- this is the first time my Honour was ever
+call'd in Question.
+
+_Peachum._ Business is at an end-- if once we act dishonourably.
+
+_Lockit._ Who accuses me?
+
+_Peachum._ You are warm, Brother.
+
+_Lockit._ He that attacks my Honour, attacks my Livelihood. --And this
+Usage-- Sir-- is not to be borne.
+
+_Peachum._ Since you provoke me to speak-- I must tell you too, that
+Mrs. _Coaxer_ charges you with defrauding her of her Information-Money,
+for the apprehending of curl-pated _Hugh_. Indeed, indeed, Brother, we
+must punctually pay our Spies, or we shall have no Information.
+
+_Lockit._ Is this Language to me, Sirrah,-- who have sav'd you from the
+Gallows, Sirrah!    [Collaring each other.
+
+_Peachum._ If I am hang'd, it shall be for ridding the World of an
+arrant Rascal.
+
+_Lockit._ This Hand shall do the Office of the Halter you deserve, and
+throttle you-- you Dog!--
+
+_Peachum._ Brother, Brother-- We are both in the Wrong-- We shall be
+both Losers in the Dispute-- for you know we have it in our Power to
+hang each other. You should not be so passionate.
+
+_Lockit._ Nor you so provoking.
+
+_Peachum._ 'Tis our mutual Interest; 'tis for the Interest of the World
+we should agree. If I said any thing, Brother, to the Prejudice of your
+Character, I ask pardon.
+
+_Lockit._ Brother _Peachum_-- I can forgive as well as resent. --Give me
+your Hand. Suspicion does not become a Friend.
+
+_Peachum._ I only meant to give you Occasion to justify yourself: But I
+must now step home, for I expect the Gentleman about this Snuff-box,
+that _Filch_ nimm'd two Nights ago in the Park. I appointed him at this
+Hour.    [Exit _Peachum_.
+
+  Enter _Lucy_.
+
+_Lockit._ Whence come you, Hussy?
+
+_Lucy._ My Tears might answer that Question.
+
+_Lockit._ You have then been whimpering and fondling, like a Spaniel,
+over the Fellow that hath abus'd you.
+
+_Lucy._ One can't help Love; one can't cure it. 'Tis not in my Power to
+obey you, and hate him.
+
+_Lockit._ Learn to bear your Husband's Death like a reasonable Woman.
+'Tis not the fashion, now-a-days, so much as to affect Sorrow upon these
+Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if she had not the Chance of
+Mortality for a Release. Act like a Woman of Spirit, Hussy, and thank
+your Father for what he is doing.
+
+
+AIR XXX. Of a noble Race was _Shenkin_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lucy._ Is then his Fate decreed, Sir?
+    Such a Man can I think of quitting?
+  When first we met, so moves me yet,
+    O see how my Heart is splitting!
+
+_Lockit._ Look ye, _Lucy_-- There is no saving him. --So, I think, you
+must ev'n do like other Widows-- buy yourself Weeds, and be chearful.
+
+
+AIR XXXI.
+
+[Music]
+
+  You'll think ere many Days ensue
+    This Sentence not severe;
+  I hang your Husband, Child, 'tis true,
+    But with him hang your Care.
+      Twang dang dillo dee.
+
+Like a good Wife, go moan over your dying Husband. That, Child is your
+Duty-- Consider, Girl, you can't have the Man and the Money too-- so
+make yourself as easy as you can, by getting all you can from him.
+
+    [Exit _Lockit_.
+
+  Enter _Macheath_.
+
+_Lucy._ Though the Ordinary was out of the way to-day, I hope, my Dear,
+you will, upon the first Opportunity, quiet my Scruples-- Oh Sir! --my
+Father's hard heart is not to be soften'd, and I am in the utmost
+Despair.
+
+_Macheath._ But if I could raise a small Sum-- Would not twenty Guineas,
+think you, move him? --Of all the Arguments in the way of Business, the
+Perquisite is the most prevailing-- Your Father's Perquisites for the
+Escape of Prisoners must amount to a considerable Sum in the Year. Money
+well tim'd, and properly apply'd, will do any thing.
+
+
+AIR XXXII. _London_ Ladies.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If you at an Office solicit your Due,
+    And would not have Matters neglected;
+  You must quicken the Clerk with the Perquisite too,
+    To do what his Duty directed.
+
+  Or would you the Frowns of a Lady prevent,
+    She too has this palpable Failing,
+  The Perquisite softens her into Consent;
+    That Reason with all is prevailing.
+
+_Lucy._ What Love or Money can do shall be done: for all my Comfort
+depends upon your Safety.
+
+  Enter _Polly_.
+
+_Polly._ Where is my dear Husband? --Was a Rope ever intended for this
+Neck! --O let me throw my Arms about it, and throttle thee with Love!
+--Why dost thou turn away from me? 'Tis thy _Polly_-- 'Tis thy Wife.
+
+_Macheath._ Was ever such an unfortunate Rascal as I am!
+
+_Lucy._ Was there ever such another Villain!
+
+_Polly._ O _Macheath_! was it for this we parted? Taken! Imprisoned!
+Try'd! Hang'd-- cruel Reflection! I'll stay with thee 'till Death-- no
+Force shall tear thy dear Wife from thee now. --What means my Love?
+--Not one kind Word! not one kind Look! think what thy _Polly_ suffers
+to see thee in this Condition.
+
+
+AIR XXXIII. All in the Downs, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Thus when the Swallow seeking Prey,
+    Within the Sash is closely pent,
+  His Consort, with bemoaning Lay,
+    Without sits pining for th' Event.
+  Her chatt'ring Lovers all around her skim;
+  She heeds them not (poor Bird!) her Soul's with him.
+
+_Macheath._ [Aside.] I must disown her. [Aloud.] The Wench is
+distracted.
+
+_Lucy._ Am I then bilk'd of my Virtue? Can I have no Reparation? Sure
+Men were born to lie, and Women to believe them! O Villain! Villain!
+
+_Polly._ Am I not thy Wife? --Thy Neglect of me, thy Aversion to me too
+severely proves it. --Look on me. --Tell me, am I not thy Wife?
+
+_Lucy._ Perfidious Wretch!
+
+_Polly._ Barbarous Husband!
+
+_Lucy._ Hadst thou been hang'd five Months ago, I had been happy.
+
+_Polly._ And I too-- If you had been kind to me 'till Death, it would
+not have vexed me-- And that's no very unreasonable Request, (though
+from a Wife) to a Man who hath not above seven or eight Days to live.
+
+_Lucy._ Art thou then married to another? Hast thou two Wives, Monster?
+
+_Macheath._ If Women's Tongues can cease for an Answer-- hear me.
+
+_Lucy._ I won't. --Flesh and Blood can't bear my Usage.
+
+_Polly._ Shall I not claim my own? Justice bids me speak.
+
+
+AIR XXXIV. Have you heard of a frolicksome Ditty, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ How happy could I be with either,
+    Were t'other dear Charmer away!
+  But while you thus teaze me together,
+    To neither a Word will I say;
+      But tol de rol, &c.
+
+_Polly._ Sure, my Dear, there ought to be some Preference shewn to a
+Wife! At least she may claim the Appearance of it. He must be distracted
+with his Misfortunes, or he could not use me thus.
+
+_Lucy._ O Villain, Villain! thou hast deceiv'd me. --I could even inform
+against thee with Pleasure. Not a Prude wishes more heartily to have
+Facts against her intimate Acquaintance, than I now wish to have Facts
+against thee. I would have her Satisfaction, and they should all out.
+
+
+AIR XXXV. _Irish_ Trot.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ I am bubbled.
+  _Lucy._ . . . . I'm bubbled.
+  _Polly._ O how I am troubled!
+  _Lucy._ Bambouzled, and bit!
+  _Polly._ . . . . . . My Distresses are doubled.
+  _Lucy._ When you come to the Tree, should the Hangman refuse,
+  These Fingers, with Pleasure, could fasten the Noose.
+  _Polly._ I'm bubbled, &c.
+
+_Macheath._ Be pacified, my dear _Lucy_-- This is all a Fetch of
+_Polly's_, to make me desperate with you in case I get off. If I am
+hang'd, she would fain have the Credit of being thought my Widow--
+Really, _Polly_, this is no time for a Dispute of this sort; for
+whenever you are talking of Marriage, I am thinking of Hanging.
+
+_Polly._ And hast thou the Heart to persist in disowning me?
+
+_Macheath._ And hast thou the Heart to persist in persuading me that I
+am married? Why, _Polly_, dost thou seek to aggravate my Misfortunes?
+
+_Lucy._ Really, Miss _Peachum_, you but expose yourself. Besides, 'tis
+barbarous in you to worry a Gentleman in his Circumstances.
+
+
+AIR XXXVI.
+
+[Music]
+
+    _Polly._ Cease your Funning;
+    Force or Cunning
+  Never shall my Heart trapan.
+    All these Sallies
+    Are but Malice
+  To seduce my constant Man.
+    'Tis most certain,
+    By their flirting
+  Women oft' have Envy shown.
+    Pleas'd, to ruin
+    Others wooing;
+  Never happy in their own.
+
+_Polly._ Decency, Madam, methinks might teach you to behave yourself
+with some Reserve with the Husband, while his Wife is present.
+
+_Macheath._ But seriously, _Polly_, this is carrying the Joke a little
+too far.
+
+_Lucy._ If you are determin'd, Madam, to raise a Disturbance in the
+Prison, I shall be obliged to send for the Turnkey to shew you the Door.
+I am sorry, Madam, you force me to be so ill-bred.
+
+_Polly._ Give me leave to tell you, Madam: These forward Airs don't
+become you in the least, Madam. And my Duty, Madam, obliges me to stay
+with my Husband, Madam.
+
+
+AIR XXXVII. Good-morrow, Gossip _Joan_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lucy._ Why how now, Madam _Flirt_?
+      If you thus must chatter;
+  And are for flinging Dirt,
+    Let's try who best can spatter;
+        Madam _Flirt_.
+
+  _Polly._ Why how now, saucy Jade;
+    Sure the Wench is tipsy!
+  How can you see me made  [To him.
+    The Scoff of such a Gipsy?
+        Saucy Jade!  [To her.
+
+  Enter _Peachum_.
+
+_Peachum._ Where's my Wench? Ah Hussy! Hussy! --Come you home, you Slut;
+and when your Fellow is hang'd, hang yourself, to make your Family some
+Amends.
+
+_Polly._ Dear, dear Father, do not tear me from him-- I must speak;
+I have more to say to him-- Oh! twist thy Fetters about me, that he may
+not haul me from thee!
+
+_Peachum._ Sure all Women are alike! If ever they commit the Folly, they
+are sure to commit another by exposing themselves-- Away-- Not a Word
+more-- You are my Prisoner, now, Hussy.
+
+
+AIR XXXVIII. _Irish_ Howl.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ No Power on Earth can e'er divide
+  The Knot that sacred Love hath ty'd.
+  When Parents draw against our Mind,
+  The True-Love's Knot they faster bind.
+    Oh, oh ray, oh Amborah-- oh, oh, &c.
+
+    [Holding _Macheath_, _Peachum_ pulling her.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE III. The Same.
+
+  _Lucy_, _Macheath_.
+
+_Macheath._ I am naturally compassionate, Wife; so that I could not use
+the Wench as she deserv'd; which made you at first suspect there was
+something in what she said.
+
+_Lucy._ Indeed, my Dear, I was strangely puzzled.
+
+_Macheath._ If that had been the Case, her Father would never have
+brought me into this Circumstance-- No, _Lucy_,-- I had rather die than
+be false to thee.
+
+_Lucy._ How happy am I, if you say this from your Heart! For I love thee
+so, that I could sooner bear to see thee hang'd than in the Arms of
+another.
+
+_Macheath._ But could'st thou bear to see me hang'd?
+
+_Lucy._ O _Macheath_, I can never live to see that Day.
+
+_Macheath._ You see, _Lucy_; in the Account of Love you are in my Debt,
+and you must now be convinc'd, that I rather choose to die than be
+another's. --Make me, if possible, love thee more, and let me owe my
+Life to thee-- If you refuse to assist me, _Peachum_ and your Father
+will immediately put me beyond all means of Escape.
+
+_Lucy._ My Father, I know, hath been drinking hard with the Prisoners:
+and I fancy he is now taking his Nap in his own Room-- If I can procure
+the Keys, shall I go off with thee, my Dear?
+
+_Macheath._ If we are together, 'twill be impossible to lie conceal'd.
+As soon as the Search begins to be a little cool, I will send to thee--
+'Till then my Heart is thy Prisoner.
+
+_Lucy._ Come then, my dear Husband-- owe thy Life to me-- and though you
+love me not-- be grateful,-- but that _Polly_ runs in my Head strangely.
+
+_Macheath._ A moment of Time may make us unhappy for ever.
+
+
+AIR XXXIX. The Lass of _Patie's_ Mill, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lucy._ I like the Fox shall grieve,
+    Whose Mate hath left her Side,
+  Whom Hounds from Morn to Eve,
+    Chase o'er the Country wide.
+  Where can my Lover hide?
+    Where cheat the wary Pack?
+  If Love be not his Guide,
+    He never will come back!
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ACT III. SCENE I.
+
+_SCENE, Newgate._
+
+  _Lockit_, _Lucy_.
+
+_Lockit._ To be sure, Wench, you must have been aiding and abetting to
+help him to this Escape.
+
+_Lucy._ Sir, here hath been _Peachum_ and his Daughter _Polly_, and to
+be sure they know the Ways of _Newgate_ as well as if they had been born
+and bred in the Place all their Lives. Why must all your Suspicion light
+upon me?
+
+_Lockit._ _Lucy_, _Lucy_, I will have none of these shuffling Answers.
+
+_Lucy._ Well then-- If I know any thing of him I wish I may be burnt!
+
+_Lockit._ Keep your Temper, _Lucy_, or I shall pronounce you guilty.
+
+_Lucy._ Keep yours, Sir,-- I do wish I may be burnt. I do-- And what can
+I say more to convince you?
+
+_Lockit._ Did he tip handsomly? --How much did he come down with? Come,
+Hussy, don't cheat your Father; and I shall not be angry with you--
+Perhaps, you have made a better Bargain with him than I could have
+done-- How much, my good Girl?
+
+_Lucy._ You know, Sir, I am fond of him, and would have given Money to
+have kept him with me.
+
+_Lockit._ Ah _Lucy_! thy Education might have put thee more upon thy
+Guard; for a Girl in the Bar of an Ale-house is always besieg'd.
+
+_Lucy._ Dear Sir, mention not my Education-- for 'twas to that I owe my
+Ruin.
+
+
+AIR XL. If Love's a sweet Passion, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  When young at the Bar you first taught me to score,
+  And bid me be free of my Lips, and no more;
+  I was kiss'd by the Parson, the Squire, and the Sot,
+  When the Guest was departed, the Kiss was forgot.
+  But his Kiss was so sweet, and so closely he prest,
+  That I languish'd and pin'd till I granted the rest.
+
+If you can forgive me, Sir, I will make a fair Confession, for to be
+sure he hath been a most barbarous Villain to me.
+
+_Lockit._ And so you have let him escape, Hussy-- Have you?
+
+_Lucy._ When a Woman loves; a kind Look, a tender Word can persuade her
+to any thing-- And I could ask no other Bribe.
+
+_Lockit._ Thou wilt always be a vulgar Slut, _Lucy_. --If you would not
+be look'd upon as a Fool, you should never do any thing but upon the
+foot of Interest. Those that act otherwise are their own Bubbles.
+
+_Lucy._ But Love, Sir, is a Misfortune that may happen to the most
+discreet Women, and in Love we are all Fools alike-- Notwithstanding all
+he swore, I am now fully convinc'd that _Polly Peachum_ is actually his
+Wife. --Did I let him escape, (Fool that I was!) to go to her? --_Polly_
+will wheedle herself into his Money, and then _Peachum_ will hang him,
+and cheat us both.
+
+_Lockit._ So I am to be ruin'd, because, forsooth, you must be in Love!
+--a very pretty Excuse!
+
+_Lucy._ I could murder that impudent happy Strumpet: --I gave him his
+Life, and that Creature enjoys the Sweets of it. --Ungrateful
+_Macheath_!
+
+
+AIR XLI. _South-Sea_ Ballad.
+
+[Music]
+
+  My Love is all Madness and Folly,
+      Alone I lie,
+    Toss, tumble, and cry,
+  What a happy Creature is _Polly_!
+  Was e'er such a Wretch as I!
+  With rage I redden like Scarlet,
+  That my dear inconstant Varlet,
+    Stark blind to my Charms,
+    Is lost in the Arms
+  Of that Jilt, that inveigling Harlot!
+    Stark blind to my Charms,
+    Is lost in the Arms
+  Of that Jilt, that inveigling Harlot!
+  This, this my Resentment alarms.
+
+_Lockit._ And so, after all this Mischief, I must stay here to be
+entertain'd with your Catterwauling, Mrs. Puss! --Out of my Sight,
+wanton Strumpet! you shall fast and mortify yourself into Reason, with
+now and then a little handsom Discipline to bring you to your Senses.
+--Go.    [Exit _Lucy_.
+
+_Peachum_ then intends to outwit me in this Affair; but I'll be even
+with him. --The Dog is leaky in his Liquor, so I'll ply him that way,
+get the Secret from him, and turn this Affair to my own Advantage.
+--Lions, Wolves, and Vultures don't live together in Herds, Droves or
+Flocks. --Of all Animals of Prey, Man is the only sociable one. Every
+one of us preys upon his Neighbour, and yet we herd together.
+--_Peachum_ is my Companion, my Friend. --According to the Custom of the
+World, indeed, he may quote thousands of Precedents for cheating me--
+And shall not I make use of the Privilege of Friendship to make him a
+Return.
+
+
+AIR XLII. _Packington's_ Pound.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Thus Gamesters united in Friendship are found,
+  Though they know that their Industry all is a Cheat;
+  They flock to their Prey at the Dice-Box's Sound,
+  And join to promote one another's Deceit.
+    But if by mishap
+    They fail of a Chap,
+  To keep in their Hands, they each other entrap.
+  Like Pikes, lank with Hunger, who miss of their Ends,
+  They bite their Companions, and prey on their Friends.
+
+Now, _Peachum_, you and I, like honest Tradesmen, are to have a fair
+Trial which of us two can over-reach the other.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE II. _A Gaming-House._
+
+  _Macheath_ in a fine tarnish'd Coat, _Ben Budge_, _Matt of the Mint_.
+
+_Macheath._ I am sorry, Gentlemen, the Road was so barren of Money. When
+my Friends are in Difficulties, I am always glad that my Fortune can be
+serviceable to them. [Gives them Money.] You see, Gentlemen, I am not a
+mere Court Friend, who professes every thing and will do nothing.
+
+
+AIR XLIII. Lillibullero.
+
+[Music]
+
+  The Modes of the Court so common are grown,
+    That a true Friend can hardly be met;
+  Friendship for Interest is but a Loan,
+    Which they let out for what they can get.
+        'Tis true, you find
+        Some Friends so kind,
+  Who will give you good Counsel themselves to defend.
+        In sorrowful Ditty,
+        They promise, they pity,
+  But shift for your Money, from Friend to Friend.
+
+But we, Gentlemen, have still Honour enough to break through the
+Corruptions of the World. --And while I can serve you, you may
+command me.
+
+_Ben._ It grieves my Heart that so generous a Man should be involv'd in
+such Difficulties, as oblige him to live with such ill Company, and herd
+with Gamesters.
+
+_Matt._ See the Partiality of Mankind! --One Man may steal a Horse,
+better than another look over a Hedge. --Of all Mechanics, of all
+servile Handicrafts-men, a Gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of
+the Quality are of the Profession, he is admitted amongst the politest
+Company. I wonder we are not more respected.
+
+_Macheath._ There will be deep Play to-night at _Mary-bone_, and
+consequently Money may be pick'd up upon the Road. Meet me there, and
+I'll give you the Hint who is worth Setting.
+
+_Matt._ The Fellow with a brown Coat with a narrow Gold Binding, I am
+told, is never without Money.
+
+_Macheath._ What do you mean, _Matt_? --Sure you will not think of
+meddling with him! --He's a good honest kind of a Fellow, and one of us.
+
+_Ben._ To be sure, Sir, we will put ourselves under your Direction.
+
+_Macheath._ Have an Eye upon the Money-Lenders. --A _Rouleau_, or two,
+would prove a pretty sort of an Expedition. I hate Extortion.
+
+_Matt._ Those Rouleaus are very pretty Things. --I hate your Bank Bills.
+--There is such a Hazard in putting them off.
+
+_Macheath._ There is a certain Man of Distinction, who in his Time hath
+nick'd me out of a great deal of the Ready. He is in my Cash, Ben;
+--I'll point him out to you this Evening, and you shall draw upon him
+for the Debt. --The Company are met; I hear the Dice-Box in the other
+Room. So, Gentlemen, your Servant. You'll meet me at _Mary-bone_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE III. _Peachum's_ Lock.
+
+_A Table with Wine, Brandy, Pipes and Tobacco._
+
+  _Peachum_, _Lockit_.
+
+_Lockit._ The Coronation Account, Brother _Peachum_, is of so intricate
+a nature, that I believe it will never be settled.
+
+_Peachum._ It consists indeed of a great Variety of Articles. --It was
+worth to our People, in Fees of different kinds, above ten Instalments.
+--This is part of the Account, Brother, that lies open before us.
+
+_Lockit._ A Lady's Tail of rich Brocade. --that, I see, is dispos'd of.
+
+_Peachum._ To Mrs. _Diana Trapes_, the Tally-Woman, and she will make a
+good Hand on't in Shoes and Slippers, to trick out young Ladies, upon
+their going into Keeping.--
+
+_Lockit._ But I don't see any Article of the Jewels.
+
+_Peachum._ Those are so well known that they must be sent abroad--
+You'll find them enter'd under the Article of Exportation. --As for the
+Snuff-Boxes, Watches, Swords, &c. --I thought it best to enter them
+under their several Heads.
+
+_Lockit._ Seven and twenty Women's Pockets complete; with the several
+things therein contain'd; all Seal'd, Number'd, and Enter'd.
+
+_Peachum._ But, Brother, it is impossible for us now to enter upon this
+Affair, --We should have the whole Day before us. --Besides, the Account
+of the last Half Year's Plate is in a Book by itself, which lies at the
+other Office.
+
+_Lockit._ Bring us then more Liquor-- To-day shall be for Pleasure--
+To-morrow for Business-- Ah, Brother, those Daughters of ours are two
+slippery Hussies-- Keep a watchful Eye upon _Polly_, and _Macheath_ in a
+Day or two shall be our own again.
+
+
+AIR XLIV. Down in the North Country, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lockit._ What Gudgeons are we Men!
+    Ev'ry Woman's easy Prey.
+  Though we have felt the Hook, agen
+    We bite and they betray.
+
+  The Bird that hath been trapt,
+    When he hears his calling Mate,
+  To her he flies, again he's clapt
+    Within the wiry Grate.
+
+_Peachum._ But what signifies catching the Bird, if your Daughter _Lucy_
+will set open the Door of the Cage?
+
+_Lockit._ If men were answerable for the Follies and Frailties of their
+Wives and Daughters, no Friends could keep a good Correspondence
+together for two Days. --This in unkind of you, Brother; for among good
+Friends, what they say or do goes for nothing.
+
+  Enter _a Servant_.
+
+_Servant._ Sir, here's Mrs. _Diana Trapes_ wants to speak with you.
+
+_Peachum._ Shall we admit her, Brother _Lockit_?
+
+_Lockit._ By all means, --She's a good Customer, and a fine-spoken
+Woman-- And a Woman who drinks and talks so freely, will enliven the
+Conversation.
+
+_Peachum._ Desire her to walk in.    [Exit Servant.
+
+  _Peachum_, _Lockit_, Mrs. _Trapes_.
+
+_Peachum._ Dear Mrs. _Dye_, your Servant-- One may know by your Kiss,
+that your Ginn is excellent.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ I was always very curious in my Liquors.
+
+_Lockit._ There is no perfum'd Breath like it-- I have been long
+acquainted with the Flavour of those Lips-- Han't I, Mrs. _Dye_.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ Fill it up-- I take as large Draughts of Liquor, as I did
+of Love. --I hate a Flincher in either.
+
+
+AIR XLV. A Shepherd kept Sheep, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  In the Days of my Youth I could bill like a Dove,
+      _fa, la, la, &c._
+  Like a Sparrow at all times was ready for Love,
+      _fa, la, la, &c._
+  The Life of all Mortals in Kissing should pass,
+  Lip to Lip while we're young-- then the Lip to the Glass,
+      _fa, la, &c._
+
+But now, Mr. _Peachum_, to our Business. --If you have Blacks of any
+kind, brought in of late; Mantoes-- Velvet Scarfs-- Petticoats-- Let it
+be what it will-- I am your Chap-- for all my Ladies are very fond of
+Mourning.
+
+_Peachum._ Why, look ye, Mrs. _Dye_-- you deal so hard with us, that we
+can afford to give the Gentlemen, who venture their Lives for the Goods,
+little or nothing.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ The hard Times oblige me to go very near in my Dealing.
+--To be sure, of late Years I have been a great Sufferer by the
+Parliament. --Three thousand Pounds would hardly make me amends. --The
+Act for destroying the Mint, was a severe Cut upon our Business-- 'Till
+then, if a Customer stept out of the way-- we knew where to have her--
+No doubt you know Mrs. _Coaxer_-- there's a Wench now ('till to-day)
+with a good Suit of Clothes of mine upon her Back, and I could never set
+Eyes upon her for three Months together. --Since the Act too against
+Imprisonment for small Sums, my Loss there too hath been very
+considerable, and it must be so, when a Lady can borrow a handsom
+Petticoat, or a clean Gown, and I not have the least Hank upon her!
+And, o' my Conscience, now-a-days most Ladies take a Delight in
+cheating, when they can do it with Safety.
+
+_Peachum._ Madam, you had a handsom Gold Watch of us 'tother Day for
+seven Guineas. --Considering we must have our Profit. --To a Gentleman
+upon the Road, a Gold Watch will be scarce worth the taking.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ Consider, Mr. _Peachum_, that Watch was remarkable, and
+not of very safe Sale. --If you have any black Velvet Scarfs-- they are
+a handsom Winter-wear, and take with most Gentlemen who deal with my
+Customers. --'Tis I that put the Ladies upon a good Foot. 'Tis not Youth
+or Beauty that fixes their Price. The Gentlemen always pay according to
+their Dress, from half a Crown to two Guineas; and yet those Hussies
+make nothing of bilking of me. --Then too, allowing for Accidents.
+--I have eleven fine Customers now down under the Surgeon's Hands-- what
+with Fees and other Expenses, there are great Goings-out, and no Comings
+in, and not a Farthing to pay for at least a Month's Clothing. --We run
+great Risques-- great Risques indeed.
+
+_Peachum._ As I remember, you said something just now of Mrs. _Coaxer_.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ Yes, Sir. --To be sure I stript her of a Suit of my own
+Clothes about two Hours ago; and have left her as she should be, in her
+Shift, with a Lover of hers at my House. She call'd him up Stairs, as he
+was going to _Mary-bone_ in a Hackney Coach. --And I hope, for her own
+sake and mine, she will persuade the Captain to redeem her, for the
+Captain is very generous to the Ladies.
+
+_Lockit._ What Captain?
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ He thought I did not know him-- An intimate Acquaintance
+of yours, Mr. _Peachum_-- Only Captain _Macheath_-- as fine as a Lord.
+
+_Peachum._ To-morrow, dear Mrs. _Dye_, you shall set your own Price upon
+any of the Goods you like-- We have at least half a Dozen Velvet Scarfs,
+and all at your Service. Will you give me leave to make you a Present of
+this Suit of Night-clothes for your own wearing? --But are you sure it
+is Captain _Macheath_.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ Though he thinks I have forgot him; no body knows him
+better. I have taken a great deal of the Captain's Money in my Time at
+second-hand, for he always lov'd to have his Ladies well drest.
+
+_Peachum._ Mr. _Lockit_ and I have a little Business with the Captain;--
+You understand me-- and we will satisfy you for Mrs. _Coaxer's_ Debt.
+
+_Lockit._ Depend upon it-- we will deal like Men of Honour.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ I don't enquire after your Affairs-- so whatever happens,
+I wash my Hands on't-- It hath always been my Maxim, that one Friend
+should assist another-- But if you please-- I'll take one of the Scarfs
+home with me. 'Tis always good to have something in Hand.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE IV. _Newgate._
+
+_Lucy._ Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear are at once tearing me to pieces,
+How I am weather-beaten and shatter'd with Distresses!
+
+
+AIR XLVI. One Evening, having lost my Way, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+    I'm like a Skiff on the Ocean tost,
+      Now high, now low, with each Billow born,
+    With her Rudder broke, and her Anchor lost,
+      Deserted and all forlorn.
+  While thus I lie rolling and tossing all Night,
+  That _Polly_ lies sporting on Seas of Delight!
+      Revenge, Revenge, Revenge,
+    Shall appease my restless Spirit.
+
+I have the Rats-bane ready. --I run no Risque; for I can lay her Death
+upon the Ginn, and so many die of that naturally that I shall never be
+call'd in question. --But say, I were to be hang'd. --I never could be
+hang'd for any thing that would give me greater Comfort, than the
+poisoning that Slut.
+
+  Enter _Filch_.
+
+_Filch._ Madam, here's Miss _Polly_ come to wait upon you.
+
+_Lucy._ Show her in.
+
+  Enter _Polly_.
+
+Dear Madam, your Servant. --I hope you will pardon my Passion, when I
+was so happy to see you last. --I was so over-run with the Spleen, that
+I was perfectly out of myself. And really when one hath the Spleen,
+every thing is to be excus'd by a Friend.
+
+
+AIR XLVII. Now _Roger_, I'll tell thee because thou 'rt my Son.
+
+[Music]
+
+    When a Wife's in her Pout,
+    (As she's sometimes, no doubt;)
+  The good Husband as meek as a Lamb,
+    Her Vapours to still,
+    First grants her her Will,
+  And the quieting Draught is a Dram. Poor Man!
+  And the quieting Draught is a Dram.
+
+--I wish all our Quarrels might have so comfortable a Reconciliation.
+
+_Polly._ I have no Excuse for my own Behaviour, Madam, but my
+Misfortunes. --And really, Madam, I suffer too upon your Account.
+
+_Lucy._ But, Miss _Polly_-- in the way of Friendship, will you give me
+leave to propose a Glass of Cordial to you?
+
+_Polly._ Strong-Waters are apt to give me the Head-ache-- I hope, Madam,
+you will excuse me.
+
+_Lucy._ Not the greatest Lady in the Land could have better in her
+Closet, for her own private drinking. --You seem mighty low in Spirits,
+my Dear.
+
+_Polly._ I am sorry, Madam, my Health will not allow me to accept of
+your Offer. --I should not have left you in the rude manner I did when
+we met last, Madam, had not my Papa haul'd me away so unexpectedly--
+I was indeed somewhat provok'd, and perhaps might use some Expressions
+that were disrespectful. --But really, Madam, the Captain treated me
+with so much Contempt and Cruelty, that I deserv'd your Pity, rather
+than your Resentment.
+
+_Lucy._ But since his Escape, no doubt all Matters are made up again.
+--Ah _Polly_! _Polly_! 'tis I am the unhappy Wife; and he loves you as
+if you were only his Mistress.
+
+_Polly._ Sure, Madam, you cannot think me so happy as to be the object
+of your Jealousy. --A Man is always afraid of a Woman who loves him too
+well-- so that I must expect to be neglected and avoided.
+
+_Lucy._ Then our Cases, my dear _Polly_, are exactly alike. Both of us
+indeed have been too fond.
+
+
+AIR XLVIII. O _Bessy Bell_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ A Curse attend that Woman's Love,
+    Who always would be pleasing.
+
+  _Lucy._ The Pertness of the billing Dove,
+    Like Tickling, is but teazing.
+
+  _Polly._ What then in Love can Woman do:
+
+    _Lucy._ If we grow fond they shun us.
+
+  _Polly._ And when we fly them, they pursue:
+
+    _Lucy._ But leave us when they've won us.
+
+_Lucy._ Love is so very whimsical in both Sexes, that it is impossible
+to be lasting. --But my Heart is particular, and contradicts my own
+Observation.
+
+_Polly._ But really, Mistress _Lucy_, by his last Behaviour, I think I
+ought to envy you. --When I was forc'd from him, he did not shew the
+least Tenderness. --But perhaps, he hath a Heart not capable of it.
+
+
+AIR XLIX. Would Fate to me _Belinda_ give.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Among the Men, Coquettes we find,
+  Who court by turns all Woman-kind;
+  And we grant all their Hearts desir'd,
+  When they are flatter'd, and admir'd.
+
+The Coquettes of both Sexes are Self-lovers, and that is a Love no other
+whatever can dispossess. I hear, my dear _Lucy_, our Husband is one of
+those.
+
+_Lucy._ Away with these melancholy Reflections,-- indeed, my dear
+_Polly_, we are both of us a Cup too low-- Let me prevail upon you to
+accept of my Offer.
+
+
+AIR L. Come, sweet Lass.
+
+[Music]
+
+    Come, sweet Lass,
+    Let's banish Sorrow
+    'Till To-morrow;
+    Come, sweet Lass,
+  Let's take a chirping Glass.
+    Wine can clear
+    The Vapours of Despair
+    And make us light as Air;
+    Then drink, and banish Care.
+
+I can't bear, Child, to see you in such low Spirits. --And I must
+persuade you to what I know will do you good. [Aside.] I shall now soon
+be even with the hypocrytical Strumpet.    [Exit.
+
+_Polly._ All this Wheedling of _Lucy_ cannot be for nothing. --At this
+time too! when I know she hates me! --The Dissembling of a Woman is
+always the Forerunner of Mischief. --By pouring Strong-Waters down my
+Throat, she thinks to pump some Secrets out of me,-- I'll be upon my
+Guard, and won't taste a Drop of her Liquor, I'm resolv'd.
+
+  Re-enter _Lucy_, with Strong-Waters.
+
+_Lucy._ Come, Miss _Polly_.
+
+_Polly._ Indeed, Child, you have given yourself trouble to no purpose.
+--You must, my Dear, excuse me.
+
+_Lucy._ Really, Miss _Polly_, you are as squeamishly affected about
+taking a Cup of Strong-Waters as a Lady before Company. I vow, _Polly_,
+I shall take it monstrously ill if you refuse me. --Brandy and Men
+(though Women love them ever so well) are always taken by us with some
+Reluctance-- unless 'tis in private.
+
+_Polly._ I protest, Madam, it goes against me. --What do I see!
+_Macheath_ again in Custody! --Now every Glimm'ring of Happiness is
+lost.
+
+    [Drops the Glass of Liquor on the Ground.
+
+_Lucy._ Since things are thus, I'm glad the Wench hath escap'd: for by
+this Event, 'tis plain, she was not happy enough to deserve to be
+poison'd.
+
+  Enter _Lockit_, _Macheath_, _Peachum_.
+
+_Lockit._ Set your Heart to rest, Captain. --You have neither the Chance
+of Love or Money for another Escape,-- for you are order'd to be call'd
+down upon your Trial immediately.
+
+_Peachum._ Away, Hussies! --This is not a Time for a Man to be hamper'd
+with his Wives. --You see, the Gentleman is in Chains already.
+
+_Lucy._ O Husband, Husband, my Heart long'd to see thee; but to see thee
+thus distracts me?
+
+_Polly._ Will not my dear Husband look upon his _Polly_? Why hadst thou
+not flown to me for Protection? with me thou hadst been safe.
+
+
+AIR LI. The last time I went o'er the Moor.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ Hither, dear Husband, turn your Eyes.
+
+    _Lucy._ Bestow one Glance to cheer me.
+
+  _Polly._ Think with that Look, thy _Polly_ dies.
+
+    _Lucy._ O shun me not-- but hear me.
+
+  _Polly._ 'Tis _Polly_ sues.
+
+  _Lucy._                     --'Tis _Lucy_ speaks.
+
+    _Polly._ Is thus true Love requited?
+
+  _Lucy._ My Heart is bursting.
+
+  _Polly._                  --Mine too breaks.
+
+    _Lucy._ Must I
+
+  _Polly._       --Must I be slighted?
+
+_Macheath._ What would you have me say, Ladies? --You see this affair
+will soon be at an end, without my disobliging either of you.
+
+_Peachum._ But the settling this Point, Captain, might prevent a
+Law-Suit between your two Widows.
+
+
+AIR LII. _Tom Tinker's_ my true Love.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ Which way shall I turn me-- How can I decide?
+  Wives, the Day of our Death, are as fond as a Bride.
+  One Wife is too much for most Husbands to hear,
+  But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
+  This way, and that way, and which way I will,
+  What would comfort the one, t' other Wife would take ill.
+
+_Polly._ But if his own Misfortunes have made him insensible to mine--
+A Father sure will be more compassionate-- Dear, dear Sir, sink the
+material Evidence, and bring him off at his Trial-- _Polly_ upon her
+Knees begs it of you.
+
+
+AIR LIII. I am a poor Shepherd undone.
+
+[Music]
+
+  When my Heroe in Court appears,
+    And stands arraign'd for his Life;
+  Then think of poor _Polly's_ Tears;
+    For Ah! poor _Polly's_ his Wife.
+  Like the Sailor he holds up his hand,
+    Distrest on the dashing Wave.
+  To die a dry Death at Land,
+    Is as bad as a watery Grave.
+      And alas, poor _Polly_!
+      Alack, and well-a-day!
+      Before I was in Love,
+      Oh! every Month was _May_.
+
+_Lucy._ If _Peachum's_ Heart is harden'd; sure you, Sir, will have more
+Compassion on a Daughter. --I know the Evidence is in your Power. --How
+then can you be a Tyrant to me?    [Kneeling.
+
+
+AIR LIV. _Ianthe_ the lovely, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  When he holds up his Hand arraign'd for his Life,
+  O think of your Daughter, and think I'm his Wife!
+  What are Canons, or Bombs, or clashing of Swords?
+  For Death is more certain by Witnesses Words.
+  Then nail up their Lips; that dread Thunder allay;
+  And each Month of my Life will hereafter be _May_.
+
+_Lockit._ _Macheath's_ Time is come, _Lucy_. --We know our own Affairs,
+therefore let us have no more Whimpering or Whining.
+
+
+AIR LV. A Cobler there was, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Ourselves, like the Great, to secure a Retreat,
+  When Matters require it, must give up our Gang:
+    And good reason why,
+    Or, instead of the Fry,
+    Ev'n _Peachum_ and I.
+  Like poor petty Rascals, might hang, hang;
+  Like poor petty Rascals, might hang.
+
+_Peachum._ Set your Heart at rest, _Polly_. --Your Husband is to die
+to-day. --Therefore if you are not already provided, 'tis high time to
+look about for another. There's Comfort for you, you Slut.
+
+_Lockit._ We are ready, Sir, to conduct you to the _Old Baily_.
+
+
+AIR LVI. Bonny _Dundee_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ The Charge is prepar'd; the Lawyers are met,
+  The Judges all rang'd (a terrible Show!)
+  I go, undismay'd. --For Death is a Debt,
+  A Debt on Demand. --So take what I owe.
+  Then farewell, my Love-- Dear Charmers, adieu.
+  Contented I die-- 'Tis the better for you.
+  Here ends all Disputes the rest of our Lives,
+  For this way at once I please all my Wives.
+
+Now, Gentlemen, I am ready to attend you.
+
+    [Exeunt _Macheath_, _Lockit_, and _Peachum_.
+
+  Enter _Filch_.
+
+_Polly._ Follow them, _Filch_, to the Court. And when the Trial is over,
+bring me a particular Account of his Behaviour, and of every thing that
+happen'd-- You'll find me here with Miss _Lucy_. [Exit _Filch_.] But why
+is all this Musick?
+
+_Lucy._ The Prisoners, whose Trials are put off 'till next Session, are
+diverting themselves.
+
+_Polly._ Sure there is nothing so charming as Music! I'm fond of it to
+Distraction! --But alas! --now, all Mirth seems an Insult upon my
+Affliction. --Let us retire, my dear _Lucy_, and indulge our Sorrows.
+--The noisy Crew, you see, are coming upon us.
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+_A Dance of Prisoners in Chains, &c._
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE V. _The _Condemn'd Hold_._
+
+  _Macheath_, in a melancholy Posture.
+
+
+AIR LVII. Happy Groves.
+
+[Music]
+
+  O cruel, cruel, cruel Case!
+  Must I suffer this Disgrace?
+
+
+AIR LVIII. Of all the Girls that are so smart.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Of all the Friends in time of Grief,
+    When threatning Death looks grimmer,
+  Not one so sure can bring Relief,
+    As this best Friend, a Brimmer.    [Drinks.
+
+
+AIR LIX. _Britons_ strike home.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Since I must swing,-- I scorn, I scorn to wince or whine.
+
+    [Rises.
+
+
+AIR LX. Chevy Chase.
+
+[Music]
+
+  But now again my Spirits sink;
+  I'll raise them high with Wine.    [Drinks a Glass of Wine.
+
+
+AIR LXI. To old Sir _Simon_ the King.
+
+[Music]
+
+  But Valour the stronger grows,
+    The stronger Liquor we'er drinking;
+  And how can we feel our Woes,
+    When we've lost the Trouble of Thinking?    [Drinks.
+
+
+AIR LXII. Joy to Great _Cæsar_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If thus-- A Man can die
+  Much bolder with Brandy.    [Pours out a Bumper of Brandy.
+
+
+AIR LXIII. There was an old Woman.
+
+[Music]
+
+  So I drink off this Bumper. --And now I can stand the Test,
+  And my Comrades shall see, that I die as brave as the Best.
+
+    [Drinks.
+
+
+AIR LXIV. Did you ever hear of a gallant Sailor.
+
+[Music]
+
+  But can I leave my pretty Hussies,
+  Without one Tear, or tender Sigh?
+
+
+AIR LXV. Why are mine Eyes still flowing.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Their Eyes, their Lips, their Busses
+  Recall my Love,-- Ah must I die!
+
+
+AIR LXVI. Green Sleeves.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Since Laws were made for ev'ry Degree,
+  To curb Vice in others, as well as me,
+  I wonder we han't better Company,
+      Upon _Tyburn_ Tree!
+  But Gold from Law can take out the Sting;
+  And if rich Men like us were to swing,
+  'Twou'd thin the Land, such Numbers to string
+      Upon _Tyburn_ Tree!
+
+_Jailor._ Some Friends of yours, Captain, desire to be admitted--
+I leave you together.
+
+  Enter _Ben Budge_, _Matt of the Mint_.
+
+_Macheath._ For my having broke Prison, you see, Gentlemen, I am order'd
+immediate Execution. --The Sheriff's Officers, I believe, are now at the
+Door. --That _Jemmy Twitcher_ should peach me, I own surpris'd me!
+--'Tis a plain Proof that the World is all alike, and that even our Gang
+can no more trust one another than other People. Therefore, I beg you,
+Gentlemen, look well to yourselves, for in all probability you may live
+some Months longer.
+
+_Matt._ We are heartily sorry, Captain, for your Misfortune. --But 'tis
+what we must all come to.
+
+_Macheath._ _Peachum_ and _Lockit_, you know, are infamous Scoundrels.
+Their Lives are as much in your Power, as yours are in theirs.
+--Remember your dying Friend! --'Tis my last Request. --Bring those
+Villains to the Gallows before you, and I am satisfied.
+
+_Matt._ We'll do't.
+
+_Jailor._ Miss _Polly_ and Miss _Lucy_ intreat a Word with you.
+
+_Macheath._ Gentlemen, adieu.
+
+    [Exeunt _Ben Budge_ and _Matt_.
+
+  Enter _Lucy_ and _Polly_.
+
+_Macheath._ My dear _Lucy_-- My dear _Polly_-- Whatsoever hath pass'd
+between us is now at an end-- If you are fond of marrying again, the
+best Advice I can give you, is to Ship yourselves off for the
+_West-Indies_, where you'll have a fair Chance of getting a Husband
+a-piece, or by good Luck, two or three, as you like best.
+
+_Polly._ How can I support this Sight!
+
+_Lucy._ There is nothing moves one so much as a great Man in Distress.
+
+
+AIR LXVII. All you that must take a Leap, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lucy._ Would I might be hang'd!
+
+  _Polly._              --And I would so too!
+
+  _Lucy._ To be hang'd with you.
+
+  _Polly._                 --My Dear, with you.
+
+  _Macheath._ O leave me to Thought! I fear! I doubt!
+  I tremble! I droop! --See, my Courage is out.
+
+  [Turns up the empty Bottle.
+
+  _Polly._ No Token of Love?
+
+  _Macheath._            --See, my Courage is out.
+
+  [Turns up the empty Pot.
+
+  _Lucy._ No Token of Love?
+
+  _Polly._           --Adieu.
+
+  _Lucy._                 --Farewell.
+
+  _Macheath._ But hark! I hear the Toll of the Bell.
+
+  _Chorus._ Tol de rol lol, &c.
+
+_Jailor._ Four Women more, Captain, with a Child apiece! See, here they
+come.
+
+    [Enter Women and Children.
+
+_Macheath._ What-- four Wives more! --This is too much-- Here-- tell the
+Sheriff's Officers I am ready.    [Exit _Macheath_ guarded.
+
+_To them, Enter _Player_ and _Beggar_._
+
+_Player._ But, honest Friend, I hope you don't intend that _Macheath_
+shall be really executed.
+
+_Beggar._ Most certainly, Sir. --To make the Piece perfect, I was for
+doing strict poetical Justice. --_Macheath_ is to be hang'd; and for the
+other Personages of the Drama, the Audience must have suppos'd they were
+all either hang'd or transported.
+
+_Player._ Why then, Friend, this is a downright deep Tragedy. The
+Catastrophe is manifestly wrong, for an Opera must end happily.
+
+_Beggar._ Your Objection, Sir, is very just, and is easily remov'd. For
+you must allow, that in this kind of Drama, 'tis no matter how absurdly
+things are brought about-- So-- you Rabble there-- run and cry,
+A Reprieve! --let the Prisoner be brought back to his Wives in Triumph.
+
+_Player._ All this we must do, to comply with the Taste of the Town.
+
+_Beggar._ Through the whole Piece you may observe such a Similitude of
+Manners in high and low Life, that it is difficult to determine whether
+(in the fashionable Vices) the fine Gentlemen imitate the Gentlemen of
+the Road, or the Gentlemen of the Road the fine Gentlemen. --Had the
+Play remained, as I at first intended, it would have carried a most
+excellent Moral. 'Twould have shewn that the lower Sort of People have
+their Vices in a degree as well as the Rich: And that they are punish'd
+for them.
+
+_To them, _Macheath_ with _Rabble_, &c._
+
+_Macheath._ So, it seems, I am not left to my Choice, but must have a
+Wife at last. --Look ye, my Dears, we will have no Controversy now. Let
+us give this Day to Mirth, and I am sure she who thinks herself my Wife
+will testify her Joy by a Dance.
+
+_All._ Come, a Dance-- a Dance.
+
+_Macheath._ Ladies, I hope you will give me leave to present a Partner
+to each of you. And (if I may without Offence) for this time, I take
+_Polly_ for mine. --And for Life, you Slut,-- for we were really
+marry'd. --As for the rest. --But at present keep your own Secret.
+
+    [To _Polly_.
+
+A DANCE.
+
+
+AIR LXVIII. Lumps of Pudding, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Thus I stand like the _Turk_, with his Doxies around;
+  From all Sides their Glances his Passion confound;
+  For Black, Brown, and Fair, his Inconstancy burns,
+  And the different Beauties subdue him by turns:
+  Each calls forth her Charms to provoke his Desires:
+  Though willing to all, with but one he retires.
+  But think of this Maxim, and put off your Sorrow,
+  The Wretch of To-day, may be happy To-morrow.
+
+  _Chorus._ But think of this Maxim, &c.
+
+
+FINIS.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+  Printed in Great Britain by
+  Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
+  Bungay, Suffolk.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Errata Noted by Transcriber:
+
+  Inconsistencies:
+    Dramatis Personae: "Mat of the Mint"
+      [_The name is spelled "Mat" here and on the character's first
+      entrance, "Matt" everywhere else._]
+    The place name "Mary-bone" is spelled randomly with and without
+      a hyphen.
+    There is no illustration at the end of Act II, Scene II.
+
+  Spelling Unchanged:
+    Air X. ... Whose Treasure is contreband.
+    the hypocrytical Strumpet
+
+  Punctuation or Capitalization Unchanged:
+
+    Dear Wife, be a little pacified, Don't let your Passion
+    of rich Brocade. --that, I see, is dispos'd of.
+    you had a handsom Gold Watch of us 'tother Day
+    --But are you sure it is Captain _Macheath_.
+    but to see thee / thus distracts me?
+    Air LXI. The stronger Liquor we'er drinking;
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+
+_About the Music_
+
+The following information is also given in the text file
+"about_the_music" in the "Music" directory.
+
+The music in the printed book appears to be a hand-written copy of the
+1765 original, retaining or adding assorted minor errors. In particular,
+the use of double bar lines or repeats seems to be almost entirely
+arbitrary. In the PDF and MIDI files, obvious errors such as missing
+dots after notes have been corrected, and a few ties have been added.
+Repeats are used only when required by the lyrics as printed.
+
+All music files, including the PDF images, are in the "Music" directory.
+In addition to individual Airs, there are PDF files containing the
+collected songs for each scene that has more than one song. Air LXVIII
+(the final song) has been omitted because it takes up a complete page by
+itself.
+
+
+_Changing the Tempo_
+
+If you want to change the tempo of a MIDI file, do this:
+
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+
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+same Roman numerals as in the text) and scroll down to the bottom. The
+"make-moment" line works just like a metronome setting. Leave the second
+number alone--usually a 4 for quarter-note--and make the first number
+larger or smaller.
+
+--Select "Run" or "Typeset File" from the Compile menu. This will create
+three files in the same location as the original .ly file: an updated
+MIDI, a new PDF, and a Postscript (.ps) file. You may keep the
+Postscript file or delete it; they are automatically generated, but were
+omitted from this Project Gutenberg text because they are very large and
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+
+
+Title: The Beggar's Opera
+       to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song
+
+Author: John Gay
+
+Editor: Claud Lovat Fraser
+
+Release Date: April 13, 2008 [EBook #25063]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: UTF-8
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEGGAR'S OPERA ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Louise Hope
+
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+</pre>
+
+<a name = "start" id = "start"> </a>
+<div class = "mynote">
+
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+
+<p>The music is shown as printed, except that unused lines at the end of
+the staff have been deleted. The MIDI and PDF versions include minor
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+a different application.</p>
+
+<p>The color Plates have been placed between scenes. The List of Plates
+shows their original locations.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h1>THE BEGGAR’S OPERA</h1>
+
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<a name = "titlepic" id = "titlepic">&nbsp;</a><br>
+<img src = "images/titlepage.jpg" width = "337" height = "577"
+alt = "see below">
+</p>
+
+
+<p class = "mynote">
+<a href = "#titletext">Title Page Text</a></p>
+
+
+<div class = "contents">
+<table class = "toc" summary = "table of contents">
+<tr><td>
+<h5><a name = "contents" id = "contents">Contents</a><br>
+(<i>list added by transcriber</i>)</h5>
+<p><a href = "#plates">List of Plates</a></p>
+<p><a href = "#fraser">Claud Lovat Fraser</a> <i>by John
+Drinkwater</i></p>
+<p><a href = "#costumes">Note on the Scene and Costumes</a></p>
+<p><a href = "#cast">Cast of Characters</a></p>
+<p>Act I</p>
+<p class = "inset"><a href = "#actI_sceneI">
+Scene I</a>: Peachum’s House<br>
+<span class = "smaller">Airs I&ndash;XVIII</span></p>
+<p>Act II</p>
+<p class = "inset"><a href = "#actII_sceneI">
+Scene I</a>: A Tavern near Newgate<br>
+<span class = "smaller">Airs XIX&ndash;XXIV</span></p>
+<p class = "inset"><a href = "#actII_sceneII">
+Scene II</a>: Newgate<br>
+<span class = "smaller">Airs XXV&ndash;XXXVIII</span></p>
+<p class = "inset"><a href = "#actII_sceneIII">
+Scene III</a>: The Same<br>
+<span class = "smaller">Air XXXIX</span></p>
+<p>Act III</p>
+<p class = "inset"><a href = "#actIII_sceneI">
+Scene I</a>: Newgate<br>
+<span class = "smaller">Airs XL&ndash;XLII</span></p>
+<p class = "inset"><a href = "#actIII_sceneII">
+Scene II</a>: A Gaming-House<br>
+<span class = "smaller">Air XLIII</span></p>
+<p class = "inset"><a href = "#actIII_sceneIII">
+Scene III</a>: Peachum’s Lock<br>
+<span class = "smaller">Airs XLIV, XLV</span></p>
+<p class = "inset"><a href = "#actIII_sceneIV">
+Scene IV</a>: Newgate<br>
+<span class = "smaller">Airs XLVI&ndash;LVI</span></p>
+<p class = "inset"><a href = "#actIII_sceneV">
+Scene V</a>: The Condemn’d Hold<br>
+<span class = "smaller">Airs LVII&ndash;LXVII</span></p>
+</td></tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class = "intro">
+
+<p><i>To J. G. and to G. L. F., without whom I should have been
+powerless, do I dedicate my share in this book.
+C.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;F.</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><i>Note.&mdash;The Text here given is taken from the edition of 1765.
+The scenes have been re-numbered in the modern method denoting actual
+changes of place or intervals of time.</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><i>First published September 1921</i></p>
+
+<p><i>New Impression October 1921</i></p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">v</span>
+<!-- png 007 -->
+
+<h4 class = "chapter"><a name = "plates" id = "plates">
+LIST OF THE PLATES</a></h4>
+
+<table class = "toc" summary = "list of plates">
+<tr>
+<td class = "item">I.</td>
+<td><a href = "#plateI">THE BEGGAR</a></td>
+<td class = "number" colspan = "2"><i>Frontispiece</i></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "item">II.</td>
+<td><a href = "#plateII">MRS. PEACHUM</a></td>
+<td><i>To face page</i></td>
+<td class = "number">6</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "item">III.</td>
+<td><a href = "#plateIII">POLLY PEACHUM</a></td>
+<td class = "center">„</td>
+<td class = "number">18</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "item">IV.</td>
+<td><a href = "#plateIV">SCENE: A TAVERN NEAR NEWGATE</a></td>
+<td class = "center">„</td>
+<td class = "number">28</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "item">V.</td>
+<td><a href = "#plateV">CAPTAIN MACHEATH</a></td>
+<td class = "center">„</td>
+<td class = "number">40</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "item">VI.</td>
+<td><a href = "#plateVI">LUCY LOCKIT</a></td>
+<td class = "center">„</td>
+<td class = "number">56</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "item">VII.</td>
+<td><a href = "#plateVII">PEACHUM</a></td>
+<td class = "center">„</td>
+<td class = "number">70</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "item">VIII.</td>
+<td><a href = "#plateVIII">LOCKIT</a></td>
+<td class = "center">„</td>
+<td class = "number">82</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">1</span>
+<!-- png 009 -->
+
+<h4 class = "chapter"><a name = "fraser" id = "fraser">
+CLAUD LOVAT FRASER</a></h4>
+
+<div class = "verse ital">
+<p>That when I die this word may stand for me&mdash;</p>
+<p>He had a heart to praise, an eye to see,</p>
+<p class = "in2">And beauty was his king.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Dead</span> at the age of thirty-one after
+a sudden operation, Claud Lovat Fraser was as surely a victim of the war
+as though he had fallen in action. He was full of vigour for his work,
+but shell-shock had left him with a heart that could not stand a strain
+of this kind, and all his own fine courage could not help the surgeons
+in a losing fight. We are not sorry for him&mdash;we learn that, not to
+be sorry for the dead. But for ourselves? This terror is always so
+fresh, so unexampled. I&nbsp;had telephoned to him to ask whether he
+would help me in a certain theatrical enterprise. I&nbsp;was told by his
+servant that he was ill, but one hears these things so often that one
+gave but little thought to it beyond sending a telegram asking for news;
+and now this. Personal griefs are of no public interest, but here is as
+sad a public loss as has befallen us, if the world can measure truly, in
+our generation.</p>
+
+<p>But it is not, I think, of our loss that we should speak now. These
+desolations, strangely, have a way of bringing their own fortitude.
+A&nbsp;few hours after hearing, without any warning, of Lovat Fraser’s
+death, I&nbsp;was walking among the English landscape that he loved so
+well, and I felt there how poor and inadequate a thing death really was,
+how little to be feared. This apparent intention to destroy a life and
+genius so young, so admirable, and so rich in promise, seemed, for all
+the hurt, in some way wholly to have failed. We all knew that, given
+health, the next ten years would show a splendid volume of work from the
+new power and understanding to which he had been coming in these later
+days. But just as it seems to me not the occasion to lament our own
+loss, so does it seem idle to speculate with regret upon what art may
+have lost by this sudden
+<span class = "pagenum">2</span>
+<!-- png 010 -->
+stroke. It is, rather, well to be glad that so few years have borne so
+abundantly. Not only is the work that Lovat Fraser has left full in
+volume, it is decisive in character beyond all likelihood in one of his
+years. Greatly as he would have added to our delight, and wider as his
+influence would have grown, nothing he might have done could have added
+to our knowledge of the kind of distinction that was his and that will
+always mark his fame.</p>
+
+<p>The man himself had a charm of unusual definition. One might go to
+his studio at five o’clock and find him lumbering with his great frame
+among a chaos of the rare and curious books that he loved, stacked
+pell-mell on to the shelves, littered on tables and the floor, his
+clothes and face and fingers streaked with paint. And then an hour or
+two later he would come dressed ready for the theatre, an immaculate
+beau of the ’fifties, his top coat with waist and skirts, his opera hat
+made to special order by a Bond Street expert on an 1850 last. And then,
+before setting off, he would talk of some fellow-artist who was a little
+down and out, and wonder whether some of his drawings might not be
+bought at a few guineas apiece. Then to book, as it were, such an order
+gave salt to his evening, and if the evening meant contact with some of
+his own exquisite work, a&nbsp;word of admiration was taken with that
+wistful gratitude that it is now almost unbearable to remember.</p>
+
+<p>The theatre is a complex, co-operative affair, and it is idle to
+inquire who gives more than another to it. But on one side of its effort
+nobody in these later years has fought for light and beauty more surely
+and courageously than Claud Lovat Fraser. Like every fine artist, he was
+sometimes a little puzzled, a&nbsp;little hurt, that the critics could
+not see the clear motives inspiring his work. But the purpose never
+faltered. <i>As You Like It</i>, <i>The Beggar’s Opera</i>, <i>If</i>,
+the exquisite designs for Madame Karsavina’s later ballets&mdash;these
+made it plain enough that a new genius of extraordinary power and
+fertility was at work on the stage. With a knowledge of tradition that
+combined the widest learning with profound intuition, Lovat Fraser in
+his design touched the life of five
+<span class = "pagenum">3</span>
+<!-- png 011 -->
+hundred years with the English spirit of our own time, with a certainty
+that every one of his colleagues, I&nbsp;know, will be proud to allow
+was beyond them all. The fertility of which I speak was perhaps his
+peculiar distinction, and it had no touch of common facility. He could
+not draw a line that was not hard with thought and rooted in imaginative
+decision. But he could invent with immense rapidity. It was the old,
+though rare, story. Alike in his theatre design and his tender
+landscape, beauty of spirit flowed in everything he did into beauty of
+execution. He was a man in whose presence everything mean or slipshod
+withered.</p>
+
+<p>But perhaps it is most fitting at this time that we should think of
+our dead friend in yet another way. We are governed by two influences,
+our own character, and example. For each man his own character is for
+his meditation apart, but of example we may sometimes speak together in
+the open with profit. Those of us who live always striving towards
+creative effort believe passionately that the thing towards which we aim
+makes for all that is most chivalrous and most intelligent in life, that
+it is indeed the one true honesty in the world. And yet we know how
+easily that effort is beset by fears and jealousies and failure in
+generosity, how lightly we who should together give all our energy to
+the service of our art, waste it in little concerns of spite and
+self-interest. And it is in just such ways as this that great example
+may serve us nobly, and there has surely never lived an artist in whom
+such example more clearly shone. Art, which for him embraced and
+crystallised all that was brave and adventurous and tender, was the
+worship of Lovat Fraser’s life, a&nbsp;worship which he kept with an
+absolute loyalty.</p>
+
+<p>It is my privilege to know most of the best artists, in all kinds, of
+my age. One has this distinction, another that. But I think that he had
+the loveliest of them all. I&nbsp;have known nobody who brought to his
+art a devotion so pure and utterly removed from self-interest. If he
+could serve the beauty that he loved, he was eager always to do so with
+perfect indifference to his own reward. Nobody could be with him for ten
+minutes without
+<span class = "pagenum">4</span>
+<!-- png 012 -->
+feeling that art was a thing far greater than any artist. He had the
+lovely, humorous humility that is the one sure sign of greatness. One
+felt always that if he should think that another might do given work
+better than&nbsp;he, there could be for him nothing but distress if the
+best was not done, even though it meant the loss of personal
+opportunity. But it is one of the happy things of genius that this
+exquisite humility can only live with great creative gifts, so that
+Lovat Fraser knew from day to day the supreme joy of mastery. The
+humility, however, is our example, and the thought that seems most
+worthy to-day is that he stands at this moment, for all he was younger
+than most of us, as a challenging leader to us all. It will,
+I&nbsp;think, always be impossible to remember him without feeling that
+anything mean or grudging in the spirit in which we do our work is a
+betrayal and an intolerable thing. With all his gaiety, his fun, his
+simplicities, and his powers, he showed us not only what a fine artist
+can do but what a fine artist can be. And under his leadership at this
+moment may we not go back to our work in the world with renewed courage
+and faith,</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.�</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>For his fame none of us have any fear. There is in his public
+achievement and his portfolios a solid body of work that more and more
+must establish itself. However futile prophecy in these things must be,
+one is confident that a hundred years hence his name will be highly
+honoured among the little band who helped to bring back some life and
+truth to the English theatre of this age. He would wish for nothing
+better than that. And idle though it is to ask what his death, at little
+more than youth, may mean in the way of loss to the art that he lived
+for, his friends know that as dear a life as any of our time has gone
+suddenly, inexplicably, taking with it the tenderest love of every one
+who knew him. And he leaves with us an example without any stain.</p>
+
+<p class = "right smallcaps">John Drinkwater.</p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<i>London,<br>
+Midsummer 1921</i>.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">vii</span>
+<!-- png 013 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_vii.png" width = "160" height = "146"
+alt = "three arches">
+</p>
+
+<h4><a name = "costumes" id = "costumes">
+THE BEGGAR’S OPERA</a></h4>
+
+<h6>NOTE ON THE SCENE AND COSTUMES AT THE LYRIC THEATRE,
+HAMMERSMITH</h6>
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Superficially</span> the task of staging
+<i>The Beggar’s Opera</i> was one of supreme ease. Indeed, so easy was
+it that it became a matter of some embarrassment to prune and select the
+required amount of data. Here was Hogarth and his actual scene of
+Newgate with Macheath in chains; here was Laroon’s <i>Cries of
+London</i> falling, in its edition of 1733, pat into the period; here
+was the National Portrait Gallery and, added to these, here was the
+benefit of all Mr. Charles&nbsp;E. Pearce’s research.<a class = "tag"
+name = "tag1" id = "tag1" href = "#note1">1</a> After a month or two of
+work in designing, the ease became so marked and apparent that it
+engendered in me the beginnings of mistrust. Still, I&nbsp;persevered in
+scene and costume with historically accurate reproduction and, until
+three weeks before the actual work was due to be carried out at the
+costumier’s and in the painting shops, I&nbsp;felt comparatively
+cheerful. Then I reviewed my forces&mdash;the little scale models of the
+scenes, the characters in painted cardboard&mdash;all exact and
+accurate. Something was wrong and the result was, I&nbsp;confess,
+appalling.
+<span class = "pagenum">viii</span>
+<!-- png 014 -->
+I&nbsp;had not made allowances either for my theatre or for my audience.
+I&nbsp;had forgotten that it required a spacious Georgian theatre, the
+intimacy of the side-boxes, the great personages sitting on the stage.
+The Duke of Bolton, Major Pauncefoot and Sir Robert Fagg were not in
+their places as in Hogarth’s painting; the pit would not be filled with
+tye-wigs and hoops and there would be a sharper line of division between
+the actors and the spectators than ever existed in 1728. Something else
+had to be done. As reproduction was a failure one would try to give an
+impression of the same thing. Impressionism proved even worse than
+accuracy. It was neither one thing nor the other. It merged into “making
+a picture of it�&mdash;a crime that is without parallel in the staging
+of a play. To make a pretty picture at the expense of drama is merely to
+pander to the voracity of the costumier and scene-painter.</p>
+
+<p>What was then to be done? Added to all these objections was the
+important fact that I had designed scenes that would have seriously
+hampered the resources at Hammersmith. The theatre would have required
+more space for storage than could possibly have been given and, in
+addition, an army of stage hands would be wanted for whom there was not
+in this little theatre the accommodation.</p>
+
+<p>The solution was, of course, to forget one’s past work, to scrap the
+models, and to start feverishly afresh. The only method left untried was
+the symbolic. That is to say, to hint at the eighteenth century and to
+suggest that through the doors on the stage existed the London of 1728.
+The scene demanded to be simple and one which, with slight modifications
+in doors and windows, remained before the audience for the whole action
+of the play. It was, therefore, to be a scene of which people did not
+easily tire and that remained interesting, unobtrusive
+<span class = "pagenum">ix</span>
+<!-- png 015 -->
+and formally neat. To find such a scene it is necessary to refer back to
+days when the Comic and the Tragic scenes were architectural and
+permanent. This I did and, taking Palladio’s magnificent scene at
+Vicenza, by a shameless process of <i>reductio ad absurdum</i>, evolved
+the scene that is now in use at Hammersmith. Palladio and Gay have much
+to forgive.</p>
+
+<p>So far the scene, but it called for a corresponding treatment in the
+dresses. In <i>The Beggar’s Opera</i> no one is in the height of
+fashion. Macheath and certain Ladies of the Town alone “keep Company
+with Lords and Gentlemen,� and even then there must have been apparent a
+distinction. Macheath is unaltered. Here it was essential to keep to
+tradition. Macheath in a blue coat is unthinkable. The rest of the
+characters are frankly in the neighbourhood of Newgate. The clothes of
+Peachum and Lockit would be as equally unfashionable and just as
+possible thirty years before as thirty years after 1728, whilst the
+footpads are clad in whatever Georgian rags that happened to come their
+way. With the women I have taken greater licence. I&nbsp;have kept
+faithfully to the outlines of the age, the close-fitting bodice, the
+flat hoops, the square-toed shoes, but I have taken considerable
+liberties in the manner in which I have shorn them of ribbons and laces
+and&mdash;for the sake of dramatic simplicity, be it
+remembered&mdash;I&nbsp;have eliminated yards of trimming.</p>
+
+<p>Just so much explanation is, I consider, due to the public, but
+whether I have been justified by results or whether, under the sacred
+mask of Drama, I&nbsp;have erred unpardonably, are points which, so long
+as this revival draws attention to a forgotten masterpiece, can be of no
+very great importance.</p>
+
+<p class = "right smallcaps">C. Lovat Fraser.</p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<i>Chelsea,<br>
+February 1921</i>.</p>
+
+<p class = "footnote">
+<a name = "note1" id = "note1" href = "#tag1">1.</a>
+<i>Polly Peachum and The Beggar’s Opera</i>, by Charles&nbsp;E. Pearce.
+Messrs. Stanley Paul &amp; Company, 1913.</p>
+
+</div> <!-- end div intro -->
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">xi</span>
+<!-- png 017 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_xi_a.png" width = "157" height = "48"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<h4 class = "chapter"><a name = "cast" id = "cast">
+DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.</a></h4>
+
+
+<table class = "bracket" summary = "cast of characters">
+<tr>
+<th colspan = "2">
+MEN.</th>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps" colspan = "2">
+Mr. Peachum<br>
+Lockit<br>
+Macheath<br>
+Filch
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps" rowspan = "2">
+Jemmy Twitcher<br>
+Crook-finger’d Jack<br>
+Wat Dreary<br>
+Robin of Bagshot<br>
+Nimming Ned<br>
+Harry Paddington<br>
+<span class = "smallcaps"><ins class = "correction" title =
+"spelled ‘Matt’ in body of play">Mat</ins> of the Mint</span>
+</td>
+<td class = "bracket top">&nbsp;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<!-- <td></td> -->
+<td class = "bracket body">
+<img src = "images/bracket_mid.gif" width = "8" height = "13"
+alt = "}">
+<i>Macheath’s</i> Gang.
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Ben Budge</td>
+<td class = "bracket bottom" style = "height: 16px;">&nbsp;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps" colspan = "2">
+Beggar<br>
+Player
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th colspan = "2">
+&nbsp;<br>
+WOMEN.</th>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps" colspan = "2">
+Mrs. Peachum<br>
+Polly Peachum<br>
+Lucy Lockit<br>
+Diana Trapes
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps" rowspan = "2">
+Mrs. Coaxer<br>
+Dolly Trull<br>
+Mrs. Vixen<br>
+Betty Doxy<br>
+Jenny Diver<br>
+Mrs. Slammekin<br>
+Suky Tawdry
+</td>
+<td class = "bracket top">&nbsp;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<!-- <td></td> -->
+<td class = "bracket body">
+<img src = "images/bracket_mid.gif" width = "8" height = "13"
+alt = "}">
+<i>Women of the Town.</i>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Molly Brazen</td>
+<td class = "bracket bottom" style = "height: 16px;">&nbsp;</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class = "center">Constables, Drawers, Turnkey, etc.</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic_xi_b.png" width = "81" height = "84"
+alt = "lady in powdered wig">
+</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">xiii</span>
+<!-- png 019 -->
+
+
+<h4 class = "act"><a name = "beggar_intro" id = "beggar_intro">
+INTRODUCTION</a></h4>
+
+<h5 class = "scene">BEGGAR, PLAYER.</h5>
+
+<h5 class = "smallcaps">Beggar.</h5>
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">If</span> Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I
+am sure no-body can dispute mine. I&nbsp;own myself of the Company of
+Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly Festivals at <i>St. Giles’s</i>.
+I&nbsp;have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to a
+Dinner there whenever I please, which is more than most Poets can
+say.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Player.</span> As we live by the Muses, it is
+but Gratitude in us to encourage Poetical Merit wherever we
+find&nbsp;it. The Muses, contrary to all other Ladies, pay no
+Distinction to Dress, and never partially mistake the Pertness of
+Embroidery for Wit, nor the Modesty of Want for Dulness. Be the Author
+who he will, we push his Play as far as it will go. So (though you are
+in Want) I&nbsp;wish you success heartily.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Beggar.</span> This piece I own was
+originally writ for the celebrating the Marriage of <i>James
+Chaunter</i> and <i>Moll Lay</i>, two most excellent Ballad-Singers.
+I&nbsp;have introduced the Similes that are in all your celebrated
+<i>Operas</i>: The <i>Swallow</i>, the <i>Moth</i>, the <i>Bee</i>, the
+<i>Ship</i>, the <i>Flower</i>, &amp;c.
+<span class = "pagenum">xiv</span>
+Besides, I&nbsp;have a Prison-Scene, which the Ladies always reckon
+charmingly pathetic. As to the Parts, I&nbsp;have observed such a nice
+Impartiality to our two Ladies, that it is impossible for either of them
+to take Offence. I&nbsp;hope I may be forgiven, that I have not made my
+Opera throughout unnatural, like those in vogue; for I have no
+Recitative; excepting this, as I have consented to have neither Prologue
+nor Epilogue, it must be allowed an Opera in all its Forms. The Piece
+indeed hath been heretofore frequently represented by ourselves in our
+Great Room at <i>St. Giles’s</i>, so that I cannot too often acknowledge
+your Charity in bringing it now on the Stage.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Player.</span> But I see it is time for us to
+withdraw; the Actors are preparing to begin. Play away the Overture.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exeunt.</p>
+
+
+<h4>OVERTURE</h4>
+
+<p class = "illustration right">
+<img src = "images/pic_xiv.png" width = "75" height = "79"
+alt = "man with eye patch">
+</p>
+
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<a name = "plateI" id = "plateI"> </a>
+<img src = "images/plateI.jpg" width = "343" height = "501"
+alt = "color plate: The Beggar">
+</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">1</span>
+<!-- png 021 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_1.png" width = "320" height = "117"
+alt = "the three Peachums">
+</p>
+
+<h4 class = "act"><a name = "actI_sceneI" id = "actI_sceneI">
+ACT I. SCENE I.</a></h4>
+
+<h5 class = "scene">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene</span>, <em>Peachum’s</em> House.</h5>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+<em>Peachum</em> sitting at a Table with a large Book of Accounts before
+him.</p>
+
+<h5><a name = "air1" id = "air1">
+AIR I. &nbsp; An old Woman clothed in Gray, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air1.png" width = "384" height = "228"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_I.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_I.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Through all the Employments of Life</p>
+<p class = "in1">Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;</p>
+<p>Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:</p>
+<p class = "in1">All Professions be-rogue one another:</p>
+<p>The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,</p>
+<p class = "in1">The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:</p>
+<p>And the Statesman, because he’s so great,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Thinks his Trade as honest as mine.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">2</span>
+<!-- png 022 -->
+<p>A Lawyer is an honest Employment, so is mine. Like me too he acts in
+a double Capacity, both against Rogues and for ’em; for ’tis but fitting
+that we should protect and encourage Cheats, since we live by them.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Filch</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> Sir, <i>Black Moll</i> hath
+sent word her Trial comes on in the Afternoon, and she hopes you will
+order Matters so as to bring her off.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> As the Wench is very active
+and industrious, you may satisfy her that I’ll soften the Evidence.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> <i>Tom Gagg</i>, Sir, is found
+guilty.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> A lazy Dog! When I took him
+the time before, I&nbsp;told him what he would come to if he did not
+mend his Hand. This is Death without Reprieve. I&nbsp;may venture to
+Book him
+<span class = "stagedir">writes.</span>
+For <i>Tom Gagg</i>, forty Pounds. Let <i>Betty Sly</i> know that I’ll
+save her from Transportation, for I can get more by her staying in
+<i>England</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> <i>Betty</i> hath brought more
+Goods into our Lock to-year than any five of the Gang; and in truth,
+’tis a pity to lose so good a Customer.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> If none of the Gang take her
+off, she may, in the common course of Business, live a Twelve-month
+longer. I&nbsp;love to let Women scape. A&nbsp;good Sportsman always
+lets the Hen Partridges fly, because the Breed of the Game depends upon
+them. Besides, here the Law allows us no Reward; there is nothing to be
+got by the Death of Women&mdash;except our Wives.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> Without dispute, she is a fine
+Woman! ’Twas to her I was obliged for my Education, and (to say a bold
+Word) she hath trained up more young Fellows to the Business than the
+Gaming table.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">3</span>
+<!-- png 023 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Truly, <i>Filch</i>, thy
+Observation is right. We and the Surgeons are more beholden to Women
+than all the Professions besides.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air2" id = "air2">
+AIR II. &nbsp; The bonny gray-ey’d Morn, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air2.png" width = "397" height = "250"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_II.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_II.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Filch.</p>
+<p>’Tis Woman that seduces all Mankind,</p>
+<p class = "in1">By her we first were taught the wheedling Arts:</p>
+<p>Her very Eyes can cheat; when most she’s kind,</p>
+<p class = "in1">She tricks us of our Money with our Hearts.</p>
+<p>For her, like Wolves by Night we roam for Prey,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And practise ev’ry Fraud to bribe her Charms;</p>
+<p>For Suits of Love, like Law, are won by Pay,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And Beauty must be fee’d into our Arms.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> But make haste to
+<i>Newgate</i>, Boy, and let my Friends know what I intend; for I love
+to make them easy one way or other.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> When a Gentleman is long kept
+in suspence, Penitence may break his Spirit ever after. Besides,
+Certainty gives a Man a good Air upon his Trial, and makes him risk
+another without Fear or Scruple. But
+<span class = "pagenum">4</span>
+<!-- png 024 -->
+I’ll away, for ’tis a Pleasure to be the Messenger of Comfort to Friends
+in Affliction.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exit <em>Filch</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> But ’tis now high time to
+look about me for a decent Execution against next Sessions. I&nbsp;hate
+a lazy Rogue, by whom one can get nothing ’till he is hang’d.
+A&nbsp;Register of the Gang,
+<span class = "stagedir">Reading.</span>
+Crook-finger’d <i>Jack</i>. A&nbsp;Year and a half in the Service; Let
+me see how much the Stock owes to his industry; one, two, three, four,
+five Gold Watches, and seven Silver ones. A&nbsp;mighty clean-handed
+Fellow! Sixteen Snuff-boxes, five of them of true Gold. Six Dozen of
+Handkerchiefs, four silver-hilted Swords, half a Dozen of Shirts, three
+Tye-Periwigs, and a Piece of Broad-Cloth. Considering these are only the
+Fruits of his leisure Hours, I&nbsp;don’t know a prettier Fellow, for no
+Man alive hath a more engaging Presence of Mind upon the Road. <i>Wat
+Dreary</i>, alias <i>Brown Will</i>, an irregular Dog, who hath an
+underhand way of disposing of his Goods. I’ll try him only for a
+Sessions or two longer upon his Good-behaviour. <i>Harry Paddington</i>,
+a&nbsp;poor petty-larceny Rascal, without the least Genius; that Fellow,
+though he were to live these six Months, will never come to the Gallows
+with any Credit. Slippery <i>Sam</i>; he goes off the next Sessions, for
+the Villain hath the Impudence to have Views of following his Trade as a
+Tailor, which he calls an honest Employment. <i>Mat of the Mint</i>;
+listed not above a Month ago, a&nbsp;promising sturdy Fellow, and
+diligent in his way; somewhat too bold and hasty, and may raise good
+Contributions on the Public, if he does not cut himself short by Murder.
+<i>Tom Tipple</i>, a&nbsp;guzzling soaking Sot, who is always too drunk
+to stand himself, or to make others stand. A&nbsp;Cart is absolutely
+necessary for him. <i>Robin of Bagshot</i>, alias <i>Gorgon</i>, alias
+<i>Bluff Bob</i>, alias <i>Carbuncle</i>, alias <i>Bob Booty</i>.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">5</span>
+<!-- png 025 -->
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Mrs. Peachum</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> What of <i>Bob
+Booty</i>, Husband? I&nbsp;hope nothing bad hath betided him. You know,
+my Dear, he’s a favourite Customer of mine. ’Twas he made me a present
+of this Ring.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> I have set his Name down in
+the Black List, that’s all, my Dear; he spends his Life among Women, and
+as soon as his Money is gone, one or other of the Ladies will hang him
+for the Reward, and there’s forty Pound lost to us for-ever.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> You know, my Dear,
+I&nbsp;never meddle in matters of Death; I&nbsp;always leave those
+Affairs to you. Women indeed are bitter bad Judges in these cases, for
+they are so partial to the Brave that they think every Man handsome who
+is going to the Camp or the Gallows.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air3" id = "air3">
+AIR III. &nbsp; Cold and raw, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air3.png" width = "376" height = "185"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_III.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_III.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>If any Wench <em>Venus’s</em> Girdle wear,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Though she be never so ugly;</p>
+<p>Lilies and Roses will quickly appear,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And her Face look wond’rous smugly.</p>
+<p>Beneath the left Ear so fit but a Cord,</p>
+<p class = "in1">(A Rope so charming a Zone is!)</p>
+<p>The Youth in his Cart hath the Air of a Lord,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And we cry, There dies an <em>Adonis!</em></p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">6</span>
+<!-- png 026 -->
+<p>But really, Husband, you should not be too hard-hearted, for you
+never had a finer, braver set of Men than at present. We have not had a
+Murder among them all, these seven Months. And truly, my Dear, that is a
+great Blessing.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> What a dickens is the Woman
+always a whimpring about Murder for? No Gentleman is ever look’d upon
+the worse for killing a Man in his own Defence; and if Business cannot
+be carried on without it, what would you have a Gentleman&nbsp;do?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> If I am in the wrong, my
+Dear, you must excuse me, for no body can help the Frailty of an
+over-scrupulous Conscience.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Murder is as fashionable a
+Crime as a Man can be guilty of. How many fine Gentlemen have we in
+<i>Newgate</i> every Year, purely upon that Article! If they have
+wherewithal to persuade the Jury to bring it in Manslaughter, what are
+they the worse for it? So, my Dear, have done upon this Subject. Was
+Captain <i>Macheath</i> here this Morning, for the Bank-Notes he left
+with you last Week?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Yes, my Dear; and though
+the Bank hath stopt Payment, he was so chearful and so agreeable! Sure
+there is not a finer Gentleman upon the Road than the Captain! if he
+comes from <i>Bagshot</i> at any reasonable Hour, he hath promis’d to
+make one this Evening with <i>Polly</i> and me, and <i>Bob Booty</i> at
+a Party of Quadrille. Pray, my Dear, is the Captain rich?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> The Captain keeps too good
+Company ever to grow rich. <i>Marybone</i> and the Chocolate-houses are
+his Undoing. The Man that proposes to get Money by play should have the
+Education of a fine Gentleman, and be train’d up to it from his
+Youth.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Really, I am sorry upon
+<i>Polly’s</i> Account the Captain hath not more Discretion. What
+Business
+<span class = "pagenum">7</span>
+<!-- png 029 -->
+hath he to keep Company with Lords and Gentlemen? he should leave them
+to prey upon one another.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Upon <i>Polly’s</i> Account!
+What, a&nbsp;Plague, does the Woman mean?&mdash;Upon <i>Polly’s</i>
+Account!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Captain <i>Macheath</i>
+is very fond of the Girl.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> And what then?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> If I have any Skill in
+the Ways of Women, I&nbsp;am sure <i>Polly</i> thinks him a very pretty
+Man.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> And what then? You would not
+be so mad to have the Wench marry him! Gamesters and Highwaymen are
+generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their
+Wives.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> But if <i>Polly</i>
+should be in Love, how should we help her, or how can she help herself?
+Poor Girl, I&nbsp;am in the utmost Concern about her.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air4" id = "air4">
+AIR IV. &nbsp; Why is your faithful Slave disdain’d? &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air4.png" width = "390" height = "182"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_IV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_IV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>If Love the Virgin’s Heart invade,</p>
+<p>How, like a Moth, the simple Maid</p>
+<p class = "in1">Still plays about the Flame!</p>
+<p>If soon she be not made a Wife,</p>
+<p>Her Honour’s sing’d, and then for Life,</p>
+<p class = "in1">She’s&mdash;what I dare not name.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">8</span>
+<!-- png 030 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Look ye, Wife.
+A&nbsp;handsome Wench in our way of Business is as profitable as at the
+Bar of a <i>Temple</i> Coffee-House, who looks upon it as her livelihood
+to grant every Liberty but one. You see I would indulge the Girl as far
+as prudently we can. In any thing, but Marriage! After that, my Dear,
+how shall we be safe? Are we not then in her Husband’s Power? For a
+Husband hath the absolute Power over all a Wife’s Secrets but her own.
+If the Girl had the Discretion of a Court-Lady, who can have a Dozen
+young Fellows at her Ear without complying with one, I&nbsp;should not
+matter it; but <i>Polly</i> is Tinder, and a Spark will at once set her
+on a Flame. Married! If the Wench does not know her own Profit, sure she
+knows her own Pleasure better than to make herself a Property! My
+Daughter to me should be, like a Court-Lady to a Minister of State,
+a&nbsp;Key to the whole Gang. Married! If the Affair is not already
+done, I’ll terrify her from it, by the Example of our Neighbours.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> May-hap, my Dear, you
+may injure the Girl. She loves to imitate the fine Ladies, and she may
+only allow the Captain Liberties in the view of Interest.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> But ’tis your Duty, my Dear,
+to warn the Girl against her Ruin, and to instruct her how to make the
+most of her Beauty. I’ll go to her this moment, and sift her. In the
+meantime, Wife, rip out the Coronets and Marks of these Dozen of Cambric
+Handkerchiefs, for I can dispose of them this Afternoon to a Chap in the
+City.
+<span class = "exit">Exit <em>Peachum</em>.</span></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Never was a Man more out
+of the way in an Argument than my Husband! Why must our <i>Polly</i>,
+forsooth, differ from her Sex, and love only her Husband? And why must
+<i>Polly’s</i> Marriage, contrary to all Observations, make her the less
+followed by other
+<span class = "pagenum">9</span>
+<!-- png 031 -->
+Men? All Men are Thieves in Love, and like a Woman the better for being
+another’s Property.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air5" id = "air5">
+AIR V. &nbsp; Of all the simple Things we do, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air5.png" width = "367" height = "170"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_V.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_V.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>A Maid is like the Golden Ore,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Which hath Guineas intrinsical in’t,</p>
+<p>Whose Worth is never known before</p>
+<p class = "in1">It is try’d and imprest in the Mint.</p>
+<p>A Wife’s like a Guinea in Gold,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Stampt with the Name of her Spouse;</p>
+<p>Now here, now there; is bought, or is sold;</p>
+<p class = "in1">And is current in every House.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Filch</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Come hither,
+<i>Filch</i>. I&nbsp;am as fond of this Child, as though my Mind misgave
+me he were my own. He hath as fine a Hand at picking a Pocket as a
+Woman, and is as nimble-finger’d as a Juggler. If an unlucky Session
+does not cut the Rope of thy Life, I&nbsp;pronounce, Boy, thou wilt be a
+great Man in History. Where was your Post last Night, my Boy?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> I ply’d at the Opera, Madam;
+and considering ’twas neither dark nor rainy, so that there was no great
+Hurry in getting Chairs and Coaches, made a
+<span class = "pagenum">10</span>
+<!-- png 032 -->
+tolerable Hand on’t. These seven Handkerchiefs, Madam.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Colour’d ones, I see.
+They are of sure Sale from our Warehouse at <i>Redriff</i> among the
+Seamen.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> And this Snuff-box.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Set in Gold! A pretty
+Encouragement this to a young Beginner.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> I had a fair Tug at a charming
+Gold Watch. Pox take the Tailors for making the Fobs so deep and narrow!
+It stuck by the way, and I was forc’d to make my Escape under a Coach.
+Really, Madam, I&nbsp;fear I shall be cut off in the Flower of my Youth,
+so that every now and then (since I was pumpt) I&nbsp;have Thoughts of
+taking up and going to Sea.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> You should go to
+<i>Hockley in the Hole</i>, and to <i>Marybone</i>, Child, to learn
+Valour. These are the Schools that have bred so many brave Men.
+I&nbsp;thought, Boy, by this time, thou hadst lost Fear as well as
+Shame. Poor Lad! how little does he know as yet of the <i>Old Baily</i>!
+For the first Fact I’ll insure thee from being hang’d; and going to Sea,
+<i>Filch</i>, will come time enough upon a Sentence of Transportation.
+But now, since you have nothing better to do, ev’n go to your Book, and
+learn your Catechism; for really a Man makes but an ill Figure in the
+Ordinary’s Paper, who cannot give a satisfactory Answer to his
+Questions. But, hark you, my Lad. Don’t tell me a Lye; for you know I
+hate a Liar. Do you know of anything that hath pass’d between Captain
+<i>Macheath</i> and our <i>Polly</i>?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> I beg you, Madam, don’t ask me;
+for I must either tell a Lye to you or to Miss <i>Polly</i>; for I
+promis’d her I would not tell.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> But when the Honour of
+our Family is concern’d&mdash;</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">11</span>
+<!-- png 033 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> I shall lead a sad Life with
+Miss <i>Polly</i>, if ever she comes to know that I told you. Besides,
+I&nbsp;would not willingly forfeit my own Honour by betraying any
+body.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Yonder comes my Husband
+and <i>Polly</i>. Come, <i>Filch</i>, you shall go with me into my own
+Room, and tell me the whole Story. I’ll give thee a Glass of a most
+delicious Cordial that I keep for my own drinking.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exeunt.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Peachum</em>, <em>Polly</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> I know as well as any of the
+fine Ladies how to make the most of myself and of my Man too.
+A&nbsp;Woman knows how to be mercenary, though she hath never been in a
+Court or at an Assembly. We have it in our Natures, Papa. If I allow
+Captain <i>Macheath</i> some trifling Liberties, I&nbsp;have this Watch
+and other visible Marks of his Favour to shew for it. A&nbsp;Girl who
+cannot grant some Things, and refuse what is most material, will make
+but a poor hand of her Beauty, and soon be thrown upon the Common.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air6" id = "air6">
+AIR VI. &nbsp; What shall I do to shew how much I love her,
+&amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air6.png" width = "377" height = "232"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_VI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_VI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">12</span>
+<!-- png 034 -->
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Virgins are like the fair Flower in its Lustre,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Which in the Garden enamels the Ground;</p>
+<p>Near it the Bees in play flutter and cluster,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And gaudy Butterflies frolick around.</p>
+<p>But, when once pluck’d, ’tis no longer alluring,</p>
+<p class = "in1">To <i>Covent-Garden</i> ’tis sent (as yet sweet),</p>
+<p>There fades, and shrinks, and grows past all enduring,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Rots, stinks, and dies, and is trod under feet.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> You know, <i>Polly</i>,
+I&nbsp;am not against your toying and trifling with a Customer in the
+way of Business, or to get out a Secret, or so. But if I find out that
+you have play’d the Fool and are married, you Jade you, I’ll cut your
+Throat, Hussy. Now you know my Mind.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Mrs. Peachum</em>, in a very great Passion.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air7" id = "air7">
+AIR VII. &nbsp; Oh <i>London</i> is a fine Town.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air7.png" width = "349" height = "119"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_VII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_VII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Our <em>Polly</em> is a sad Slut! nor heeds what we have taught
+her.</p>
+<p>I wonder any Man alive will ever rear a Daughter!</p>
+<p>For she must have both Hoods and Gowns, and Hoops to swell her
+Pride,</p>
+<p>With Scarfs and Stays, and Gloves and Lace; and she will have Men
+beside;</p>
+<p>And when she’s drest with Care and Cost, all tempting, fine and
+gay,</p>
+<p>As Men should serve a Cucumber, she flings herself away.</p>
+<p>Our <em>Polly</em> is a sad Slut! <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">13</span>
+<!-- png 035 -->
+<p>You Baggage! you Hussy! you inconsiderate Jade! had you been hang’d,
+it would not have vex’d me, for that might have been your Misfortune;
+but to do such a mad thing by Choice; The Wench is married, Husband.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Married! the Captain is a
+bold Man, and will risk any thing for Money; to be sure he believes her
+a Fortune. Do you think your Mother and I should have liv’d comfortably
+so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> I knew she was always a
+proud Slut; and now the Wench hath play’d the Fool and Married, because
+forsooth she would do like the Gentry. Can you support the Expence of a
+Husband, Hussy, in Gaming, Drinking and Whoring? Have you Money enough
+to carry on the daily Quarrels of Man and Wife about who shall squander
+most? There are not many Husbands and Wives, who can bear the Charges of
+plaguing one another in a handsom way. If you must be married, could you
+introduce no body into our Family but a Highwayman? Why, thou foolish
+Jade, thou wilt be as ill-us’d, and as much neglected, as if thou hadst
+married a Lord!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Let not your Anger, my Dear,
+break through the Rules of Decency, for the Captain looks upon himself
+in the Military Capacity, as a Gentleman by his Profession. Besides what
+he hath already, I&nbsp;know he is in a fair way of getting, or of
+dying; and both these ways, let me tell you, are most excellent Chances
+for a Wife. Tell me, Hussy, are you ruin’d or&nbsp;no?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> With <i>Polly’s</i>
+Fortune, she might very well have gone off to a Person of Distinction.
+Yes, that you might, you pouting Slut!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> What is the Wench dumb?
+Speak, or I’ll make you plead by squeezing out an Answer from you.
+<span class = "pagenum">14</span>
+<!-- png 036 -->
+Are you really bound Wife to him, or are you only upon liking?
+<span class = "exit">Pinches her.</span></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Oh!
+<span class = "exit">Screaming.</span></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> How the Mother is to be
+pitied who hath handsom Daughters! Locks, Bolts, Bars, and Lectures of
+Morality are nothing to them: They break through them all. They have as
+much Pleasure in cheating a Father and Mother, as in cheating at
+Cards.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Why, <i>Polly</i>, I shall
+soon know if you are married, by <i>Macheath’s</i> keeping from our
+House.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air8" id = "air8">
+AIR VIII. &nbsp; Grim King of the Ghosts, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air8.png" width = "370" height = "180"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_VIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_VIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>Can Love be control’d by Advice?</p>
+<p class = "in1">Will <em>Cupid</em> our Mothers obey?</p>
+<p>Though my Heart were as frozen as Ice,</p>
+<p class = "in1">At his Flame ’twould have melted away.</p>
+<p>When he kist me so closely he prest,</p>
+<p class = "in1">’Twas so sweet that I must have comply’d:</p>
+<p>So I thought it both safest and best</p>
+<p class = "in1">To marry, for fear you should chide.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Then all the Hopes of
+our Family are gone for ever and ever!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> And <i>Macheath</i> may hang
+his Father and Mother-in-law, in hope to get into their Daughter’s
+Fortune.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">15</span>
+<!-- png 037 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> I did not marry him (as ’tis
+the Fashion) coolly and deliberately for Honour or Money. But,
+I&nbsp;love him.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Love him! worse and
+worse! I&nbsp;thought the Girl had been better bred. Oh Husband,
+Husband! her Folly makes me mad! my Head swims! I’m distracted!
+I&nbsp;can’t support myself&mdash;Oh!
+<span class = "exit">Faints.</span></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> See, Wench, to what a
+Condition you have reduc’d your poor Mother! a&nbsp;Glass of Cordial,
+this instant. How the poor Woman takes it to heart!</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+<em>Polly</em> goes out, and returns with it.</p>
+
+<p>Ah, Hussy, now this is the only Comfort your Mother has left!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Give her another Glass, Sir! my
+Mama drinks double the Quantity whenever she is out of Order. This, you
+see, fetches her.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> The Girl shews such a
+Readiness, and so much Concern, that I could almost find in my Heart to
+forgive her.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air9" id = "air9">
+AIR IX. &nbsp; O&nbsp;<i>Jenny</i>, O <i>Jenny</i>, where hast thou
+been.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air9.png" width = "369" height = "114"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_IX.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_IX.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>O <em>Polly</em>, you might have toy’d and kist.</p>
+<p>By keeping Men off, you keep them on.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p class = "in2">But he so teaz’d me,</p>
+<p class = "in2">And he so pleas’d me,</p>
+<p>What I did, you must have done.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Not with a
+Highwayman.&mdash;You sorry Slut!</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">16</span>
+<!-- png 038 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> A Word with you, Wife. ’Tis
+no new thing for a Wench to take Man without Consent of Parents. You
+know ’tis the Frailty of Women, my Dear.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Yes, indeed, the Sex is
+frail. But the first time a Woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice
+methinks, for then or never is the time to make her Fortune. After that,
+she hath nothing to do but to guard herself from being found out, and
+she may do what she pleases.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Make yourself a little easy;
+I&nbsp;have a Thought shall soon set all Matters again to rights. Why so
+melancholy, <i>Polly</i>? since what is done cannot be undone, we must
+all endeavour to make the best of&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Well, <i>Polly</i>; as
+far as one Woman can forgive another, I&nbsp;forgive thee.&mdash;Your
+Father is too fond of you, Hussy.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Then all my Sorrows are at an
+end.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> A mighty likely Speech
+in troth, for a Wench who is just married!</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air10" id = "air10">
+AIR X. <i>Thomas</i>, I cannot, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air10.png" width = "383" height = "174"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_X.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_X.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>I, like a Ship in Storms, was tost;</p>
+<p>Yet afraid to put in to Land:</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">17</span>
+<!-- png 039 -->
+
+<p>For seiz’d in the Port the Vessel’s lost,</p>
+<p>Whose Treasure is <ins class = "correction"
+title = "spelling unchanged">contreband</ins>.</p>
+<p class = "in1">The Waves are laid,</p>
+<p class = "in1">My Duty’s paid.</p>
+<p>O Joy beyond Expression!</p>
+<p class = "in1">Thus, safe a-shore,</p>
+<p class = "in1">I ask no more,</p>
+<p>My All is in my Possession.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> I hear Customers in t’other
+Room: Go, talk with ’em, <i>Polly</i>; but come to us again, as soon as
+they are gone.&mdash;But, hark ye, Child, if ’tis the Gentleman who was
+here Yesterday about the Repeating Watch; say, you believe we can’t get
+Intelligence of it ’till to-morrow. For I lent it to <i>Suky
+Straddle</i>, to make a figure with it to-night at a Tavern in
+<i>Drury-Lane</i>. If t’other Gentleman calls for the Silver-hilted
+Sword; you know <i>Beetle-brow’d Jemmy</i> hath it on, and he doth not
+come from <i>Tunbridge</i> ’till <i>Tuesday</i> Night; so that it cannot
+be had ’till then.
+<span class = "exit">Exit <em>Polly</em>.</span></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Dear Wife, be a little
+pacified<ins class = "correction" title = "text unchanged">, Don’t</ins>
+let your Passion run away with your Senses. <i>Polly</i>, I&nbsp;grant
+you, hath done a rash thing.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> If she had only an
+Intrigue with the Fellow, why the very best Families have excus’d and
+huddled up a Frailty of that sort. ’Tis Marriage, Husband, that makes it
+a Blemish.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> But Money, Wife, is the true
+Fuller’s Earth for Reputations, there is not a Spot or a Stain but what
+it can take out. A&nbsp;rich Rogue now-a-days is fit Company for any
+Gentleman; and the World, my Dear, hath not such a Contempt for Roguery
+as you imagine. I&nbsp;tell you, Wife, I&nbsp;can make this Match turn
+to our Advantage.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> I am very sensible,
+Husband, that
+<span class = "pagenum">18</span>
+<!-- png 040 -->
+Captain <i>Macheath</i> is worth Money, but I am in doubt whether he
+hath not two or three Wives already, and then if he should die in a
+Session or two, <i>Polly’s</i> Dower would come into Dispute.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> That, indeed, is a Point
+which ought to be consider’d.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air11" id = "air11">
+AIR XI. &nbsp; A Soldier and a Sailor.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air11.png" width = "406" height = "233"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>A Fox may steal your Hens, Sir,</p>
+<p>A Whore your Health and Pence, Sir,</p>
+<p>Your Daughter rob your Chest, Sir,</p>
+<p>Your Wife may steal your Rest, Sir.</p>
+<p class = "in1">A Thief your Goods and Plate.</p>
+<p>But this is all but picking,</p>
+<p>With Rest, Pence, Chest and Chicken;</p>
+<p>It ever was decreed, Sir,</p>
+<p>If Lawyer’s Hand is fee’d, Sir,</p>
+<p class = "in1">He steals your whole Estate.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Lawyers are bitter Enemies to those in our Way. They don’t care
+that any body should get a clandestine Livelihood but themselves.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">19</span>
+<!-- png 043 -->
+
+<p class = "entrance">Enter <em>Polly</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> ’Twas only <i>Nimming Ned</i>.
+He brought in a Damask Window-Curtain, a&nbsp;Hoop-Petticoat,
+a&nbsp;pair of Silver Candlesticks, a&nbsp;Periwig, and one Silk
+Stocking, from the Fire that happen’d last Night.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> There is not a Fellow that is
+cleverer in his way, and saves more Goods out of the Fire than
+<i>Ned</i>. But now, <i>Polly</i>, to your Affair; for Matters must not
+be left as they are. You are married then, it seems?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Yes, Sir.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> And how do you propose to
+live, Child?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Like other Women, Sir, upon the
+Industry of my Husband.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> What, is the Wench
+turn’d Fool? A&nbsp;Highwayman’s Wife, like a Soldier’s, hath as little
+of his Pay, as of his Company.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> And had not you the common
+Views of a Gentlewoman in your Marriage, <i>Polly</i>?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> I don’t know what you mean,
+Sir.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Of a Jointure, and of being a
+Widow.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> But I love him, Sir; how then
+could I have Thoughts of parting with him?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Parting with him! Why, this
+is the whole Scheme and Intention of all Marriage-Articles. The
+comfortable Estate of Widow-hood, is the only Hope that keeps up a
+Wife’s Spirits. Where is the Woman who would scruple to be a Wife, if
+she had it in her Power to be a Widow, whenever she pleas’d? If you have
+any Views of this sort, <i>Polly</i>, I&nbsp;shall think the Match not
+so very unreasonable.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> How I dread to hear your
+Advice! Yet I must beg you to explain yourself.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">20</span>
+<!-- png 044 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Secure what he hath got, have
+him peach’d the next Sessions, and then at once you are made a rich
+Widow.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> What, murder the Man I love!
+The Blood runs cold at my Heart with the very thought of&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Fie, <i>Polly</i>! What hath
+Murder to do in the Affair? Since the thing sooner or later must happen,
+I&nbsp;dare say, the Captain himself would like that we should get the
+Reward for his Death sooner than a Stranger. Why, <i>Polly</i>, the
+Captain knows, that as ’tis his Employment to rob, so ’tis ours to take
+Robbers; every Man in his Business. So that there is no Malice in the
+Case.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Ay, Husband, now you
+have nick’d the Matter. To have him peach’d is the only thing could ever
+make me forgive her.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air12" id = "air12">
+AIR XII. &nbsp; Now ponder well, ye Parents dear.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air12.png" width = "385" height = "116"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>O ponder well! be not severe;</p>
+<p class = "in1">So save a wretched Wife!</p>
+<p>For on the Rope that hangs my Dear</p>
+<p class = "in1">Depends poor <em>Polly’s</em> Life.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> But your Duty to your
+Parents, Hussy, obliges you to hang him. What would many a Wife give for
+such an Opportunity!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> What is a Jointure, what is
+Widow-hood to me? I&nbsp;know my Heart. I&nbsp;cannot survive him.</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">21</span>
+<!-- png 045 -->
+<h5><a name = "air13" id = "air13">
+AIR XIII. &nbsp; Le printems rapelle aux armes.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air13.png" width = "384" height = "166"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>The Turtle thus with plaintive Crying,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Her Lover dying,</p>
+<p>The Turtle thus with plaintive Crying,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Laments her Dove.</p>
+<p>Down she drops quite spent with Sighing.</p>
+<p>Pair’d in Death, as pair’d in Love.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Thus, Sir, it will happen to your poor <i>Polly</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> What, is the Fool in
+Love in earnest then? I&nbsp;hate thee for being particular: Why, Wench,
+thou art a Shame to thy very Sex.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> But hear me, Mother.&mdash;If
+you ever lov’d&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Those cursed Play-Books
+she reads have been her Ruin. One Word more, Hussy, and I shall knock
+your Brains out, if you have any.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Keep out of the way,
+<i>Polly</i>, for fear of Mischief, and consider of what is proposed to
+you.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> Away, Hussy. Hang your
+Husband, and be dutiful.
+<span class = "exit">Exit <em>Polly</em>.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Re-enter <em>Polly</em>, and listens behind column.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> The Thing, Husband, must
+and shall be done. For the sake of Intelligence we must take
+<span class = "pagenum">22</span>
+<!-- png 046 -->
+other measures, and have him peached the next Session without her
+Consent. If she will not know her Duty, we know ours.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> But really, my Dear, it
+grieves one’s Heart to take off a great Man. When I consider his
+Personal Bravery, his fine Stratagem, how much we have already got by
+him, and how much more we may get, methinks I can’t find in my Heart to
+have a hand in his Death. I&nbsp;wish you could have made <i>Polly</i>
+undertake&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> But in a Case of
+Necessity&mdash;our own Lives are in danger.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Then, indeed, we must comply
+with the Customs of the World, and make Gratitude give way to
+Interest.&mdash;He shall be taken off.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Peachum.</span> I’ll undertake to manage
+<i>Polly</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> And I’ll prepare Matters for
+the <i>Old-Baily</i>.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exeunt severally.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Now I’m a Wretch,
+indeed.&mdash;Methinks I see him already in the Cart, sweeter and more
+lovely than the Nosegay in his Hand!&mdash;I&nbsp;hear the Crowd
+extolling his Resolution and Intrepidity!&mdash;What Vollies of Sighs
+are sent from the Windows of <i>Holborn</i>, that so comely a Youth
+should be brought to Disgrace!&mdash;I&nbsp;see him at the Tree! The
+whole Circle are in Tears!&mdash;even Butchers weep!&mdash;<i>Jack
+Ketch</i> himself hesitates to perform his Duty, and would be glad to
+lose his Fee, by a Reprieve. What then will become of
+<i>Polly</i>!&mdash;As yet I may inform him of their Design, and aid him
+in his Escape.&mdash;It shall be so&mdash;But then he flies, absents
+himself, and I bar myself from his dear dear Conversation! That too will
+distract me.&mdash;If he keep out of the way, my Papa and Mama may in
+time relent, and we may be happy.&mdash;If he stays, he is hang’d, and
+then he
+<span class = "pagenum">23</span>
+<!-- png 047 -->
+is lost for ever!&mdash;He intended to lie conceal’d in my Room, ’till
+the Dusk of the Evening: If they are abroad I’ll this Instant let him
+out, lest some Accident should prevent him.
+<span class = "exit">Exit, and returns with
+<em>Macheath</em>.</span></p>
+
+
+<h5>Macheath.<br>
+<a name = "air14" id = "air14">
+AIR XIV. &nbsp; Pretty Parrot, say&mdash;</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air14.png" width = "394" height = "231"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XIV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XIV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Pretty <em>Polly</em>, say,</p>
+<p class = "in1">When I was away,</p>
+<p>Did your fancy never stray</p>
+<p class = "in1">To some newer Lover?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p class = "in2">Without Disguise,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Heaving Sighs,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Doting Eyes,</p>
+<p>My constant Heart discover.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Fondly let me loll!</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p class = "in1">O pretty, pretty <em>Poll</em>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> And are <i>you</i> as fond as
+ever, my Dear?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Suspect my Honour, my
+Courage, suspect any thing but my Love.&mdash;May my Pistols miss Fire,
+<span class = "pagenum">24</span>
+<!-- png 048 -->
+and my Mare slip her Shoulder while I am pursu’d, if I ever forsake
+thee!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Nay, my Dear, I have no Reason
+to doubt you, for I find in the Romance you lent me, none of the great
+Heroes were ever false in Love.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air15" id = "air15">
+AIR XV. &nbsp; Pray, Fair one, be kind&mdash;</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air15.png" width = "396" height = "176"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p class = "in1">My Heart was so free,</p>
+<p class = "in1">It rov’d like the Bee,</p>
+<p>’Till <em>Polly</em> my Passion requited;</p>
+<p class = "in1">I sipt each Flower,</p>
+<p class = "in1">I chang’d every Hour,</p>
+<p>But here every Flower is united.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Were you sentenc’d to
+Transportation, sure, my Dear, you could not leave me behind
+you&mdash;could you?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Is there any Power, any
+Force that could tear me from thee? You might sooner tear a Pension out
+of the Hands of a Courtier, a&nbsp;Fee from a Lawyer, a&nbsp;pretty
+Woman from a Looking-glass, or any Woman from Quadrille.&mdash;But to
+tear me from thee is impossible!</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">25</span>
+<!-- png 049 -->
+<h5><a name = "air16" id = "air16">
+AIR XVI. &nbsp; Over the Hills and far away.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air16.png" width = "394" height = "167"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XVI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XVI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Were I laid on <em>Greenland’s</em> Coast,</p>
+<p>And in my Arms embrac’d my Lass;</p>
+<p>Warm amidst eternal Frost,</p>
+<p>Too soon the Half Year’s Night would pass.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>Were I sold on <em>Indian</em> Soil,</p>
+<p>Soon as the burning Day was clos’d,</p>
+<p>I could mock the sultry Toil</p>
+<p>When on my Charmer’s Breast repos’d.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p>And I would love you all the Day,</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>Every Night would kiss and play,</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p>If with me you’d fondly stray</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>Over the Hills and far away.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Yes, I would go with thee. But
+oh!&mdash;how shall I speak it? I&nbsp;must be torn from thee. We must
+part.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> How! Part!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> We must, we must.&mdash;My Papa
+and Mama are set against thy Life. They now, even now are in Search
+after thee. They are preparing Evidence against thee. Thy Life depends
+upon a moment.</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">26</span>
+<!-- png 050 -->
+<h5><a name = "air17" id = "air17">
+AIR XVII. &nbsp; Gin thou wert mine awn thing&mdash;</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air17.png" width = "399" height = "233"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XVII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XVII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Oh what Pain it is to part!</p>
+<p>Can I leave thee, can I leave thee?</p>
+<p>O what pain it is to part!</p>
+<p>Can thy <em>Polly</em> ever leave thee?</p>
+<p>But lest Death my Love should thwart,</p>
+<p>And bring thee to the fatal Cart,</p>
+<p>Thus I tear thee from my bleeding Heart!</p>
+<p class = "in1">Fly hence, and let me leave thee.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>One Kiss and then&mdash;one Kiss&mdash;be gone&mdash;farewel.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> My Hand, my Heart, my Dear,
+is so riveted to thine, that I cannot unloose my Hold.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> But my Papa may intercept thee,
+and then I should lose the very glimmering of Hope. A&nbsp;few Weeks,
+perhaps, may reconcile us all. Shall thy <i>Polly</i> hear from
+thee?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Must I then go?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> And will not Absence change
+your Love?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> If you doubt it, let me
+stay&mdash;and be hang’d.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">27</span>
+<!-- png 051 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> O how I fear! how I
+tremble!&mdash;Go&mdash;but when Safety will give you leave, you will be
+sure to see me again; for ’till then <i>Polly</i> is wretched.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air18" id = "air18">
+AIR XVIII. &nbsp; O the Broom, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air18.png" width = "378" height = "169"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XVIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XVIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p>The Miser thus a Shilling sees,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Which he’s oblig’d to pay,</p>
+<p>With sighs resigns it by degrees,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And fears ’tis gone for ay.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Parting, and looking back at each other with fondness; he at one Door,
+she at the other.</p>
+
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>The Boy, thus, when his Sparrow’s flown,</p>
+<p class = "in1">The Bird in Silence eyes;</p>
+<p>But soon as out of Sight ’tis gone,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Whines, whimpers, sobs and cries.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "illustration right">
+<img src = "images/pic_27.png" width = "29" height = "79"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<a name = "plateII" id = "plateII"> </a>
+<img src = "images/plateII.jpg" width = "340" height = "496"
+alt = "Mrs. Peachum">
+</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">28</span>
+<!-- png 052 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_28.png" width = "317" height = "122"
+alt = "men and women with pistols">
+</p>
+
+<h4 class = "act"><a name = "actII_sceneI" id = "actII_sceneI">
+ACT II. SCENE I.</a></h4>
+
+<h5 class = "scene">
+A <span class = "smallcaps">Tavern</span> near <em>Newgate</em>.</h5>
+
+<p class = "entrance long">
+<em>Jemmy Twitcher</em>, <em>Crook-finger’d Jack</em>, <em>Wat
+Dreary</em>, <em>Robin of Bagshot</em>, <em>Nimming Ned</em>, <em>Henry
+Paddington</em>, <em>Matt of the Mint</em>, <em>Ben Budge</em>, and the
+rest of the Gang, at the Table, with Wine, Brandy and Tobacco.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Ben.</span> But pr’ythee, <i>Matt</i>, what
+is become of thy Brother <i>Tom</i>? I&nbsp;have not seen him since my
+Return from Transportation.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> Poor Brother <i>Tom</i> had an
+Accident this time Twelve-month, and so clever a made fellow he was,
+that I could not save him from those fleaing Rascals the Surgeons; and
+now, poor Man, he is among the Otamys at <i>Surgeons Hall</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Ben.</span> So it seems, his Time was
+come.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jemmy.</span> But the present Time is ours,
+and no body alive hath more. Why are the Laws levell’d at us? are we
+more dishonest than the rest of Mankind? What we win, Gentlemen, is our
+own by the Law of Arms, and the Right of Conquest.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Crook.</span> Where shall we find such
+another Set of Practical Philosophers, who to a Man are above the Fear
+of Death?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Wat.</span> Sound Men, and true!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Robin.</span> Of try’d Courage, and
+indefatigable Industry!</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">29</span>
+<!-- png 055 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Ned.</span> Who is there here that would not
+die for his Friend?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Harry.</span> Who is there here that would
+betray him for his Interest?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> Shew me a Gang of Courtiers that
+can say as much.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Ben.</span> We are for a just Partition of
+the World, for every Man hath a Right to enjoy Life.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> We retrench the Superfluities of
+Mankind. The World is avaritious, and I hate Avarice. A&nbsp;covetous
+fellow, like a Jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the
+sake of hiding it. These are the Robbers of Mankind, for Money was made
+for the Free-hearted and Generous, and where is the Injury of taking
+from another, what he hath not the Heart to make use&nbsp;of?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jemmy.</span> Our several Stations for the
+Day are fixt. Good luck attend us all. Fill the Glasses.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air19" id = "air19">
+AIR XIX. &nbsp; Fill every Glass, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air19.png" width = "394" height = "172"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XIX.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XIX.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Matt.</p>
+<p>Fill every Glass, for Wine inspires&nbsp;us,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And fires us</p>
+<p>With Courage, Love and Joy.</p>
+<p>Women and Wine should life employ.</p>
+<p>Is there ought else on Earth desirous?</p>
+
+<p class = "singer">Chorus.</p>
+<p>Fill every Glass, <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">30</span>
+<!-- png 056 -->
+<p class = "entrance">
+To them enter <em>Macheath</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Gentlemen, well met. My
+Heart hath been with you this Hour; but an unexpected Affair hath
+detain’d me. No Ceremony, I&nbsp;beg you.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> We were just breaking up to go
+upon Duty. Am I to have the Honour of taking the Air with you, Sir, this
+Evening upon the Heath? I&nbsp;drink a Dram now and then with the
+Stagecoachmen in the way of Friendship and Intelligence; and I know that
+about this Time there will be Passengers upon the Western Road, who are
+worth speaking with.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> I was to have been of that
+Party&mdash;but&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> But what, Sir?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Is there any Man who
+suspects my Courage?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> We have all been Witnesses
+of&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> My Honour and Truth to the
+Gang?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> I’ll be answerable for it.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> In the Division of our
+Booty, have I ever shewn the least Marks of Avarice or Injustice?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> By these Questions something
+seems to have ruffled you. Are any of us suspected?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> I have a fixed Confidence,
+Gentlemen, in you all, as Men of Honour, and as such I value and respect
+you. <i>Peachum</i> is a Man that is useful to&nbsp;us.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> Is he about to play us any foul
+Play? I’ll shoot him through the Head.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> I beg you, Gentlemen, act
+with Conduct and Discretion. A&nbsp;Pistol is your last Resort.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> He knows nothing of this
+Meeting.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Business cannot go on
+without him. He is a Man who knows the World, and is a necessary Agent
+to us. We have had a slight Difference, and ’till it is
+<span class = "pagenum">31</span>
+<!-- png 057 -->
+accommodated I shall be oblig’d to keep out of his way. Any private
+Dispute of mine shall be of no ill consequence to my Friends. You must
+continue to act under his Direction, for the moment we break loose from
+him, our Gang is ruin’d.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> As a Bawd to a Whore, I grant
+you, he is to us of great Convenience.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Make him believe I have
+quitted the Gang, which I can never do but with Life. At our private
+Quarters I will continue to meet you. A&nbsp;Week or so will probably
+reconcile&nbsp;us.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> Your Instructions shall be
+observ’d. ’Tis now high time for us to repair to our several Duties; so
+’till the Evening at our Quarters in Moor-Fields we bid you farewel.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> I shall wish myself with
+you. Success attend you.
+<span class = "exit">Sits down melancholy at the Table.</span></p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air20" id = "air20">
+AIR XX. &nbsp; March in <i>Rinaldo</i>, with Drums and
+Trumpets.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air20.png" width = "385" height = "168"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XX.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XX.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Matt.</p>
+<p>Let us take the Road.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Hark! I hear the Sound of Coaches!</p>
+<p class = "in1">The Hour of Attack approaches,</p>
+<p>To your Arms, brave Boys, and load.</p>
+<p class = "in1">See the Ball I hold!</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">32</span>
+<!-- png 058 -->
+
+<p>Let the Chymists toil like Asses,</p>
+<p>Our Fire their Fire surpasses,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And turns all our Lead to Gold.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+The Gang, rang’d in the Front of the Stage, load their Pistols, and
+stick them under their Girdles; then go off singing the first Part in
+Chorus.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> What a Fool is a fond Wench!
+<i>Polly</i> is most confoundedly bit.&mdash;I&nbsp;love the Sex. And a
+Man who loves Money, might as well be contented with one Guinea, as I
+with one Woman. The Town perhaps have been as much obliged to me, for
+recruiting it with free-hearted Ladies, as to any Recruiting Officer in
+the Army. If it were not for us, and the other Gentlemen of the Sword,
+<i>Drury-Lane</i> would be uninhabited.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air21" id = "air21">
+AIR XXI. &nbsp; Would you have a young Virgin, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air21.png" width = "398" height = "233"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>If the Heart of a Man is deprest with Cares,</p>
+<p>The Mist is dispell’d when a Woman appears;</p>
+<p>Like the Notes of a Fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly</p>
+<p>Raises the Spirits, and charms our Ears,</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">33</span>
+<!-- png 059 -->
+
+<p>Roses and Lilies her Cheeks disclose,</p>
+<p>But her ripe Lips are more sweet than those.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Press her,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Caress her,</p>
+<p class = "in1">With Blisses,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Her Kisses</p>
+<p>Dissolve us in Pleasure, and soft Repose.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I must have Women. There is nothing unbends the Mind like them. Money
+is not so strong a Cordial for the Time. Drawer&mdash;
+<span class = "stagedir">Enter Drawer.</span>
+Is the Porter gone for all the Ladies according to my Directions?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Drawer.</span> I expect him back every
+Minute. But you know, Sir, you sent him as far as <i>Hockley in the
+Hole</i> for three of the Ladies, for one in <i>Vinegar-Yard</i>, and
+for the rest of them somewhere about <i>Lewkner’s-Lane</i>. Sure some of
+them are below, for I hear the Bar-Bell. As they come I will shew them
+up. Coming, Coming.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter Mrs. <em>Coaxer</em>, <em>Dolly Trull</em>, Mrs. <em>Vixen</em>,
+<em>Betty Doxy</em>, <em>Jenny Diver</em>, Mrs. <em>Slammekin</em>,
+<em>Suky Tawdry</em>, and <em>Molly Brazen</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Dear Mrs. <i>Coaxer</i>, you
+are welcome. You look charmingly to-day. I&nbsp;hope you don’t want the
+Repairs of Quality, and lay on Paint.&mdash;<i>Dolly Trull!</i> kiss me,
+you Slut; are you as amorous as ever, Hussy? You are always so taken up
+with stealing Hearts, that you don’t allow yourself Time to steal any
+thing else.&mdash;Ah <i>Dolly</i>, thou wilt ever be a Coquette! Mrs.
+<i>Vixen</i>, I’m yours, I&nbsp;always lov’d a Woman of Wit and Spirit;
+they make charming Mistresses, but plaguy Wives&mdash;<i>Betty Doxy!</i>
+Come hither, Hussy. Do you drink as hard as ever? You had better stick
+to good wholesom Beer; for in troth, <i>Betty</i>, Strong-Waters will in
+time ruin your Constitution. You should leave those to your
+Betters.&mdash;What! and my pretty <i>Jenny Diver</i> too! As prim and
+<span class = "pagenum">34</span>
+<!-- png 060 -->
+demure as ever! There is not any Prude, though ever so high bred, hath a
+more sanctify’d Look, with a more mischievous Heart. Ah! thou art a dear
+artful Hypocrite.&mdash;Mrs. <i>Slammekin!</i> as careless and genteel
+as ever! all you fine Ladies, who know your own Beauty, affect an
+Undress.&mdash;But see, here’s <i>Suky Tawdry</i> come to contradict
+what I was saying. Every thing she gets one way she lays out upon her
+Back. Why, <i>Suky</i>, you must keep at least a Dozen Tallymen.
+<i>Molly Brazen!</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">She kisses him.</span>
+That’s well done. I&nbsp;love a free-hearted Wench. Thou hast a most
+agreeable Assurance, Girl, and art as willing as a Turtle.&mdash;But
+hark! I&nbsp;hear Music. The Harper is at the Door. <i>If Music be the
+Food of Love, play on.</i> Ere you seat yourselves, Ladies, what think
+you of a Dance? Come&nbsp;in.
+<span class = "stagedir">Enter Harper.</span>
+Play the <i>French</i> Tune, that Mrs. <i>Slammekin</i> was so
+fond&nbsp;of.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+A Dance <em>a la ronde</em> in the <em>French</em> manner; near the end
+of it this song and Chorus.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air22" id = "air22">
+AIR XXII. &nbsp; Cotillon.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air22.png" width = "388" height = "111"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "in1">Youth’s the Season made for Joys,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Love is then our Duty,</p>
+<p class = "in1">She alone who that employs,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Well deserves her Beauty.</p>
+<p class = "in3">Let’s be gay,</p>
+<p class = "in3">While we may,</p>
+<p>Beauty’s a Flower, despis’d in Decay.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Youth’s the Season, <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">35</span>
+<!-- png 061 -->
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "in1">Let us drink and sport to-day,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Ours is not to-morrow.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Love with Youth flies swift away,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Age is nought but Sorrow.</p>
+<p class = "in3">Dance and sing,</p>
+<p class = "in3">Time’s on the Wing.</p>
+<p>Life never knows the Return of Spring.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Chorus.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Let us drink, <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Now, pray Ladies, take your
+Places. Here Fellow.
+<span class = "stagedir">Pays the Harper.</span>
+Bid the Drawer bring us more Wine.
+<span class = "stagedir">Exit Harper.</span>
+If any of the Ladies choose Ginn, I&nbsp;hope they will be so free to
+call for&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jenny.</span> You look as if you meant me.
+Wine is strong enough for me. Indeed, Sir, I&nbsp;never drink
+Strong-Waters, but when I have the Cholic.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Just the Excuse of the fine
+Ladies! Why, a&nbsp;Lady of Quality is never without the Cholic.
+I&nbsp;hope, Mrs. <i>Coaxer</i>, you have had good Success of late in
+your Visits among the Mercers.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Coaxer.</span> We have so many
+Interlopers&mdash;Yet with Industry, one may still have a little
+Picking. I&nbsp;carried a silver-flowered Lutestring, and a Piece of
+black Padesoy to Mr. <i>Peachum’s</i> Lock but last Week.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Vixen.</span> There’s <i>Molly
+Brazen</i> hath the Ogle of a Rattle-Snake. She rivetted a
+Linen-Draper’s Eye so fast upon her, that he was nick’d of three Pieces
+of Cambric before he could look off.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Brazen.</span> Oh dear Madam!&mdash;But sure
+nothing can come up to your handling of Laces! And then you have such a
+sweet deluding Tongue! To cheat a Man is nothing; but the Woman must
+have fine Parts indeed who cheats a Woman.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Vixen.</span> Lace, Madam, lies in a
+small Compass,
+<span class = "pagenum">36</span>
+<!-- png 062 -->
+and is of easy Conveyance. But you are apt, Madam, to think too well of
+your Friends.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Coaxer.</span> If any woman hath more
+Art than another, to be sure, ’tis <i>Jenny Diver</i>. Though her Fellow
+be never so agreeable, she can pick his Pocket as coolly, as if money
+were her only Pleasure. Now that is a Command of the Passions uncommon
+in a Woman!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jenny.</span> I never go to the Tavern with a
+Man, but in the View of Business. I&nbsp;have other Hours, and other
+sort of Men for my Pleasure. But had I your Address, Madam&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Have done with your
+Compliments, Ladies; and drink about: You are not so fond of me,
+<i>Jenny</i>, as you use to&nbsp;be.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jenny.</span> ’Tis not convenient, Sir, to
+shew my Fondness among so many Rivals. ’Tis your own Choice, and not the
+Warmth of my Inclination that will determine you.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air23" id = "air23">
+AIR XXIII. &nbsp; All in a misty Morning, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air23.png" width = "393" height = "187"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Before the Barn-Door crowing,</p>
+<p class = "in1">The Cock by Hens attended,</p>
+<p>His Eyes around him throwing,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Stands for a while suspended.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">37</span>
+<!-- png 063 -->
+
+<p>Then One he singles from the Crew,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And cheers the happy Hen;</p>
+<p>With how do you do, and how do you do,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And how do you do again.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Ah <i>Jenny!</i> thou art a
+dear Slut.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jenny.</span> A Man of Courage should never
+put any thing to the Risk but his Life. These are the Tools of a Man of
+Honour. Cards and Dice are only fit for cowardly Cheats, who prey upon
+their Friends.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+She takes up his Pistol. <em>Tawdry</em> takes up the other.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Tawdry.</span> This, Sir, is fitter for your
+Hand. Besides your Loss of Money, ’tis a Loss to the Ladies. Gaming
+takes you off from Women. How fond could I be of you! but before Company
+’tis ill bred.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Wanton Hussies!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jenny.</span> I must and will have a Kiss to
+give my Wine a Zest.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+They take him about the Neck and make signs to <em>Peachum</em> and
+Constables, who rush in upon him.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> I seize you, Sir, as my
+Prisoner.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Was this well done,
+<i>Jenny</i>?&mdash;Women are Decoy Ducks; who can trust them! Beasts,
+Jades, Jilts, Harpies, Furies, Whores!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Your Case, Mr.
+<i>Macheath</i>, is not particular. The greatest Heroes have been ruin’d
+by Women. But, to do them Justice, I&nbsp;must own they are a pretty
+sort of Creatures, if we could trust them. You must now, Sir, take your
+Leave of the Ladies, and if they have a mind to make you a Visit, they
+will be sure to find you at home. This Gentleman, Ladies, lodges in
+<i>Newgate</i>. Constables, wait upon the Captain to his Lodgings.</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">38</span>
+<!-- png 064 -->
+<h5><a name = "air24" id = "air24">
+AIR XXIV. &nbsp; When first I laid Siege to my <i>Chloris</i>,
+&amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air24.png" width = "384" height = "116"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXIV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXIV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p>At the Tree I shall suffer with Pleasure,</p>
+<p>At the Tree I shall suffer with Pleasure,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Let me go where I will,</p>
+<p class = "in1">In all kinds of Ill,</p>
+<p>I shall find no such Furies as these are.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Ladies, I’ll take care the
+Reckoning shall be discharged.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exit <em>Macheath</em>, guarded with <em>Peachum and
+Constables</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Vixen.</span> Look ye, Mrs.
+<i>Jenny</i>, though Mr. <i>Peachum</i> may have made a private Bargain
+with you and <i>Suky Tawdry</i> for betraying the Captain, as we were
+all assisting, we ought all to share alike.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Coaxer.</span> I think Mr.
+<i>Peachum</i>, after so long an Acquaintance, might have trusted me as
+well as <i>Jenny Diver</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Slammekin.</span> I am sure at least
+three Men of his hanging, and in a Year’s time too (if he did me
+Justice) should be set down to my Account.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Trull.</span> Mrs. <i>Slammekin</i>, that is
+not fair. For you know one of them was taken in Bed with&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jenny.</span> As far as a Bowl of Punch or a
+Treat, I&nbsp;believe Mrs. <i>Suky</i> will join with me.&mdash;As for
+any thing else, Ladies, you cannot in Conscience expect&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Slammekin.</span> Dear Madam&mdash;</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">39</span>
+<!-- png 065 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Trull.</span> I would not for the
+World&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Slammekin.</span> ’Tis impossible for
+me&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Trull.</span> As I hope to be sav’d,
+Madam&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Slammekin.</span> Nay, then I must stay
+here all Night&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Trull.</span> Since you command me.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exeunt with great Ceremony.</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration right">
+<img src = "images/pic_39.png" width = "57" height = "82"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<a name = "plateIII" id = "plateIII"> </a>
+<img src = "images/plateIII.jpg" width = "338" height = "499"
+alt = "Polly Peachum">
+</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">40</span>
+<!-- png 066 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_40.png" width = "77" height = "81"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<h5 class = "scene"><a name = "actII_sceneII" id = "actII_sceneII">
+<em>SCENE II.</em> Newgate.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+<em>Lockit</em>, Turnkeys, <em>Macheath</em>, Constables.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Noble Captain, you are
+welcome. You have not been a Lodger of mine this Year and half. You know
+the Custom, Sir. Garnish, Captain, Garnish. Hand me down those Fetters
+there.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Those, Mr. <i>Lockit</i>,
+seem to be the heaviest of the whole Set. With your Leave, I&nbsp;should
+like the further Pair better.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Look ye, Captain, we know what
+is fittest for our Prisoners. When a Gentleman uses me with Civility,
+I&nbsp;always do the best I can to please him.&mdash;Hand them down I
+say.&mdash;We have them of all Prices, from one Guinea to ten, and ’tis
+fitting every Gentleman should please himself.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> I understand you, Sir.
+<span class = "stagedir">Gives Money.</span>
+The Fees here are so many, and so exorbitant, that few Fortunes can bear
+the Expence of getting off handsomly, or of dying like a Gentleman.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Those, I see, will fit the
+Captain better&mdash;Take down the further Pair. Do but examine them,
+Sir.&mdash;Never was better work.&mdash;How genteely they are
+made!&mdash;They will fit as easy as a Glove, and the nicest Man in
+<i>England</i> might not be asham’d to wear them.
+<span class = "stagedir">He puts on the Chains.</span>
+If I had the best Gentleman in the Land in my Custody I could not equip
+<span class = "pagenum">41</span>
+<!-- png 069 -->
+him more handsomly. And so, Sir&mdash;I&nbsp;now leave you to your
+private Meditations.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exeunt leaving <em>Macheath</em> solus.</p>
+
+
+<h5>Macheath.<br>
+<a name = "air25" id = "air25">
+AIR XXV. &nbsp; Courtiers, Courtiers, think it no Harm, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air25.png" width = "384" height = "111"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Man may escape from Rope and Gun;</p>
+<p>Nay, some have out liv’d the Doctor’s Pill;</p>
+<p>Who takes a Woman must be undone,</p>
+<p class = "in1">That Basilisk is sure to kill.</p>
+<p>The Fly that sips Treacle is lost in the Sweets,</p>
+<p>So he that tastes Woman, Woman, Woman,</p>
+<p class = "in1">He that tastes Woman, ruin meets.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>To what a woful Plight have I brought myself! Here must I (all Day
+long, ’till I am hang’d) be confin’d to hear the Reproaches of a Wench
+who lays her Ruin at my Door&mdash;I&nbsp;am in the Custody of her
+Father, and to be sure, if he knows of the matter, I&nbsp;shall have a
+fine time on’t betwixt this and my Execution.&mdash;But I promis’d the
+Wench Marriage&mdash;What signifies a Promise to a Woman? Does not Man
+in Marriage itself promise a hundred things that he never means to
+perform? Do all we can, Women will believe us; for they look upon a
+Promise as an Excuse for following their own Inclinations.&mdash;But
+here comes <i>Lucy</i>, and I cannot get from her.&mdash;Wou’d I were
+deaf!</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">42</span>
+<!-- png 070 -->
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Lucy</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> You base Man you,&mdash;how can
+you look me in the Face after what hath passed between us?&mdash;See
+here, perfidious Wretch, how I am forc’d to bear about the Load of
+Infamy you have laid upon me&mdash;O&nbsp;<i>Macheath</i>! thou hast
+robb’d me of my Quiet&mdash;to see thee tortur’d would give me
+Pleasure.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air26" id = "air26">
+AIR XXVI. &nbsp; A lovely Lass to a Friar came, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air26.png" width = "394" height = "177"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXVI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXVI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Thus when a good Housewife sees a Rat</p>
+<p class = "in1">In her Trap in the Morning taken,</p>
+<p>With Pleasure her Heart goes pit-a-pat,</p>
+<p class = "in1">In Revenge for her Loss of Bacon.</p>
+<p class = "in2">Then she throws him</p>
+<p class = "in2">To the Dog or Cat,</p>
+<p class = "in1">To be worried, crush’d and shaken.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Have you no Bowels, no
+Tenderness, my dear <i>Lucy</i>, to see a Husband in these
+Circumstances?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> A Husband!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> In ev’ry Respect but the
+Form, and that, my Dear, may be said over us at any time.&mdash;Friends
+should not insist upon Ceremonies. From a Man of Honour, his Word is as
+good as his Bond.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">43</span>
+<!-- png 071 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> ’Tis the Pleasure of all you
+fine Men to insult the Women you have ruin’d.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air27" id = "air27">
+AIR XXVII. &nbsp; ’Twas when the Sea was roaring, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air27.png" width = "399" height = "183"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXVII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXVII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>How cruel are the Traitors,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Who lye and swear in jest,</p>
+<p>To cheat unguarded Creatures</p>
+<p class = "in1">Of Virtue, Fame, and Rest!</p>
+<p>Whoever steals a Shilling,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Through Shame the Guilt conceals:</p>
+<p>In Love the perjur’d Villain</p>
+<p class = "in1">With Boasts the Theft reveals.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> The very first Opportunity,
+my Dear, (have but Patience) you shall be my Wife in whatever manner you
+please.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Insinuating Monster! And so you
+think I know nothing of the Affair of Miss <i>Polly
+Peachum</i>.&mdash;I&nbsp;could tear thy Eyes out!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Sure, <i>Lucy</i>, you can’t
+be such a Fool as to be jealous of <i>Polly</i>!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Are you not married to her, you
+Brute, you.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Married! Very good. The
+Wench gives it out only to vex thee, and to ruin me in thy good
+<span class = "pagenum">44</span>
+<!-- png 072 -->
+Opinion. ’Tis true, I&nbsp;go to the House; I&nbsp;chat with the Girl,
+I&nbsp;kiss her, I&nbsp;say a thousand things to her (as all Gentlemen
+do) that mean nothing, to divert myself; and now the silly Jade hath set
+it about that I am married to her, to let me know what she would be at.
+Indeed, my dear <i>Lucy</i>, these violent Passions may be of ill
+consequence to a Woman in your Condition.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Come, come, Captain, for all
+your Assurance, you know that Miss <i>Polly</i> hath put it out of your
+Power to do me the Justice you promis’d&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> A jealous Woman believes
+every thing her Passion suggests. To convince you of my Sincerity, if we
+can find the Ordinary, I&nbsp;shall have no Scruples of making you my
+Wife; and I know the Consequence of having two at a time.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> That you are only to be hang’d,
+and so get rid of them both.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> I am ready, my dear
+<i>Lucy</i>, to give you Satisfaction&mdash;if you think there is any in
+Marriage.&mdash;What can a Man of Honour say more?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> So then, it seems, you are not
+married to Miss <i>Polly</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> You know, <i>Lucy</i>, the
+Girl is prodigiously conceited. No Man can say a civil thing to her, but
+(like other fine Ladies) her Vanity makes her think he’s her own for
+ever and ever.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air28" id = "air28">
+AIR XXVIII. &nbsp; The Sun had loos’d his weary Teams, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air28.png" width = "385" height = "114"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXVIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXVIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">45</span>
+<!-- png 073 -->
+<div class = "song">
+<p>The first time at the Looking-glass</p>
+<p class = "in1">The Mother sets her Daughter,</p>
+<p>The Image strikes the smiling Lass</p>
+<p class = "in1">With Self-love ever after,</p>
+<p>Each time she looks, she, fonder grown,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Thinks ev’ry Charm grows stronger.</p>
+<p>But alas, vain Maid, all Eyes but your own</p>
+<p class = "in1">Can see you are not younger.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>When Women consider their own Beauties, they are all alike
+unreasonable in their Demands; for they expect their Lovers should like
+them as long as they like themselves.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Yonder is my
+Father&mdash;perhaps this way we may light upon the Ordinary, who shall
+try if you will be as good as your Word.&mdash;For I long to be made an
+honest Woman.
+<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Peachum</em> and <em>Lockit</em> with an Account-Book.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> In this last Affair, Brother
+<i>Peachum</i>, we are agreed. You have consented to go halves in
+<i>Macheath</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> We shall never fall out about
+an Execution&mdash;But as to that Article, pray how stands our last
+Year’s Account?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> If you will run your Eye over
+it, you’ll find ’tis fair and clearly stated.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> This long Arrear of the
+Government is very hard upon us! Can it be expected that we would hang
+our Acquaintance for nothing, when our Betters will hardly save theirs
+without being paid for it. Unless the People in Employment pay better,
+I&nbsp;promise them for the future, I&nbsp;shall let other Rogues live
+besides their own.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Perhaps, Brother, they are
+afraid these Matters may be carried too far. We are treated too by them
+with Contempt, as if our Profession were not reputable.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">46</span>
+<!-- png 074 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> In one respect indeed our
+Employment may be reckon’d dishonest, because, like Great Statesmen, we
+encourage those who betray their Friends.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Such Language, Brother, any
+where else, might turn to your Prejudice. Learn to be more guarded,
+I&nbsp;beg you.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air29" id = "air29">
+AIR XXIX. &nbsp; How happy are we, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air29.png" width = "398" height = "126"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXIX.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXIX.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "in1">When you censure the Age,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Be cautious and sage,</p>
+<p>Lest the Courtiers offended should be:</p>
+<p class = "in1">If you mention Vice or Bribe,</p>
+<p class = "in1">’Tis so pat to all the Tribe;</p>
+<p>Each cries&mdash;That was levell’d at me.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Here’s poor <i>Ned
+Clincher’s</i> Name, I&nbsp;see. Sure, Brother <i>Lockit</i>, there was
+a little unfair Proceeding in <i>Ned’s</i> Case: for he told me in the
+Condemn’d Hold, that for Value receiv’d, you had promis’d him a Session
+or two longer without Molestation.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Mr. <i>Peachum</i>&mdash;this
+is the first time my Honour was ever call’d in Question.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Business is at an
+end&mdash;if once we act dishonourably.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Who accuses me?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> You are warm, Brother.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> He that attacks my Honour,
+attacks my
+<span class = "pagenum">47</span>
+<!-- png 075 -->
+Livelihood.&mdash;And this Usage&mdash;Sir&mdash;is not to be borne.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Since you provoke me to
+speak&mdash;I&nbsp;must tell you too, that Mrs. <i>Coaxer</i> charges
+you with defrauding her of her Information-Money, for the apprehending
+of curl-pated <i>Hugh</i>. Indeed, indeed, Brother, we must punctually
+pay our Spies, or we shall have no Information.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Is this Language to me,
+Sirrah,&mdash;who have sav’d you from the Gallows, Sirrah!
+<span class = "exit">Collaring each other.</span></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> If I am hang’d, it shall be
+for ridding the World of an arrant Rascal.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> This Hand shall do the Office
+of the Halter you deserve, and throttle you&mdash;you Dog!&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Brother, Brother&mdash;We are
+both in the Wrong&mdash;We shall be both Losers in the Dispute&mdash;for
+you know we have it in our Power to hang each other. You should not be
+so passionate.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Nor you so provoking.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> ’Tis our mutual Interest;
+’tis for the Interest of the World we should agree. If I said any thing,
+Brother, to the Prejudice of your Character, I&nbsp;ask pardon.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Brother
+<i>Peachum</i>&mdash;I&nbsp;can forgive as well as resent.&mdash;Give me
+your Hand. Suspicion does not become a Friend.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> I only meant to give you
+Occasion to justify yourself: But I must now step home, for I expect the
+Gentleman about this Snuff-box, that <i>Filch</i> nimm’d two Nights ago
+in the Park. I&nbsp;appointed him at this Hour.
+<span class = "exit">Exit <em>Peachum</em>.</span></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">48</span>
+<!-- png 076 -->
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Lucy</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Whence come you, Hussy?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> My Tears might answer that
+Question.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> You have then been whimpering
+and fondling, like a Spaniel, over the Fellow that hath abus’d you.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> One can’t help Love; one can’t
+cure it. ’Tis not in my Power to obey you, and hate him.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Learn to bear your Husband’s
+Death like a reasonable Woman. ’Tis not the fashion, now-a-days, so much
+as to affect Sorrow upon these Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if
+she had not the Chance of Mortality for a Release. Act like a Woman of
+Spirit, Hussy, and thank your Father for what he is doing.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air30" id = "air30">
+AIR XXX. &nbsp; Of a noble Race was <i>Shenkin</i>.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air30.png" width = "394" height = "178"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXX.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXX.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>Is then his Fate decreed, Sir?</p>
+<p class = "in1">Such a Man can I think of quitting?</p>
+<p>When first we met, so moves me yet,</p>
+<p class = "in1">O see how my Heart is splitting!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Look ye,
+<i>Lucy</i>&mdash;There is no saving him.&mdash;So, I&nbsp;think, you
+must ev’n do like other Widows&mdash;buy yourself Weeds, and be
+chearful.</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">49</span>
+<!-- png 077 -->
+<h5><a name = "air31" id = "air31">
+AIR XXXI.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air31.png" width = "376" height = "119"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXXI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXXI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>You’ll think ere many Days ensue</p>
+<p class = "in1">This Sentence not severe;</p>
+<p>I hang your Husband, Child, ’tis true,</p>
+<p class = "in1">But with him hang your Care.</p>
+<p class = "in2">Twang dang dillo dee.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Like a good Wife, go moan over your dying Husband. That, Child is
+your Duty&mdash;Consider, Girl, you can’t have the Man and the Money
+too&mdash;so make yourself as easy as you can, by getting all you can
+from him.
+<span class = "exit">Exit <em>Lockit</em>.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Macheath</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Though the Ordinary was out of
+the way to-day, I&nbsp;hope, my Dear, you will, upon the first
+Opportunity, quiet my Scruples&mdash;Oh Sir!&mdash;my Father’s hard
+heart is not to be soften’d, and I am in the utmost Despair.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> But if I could raise a small
+Sum&mdash;Would not twenty Guineas, think you, move him?&mdash;Of all
+the Arguments in the way of Business, the Perquisite is the most
+prevailing&mdash;Your Father’s Perquisites for the Escape of Prisoners
+must amount to a considerable Sum in the Year. Money well tim’d, and
+properly apply’d, will do any thing.</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">50</span>
+<!-- png 078 -->
+<h5><a name = "air32" id = "air32">
+AIR XXXII. &nbsp; <i>London</i> Ladies.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air32.png" width = "399" height = "238"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXXII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXXII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>If you at an Office solicit your Due,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And would not have Matters neglected;</p>
+<p>You must quicken the Clerk with the Perquisite too,</p>
+<p class = "in1">To do what his Duty directed.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Or would you the Frowns of a Lady prevent,</p>
+<p class = "in1">She too has this palpable Failing,</p>
+<p>The Perquisite softens her into Consent;</p>
+<p class = "in1">That Reason with all is prevailing.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> What Love or Money can do shall
+be done: for all my Comfort depends upon your Safety.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Polly</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Where is my dear
+Husband?&mdash;Was a Rope ever intended for this Neck!&mdash;O&nbsp;let
+me throw my Arms about it, and throttle thee with Love!&mdash;Why dost
+thou turn away from me? ’Tis thy <i>Polly</i>&mdash;’Tis thy Wife.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Was ever such an unfortunate
+Rascal as I&nbsp;am!</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">51</span>
+<!-- png 079 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Was there ever such another
+Villain!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> O <i>Macheath</i>! was it for
+this we parted? Taken! Imprisoned! Try’d! Hang’d&mdash;cruel Reflection!
+I’ll stay with thee ’till Death&mdash;no Force shall tear thy dear Wife
+from thee now.&mdash;What means my Love?&mdash;Not one kind Word! not
+one kind Look! think what thy <i>Polly</i> suffers to see thee in this
+Condition.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air33" id = "air33">
+AIR XXXIII. &nbsp; All in the Downs, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air33.png" width = "381" height = "173"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXXIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXXIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Thus when the Swallow seeking Prey,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Within the Sash is closely pent,</p>
+<p>His Consort, with bemoaning Lay,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Without sits pining for th’ Event.</p>
+<p>Her chatt’ring Lovers all around her skim;</p>
+<p>She heeds them not (poor Bird!) her Soul’s with him.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span>
+<span class = "stagedir">Aside.</span>
+I must disown her.
+<span class = "stagedir">Aloud.</span>
+The Wench is distracted.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Am I then bilk’d of my Virtue?
+Can I have no Reparation? Sure Men were born to lie, and Women to
+believe them! O&nbsp;Villain! Villain!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Am I not thy Wife?&mdash;Thy
+Neglect of me, thy Aversion to me too severely proves it.&mdash;Look on
+me.&mdash;Tell me, am I not thy Wife?</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">52</span>
+<!-- png 080 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Perfidious Wretch!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Barbarous Husband!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Hadst thou been hang’d five
+Months ago, I&nbsp;had been happy.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> And I too&mdash;If you had been
+kind to me ’till Death, it would not have vexed me&mdash;And that’s no
+very unreasonable Request, (though from a Wife) to a Man who hath not
+above seven or eight Days to live.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Art thou then married to
+another? Hast thou two Wives, Monster?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> If Women’s Tongues can cease
+for an Answer&mdash;hear&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> I won’t.&mdash;Flesh and Blood
+can’t bear my Usage.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Shall I not claim my own?
+Justice bids me speak.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air34" id = "air34">
+AIR XXXIV. &nbsp; Have you heard of a frolicksome Ditty,
+&amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air34.png" width = "384" height = "176"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXXIV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXXIV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p>How happy could I be with either,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Were t’other dear Charmer away!</p>
+<p>But while you thus teaze me together,</p>
+<p class = "in1">To neither a Word will I say;</p>
+<p class = "in2">But tol de rol, <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">53</span>
+<!-- png 081 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Sure, my Dear, there ought to
+be some Preference shewn to a Wife! At least she may claim the
+Appearance of it. He must be distracted with his Misfortunes, or he
+could not use me thus.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> O Villain, Villain! thou hast
+deceiv’d me.&mdash;I&nbsp;could even inform against thee with Pleasure.
+Not a Prude wishes more heartily to have Facts against her intimate
+Acquaintance, than I now wish to have Facts against thee. I&nbsp;would
+have her Satisfaction, and they should all out.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air35" id = "air35">
+AIR XXXV. &nbsp; <i>Irish</i> Trot.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air35.png" width = "382" height = "181"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXXV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXXV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>I am bubbled.</p>
+
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p><span class = "invisible">I am bubbled.</span>I’m bubbled.</p>
+
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>O how I am troubled!</p>
+
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>Bambouzled, and bit!</p>
+
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p><span class = "invisible">Bambouzled, and bit!</span>My Distresses
+are doubled.</p>
+
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>When you come to the Tree, should the Hangman refuse,</p>
+<p>These Fingers, with Pleasure, could fasten the Noose.</p>
+
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>I’m bubbled, <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Be pacified, my dear
+<i>Lucy</i>&mdash;This is all a Fetch of <i>Polly’s</i>, to make me
+desperate with you in case I get off. If I am hang’d, she would fain
+have the Credit
+<span class = "pagenum">54</span>
+<!-- png 082 -->
+of being thought my Widow&mdash;Really, <i>Polly</i>, this is no time
+for a Dispute of this sort; for whenever you are talking of Marriage,
+I&nbsp;am thinking of Hanging.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> And hast thou the Heart to
+persist in disowning&nbsp;me?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> And hast thou the Heart to
+persist in persuading me that I am married? Why, <i>Polly</i>, dost thou
+seek to aggravate my Misfortunes?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Really, Miss <i>Peachum</i>, you
+but expose yourself. Besides, ’tis barbarous in you to worry a Gentleman
+in his Circumstances.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air36" id = "air36">
+AIR XXXVI.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air36.png" width = "401" height = "177"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXXVI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXXVI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Cease your Funning;</p>
+<p class = "in1">Force or Cunning</p>
+<p>Never shall my Heart trapan.</p>
+<p class = "in1">All these Sallies</p>
+<p class = "in1">Are but Malice</p>
+<p>To seduce my constant Man.</p>
+<p class = "in1">’Tis most certain,</p>
+<p class = "in1">By their flirting</p>
+<p>Women oft’ have Envy shown.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Pleas’d, to ruin</p>
+<p class = "in1">Others wooing;</p>
+<p>Never happy in their own.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">55</span>
+<!-- png 083 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Decency, Madam, methinks might
+teach you to behave yourself with some Reserve with the Husband, while
+his Wife is present.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> But seriously, <i>Polly</i>,
+this is carrying the Joke a little too far.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> If you are determin’d, Madam, to
+raise a Disturbance in the Prison, I&nbsp;shall be obliged to send for
+the Turnkey to shew you the Door. I&nbsp;am sorry, Madam, you force me
+to be so ill-bred.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Give me leave to tell you,
+Madam: These forward Airs don’t become you in the least, Madam. And my
+Duty, Madam, obliges me to stay with my Husband, Madam.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air37" id = "air37">
+AIR XXXVII. &nbsp; Good-morrow, Gossip <i>Joan</i>.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air37.png" width = "396" height = "177"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXXVII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXXVII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>Why how now, Madam <em>Flirt</em>?</p>
+<p class = "in2">If you thus must chatter;</p>
+<p>And are for flinging Dirt,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Let’s try who best can spatter;</p>
+<p class = "in3">Madam <em>Flirt</em>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>Why how now, saucy Jade;</p>
+<p class = "in1">Sure the Wench is tipsy!</p>
+<p>How can you see me made
+<span class = "exit">To him.</span></p>
+<p class = "in1">The Scoff of such a Gipsy?</p>
+<p class = "in3">Saucy Jade!
+<span class = "exit">To her.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">56</span>
+<!-- png 084 -->
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Peachum</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Where’s my Wench? Ah Hussy!
+Hussy!&mdash;Come you home, you Slut; and when your Fellow is hang’d,
+hang yourself, to make your Family some Amends.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Dear, dear Father, do not tear
+me from him&mdash;I&nbsp;must speak; I&nbsp;have more to say to
+him&mdash;Oh! twist thy Fetters about me, that he may not haul me from
+thee!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Sure all Women are alike! If
+ever they commit the Folly, they are sure to commit another by exposing
+themselves&mdash;Away&mdash;Not a Word more&mdash;You are my Prisoner,
+now, Hussy.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air38" id = "air38">
+AIR XXXVIII. &nbsp; <i>Irish</i> Howl.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air38.png" width = "397" height = "229"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXXVIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXXVIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>No Power on Earth can e’er divide</p>
+<p>The Knot that sacred Love hath ty’d.</p>
+<p>When Parents draw against our Mind,</p>
+<p>The True-Love’s Knot they faster bind.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Oh, oh ray, oh Amborah&mdash;oh, oh,
+<em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Holding <em>Macheath</em>, <em>Peachum</em> pulling her.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<a name = "plateIV" id = "plateIV"> </a>
+<img src = "images/plateIV.jpg" width = "472" height = "346"
+alt = "A Tavern Near Newgate">
+</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">57</span>
+<!-- png 087 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_57.png" width = "30" height = "83"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<h5 class = "scene"><a name = "actII_sceneIII" id = "actII_sceneIII">
+<em>SCENE III. The Same.</em></a></h5>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+<em>Lucy</em>, <em>Macheath</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> I am naturally
+compassionate, Wife; so that I could not use the Wench as she deserv’d;
+which made you at first suspect there was something in what she
+said.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Indeed, my Dear, I was strangely
+puzzled.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> If that had been the Case,
+her Father would never have brought me into this Circumstance&mdash;No,
+<i>Lucy</i>,&mdash;I&nbsp;had rather die than be false to thee.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> How happy am I, if you say this
+from your Heart! For I love thee so, that I could sooner bear to see
+thee hang’d than in the Arms of another.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> But could’st thou bear to
+see me hang’d?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> O <i>Macheath</i>, I can never
+live to see that Day.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> You see, <i>Lucy</i>; in the
+Account of Love you are in my Debt, and you must now be convinc’d, that
+I rather choose to die than be another’s.&mdash;Make me, if possible,
+love thee more, and let me owe my Life to thee&mdash;If you refuse to
+assist me, <i>Peachum</i> and your Father will immediately put me beyond
+all means of Escape.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> My Father, I know, hath been
+drinking hard with the Prisoners: and I fancy he is now taking his Nap
+in his own Room&mdash;If I can procure the Keys, shall I go off with
+thee, my Dear?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> If we are together, ’twill
+be impossible to lie conceal’d. As soon as the Search begins to be a
+<span class = "pagenum">58</span>
+<!-- png 088 -->
+little cool, I&nbsp;will send to thee&mdash;’Till then my Heart is thy
+Prisoner.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Come then, my dear
+Husband&mdash;owe thy Life to me&mdash;and though you love me
+not&mdash;be grateful,&mdash;but that <i>Polly</i> runs in my Head
+strangely.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> A moment of Time may make us
+unhappy for ever.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air39" id = "air39">
+AIR XXXIX. &nbsp; The Lass of <i>Patie’s</i> Mill, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air39.png" width = "396" height = "234"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XXXIX.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XXXIX.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>I like the Fox shall grieve,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Whose Mate hath left her Side,</p>
+<p>Whom Hounds from Morn to Eve,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Chase o’er the Country wide.</p>
+<p>Where can my Lover hide?</p>
+<p class = "in1">Where cheat the wary Pack?</p>
+<p>If Love be not his Guide,</p>
+<p class = "in1">He never will come back!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exeunt.</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration right">
+<img src = "images/pic_58.png" width = "81" height = "81"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<a name = "plateV" id = "plateV"> </a>
+<img src = "images/plateV.jpg" width = "343" height = "498"
+alt = "Captain Macheath">
+</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">59</span>
+<!-- png 089 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_59.png" width = "317" height = "120"
+alt = "Macheath between Polly and Lucy">
+</p>
+
+<h4 class = "act"><a name = "actIII_sceneI" id = "actIII_sceneI">
+ACT III. SCENE I.</a></h4>
+
+<h5 class = "scene"><span class = "smallcaps">Scene</span>,
+Newgate.</h5>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+<em>Lockit</em>, <em>Lucy</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> To be sure, Wench, you must
+have been aiding and abetting to help him to this Escape.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Sir, here hath been
+<i>Peachum</i> and his Daughter <i>Polly</i>, and to be sure they know
+the Ways of <i>Newgate</i> as well as if they had been born and bred in
+the Place all their Lives. Why must all your Suspicion light
+upon&nbsp;me?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> <i>Lucy</i>, <i>Lucy</i>,
+I&nbsp;will have none of these shuffling Answers.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Well then&mdash;If I know any
+thing of him I wish I may be burnt!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Keep your Temper, <i>Lucy</i>,
+or I shall pronounce you guilty.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Keep yours, Sir,&mdash;I do wish
+I may be burnt. I&nbsp;do&mdash;And what can I say more to convince
+you?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Did he tip
+handsomly?&mdash;How much did he come down with? Come, Hussy, don’t
+cheat your Father; and I shall not be angry with you&mdash;Perhaps, you
+have made a better Bargain with him than I could have done&mdash;How
+much, my good Girl?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> You know, Sir, I am fond of him,
+and would have given Money to have kept him with&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">60</span>
+<!-- png 090 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Ah <i>Lucy</i>! thy Education
+might have put thee more upon thy Guard; for a Girl in the Bar of an
+Ale-house is always besieg’d.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Dear Sir, mention not my
+Education&mdash;for ’twas to that I owe my Ruin.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air40" id = "air40">
+AIR XL. &nbsp; If Love’s a sweet Passion, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air40.png" width = "398" height = "254"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XL.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XL.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>When young at the Bar you first taught me to score,</p>
+<p>And bid me be free of my Lips, and no more;</p>
+<p>I was kiss’d by the Parson, the Squire, and the Sot,</p>
+<p>When the Guest was departed, the Kiss was forgot.</p>
+<p>But his Kiss was so sweet, and so closely he prest,</p>
+<p>That I languish’d and pin’d till I granted the rest.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>If you can forgive me, Sir, I will make a fair Confession, for to be
+sure he hath been a most barbarous Villain to&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> And so you have let him
+escape, Hussy&mdash;Have you?</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">61</span>
+<!-- png 091 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> When a Woman loves; a&nbsp;kind
+Look, a&nbsp;tender Word can persuade her to any thing&mdash;And I could
+ask no other Bribe.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Thou wilt always be a vulgar
+Slut, <i>Lucy</i>.&mdash;If you would not be look’d upon as a Fool, you
+should never do any thing but upon the foot of Interest. Those that act
+otherwise are their own Bubbles.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> But Love, Sir, is a Misfortune
+that may happen to the most discreet Women, and in Love we are all Fools
+alike&mdash;Notwithstanding all he swore, I&nbsp;am now fully convinc’d
+that <i>Polly Peachum</i> is actually his Wife.&mdash;Did I let him
+escape, (Fool that I was!) to go to her?&mdash;<i>Polly</i> will wheedle
+herself into his Money, and then <i>Peachum</i> will hang him, and cheat
+us both.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> So I am to be ruin’d, because,
+forsooth, you must be in Love!&mdash;a very pretty Excuse!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> I could murder that impudent
+happy Strumpet:&mdash;I&nbsp;gave him his Life, and that Creature enjoys
+the Sweets of it.&mdash;Ungrateful <i>Macheath</i>!</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air41" id = "air41">
+AIR XLI. &nbsp; <i>South-Sea</i> Ballad.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air41.png" width = "385" height = "191"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XLI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XLI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">62</span>
+<!-- png 092 -->
+<div class = "song">
+<p>My Love is all Madness and Folly,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Alone I lie,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Toss, tumble, and cry,</p>
+<p>What a happy Creature is <em>Polly</em>!</p>
+<p>Was e’er such a Wretch as I!</p>
+<p>With rage I redden like Scarlet,</p>
+<p>That my dear inconstant Varlet,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Stark blind to my Charms,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Is lost in the Arms</p>
+<p>Of that Jilt, that inveigling Harlot!</p>
+<p class = "in1">Stark blind to my Charms,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Is lost in the Arms</p>
+<p>Of that Jilt, that inveigling Harlot!</p>
+<p>This, this my Resentment alarms.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> And so, after all this
+Mischief, I&nbsp;must stay here to be entertain’d with your
+Catterwauling, Mrs. Puss!&mdash;Out of my Sight, wanton Strumpet! you
+shall fast and mortify yourself into Reason, with now and then a little
+handsom Discipline to bring you to your Senses.&mdash;Go.
+<span class = "exit">Exit <em>Lucy</em>.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Peachum</i> then intends to outwit me in this Affair; but I’ll be
+even with him.&mdash;The Dog is leaky in his Liquor, so I’ll ply him
+that way, get the Secret from him, and turn this Affair to my own
+Advantage.&mdash;Lions, Wolves, and Vultures don’t live together in
+Herds, Droves or Flocks.&mdash;Of all Animals of Prey, Man is the only
+sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his Neighbour, and yet we herd
+together.&mdash;<i>Peachum</i> is my Companion, my
+Friend.&mdash;According to the Custom of the World, indeed, he may quote
+thousands of Precedents for cheating me&mdash;And shall not I make use
+of the Privilege of Friendship to make him a Return.</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">63</span>
+<!-- png 093 -->
+<h5><a name = "air42" id = "air42">
+AIR XLII. &nbsp; <i>Packington’s</i> Pound.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air42.png" width = "348" height = "170"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XLII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XLII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Thus Gamesters united in Friendship are found,</p>
+<p>Though they know that their Industry all is a Cheat;</p>
+<p>They flock to their Prey at the Dice-Box’s Sound,</p>
+<p>And join to promote one another’s Deceit.</p>
+<p class = "in1">But if by mishap</p>
+<p class = "in1">They fail of a Chap,</p>
+<p>To keep in their Hands, they each other entrap.</p>
+<p>Like Pikes, lank with Hunger, who miss of their Ends,</p>
+<p>They bite their Companions, and prey on their Friends.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, <i>Peachum</i>, you and I, like honest Tradesmen, are to have a
+fair Trial which of us two can over-reach the other.</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration right">
+<img src = "images/pic_63.png" width = "85" height = "79"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">64</span>
+<!-- png 094 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_64.png" width = "47" height = "42"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<h5 class = "scene"><a name = "actIII_sceneII" id = "actIII_sceneII">
+<em>SCENE II.</em> A Gaming-House.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+<em>Macheath</em> in a fine tarnish’d Coat, <em>Ben Budge</em>, <em>Matt
+of the Mint</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> I am sorry, Gentlemen, the
+Road was so barren of Money. When my Friends are in Difficulties,
+I&nbsp;am always glad that my Fortune can be serviceable to them.
+<span class = "stagedir">Gives them Money.</span>
+You see, Gentlemen, I&nbsp;am not a mere Court Friend, who professes
+every thing and will do nothing.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air43" id = "air43">
+AIR XLIII. &nbsp; Lillibullero.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air43.png" width = "395" height = "158"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XLIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XLIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>The Modes of the Court so common are grown,</p>
+<p class = "in1">That a true Friend can hardly be met;</p>
+<p>Friendship for Interest is but a Loan,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Which they let out for what they can get.</p>
+<p class = "in3">’Tis true, you find</p>
+<p class = "in3">Some Friends so kind,</p>
+<p>Who will give you good Counsel themselves to defend.</p>
+<p class = "in3">In sorrowful Ditty,</p>
+<p class = "in3">They promise, they pity,</p>
+<p>But shift for your Money, from Friend to Friend.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">65</span>
+<!-- png 095 -->
+<p>But we, Gentlemen, have still Honour enough to break through the
+Corruptions of the World.&mdash;And while I can serve you, you may
+command&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Ben.</span> It grieves my Heart that so
+generous a Man should be involv’d in such Difficulties, as oblige him to
+live with such ill Company, and herd with Gamesters.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> See the Partiality of
+Mankind!&mdash;One Man may steal a Horse, better than another look over
+a Hedge.&mdash;Of all Mechanics, of all servile Handicrafts-men,
+a&nbsp;Gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the Quality are of
+the Profession, he is admitted amongst the politest Company.
+I&nbsp;wonder we are not more respected.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> There will be deep Play
+to-night at <i>Mary-bone</i>, and consequently Money may be pick’d up
+upon the Road. Meet me there, and I’ll give you the Hint who is worth
+Setting.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> The Fellow with a brown Coat
+with a narrow Gold Binding, I&nbsp;am told, is never without Money.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> What do you mean,
+<i>Matt</i>?&mdash;Sure you will not think of meddling with
+him!&mdash;He’s a good honest kind of a Fellow, and one of&nbsp;us.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Ben.</span> To be sure, Sir, we will put
+ourselves under your Direction.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Have an Eye upon the
+Money-Lenders.&mdash;A&nbsp;<i>Rouleau</i>, or two, would prove a pretty
+sort of an Expedition. I&nbsp;hate Extortion.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> Those Rouleaus are very pretty
+Things.&mdash;I&nbsp;hate your Bank Bills.&mdash;There is such a Hazard
+in putting them off.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> There is a certain Man of
+Distinction,
+<span class = "pagenum">66</span>
+<!-- png 096 -->
+who in his Time hath nick’d me out of a great deal of the Ready. He is
+in my Cash, Ben;&mdash;I’ll point him out to you this Evening, and you
+shall draw upon him for the Debt.&mdash;The Company are met; I&nbsp;hear
+the Dice-Box in the other Room. So, Gentlemen, your Servant. You’ll meet
+me at <i>Mary-bone</i>.</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration right">
+<img src = "images/pic_66.png" width = "47" height = "76"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<a name = "plateVI" id = "plateVI"> </a>
+<img src = "images/plateVI.jpg" width = "343" height = "498"
+alt = "Lucy Lockit">
+</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">67</span>
+<!-- png 097 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_67.png" width = "94" height = "85"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<h5 class = "scene"><a name = "actIII_sceneIII" id = "actIII_sceneIII">
+<em>SCENE III.</em> <em>Peachum’s</em> Lock.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+A Table with Wine, Brandy, Pipes and Tobacco.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+<em>Peachum</em>, <em>Lockit</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> The Coronation Account,
+Brother <i>Peachum</i>, is of so intricate a nature, that I believe it
+will never be settled.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> It consists indeed of a great
+Variety of Articles.&mdash;It was worth to our People, in Fees of
+different kinds, above ten Instalments.&mdash;This is part of the
+Account, Brother, that lies open before&nbsp;us.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> A Lady’s Tail of rich
+Brocade<ins class = "correction" title = "text unchanged">.&mdash;that,</ins>
+I&nbsp;see, is dispos’d&nbsp;of.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> To Mrs. <i>Diana Trapes</i>,
+the Tally-Woman<ins class = "correction" title = "invisible">, </ins>and
+she will make a good Hand on’t in Shoes and Slippers, to trick out young
+Ladies, upon their going into Keeping.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> But I don’t see any Article of
+the Jewels.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Those are so well known that
+they must be sent abroad&mdash;You’ll find them enter’d under the
+Article of Exportation.&mdash;As for the Snuff-Boxes, Watches, Swords,
+&amp;c.&mdash;I&nbsp;thought it best to enter them under their several
+Heads.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Seven and twenty Women’s
+Pockets complete; with the several things therein contain’d; all Seal’d,
+Number’d, and Enter’d.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> But, Brother, it is
+impossible for us now to enter upon this Affair,&mdash;We should have
+the whole
+<span class = "pagenum">68</span>
+<!-- png 098 -->
+Day before us.&mdash;Besides, the Account of the last Half Year’s Plate
+is in a Book by itself, which lies at the other Office.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Bring us then more
+Liquor&mdash;To-day shall be for Pleasure&mdash;To-morrow for
+Business&mdash;Ah, Brother, those Daughters of ours are two slippery
+Hussies&mdash;Keep a watchful Eye upon <i>Polly</i>, and <i>Macheath</i>
+in a Day or two shall be our own again.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air44" id = "air44">
+AIR XLIV. &nbsp; Down in the North Country, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air44.png" width = "394" height = "123"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XLIV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XLIV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Lockit.</p>
+<p>What Gudgeons are we Men!</p>
+<p class = "in1">Ev’ry Woman’s easy Prey.</p>
+<p>Though we have felt the Hook, agen</p>
+<p class = "in1">We bite and they betray.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>The Bird that hath been trapt,</p>
+<p class = "in1">When he hears his calling Mate,</p>
+<p>To her he flies, again he’s clapt</p>
+<p class = "in1">Within the wiry Grate.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> But what signifies catching
+the Bird, if your Daughter <i>Lucy</i> will set open the Door of the
+Cage?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> If men were answerable for the
+Follies and Frailties of their Wives and Daughters, no Friends could
+keep a good Correspondence together for two Days.&mdash;This in unkind
+of you, Brother; for among good Friends, what they say or do goes for
+nothing.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">69</span>
+<!-- png 099 -->
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>a Servant</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Servant.</span> Sir, here’s Mrs. <i>Diana
+Trapes</i> wants to speak with you.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Shall we admit her, Brother
+<i>Lockit</i>?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> By all means,&mdash;She’s a
+good Customer, and a fine-spoken Woman&mdash;And a Woman who drinks and
+talks so freely, will enliven the Conversation.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Desire her to walk in.
+<span class = "exit">Exit Servant.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+<em>Peachum</em>, <em>Lockit</em>, Mrs. <em>Trapes</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Dear Mrs. <i>Dye</i>, your
+Servant&mdash;One may know by your Kiss, that your Ginn is
+excellent.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Trapes.</span> I was always very curious
+in my Liquors.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> There is no perfum’d Breath
+like it&mdash;I&nbsp;have been long acquainted with the Flavour of those
+Lips&mdash;Han’t&nbsp;I, Mrs. <i>Dye</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Trapes.</span> Fill it up&mdash;I take
+as large Draughts of Liquor, as I did of Love.&mdash;I&nbsp;hate a
+Flincher in either.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air45" id = "air45">
+AIR XLV. &nbsp; A Shepherd kept Sheep, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air45.png" width = "393" height = "180"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XLV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XLV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>In the Days of my Youth I could bill like a Dove, <em>fa, la, la,
+&amp;c.</em></p>
+<p>Like a Sparrow at all times was ready for Love, <em>fa, la, la,
+&amp;c.</em></p>
+<p>The Life of all Mortals in Kissing should pass,</p>
+<p>Lip to Lip while we’re young&mdash;then the Lip to the Glass, <em>fa,
+la, &amp;c.</em></p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">70</span>
+<!-- png 100 -->
+<p>But now, Mr. <i>Peachum</i>, to our Business.&mdash;If you have
+Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes&mdash;Velvet
+Scarfs&mdash;Petticoats&mdash;Let it be what it will&mdash;I&nbsp;am
+your Chap&mdash;for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Why, look ye, Mrs.
+<i>Dye</i>&mdash;you deal so hard with us, that we can afford to give
+the Gentlemen, who venture their Lives for the Goods, little or
+nothing.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Trapes.</span> The hard Times oblige me
+to go very near in my Dealing.&mdash;To be sure, of late Years I have
+been a great Sufferer by the Parliament.&mdash;Three thousand Pounds
+would hardly make me amends.&mdash;The Act for destroying the Mint, was
+a severe Cut upon our Business&mdash;’Till then, if a Customer stept out
+of the way&mdash;we knew where to have her&mdash;No doubt you know Mrs.
+<i>Coaxer</i>&mdash;there’s a Wench now (’till to-day) with a good Suit
+of Clothes of mine upon her Back, and I could never set Eyes upon her
+for three Months together.&mdash;Since the Act too against Imprisonment
+for small Sums, my Loss there too hath been very considerable, and it
+must be so, when a Lady can borrow a handsom Petticoat, or a clean Gown,
+and I not have the least Hank upon her! And,&nbsp;o’ my Conscience,
+now-a-days most Ladies take a Delight in cheating, when they can do it
+with Safety.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Madam, you had a handsom Gold
+Watch of us <ins class = "correction" title = "text unchanged">’tother
+</ins> Day for seven Guineas.&mdash;Considering we must have our
+Profit.&mdash;To a Gentleman upon the Road, a&nbsp;Gold Watch will be
+scarce worth the taking.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Trapes.</span> Consider, Mr.
+<i>Peachum</i>, that Watch was remarkable, and not of very safe
+Sale.&mdash;If you have any black Velvet Scarfs&mdash;they are a handsom
+Winter-wear, and take with most Gentlemen who deal with my
+Customers.&mdash;’Tis I that put the Ladies upon a good Foot. ’Tis not
+Youth or Beauty that fixes their Price.
+<span class = "pagenum">71</span>
+<!-- png 103 -->
+The Gentlemen always pay according to their Dress, from half a Crown to
+two Guineas; and yet those Hussies make nothing of bilking of
+me.&mdash;Then too, allowing for Accidents.&mdash;I&nbsp;have eleven
+fine Customers now down under the Surgeon’s Hands&mdash;what with Fees
+and other Expenses, there are great Goings-out, and no Comings in, and
+not a Farthing to pay for at least a Month’s Clothing.&mdash;We run
+great Risques&mdash;great Risques indeed.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> As I remember, you said
+something just now of Mrs. <i>Coaxer</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Trapes.</span> Yes, Sir.&mdash;To be
+sure I stript her of a Suit of my own Clothes about two Hours ago; and
+have left her as she should be, in her Shift, with a Lover of hers at my
+House. She call’d him up Stairs, as he was going to <i>Mary-bone</i> in
+a Hackney Coach.&mdash;And I hope, for her own sake and mine, she will
+persuade the Captain to redeem her, for the Captain is very generous to
+the Ladies.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> What Captain?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Trapes.</span> He thought I did not know
+him&mdash;An intimate Acquaintance of yours, Mr.
+<i>Peachum</i>&mdash;Only Captain <i>Macheath</i>&mdash;as fine as a
+Lord.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> To-morrow, dear Mrs.
+<i>Dye</i>, you shall set your own Price upon any of the Goods you
+like&mdash;We have at least half a Dozen Velvet Scarfs, and all at your
+Service. Will you give me leave to make you a Present of this Suit of
+Night-clothes for your own wearing?&mdash;But are you sure it is Captain
+<i>Macheath</i><ins class = "correction" title = "period in original">.&nbsp;</ins></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Trapes.</span> Though he thinks I have
+forgot him; no body knows him better. I&nbsp;have taken a great deal of
+the Captain’s Money in my Time at second-hand, for he always lov’d to
+have his Ladies well drest.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Mr. <i>Lockit</i> and I have
+a little Business with
+<span class = "pagenum">72</span>
+<!-- png 104 -->
+the Captain;&mdash;You understand me&mdash;and we will satisfy you for
+Mrs. <i>Coaxer’s</i> Debt.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Depend upon it&mdash;we will
+deal like Men of Honour.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Mrs. Trapes.</span> I don’t enquire after
+your Affairs&mdash;so whatever happens, I&nbsp;wash my Hands
+on’t&mdash;It hath always been my Maxim, that one Friend should assist
+another&mdash;But if you please&mdash;I’ll take one of the Scarfs home
+with me. ’Tis always good to have something in Hand.</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration right">
+<img src = "images/pic_72.png" width = "81" height = "81"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<a name = "plateVII" id = "plateVII"> </a>
+<img src = "images/plateVII.jpg" width = "342" height = "502"
+alt = "Peachum">
+</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">73</span>
+<!-- png 105 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_73.png" width = "85" height = "95"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<h5 class = "scene"><a name = "actIII_sceneIV" id = "actIII_sceneIV">
+<em>SCENE IV.</em> Newgate.</a></h5>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear
+are at once tearing me to pieces, How I am weather-beaten and shatter’d
+with Distresses!</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air46" id = "air46">
+AIR XLVI. &nbsp; One Evening, having lost my Way, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air46.png" width = "388" height = "234"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XLVI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XLVI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "in1">I’m like a Skiff on the Ocean tost,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Now high, now low, with each Billow born,</p>
+<p class = "in1">With her Rudder broke, and her Anchor lost,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Deserted and all forlorn.</p>
+<p>While thus I lie rolling and tossing all Night,</p>
+<p>That <em>Polly</em> lies sporting on Seas of Delight!</p>
+<p class = "in2">Revenge, Revenge, Revenge,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Shall appease my restless Spirit.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">74</span>
+<!-- png 106 -->
+<p>I have the Rats-bane ready.&mdash;I&nbsp;run no Risque; for I can lay
+her Death upon the Ginn, and so many die of that naturally that I shall
+never be call’d in question.&mdash;But say, I&nbsp;were to be
+hang’d.&mdash;I&nbsp;never could be hang’d for any thing that would give
+me greater Comfort, than the poisoning that Slut.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Filch</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Filch.</span> Madam, here’s Miss <i>Polly</i>
+come to wait upon you.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Show her in.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Polly</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Dear Madam, your Servant.&mdash;I hope you will pardon my Passion,
+when I was so happy to see you last.&mdash;I&nbsp;was so over-run with
+the Spleen, that I was perfectly out of myself. And really when one hath
+the Spleen, every thing is to be excus’d by a Friend.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air47" id = "air47">
+AIR XLVII. &nbsp; Now <i>Roger</i>, I’ll tell thee because thou ’rt my
+Son.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air47.png" width = "380" height = "234"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XLVII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XLVII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">75</span>
+<!-- png 107 -->
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "in1">When a Wife’s in her Pout,</p>
+<p class = "in1">(As she’s sometimes, no doubt;)</p>
+<p>The good Husband as meek as a Lamb,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Her Vapours to still,</p>
+<p class = "in1">First grants her her Will,</p>
+<p>And the quieting Draught is a Dram. Poor Man!</p>
+<p>And the quieting Draught is a Dram.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>&mdash;I wish all our Quarrels might have so comfortable a
+Reconciliation.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> I have no Excuse for my own
+Behaviour, Madam, but my Misfortunes.&mdash;And really, Madam,
+I&nbsp;suffer too upon your Account.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> But, Miss <i>Polly</i>&mdash;in
+the way of Friendship, will you give me leave to propose a Glass of
+Cordial to you?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Strong-Waters are apt to give
+me the Head-ache&mdash;I&nbsp;hope, Madam, you will excuse&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Not the greatest Lady in the
+Land could have better in her Closet, for her own private
+drinking.&mdash;You seem mighty low in Spirits, my Dear.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> I am sorry, Madam, my Health
+will not allow me to accept of your Offer.&mdash;I&nbsp;should not have
+left you in the rude manner I did when we met last, Madam, had not my
+Papa haul’d me away so unexpectedly&mdash;I&nbsp;was indeed somewhat
+provok’d, and perhaps might use some Expressions that were
+disrespectful.&mdash;But really, Madam, the Captain treated me with so
+much Contempt and Cruelty, that I deserv’d your Pity, rather than your
+Resentment.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> But since his Escape, no doubt
+all Matters are made up again.&mdash;Ah <i>Polly</i>! <i>Polly</i>! ’tis
+I am the unhappy Wife; and he loves you as if you were only his
+Mistress.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">76</span>
+<!-- png 108 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Sure, Madam, you cannot think
+me so happy as to be the object of your Jealousy.&mdash;A&nbsp;Man is
+always afraid of a Woman who loves him too well&mdash;so that I must
+expect to be neglected and avoided.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Then our Cases, my dear
+<i>Polly</i>, are exactly alike. Both of us indeed have been too
+fond.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air48" id = "air48">
+AIR XLVIII. &nbsp; O <i>Bessy Bell</i>.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air48.png" width = "402" height = "239"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XLVIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XLVIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>A Curse attend that Woman’s Love,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Who always would be pleasing.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>The Pertness of the billing Dove,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Like Tickling, is but teazing.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>What then in Love can Woman&nbsp;do:</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p class = "in1">If we grow fond they shun us.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>And when we fly them, they pursue:</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p class = "in1">But leave us when they’ve won&nbsp;us.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Love is so very whimsical in
+both Sexes, that it is impossible to be lasting.&mdash;But my Heart is
+particular, and contradicts my own Observation.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> But really, Mistress
+<i>Lucy</i>, by his last Behaviour, I&nbsp;think I ought to envy
+you.&mdash;When I was forc’d from
+<span class = "pagenum">77</span>
+<!-- png 109 -->
+him, he did not shew the least Tenderness.&mdash;But perhaps, he hath a
+Heart not capable of&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air49" id = "air49">
+AIR XLIX. &nbsp; Would Fate to me <i>Belinda</i> give.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air49.png" width = "399" height = "175"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_XLIX.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_XLIX.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Among the Men, Coquettes we find,</p>
+<p>Who court by turns all Woman-kind;</p>
+<p>And we grant all their Hearts desir’d,</p>
+<p>When they are flatter’d, and admir’d.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Coquettes of both Sexes are Self-lovers, and that is a Love no
+other whatever can dispossess. I&nbsp;hear, my dear <i>Lucy</i>, our
+Husband is one of those.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Away with these melancholy
+Reflections,&mdash;indeed, my dear <i>Polly</i>, we are both of us a Cup
+too low&mdash;Let me prevail upon you to accept of my Offer.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air50" id = "air50">
+AIR L. &nbsp; Come, sweet Lass.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air50.png" width = "396" height = "182"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_L.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_L.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">78</span>
+<!-- png 110 -->
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "in1">Come, sweet Lass,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Let’s banish Sorrow</p>
+<p class = "in1">’Till To-morrow;</p>
+<p class = "in1">Come, sweet Lass,</p>
+<p>Let’s take a chirping Glass.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Wine can clear</p>
+<p class = "in1">The Vapours of Despair</p>
+<p class = "in1">And make us light as Air;</p>
+<p class = "in1">Then drink, and banish Care.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I can’t bear, Child, to see you in such low Spirits.&mdash;And I must
+persuade you to what I know will do you good.
+<span class = "stagedir">Aside.</span>
+I&nbsp;shall now soon be even with the <ins class = "correction"
+title = "spelling unchanged">hypocrytical</ins> Strumpet.
+<span class = "exit">Exit.</span></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> All this Wheedling of
+<i>Lucy</i> cannot be for nothing.&mdash;At this time too! when I know
+she hates me!&mdash;The Dissembling of a Woman is always the Forerunner
+of Mischief.&mdash;By pouring Strong-Waters down my Throat, she thinks
+to pump some Secrets out of me,&mdash;I’ll be upon my Guard, and won’t
+taste a Drop of her Liquor, I’m resolv’d.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Re-enter <em>Lucy</em>, with Strong-Waters.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Come, Miss <i>Polly</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Indeed, Child, you have given
+yourself trouble to no purpose.&mdash;You must, my Dear,
+excuse&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Really, Miss <i>Polly</i>, you
+are as squeamishly affected about taking a Cup of Strong-Waters as a
+Lady before Company. I&nbsp;vow, <i>Polly</i>, I&nbsp;shall take it
+monstrously ill if you refuse me.&mdash;Brandy and Men (though Women
+love them ever so well) are always taken by us with some
+Reluctance&mdash;unless ’tis in private.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> I protest, Madam, it goes
+against me.&mdash;What
+<span class = "pagenum">79</span>
+<!-- png 111 -->
+do I see! <i>Macheath</i> again in Custody!&mdash;Now every Glimm’ring
+of Happiness is lost.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Drops the Glass of Liquor on the Ground.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> Since things are thus, I’m glad
+the Wench hath escap’d: for by this Event, ’tis plain, she was not happy
+enough to deserve to be poison’d.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Lockit</em>, <em>Macheath</em>, <em>Peachum</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> Set your Heart to rest,
+Captain.&mdash;You have neither the Chance of Love or Money for another
+Escape,&mdash;for you are order’d to be call’d down upon your Trial
+immediately.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Away, Hussies!&mdash;This is
+not a Time for a Man to be hamper’d with his Wives.&mdash;You see, the
+Gentleman is in Chains already.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> O Husband, Husband, my Heart
+long’d to see thee; but to see thee thus distracts&nbsp;me<ins class =
+"correction" title = "question mark in original">?&nbsp;</ins></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Will not my dear Husband look
+upon his <i>Polly</i>? Why hadst thou not flown to me for Protection?
+with me thou hadst been safe.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air51" id = "air51">
+AIR LI. &nbsp; The last time I went o’er the Moor.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air51.png" width = "399" height = "235"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">80</span>
+<!-- png 112 -->
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>Hither, dear Husband, turn your Eyes.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Bestow one Glance to cheer me.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>Think with that Look, thy <em>Polly</em> dies.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p class = "in1">O shun me not&mdash;but hear me.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>’Tis <em>Polly</em> sues.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p><span class = "invisible">’Tis Polly sues.</span>
+’Tis <em>Lucy</em> speaks.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Is thus true Love requited?</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>My Heart is bursting.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p><span class = "invisible">My Heart is bursting.</span>
+Mine too breaks.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p class = "in1">Must I</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p class = "in1"><span class = "invisible">Must I</span>
+Must I be slighted?</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> What would you have me say,
+Ladies?&mdash;You see this affair will soon be at an end, without my
+disobliging either of you.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> But the settling this Point,
+Captain, might prevent a Law-Suit between your two Widows.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air52" id = "air52">
+AIR LII. &nbsp; <i>Tom Tinker’s</i> my true Love.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air52.png" width = "394" height = "123"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p>Which way shall I turn me&mdash;How can I decide?</p>
+<p>Wives, the Day of our Death, are as fond as a Bride.</p>
+<p>One Wife is too much for most Husbands to hear,</p>
+<p>But two at a time there’s no mortal can bear.</p>
+<p>This way, and that way, and which way I will,</p>
+<p>What would comfort the one, t’ other Wife would take ill.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> But if his own Misfortunes have
+made him
+<span class = "pagenum">81</span>
+<!-- png 113 -->
+insensible to mine&mdash;A&nbsp;Father sure will be more
+compassionate&mdash;Dear, dear Sir, sink the material Evidence, and
+bring him off at his Trial&mdash;<i>Polly</i> upon her Knees begs it of
+you.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air53" id = "air53">
+AIR LIII. &nbsp; I am a poor Shepherd undone.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air53.png" width = "395" height = "248"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>When my Heroe in Court appears,</p>
+<p class = "in1">And stands arraign’d for his Life;</p>
+<p>Then think of poor <em>Polly’s</em> Tears;</p>
+<p class = "in1">For Ah! poor <em>Polly’s</em> his Wife.</p>
+<p>Like the Sailor he holds up his hand,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Distrest on the dashing Wave.</p>
+<p>To die a dry Death at Land,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Is as bad as a watery Grave.</p>
+<p class = "in2">And alas, poor <em>Polly</em>!</p>
+<p class = "in2">Alack, and well-a-day!</p>
+<p class = "in2">Before I was in Love,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Oh! every Month was <em>May</em>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> If <i>Peachum’s</i> Heart is
+harden’d; sure you, Sir, will have more Compassion on a
+Daughter.&mdash;I&nbsp;know the Evidence is in your Power.&mdash;How
+then can you be a Tyrant to me?
+<span class = "exit">Kneeling.</span></p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">82</span>
+<!-- png 114 -->
+<h5><a name = "air54" id = "air54">
+AIR LIV. &nbsp; <i>Ianthe</i> the lovely, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air54.png" width = "396" height = "251"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LIV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LIV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>When he holds up his Hand arraign’d for his Life,</p>
+<p>O think of your Daughter, and think I’m his Wife!</p>
+<p>What are Canons, or Bombs, or clashing of Swords?</p>
+<p>For Death is more certain by Witnesses Words.</p>
+<p>Then nail up their Lips; that dread Thunder allay;</p>
+<p>And each Month of my Life will hereafter be <em>May</em>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> <i>Macheath’s</i> Time is
+come, <i>Lucy</i>.&mdash;We know our own Affairs, therefore let us have
+no more Whimpering or Whining.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air55" id = "air55">
+AIR LV. &nbsp; A Cobler there was, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air55.png" width = "389" height = "178"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">83</span>
+<!-- png 117 -->
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Ourselves, like the Great, to secure a Retreat,</p>
+<p>When Matters require it, must give up our Gang:</p>
+<p class = "in1">And good reason why,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Or, instead of the Fry,</p>
+<p class = "in1">Ev’n <em>Peachum</em> and I.</p>
+<p>Like poor petty Rascals, might hang, hang;</p>
+<p>Like poor petty Rascals, might hang.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Peachum.</span> Set your Heart at rest,
+<i>Polly</i>.&mdash;Your Husband is to die to-day.&mdash;Therefore if
+you are not already provided, ’tis high time to look about for another.
+There’s Comfort for you, you Slut.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lockit.</span> We are ready, Sir, to conduct
+you to the <i>Old Baily</i>.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air56" id = "air56">
+AIR LVI. &nbsp; Bonny <i>Dundee</i>.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air56.png" width = "392" height = "155"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LVI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LVI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p>The Charge is prepar’d; the Lawyers are met,</p>
+<p>The Judges all rang’d (a terrible Show!)</p>
+<p>I go, undismay’d.&mdash;For Death is a Debt,</p>
+<p>A Debt on Demand.&mdash;So take what I owe.</p>
+<p>Then farewell, my Love&mdash;Dear Charmers, adieu.</p>
+<p>Contented I die&mdash;’Tis the better for you.</p>
+<p>Here ends all Disputes the rest of our Lives,</p>
+<p>For this way at once I please all my Wives.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, Gentlemen, I am ready to attend you.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exeunt <em>Macheath</em>, <em>Lockit</em>, and
+<em>Peachum</em>.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">84</span>
+<!-- png 118 -->
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Filch</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Follow them, <i>Filch</i>, to
+the Court. And when the Trial is over, bring me a particular Account of
+his Behaviour, and of every thing that happen’d&mdash;You’ll find me
+here with Miss <i>Lucy</i>.
+<span class = "stagedir">Exit <em>Filch</em>.</span>
+But why is all this Musick?</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> The Prisoners, whose Trials are
+put off ’till next Session, are diverting themselves.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> Sure there is nothing so
+charming as Music! I’m fond of it to Distraction!&mdash;But
+alas!&mdash;now, all Mirth seems an Insult upon my Affliction.&mdash;Let
+us retire, my dear <i>Lucy</i>, and indulge our Sorrows.&mdash;The noisy
+Crew, you see, are coming upon us.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exeunt.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+A Dance of Prisoners in Chains, <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+
+<p class = "illustration right">
+<img src = "images/pic_84.png" width = "60" height = "79"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<a name = "plateVIII" id = "plateVIII"> </a>
+<img src = "images/plateVIII.jpg" width = "295" height = "502"
+alt = "Lockit">
+</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">85</span>
+<!-- png 119 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration chapter">
+<img src = "images/pic_85.png" width = "134" height = "82"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<h5 class = "scene"><a name = "actIII_sceneV" id = "actIII_sceneV">
+<em>SCENE V.</em> The <em>Condemn’d Hold</em>.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+<em>Macheath</em>, in a melancholy Posture.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air57" id = "air57">
+AIR LVII. &nbsp; Happy Groves.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air57.png" width = "319" height = "64"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LVII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LVII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>O cruel, cruel, cruel Case!</p>
+<p>Must I suffer this Disgrace?</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air58" id = "air58">
+AIR LVIII. &nbsp; Of all the Girls that are so smart.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air58.png" width = "345" height = "61"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LVIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LVIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Of all the Friends in time of Grief,</p>
+<p class = "in1">When threatning Death looks grimmer,</p>
+<p>Not one so sure can bring Relief,</p>
+<p class = "in1">As this best Friend, a Brimmer.
+<span class = "exit">Drinks.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air59" id = "air59">
+AIR LIX. &nbsp; <i>Britons</i> strike home.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air59.png" width = "312" height = "53"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LIX.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LIX.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Since I must swing,&mdash;I&nbsp;scorn, I scorn to wince or whine.
+<span class = "exit">Rises.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">86</span>
+<!-- png 120 -->
+<h5><a name = "air60" id = "air60">
+AIR LX. &nbsp; Chevy Chase.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air60.png" width = "318" height = "54"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LX.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LX.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>But now again my Spirits sink;</p>
+<p>I’ll raise them high with Wine.
+<span class = "exit">Drinks a Glass of Wine.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air61" id = "air61">
+AIR LXI. &nbsp; To old Sir <i>Simon</i> the King.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air61.png" width = "384" height = "118"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LXI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LXI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>But Valour the stronger grows,</p>
+<p class = "in1">The stronger Liquor <ins class = "correction" title =
+"text unchanged">we’er</ins> drinking;</p>
+<p>And how can we feel our Woes,</p>
+<p class = "in1">When we’ve lost the Trouble of Thinking?
+<span class = "exit">Drinks.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air62" id = "air62">
+AIR LXII. &nbsp; Joy to Great <i>Cæsar</i>.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air62.png" width = "302" height = "48"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LXII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LXII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>If thus&mdash;A Man can die</p>
+<p>Much bolder with Brandy.
+<span class = "exit">Pours out a Bumper of Brandy.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">87</span>
+<!-- png 121 -->
+<h5><a name = "air63" id = "air63">
+AIR LXIII. &nbsp; There was an old Woman.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air63.png" width = "393" height = "107"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LXIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LXIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>So I drink off this Bumper.&mdash;And now I can stand the Test,</p>
+<p>And my Comrades shall see, that I die as brave as the Best.
+<span class = "exit">Drinks.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air64" id = "air64">
+AIR LXIV. &nbsp; Did you ever hear of a gallant Sailor.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air64.png" width = "351" height = "61"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LXIV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LXIV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>But can I leave my pretty Hussies,</p>
+<p>Without one Tear, or tender Sigh?</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air65" id = "air65">
+AIR LXV. &nbsp; Why are mine Eyes still flowing.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air65.png" width = "361" height = "61"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LXV.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LXV.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Their Eyes, their Lips, their Busses</p>
+<p>Recall my Love,&mdash;Ah must I die!</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">88</span>
+<!-- png 122 -->
+<h5><a name = "air66" id = "air66">
+AIR LXVI. &nbsp; Green Sleeves.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air66.png" width = "400" height = "168"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LXVI.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LXVI.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Since Laws were made for ev’ry Degree,</p>
+<p>To curb Vice in others, as well as me,</p>
+<p>I wonder we han’t better Company,</p>
+<p class = "in2">Upon <em>Tyburn</em> Tree!</p>
+<p>But Gold from Law can take out the Sting;</p>
+<p>And if rich Men like us were to swing,</p>
+<p>’Twou’d thin the Land, such Numbers to string</p>
+<p class = "in2">Upon <em>Tyburn</em> Tree!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jailor.</span> Some Friends of yours,
+Captain, desire to be admitted&mdash;I&nbsp;leave you together.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Ben Budge</em>, <em>Matt of the Mint</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> For my having broke Prison,
+you see, Gentlemen, I&nbsp;am order’d immediate Execution.&mdash;The
+Sheriff’s Officers, I&nbsp;believe, are now at the Door.&mdash;That
+<i>Jemmy Twitcher</i> should peach me, I&nbsp;own surpris’d
+me!&mdash;’Tis a plain Proof that the World is all alike, and that even
+our Gang can no more trust one another than other People. Therefore,
+I&nbsp;beg you, Gentlemen, look well to yourselves, for in all
+probability you may live some Months longer.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> We are heartily sorry, Captain,
+for your Misfortune.&mdash;But ’tis what we must all come&nbsp;to.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">89</span>
+<!-- png 123 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> <i>Peachum</i> and
+<i>Lockit</i>, you know, are infamous Scoundrels. Their Lives are as
+much in your Power, as yours are in theirs.&mdash;Remember your dying
+Friend!&mdash;’Tis my last Request.&mdash;Bring those Villains to the
+Gallows before you, and I am satisfied.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Matt.</span> We’ll do’t.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jailor.</span> Miss <i>Polly</i> and Miss
+<i>Lucy</i> intreat a Word with you.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Gentlemen, adieu.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">Exeunt <em>Ben Budge</em> and <em>Matt</em>.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <em>Lucy</em> and <em>Polly</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> My dear <i>Lucy</i>&mdash;My
+dear <i>Polly</i>&mdash;Whatsoever hath pass’d between us is now at an
+end&mdash;If you are fond of marrying again, the best Advice I can give
+you, is to Ship yourselves off for the <i>West-Indies</i>, where you’ll
+have a fair Chance of getting a Husband a-piece, or by good Luck, two or
+three, as you like best.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Polly.</span> How can I support this
+Sight!</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Lucy.</span> There is nothing moves one so
+much as a great Man in Distress.</p>
+
+
+<h5><a name = "air67" id = "air67">
+AIR LXVII. &nbsp; All you that must take a Leap, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air67.png" width = "396" height = "234"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LXVII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LXVII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">90</span>
+<!-- png 124 -->
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>Would I might be hang’d!</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p><span class = "invisible">Would I might be hang’d!</span>
+And I would so too!</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>To be hang’d with you.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p><span class = "invisible">To be hang’d with you.</span>
+My Dear, with you.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p>O leave me to Thought! I&nbsp;fear! I&nbsp;doubt!</p>
+<p>I tremble! I droop!&mdash;See, my Courage is out.</p>
+<p class = "exit">
+Turns up the empty Bottle.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p>No Token of Love?</p>
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p><span class = "invisible">No Token of Love?</span>
+See, my Courage is out.</p>
+<p class = "exit">
+Turns up the empty Pot.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p>No Token of Love?</p>
+<p class = "singer">Polly.</p>
+<p><span class = "invisible">No Token of Love?</span>
+Adieu.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Lucy.</p>
+<p><span class = "invisible">No Token of Love? Adieu.</span>
+Farewell.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Macheath.</p>
+<p>But hark! I hear the Toll of the Bell.</p>
+<p class = "singer">Chorus.</p>
+<p>Tol de rol lol, <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Jailor.</span> Four Women more, Captain, with
+a Child apiece! See, here they come.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Enter Women and Children.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> What&mdash;four Wives
+more!&mdash;This is too much&mdash;Here&mdash;tell the Sheriff’s
+Officers I am ready.
+<span class = "exit">Exit <em>Macheath</em> guarded.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+To them, Enter <em>Player</em> and <em>Beggar</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Player.</span> But, honest Friend, I hope you
+don’t intend that <i>Macheath</i> shall be really executed.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Beggar.</span> Most certainly, Sir.&mdash;To
+make the Piece perfect, I&nbsp;was for doing strict poetical
+Justice.&mdash;<i>Macheath</i> is to be hang’d; and for the other
+Personages of the Drama, the Audience must have suppos’d they were all
+either hang’d or transported.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Player.</span> Why then, Friend, this is a
+downright deep Tragedy. The Catastrophe is manifestly wrong, for an
+Opera must end happily.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">91</span>
+<!-- png 125 -->
+<p><span class = "speaker">Beggar.</span> Your Objection, Sir, is very
+just, and is easily remov’d. For you must allow, that in this kind of
+Drama, ’tis no matter how absurdly things are brought
+about&mdash;So&mdash;you Rabble there&mdash;run and cry,
+A&nbsp;Reprieve!&mdash;let the Prisoner be brought back to his Wives in
+Triumph.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Player.</span> All this we must do, to comply
+with the Taste of the Town.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Beggar.</span> Through the whole Piece you
+may observe such a Similitude of Manners in high and low Life, that it
+is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable Vices) the fine
+Gentlemen imitate the Gentlemen of the Road, or the Gentlemen of the
+Road the fine Gentlemen.&mdash;Had the Play remained, as I at first
+intended, it would have carried a most excellent Moral. ’Twould have
+shewn that the lower Sort of People have their Vices in a degree as well
+as the Rich: And that they are punish’d for them.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+To them, <em>Macheath</em> with <em>Rabble</em>, <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> So, it seems, I am not left
+to my Choice, but must have a Wife at last.&mdash;Look ye, my Dears, we
+will have no Controversy now. Let us give this Day to Mirth, and I am
+sure she who thinks herself my Wife will testify her Joy by a Dance.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">All.</span> Come, a&nbsp;Dance&mdash;a
+Dance.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "speaker">Macheath.</span> Ladies, I hope you will give
+me leave to present a Partner to each of you. And (if I may without
+Offence) for this time, I&nbsp;take <i>Polly</i> for mine.&mdash;And for
+Life, you Slut,&mdash;for we were really marry’d.&mdash;As for the
+rest.&mdash;But at present keep your own Secret.
+<span class = "exit">To <em>Polly</em>.</span></p>
+
+<h4>A DANCE.</h4>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">92</span>
+<!-- png 126 -->
+<h5><a name = "air68" id = "air68">
+AIR LXVIII. &nbsp; Lumps of Pudding, &amp;c.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/airs/air68.png" width = "403" height = "459"
+alt = "musical notation">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "musiclink">
+<a href = "music/air_LXVIII.midi">MIDI</a>
+<a href = "music/air_LXVIII.pdf" target = "_blank">PDF</a></p>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p>Thus I stand like the <em>Turk</em>, with his Doxies around;</p>
+<p>From all Sides their Glances his Passion confound;</p>
+<p>For Black, Brown, and Fair, his Inconstancy burns,</p>
+<p>And the different Beauties subdue him by turns:</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">93</span>
+<!-- png 127 -->
+
+<p>Each calls forth her Charms to provoke his Desires:</p>
+<p>Though willing to all, with but one he retires.</p>
+<p>But think of this Maxim, and put off your Sorrow,</p>
+<p>The Wretch of To-day, may be happy To-morrow.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "song">
+<p class = "singer">Chorus.</p>
+<p>But think of this Maxim, <em>&amp;c.</em></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h5>FINIS.</h5>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic_93.png" width = "49" height = "82"
+alt = "line drawing">
+</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h6 class = "smallcaps">Printed in Great Britain by<br>
+Richard Clay &amp; Sons, Limited,<br>
+Bungay, Suffolk.</h6>
+
+<p>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p class = "mynote">
+<a name = "titletext" id = "titletext" href = "#titlepic">Title
+Page</a></p>
+
+<p class = "center">THE<br>
+BEGGAR’S<br>
+OPERA.</p>
+
+<p class = "center">WRITTEN by Mr. <i>GAY</i>.</p>
+
+<p class = "center">To which is Prefixed the<br>
+MUSICK to each SONG.</p>
+
+<p class = "center">{Decoration}</p>
+
+<p class = "center"><i>Nos hæc novimus esse nihil.</i>&mdash;<span class
+= "smallcaps">Mart.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "center">LONDON:<br>
+WILLIAM HEINEMANN<br>
+1921</p>
+
+<div class = "endnote">
+<h4><a name = "music_notes" id = "music_notes">
+About the Music</a></h4>
+
+<p><i>The following information is also given in the text file
+</i><tt>about_the_music</tt><i> in the “Music� directory.</i></p>
+
+<p>The music in the printed book appears to be a hand-written copy of
+the 1765 original, retaining or adding assorted minor errors. In
+particular, the use of double bar lines or repeats seems to be almost
+entirely arbitrary. In the PDF and MIDI files, obvious errors such as
+missing dots after notes have been corrected, and a few ties have been
+added. Repeats are used only when required by the lyrics as printed.</p>
+
+<p>All music files, including the PDF images, are in the “Music�
+directory. In addition to individual Airs, there are PDF files
+containing the collected songs for each scene that has more than one
+song. Air LXVIII (the final song) has been omitted because it takes up a
+complete page by itself.</p>
+
+<h5><b>Changing the Tempo</b></h5>
+
+<p>If you want to change the tempo of a MIDI file, do this:</p>
+
+<p class = "inset">
+Install the lilypond program (free from lilypond.org)</p>
+
+<p class = "inset">
+Open the file you want to edit (named in the form <tt>air_N.ly</tt>
+using the same Roman numerals as in the text) and scroll down to the
+bottom. The <tt>make-moment</tt> line works just like a metronome
+setting. Leave the second number alone&mdash;usually a 4 for
+quarter-note&mdash;and make the first number larger or smaller.</p>
+
+<p class = "inset">
+Select “Run� or “Typeset File� from the Compile menu. This will create
+three files in the same location as the original .ly file: an updated
+MIDI, a new PDF, and a Postscript (<tt>.ps</tt>) file. You may keep the
+Postscript file or delete it; they are automatically generated, but were
+omitted from this Project Gutenberg text because they are very large and
+are easy to make on your own computer.</p>
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+<p class = "center">
+<a href = "#start">Back to Top</a></p>
+</div>
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+++ b/25063-h/images/plateIII.jpg
diff --git a/25063-h/images/plateIV.jpg b/25063-h/images/plateIV.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..140efb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/images/plateIV.jpg
diff --git a/25063-h/images/plateV.jpg b/25063-h/images/plateV.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e5571d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/images/plateV.jpg
diff --git a/25063-h/images/plateVI.jpg b/25063-h/images/plateVI.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13e8d2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/images/plateVI.jpg
diff --git a/25063-h/images/plateVII.jpg b/25063-h/images/plateVII.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d35fd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/images/plateVII.jpg
diff --git a/25063-h/images/plateVIII.jpg b/25063-h/images/plateVIII.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27e949e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/images/plateVIII.jpg
diff --git a/25063-h/images/titlepage.jpg b/25063-h/images/titlepage.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..679b631
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/images/titlepage.jpg
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneI.ly b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fac637a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+%{ Act II Scene III airs XL-XLII %}
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \normal-text {ACT III. SCENE I.} }
+
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    b4 | a4. b8 g4 | a4 fs b | g4. fs8 g fs | e2 c'8 b | a4 a d |
+    b4 g b | b4. c8 a4 | b2 \bar "|" b8 a |  % printed as :|:
+    gs4 a b | c4 b e | e,4 fs g | fs2 b8 b | c4 b e |
+    e8( d) e( d) c( b) | c8 b a b a g | g2 b8^\segno c | a4 a a16( b c8) |
+    c4 b b16( cs d8) | d4 cs cs16( ds e8) | ds4. cs8 b4 |
+    e4 b8 c d4 | b4 g8 a b4 | g4. fs8 e4 | e2^\segno \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XL. If Love’s a sweet Passion, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    g8 | g8 f g g f g | a8 f4~ f a8 |  % printed without tie 
+    g4 f8 e4 d8 | c4 c8 c4 e16 f | g4 g8 g f g | a8 f4~ f a8 |
+    g4 f8 e4 d8 | c4.~ c4 c'8 |  % printed without tie 
+    c4 c8 c b c | d8 g,4~ g d'8 | d4 d8 d c d |
+    e8 c4~ c \bar "|:" e8 | % added repeat
+    d4 c8 b4 a8 | g4 g8 g4 e16 f | g4 g8 g f g | a8 f4~ f \bar ":|" a8 |
+    g4 f8 e4 d8 | c4.~ c4 \bar "||" % added repeat
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XLI. \italic{South-Sea} Ballad.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | g4 fs g | a4 bf c | bf4 a g | a2 d,4 | bf'4 a bf | c4 c d |
+    bf4. a8 g4 | g2 \bar ":|" d'4 |  % printed ":|:"
+    d4 f e | d2 d4 | d4 f e | d2 d4 |
+    d4 f e | d4 e f | g4 f e | d2 f4 | d4 c bf | c4 a f | bf4 a g |
+    a2 d,4 | bf'4 a bf | c4 c d | bf4. a8 g4 | g2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XLII. \italic{Packington’s} Pound.}}
+  }
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneI.pdf b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8339244
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIII.ly b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb8dcae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+%{ Act II Scene IV airs XLIV-XLV %}
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \normal-text {ACT III. SCENE III.} }
+
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | a' 4 g8( fs) g( a) b4  | a2 d  | a4 g8( fs) b( a) g( fs) |
+    e2. a4 | g8( fs) e( d) fs( e) d( cs) | a8 cs d4 g2~ |
+    g2 r4. cs,8 | d4 e8( fs) g( fs) e( d) | d2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XLIV. Down in the North Country, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key d \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a8 a | a4 c a a c a | a4 c a c2. | a4 d d d2 c4 |
+    a4. bf8 a g f4 d a' | a4 c a c d e | f4 e d c2 d8 e |
+    f4 e d c a c | f,4 g a d2. | a4. bf8 a g f4 d2 | g4. a8 g f d4 c2 |
+    f4 d d f g a | d2 a4 f d2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XLV. A Shepherd kept Sheep, &c.}}
+  }
+
+
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c405aa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIV.ly b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8fdff7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,279 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+%{ Act III Scene IV airs XLVI-LVI %}
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \normal-text {ACT III. SCENE IV.} }
+
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    d8 | g4 a8 b a g | d'4 d8 d4 g8 | fs4 e8 d4 c8 | b8 a b g4 d8 |
+    g4 a8 b a g | d'4 d8 d4 g8 | fs8 e d e4. | d4.~ d4 \bar "||" d8 |
+      % printed ":|:"
+    d8 b c d e d | d8 c b c4 c8 | c8 a b c d c | c8 b a b4 d8 |
+    g4 d8 g4 d8 | g4.~ g8 fs e | d8 c b a4. | g4.~ g4   \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XLVI. One Evening, having lost my Way, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a4 | bf4 a g bf c d | c4 bf a c d c | bf4 a g g bf c |
+    d2.~ d2 \bar "||" d4 | ef4 d ef f ef d | c4 bf c d2 bf8 c |
+    d4. ef8 d4 c a d | g,2. a | bf2.~ bf2 bf8 c | d4. ef8 d4 c a d |
+    g,2.~ g2 \bar "||"  % printed ":|:" and ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XLVII. Now \italic {Roger}, I’ll tell thee because thou ’rt my Son.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 8
+    d8 | fs8 g a a b c | b8 a b g4 g8 | fs8 g a a b a | fs'4. g4 fs16 g |
+    a8 a, a a b c | b8 a g g'4 fs16 g | a8 g fs e d cs! |
+    d4. fs4 \bar "||" fs16 g | a8 fs d fs a fs | e8 cs e g4 fs16 g |
+    a8 fs d fs a d, | fs4. g4 fs16 g | a8 fs d fs a fs |
+    e8 cs e g4 fs16 g | a8 g fs e d cs | d4. fs4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XLVIII. O \italic {Bessy Bell}.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 g a | b2 g4 | b4 c2 | d2. | d4 g d | e2 d4 | e8 d c4 b |
+    a2. \bar "||" b4( e) d | e8( d) c4 b | a8 b c b a g | c2. |
+    b4( e) d | e8( d) c4 b | a4 c b | c8 b a4 g | d'4( g) fs |
+    e8( d) c4 b | a8 b c b a g | g2.  \bar "||"
+      % both bars printed as repeats
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XLIX. Would Fate to me \italic {Belinda} give.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    e2 b' | gs2. cs4 | b4 gs fs e | fs4 ds cs b | e2 b' | gs2. cs4 |
+    b4 e cs fs | ds1 \bar "||" ds2 fs | b,2. ds4 | e4 b b gs |
+    cs2. b4 | cs4 a a fs | ds4 fs b, b' | a4 gs fs e | e1 \bar "||"
+      % both printed ":|"
+    \pageBreak
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR L. Come, sweet Lass.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    g4 | e4 d8( c) c'4. d8 | e4 d8( c) b4. g8 | a4. c8 a( g) e( g) |
+    a4. b8 c4 g | e4 d8( c) c'4. d8 | e4 d8( c) b4. g8 |
+    a8( b) c( d) e( d) c( b) | a4. b8 c4 d | b4 a8 g g4. e'8 |
+    d8( b) a( b) g4. e8 | g4. a8 g8( e) d( e) | g4. a8 c4 r8 g |
+    a8( g) a( c) a4 g8( e) | g8( e) g( a) c4. d8 |
+    e8( d) c( a) g( a) g( e) | d4. c8 c4 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LI. The last time I went o’er the Moor.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 d8 e fs d | g4 d d | b4 g g | g2 d4 | g8 a g a b c |
+    d4 d a | fs4 d d | d2. \bar ":|" a'4. b8 a g | fs4 d d |
+    % printed ":|:"
+    b'4. c8 b a | g4 e e | c'4. d8 c b |
+    a4 fs d' | b4 g g8 a | g2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LII. \italic {Tom Tinker’s} my true Love.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key d \minor
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    d8 | cs8. b16 a8 a b! cs! | d4. f, | g8 bf! a f e d |
+    d4.~ d4 \bar ":|" e8 | f8 e f g f g | a4. r8 r e |  % printed ":|:"
+    f8 e f g f g | a4. r8 r e | f8 e f g a bf | a4. d |
+    c8 bf a g f e | d4. r8 r d16 e | f4. a | f8 d4 r8 r e |
+    f8 e f g f g | a4. r8 r e | f8 e f g a bf | a4. d |
+    c8 bf a g f e | d4.~ d4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LIII. I am a poor Shepherd undone.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    fs8 fs | g4 fs8 e b'4 a8 b | c8 b a g fs4. g8 | a4 g8 fs g b e b |
+    g4 fs8 e e4. \bar "||" fs8 |  % printed e4 for e4. and  ":|:"
+    g4 g8 a b4 b8 c | d4 c8 b a4. d,8 | g4 g8 a b4 e8 d |
+    c8 b a g g4. b8 |
+    gs4 gs8 gs a4 a8 b | c8 b a g fs4 e'8 ds | e4 b8 a g4 a8 b |
+    c8 b a g fs4 b8 a | g4 fs8 e e4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    \pageBreak
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LIV. \italic {Ianthe} the lovely, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    g8 | d'8. ef16 d8 c bf a | bf8. a16 g8 fs4 fs8 |
+    g8. a16 g8 g8. a16 g8 | g8. fs16 g8 a4 \bar ":|" c16 bf |
+    % printed ":|:"
+    a8. g16 f8 f8. g16 f8 | f8. g16 f8 f'4 fs8 |
+    g8. d16 bf8 ef8. d16 c8 | d8 a bf c bf a | g4. d'4 c8 |
+    d8 a bf c bf a | g4.~ g4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LV. A Cobler there was, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | d4 g g g2 bf4 | a4 g f a bf c | d2 d4 d2 g4 |
+    d4. c8 bf a g2 \bar ":|" e'4 |  % printed ":|:"
+    f4 a g f a g | f4 f, f a bf c |
+    d4 ef d d2 g4 | a4. g8 fs ef d2 e4 | f4 a g f a g |
+    f4 f, f a4. bf8 c4 | d2 d4 d2 g4 | d4. c8 bf a g2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LVI. Bonny \italic {Dundee}.}}
+  }
+
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIV.pdf b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac45d48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneIV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneV.ly b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6f4d9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+%{ Act III Scene V airs LVII-LXVII, omitting LXVIII %}
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \normal-text {ACT III. SCENE V.} }
+
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    d2 e4 d | d8 c b a g2 | b4 a c b | a8 g a b a2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LVII. Happy Groves.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4.
+    g16( f) e8 f | d4. e16( d) c8 d | b4. c16( b) a8 g |
+    f8 e d c c c' | c4. \bar ":|"  % printed "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LVIII. Of all the Girls that are so smart.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    c4 c d | e4. f8 g4 | c,4 d e | d4 e f | g4 f e | d2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LIX. \italic {Britons} strike home.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    d8 | c4 b8 a4 d,8 | fs4 g8 a4. | r8 r b c4 d8 | e4 d8 c4. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LX. Chevy Chase.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 9/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    g4 | a4. b8 c4 c4. d8 c4 c2 g4 | a4. b8 c4 c4. d8 e4 f2 f4 |
+    a,4 f f f2 g4 a b c | d2 c4 b2 a4 g2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LXI. To old Sir \italic {Simon} the King.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  {
+    \key d \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 d4. e8 | cs4 cs4. cs8 | d4 d4. d8 | e4 e2  \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LXII. Joy to Great \italic {Cæsar}.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a4 | b4. cs8 d4 cs4. b8 a4 | d4 cs b a fs a | e2.~ e2 a4 |
+    b4. cs8 d4 cs4. b8 a4 | d4. cs8 b4 a4 fs a | d,2.~ d2 \bar "||"
+      % printed without ties
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LXIII. There was an old Woman.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/2
+    \clef treble \partial 2.
+    b4 c a | g2 a4 b c a | b2 c4 d e f | d2 b c4 a | g2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LXIV. Did you ever hear of a gallant Sailor.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    c4( e) f | d2 b4 | c8( b c e d c) | b2 b4 | c4 c8 b c g |
+    a4 b c | d4 c e | c2. \bar "||"  \pageBreak
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LXV. Why are mine Eyes still flowing.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    a4 | bf2 bf4 bf c d | c4 a f f g a | bf4 a g g a bf |
+    a2 d,4 d2 a'4 | bf2 bf4 bf c d | c4 a f f g a | bf4 a g a fs2 |
+    g2.~ g2 \bar "||" d'8 ef |  % printed g2~ g2
+    f2 f4 f ef d | c4 a f f2 fs'4 |
+    g4. a8 g4 bf4 a g | fs4 d d d2 e4 | f4 g f f ef d |
+    c4 a f f g a | bf4 a g a fs2 | g2.~ g2 \bar "||" % printed without tie
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LXVI. Green Sleeves.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key f \major
+    \time 3/2
+    \clef treble \partial 2
+    f2 | f2. g4 e2 | f1 f2 | c'2. d4 c2 | c,2. f'4 e2 | f2( e) d |
+    c2 bf4( a) g( f) | g2. f4 g2 | a1 f2 | f2. g4 e2 | f1 f2 |
+    c'2. d4 c2 | c,2. f'4 e2 | f2( e) d | c2 bf4( a) g( f) |
+    g2. f4 g2 | a1 c2 | c2. d4 b2 | c1 c2 | g'2. a4 g2 | g,1 b2 |
+    c2( b) a | g2 f4( e) d( c) | d2. c4 d2 | e1 f2 |
+    f2. g4 a( f )| bf2. c4 bf a | g2 a bf | c1 e2 | f2( e) d |
+    c2 bf4( a) g( f) | c2. d4 c2 | f1 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR LXVII. All you that must take a Leap, &c.}}
+  }
+
+
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneV.pdf b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..892b0da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActIII_SceneV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneI.ly b/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9fd135
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+%{ Act II Scene I airs XIX-XXIV %}
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \normal-text {ACT II. SCENE I.} }
+
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    bf4 a g | f2 c'4 | f2 c4 | d4 a bf | c4 f, g |
+    a2 bf4 | c4 c,2 | f2. \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    f'4 e f | d2 c4 | f4 d2 | c2. | bf4 a g | f2 g4 |
+    a4 bf2 | c4. d8 c4 |
+    bf4 a g | f2 c'4 | f2 c4 |
+    d4 a bf | c4 f, g | a2 bf4 | c4 c,2 | f2. \bar "||"
+    } 
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XIX. Fill every Glass, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d8 ef | f2 f | f2. bf8 c | d8 c d ef d4 d | d2 f |
+    d8 c d ef d4 d | d2 f4. ef8 |
+    ef4 c8 d ef8 d c bf | c2. \bar "||" a8 bf |  % printed ":|:"
+    c2 c | c2.\trill f4 | f,8 g a bf c4 d | ef2 f4. ef8 |
+    d4 c8 d ef d c bf | c4 f, f'4. ef8 |
+    d8 c bf c c4.\trill bf8 | bf2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XX. March in \italic {Rinaldo}, with Drums and Trumpets.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    fs8 g | a4. b8 a4 a4. b8 a4 | d2 a4 a2 fs8 g |
+    a4. b8 a4 a4. b8 a4 | e'2 a,4 a2 fs8 g | a4. b8 a4 a4. b8 a4 |
+    d2 a4 e'2 a,4 | fs'4. e8 d4 a4. d8 cs4 | d2 d,4 d2. \bar "||"
+    fs'4. e8 d4 fs4. e8 d4 | e2 a,4 a2. | fs'4. e8 d4 fs4. e8 d4 |
+    g2 e4 e2. | fs4. e8 d4 fs4. e8 d4 | g4. fs8 e4 g4. fs8 e4 |
+    fs4. e8 d4 a4. d8 cs4 | d2 d,4 d2. \bar "||"
+      % both printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXI. Would you have a young Virgin, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    g4 c b c | d8 c d e d2 | g,4 c b c8 d | d2 c\fermata \bar ":|"
+      % printed ":|:"
+    e4 d8 c d2 | e4 d8 c d2 | e4 d8 e f e d e |
+    f8 e d c d2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXII. Cotillon.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    fs8 g | a4 a a a | a2 a4 g8 a | b4 a g a | b2 b4 cs8 d |
+    cs4 a a a | a2 a 4a | g4 e e fs | g2. a8 g | fs4 d d e |
+    fs4 g a g8 fs | e4 d cs d | e2. fs8 g | fs4 d d e |
+    fs4 g a g8 fs | b4 a gs2 | a2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXIII. All in a misty Morning, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    e8 e | a4. b8 a4 b4. cs8 b4 | cs4 a2~ a \bar ":|" cs4 |
+      % printed ":|:"
+    d4. e8 d4 cs4. d8 cs4 | b4. cs8 b4 gs4. fs8 e4 |
+    a4. b8 a4 b4. cs8 b4 | cs4 a2~ a2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXIV. When first I laid Siege to my \italic {Chloris}, &c.}}
+  }
+
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneI.pdf b/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1dc5f00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneII.ly b/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..218591d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,340 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+%{ Act II Scene II airs XXV-XXXVIII %}
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \normal-text {ACT II. SCENE II.} }
+
+
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    g2 e4 g2 a4 | b4. c8 b4 e,2 fs4 | g4. a8 b4 e2 b4 |
+    g2 %{ printed g4 %} fs8 e e2 \bar ":|" e'8 fs |  % printed "||"
+    g4. fs8 e4 ds2 e4 | e2 e,4 e2 fs4 | g4. a8 b4 d2 b4 |
+    d2 b4 a2 fs4 | g4. a8 b4 e2 b4 | g2 fs8 e e2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXV. Courtiers, Courtiers, think it no Harm, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a8 b | c4 c8 b a4 g | a4 fs g a8 b | c4 c8 b a4 g |
+    a2 g4 \bar ":|" g |  % printed ":|:"
+    g4 d'8 d d4 d | e4 d d d | e4 d c b | b2 a4 b8 c | d2 g, |
+    a8 g a8 b g4 a8 b | c4 b a g | a2 g4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXVI. A lovely Lass to a Friar came, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    b8 | b8 a g g fs e | b8 a b r r b | e8 fs g fs g e | b'4.~ b4 b8 |
+    c16( d e 8) d c16 b a8 g | fs16( e) d4 r8 r d' | b8 a g d g fs |
+    g4.~ g4 \bar "||" b8 | b16 c d8 d, g fs e | a8 fs4 r8 r b |
+    c8 b c a g a | fs4.~ fs4 ds'8 | e8 d e c b c | a4.~ a4 c8 |
+    b8 a g g fs e | e4.~ e4 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXVII. ’Twas when the Sea was roaring, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+    {
+    \new Staff
+    \relative c''
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a4 | a2 e'4 e fs e | d2 cs4 b cs d | e2 a,4 a2 b4 |
+    cs2. e2 \bar ":|:" e4 |  % printed "||"
+    cs2 b4 a b cs | b2 gs4 e2 e4 | e2 a4 a2 b4 |
+    cs2. e2 \bar ":|"  % printed "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXVIII. The Sun had loos’d his weary Teams, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    e8 e | a4 cs8 b a4 a8 gs | fs4 gs8 a b4 b8 cs |
+    d8 cs b a gs4 gs8 a | b2. \bar "||" b8 b |  % printed ":|:"
+    b8 e e d cs4 cs8 b | a8 gs fs16 gs b8 gs4 e8 d |
+    cs4 fs8 d e4 b'8 gs | b2.  \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXIX. How happy are we, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key a \minor
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    b4 | c4 b8 a gs a b gs | a4 a,2 ^\markup {\italic {vio}} b'4 |
+    c4 b8 a g a b g |
+    a2. \bar ":|" b8 ^\markup {\italic {Song}} b | c4 c8 c g4 g |
+      % printed ":|:"
+    c4 c2. | c,4 ^\markup {\italic {vio}} c b b |
+    a4 a gs b' ^\markup {\italic {Song}} | c4 c b b |
+    a8 c b a gs4 f8 e | f4 d e gs |
+    a4 a2 \bar "||"
+    % second "Song" markup moved back from c to b
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXX. Of a noble Race was \italic {Shenkin}.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key a \minor
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    e4 | a4 b c b8 a | gs4 a e2 | r4 e c' c | e4 d c2 \bar "||"
+    r4 c b c | d4 b e a, | gs4 e gs a | b4 c a2 | a2 c |
+    gs4 e a2 \bar "||"  % bars printed ":|:" and ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXXI.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | g4 a b c b a | b4 a g d'2 b4 | c4 d e d c b |
+    a2. a2 d,4 | g4 a b c b a | b4 a g g'2 fs4 | e4 fs d cs d e |
+    e2. d2 d4 | d4 e fs g2 fs4 | e4 d c b2 fs'4 |
+    g4 fs e ds e fs | fs2. e2 d4 | d4 e fs g d e |
+    d4 c b a2 g4 | g4 b c d b e | a,2. g2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXXII. \italic {London} Ladies.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 g, g | b2 g4 | a4 b8 c d b | e2 d4 | d4 c8 b a g | c2 e,4 |
+    fs8 g g2 | a2. \bar ":|" d4 fs,( g) |  % printed ":|:"
+    a4( b) c | a4( d) fs, | g4 a2 | b2. |
+    e4 c a | d4 g, fs | e2 c'4 | b8 a a2 | g2.\bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXXIII. All in the Downs, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    f4 | bf4 c bf bf a g | a4 g f bf a bf | c4 bf c d2 d8 ef |
+    f4 g f f d bf | c4 a f g a bf | c4 a f bf2 \bar ":|"  % printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXXIV. Have you heard of a frolicksome Ditty, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    g4 | a4 b c c d c | a4 b c c d c | b4 c b a g fs |
+    g4 a g b2 g4 | a4 fs a a fs a | a4 fs a a fs a |
+    b4 c b a g fs | g4 a g b2 g4 \bar "||"  \pageBreak
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXXV. \italic {Irish} Trot.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble
+    g4 d'8 b8 g4 | c4 a8 fs8 d4 | b'4 g8 e8 c4 |
+    a'8 d, fs g4. \bar ":|"  % printed "||"
+    g4 g'8 g8 d4 | g,4 e'8 e8 c4 | fs,4 d'8 d8 g, fs |
+    e8 d' cs d4. | g,4 d'8 b8 g4 | c4 a8 fs8 d4 |
+    b'4 g8 e8 c4 | a'8 d, fs g4. \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXXVI.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    b4 | e4 e, gs a | b2. a8 gs | a4 fs b, a' | a4 gs r b |
+    cs4 cs cs b8 a | b8 a b cs b4 a8 gs | a4 a a gs8 fs |
+    gs8 fs gs a gs4 e' | b4 e b e | fs8( e ds cs) b4 a |
+    gs2 fs | e2. \bar "||"   % fit music to lyrics?
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXXVII. Good-morrow, Gossip \italic {Joan}.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key f \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    f8 | a8 a a g16 f bf8 bf bf a16 g |
+    f8. g16 a bf c d c bf a g f8. a16 |
+    a16 g g f e8. f16 g8 a16 bf a8. bf16 |
+    a16 bf c d c8 g bf16 a g f f4 | bf8 bf bf bf c c16 bf bf8 a |
+    c8 c c bf16 a c8 c c bf16 a |
+    f'8( e16 d) c8. d16 c d c d c d c a |
+    bf16 a g f f g a bf c2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XXXVIII. \italic {Irish} Howl.}}
+  }
+
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneII.pdf b/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6502478
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActII_SceneII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActI_SceneI.ly b/25063-h/music/ActI_SceneI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6bd10d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActI_SceneI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,445 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+%{ Act I Scene I airs I-XVIII %}
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \normal-text {ACT I. SCENE I.} }
+
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/2
+    \clef treble \partial 2.
+    bf2. | a4 bf g fs e fs | g2. bf | a4 bf g fs e fs | g2. bf2 bf4 |
+    a4 bf g fs e fs | g2. bf | a4 bf g fs e fs | g2.~ g2 a8 bf |
+    c4 bf a c bf a | c2.~ c2 bf8 a | bf4 c d ef d c | d2.~ d2 a8 bf |
+    c4 bf a c bf a | c2. bf | a4 bf g fs e fs | g2. \bar "||" 
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR I. An old Woman clothed in Gray, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    f8 | bf8 a bf c d4 c8 bf | d8 ef f g f4. g8 | f8 g f d ef d c bf |
+    a8 bf c d c4. d8 |  ef8 d c bf a4. a8 | bf8 a g f e4. c8 |
+    f8 a g bf a c ef c | bf8 a g f f4. \bar "||" c'8 |
+    c8 a c a f4. f'8 | f8 d f d bf4. d8 | ef8 g, c a fs4. d'8 |
+    c8 bf a g g4. d8 | g8 a bf g ef'4. d8 | d8 g, c bf a4. f8 |
+    bf8 d c ef d f g f | ef8 d c bf bf4.  \bar "||" 
+    % both bars printed as repeats
+    } 
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR II. The bonny gray-ey’d Morn, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    e4. fs8 e4 g4. b8 a4 | b4. c8 d4 d,2 d4 |
+    e2 e4 b'4. a8 g4 | e2. g2 \bar ":|" % printed ":|:"
+    g4 | g4 fs g g2 g4 |
+    a4 g a a2 a4 | b2 b4 e4. d8 c4 | b2. d2 g,4 |
+    g4 fs g g2 g4 | a4 g a a2 c4 | b4. a8 g4 fs4 g ds |
+    e2. b'2. \bar "||" % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR III. Cold and raw, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 a \times 2/3 {b8 cs d} | a2 g4 | fs4 e8 fs g e | cs2 d4 |
+    e8( fs g4) fs | fs4 b( a) | a4( d) cs | b2. | a2. |
+    e4( d' cs) | b4 gs2 | a2 \bar "||" % printed ":|:"
+    a4 | d2.~ | d4 b( g) |
+    e4( e' d) | cs4( b a) | d2 d,4 | e4 fs2 | g2 a4 | b4 cs2 | d2. |
+    r4 r \times 2/3 {d8 cs b} | a4( d,) g | fs4 e2 | d2. 
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR IV. Why is your faithful Slave disdain’d &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    c4 | c2 d4 e2 f4 | g2 a4 b a g | a4 b c d b g |
+    a4 c2~ c2 \bar ":|" b8 c |  % printed "||"
+    d4 b g c d e | a,2. f'2. | e4 d c b c d | g,2. g2 e'4 | f2 e4 d2 c4 |
+    b4 c d g,2 g4 | a4 b c d b g | a4 c2~ c \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR V. Of all the simple Things we do, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  {
+    \key a \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble % \partial 4
+    c4 a b | gs4. b8 a4 | b16( c d8) c( b) c( a) | b2 e,4 | e'4 a, b |
+    c4 e, gs | a8 b b4. a8 | a2. \bar ":|" % printed ":|:"
+    g4 e g | c4 g a | e8 f g4 f8 e | d2 c4 | e4 a fs | g8 a b4 e,8 ds |
+    e8 fs fs4. e8 | e2. | a4 fs b | gs4 e c' | a4 d8 b c a | b2 e,4 |
+    b'8 c d4 c8 b | c8 d e4 a,8 gs | a8 b b4. a8 | a2.  \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR VI. What shall I do to shew how much I love her, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key fs \minor
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    b4 | gs4. fs8 e4 e | e2 e4 e | fs4 gs a b | cs4 cs2 ds4 |
+    e4 d cs b | cs8 ds e4 e, e | fs4 gs a gs | fs4 fs2  \bar "|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR VII. Oh \italic {"London"} is a fine Town.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | g4 fs g | bf4 a g | a2 d,4 | bf'4 a d |
+    bf4. a8 g4 | g2 \bar ":|"  % printed ":|:"
+    bf8 c | d4 d g, | ef'4 d c8 bf | c2 d8 c | bf4 a bf |
+    g4 c bf | a2 d,8 d | g4 fs g | bf4 a g | a2 d,4 |
+    bf'4 a d | bf4. a8 g4 | g2. \bar "||"
+  } 
+
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR VIII. Grim King of the Ghosts, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    f4 | f4 d ef f2 d'4 | c2 bf4 g2 f4 | f4 d ef f2 d'4 | c2 bf4 c2. |
+    c4 d ef f( ef) d | ef4 d c a2 f4 | bf4 d2 g,2 c4 |
+    f,4 a2 bf2 \bar "||"  \pageBreak
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR IX. O \italic {Jenny}, O \italic {Jenny}, where hast thou been.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+ \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | fs4 g a b2 a4 | d2 cs4 b2 a4 | g4( a fs) e2 d4 |
+    d4 d'2~ d2 \bar ":|" d4 |  % printed "||"
+    cs2 d4( e) d cs | d4( e cs) b2 a4 |
+    cs2 d4 e2 fs,4 | g4( a fs) e2 d4 | cs'2 d4( e d) cs |
+      % first (high) e2 printed e4
+    b4( cs a) cs2 d4 | a4 g fs e2 d4 | b'4 d a b d a |
+    a4 g fs e2 d4 | d'2.~ d2 \bar "||"  % printed d'2~ d2 \bar ":|:"
+    } 
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR X. \italic {Thomas}, I cannot, &c.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key f \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a4 | a4 c( f) f( g) a | f2. c2 c4 | c4( f) a a bf c | a2. f2 g4 |
+    bf4 bf c c bf a | d2. d,2 e4 | f4( g) a a g( f) | c'2.~ c,2 d4 |
+      % misprint c'2~ c,2 d4 and others similar
+    e4( f) g e d c | c2.~ c2 d4 | e4( f) g g2 b4 | c2.~ c2 \bar "||" c4 |
+    g4 a g g2 a4 | bf2.~ bf2 c4 | d4( ef d) c2 bf4 | a2.~ a2 bf4 |
+    c4( d) c c bf a | g2. a4( bf) c | d4( c bf) a g f | e2. c2 c'4 |
+    d4( e f) e2 f4 | f2.~ f2 g,4 | a4( bf) c a2 g8 f | f2.~ f2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XI. A Soldier and a Sailor.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key f \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    g4 | a8 g f4. g8 | a8 g f4. a8 | bf8 d c4. a8 | g2 a4 |
+    bf8 d c4. bf8 | c8 a f4. c'8 | d8 f a,4 g | f2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XII. Now ponder well, ye Parents dear.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key f \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    f4 a g | c2 f4 | c2 bf4 | a4 g8 a f4 | bf4 c8 bf a bf | g8 f g2 |
+    f4 a bf | c2 f4 | c2 bf4 | a4 b c | d4 b2 | c2. \bar "||"
+      % printed ":|:"
+    g2 a4 | g8 f e d c4 | g'2 a4 | g8 f g2 | c2 d4 |
+    c4 bf8 a g f | g4 g2 | f2. \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XIII. Le printems rapelle aux armes.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/2
+    \clef treble
+    g4 d d g bf2 | c8 bf a bf g4 bf d4. ef8 | d4 g8 d ef4 d c bf |
+    a2 g4 d' ef d | c2 bf r4 c |
+    d8( c) bf( a) bf( c) bf4 c8( bf) a( g) |
+    a8( bf a4) bf8( a) g( fs) g( a) g4 | r4 d'4 ef8( d) c( bf) f'4 f, |
+    bf2 bf d8( ef d ef) | f4 f f8( ef) d( c) bf2 |
+    bf8( c bf c) d4 d d8( c bf a) | g4 d' g, d' c8 bf a g |
+    g2.~ g2. \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XIV. Pretty Parrot, say—.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 8
+    f8 | bf,8 c bf bf4 bf8 | c8 d c c4 c8 | d8 ef f a, bf g |
+    a8 f4~ f \bar "||" a8 |  % printed ":|:"
+    bf8 c d g,4 g8 | c8 d ef a,4 a8 |
+    d8 ef f bf,4 d8 | ef8 f g f4. | r8 r ef d c bf |
+    f8 bf c d bf4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XV. Pray, Fair one, be kind—.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key bf \major  % what key?
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    bf8 c d c bf8 c d c | bf4 g g4. f8 | bf8 c d c bf8 c d bf |
+    ef4 c c4. f,8 | bf8 c ef c bf8 c d c | bf4 g ef'4. g,8 |
+    g4 f8 ef f4 d' | ef4 c c2 \bar ":|:"  % typo for ":|"
+    f4. d8 d4 c | bf4 g g2 | f'4. ef8 d4 c8 bf | ef4 c c2 |
+    f4. ef8 d4 c | bf4 g ef'4. g,8 | g4 f8 ef f4 d' | ef4 c c2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XVI. Over the Hills and far away.}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4. g8 g4. b8 | a4 g8 fs e2 | g8 fs e d g8 a b4 |
+    c8 b a g b8 c d4 | d,4. g8 g4. b8 | a4 g8 fs e2 |
+    d'8( e )d b c8( b a g) | g4. a8 b2 \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    d4 d, d4. b'8 | a4 g8 fs e4. fs8 | d4 d' d4. e8 |
+    d8( e d c) b4 b8 b | c8 d e d b8 c d c | a8 b c a d,4. e'8 |
+    d8( e d b) c8( b a) g | g4. a8 b2 \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XVII. Gin thou wert mine awn thing—}}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    ef8 | ef4. g8 bf4. c8 | bf8( g) f g ef4 ef'8( bf) |
+    c4 ef8.( f16) ef16( f g8) f8. ef16 | c2. ef4 |
+    bf8.( c16) ef8.( f16) g4 g16( f) ef8 |
+    ef4 ef,8. f16 g4 g16 f( ef8) |
+    a4 bf8.( c16) bf8.( c16) bf8.( g16) | f2.. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \header
+    {piece = \markup {AIR XVIII. O the Broom, &c.}}
+  }
+
diff --git a/25063-h/music/ActI_SceneI.pdf b/25063-h/music/ActI_SceneI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a022807
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/ActI_SceneI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/about_the_music.txt b/25063-h/music/about_the_music.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b808aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/about_the_music.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+_About the Music_
+
+The following information is also given at the end of the plain-text and
+html versions of the play.
+
+The music in the printed book appears to be a hand-written copy of the
+1765 original, retaining or adding assorted minor errors. In particular,
+the use of double bar lines or repeats seems to be almost entirely
+arbitrary. In the PDF and MIDI files, obvious errors such as missing
+dots after notes have been corrected, and a few ties have been added.
+Repeats are used only when required by the lyrics as printed.
+
+All music files, including the PDF images, are in the "Music" directory.
+In addition to individual Airs, there are PDF files containing the
+collected songs for each scene that has more than one song. Air LXVIII
+(the final song) has been omitted because it takes up a complete page by
+itself.
+
+
+_Changing the Tempo_
+
+If you want to change the tempo of a MIDI file, do this:
+
+--Install the lilypond program (free from lilypond.org)
+
+--Open the file you want to edit (named in the form air_N.ly using the
+same Roman numerals as in the text) and scroll down to the bottom. The
+"make-moment" line works just like a metronome setting. Leave the second
+number alone--usually a 4 for quarter-note--and make the first number
+larger or smaller.
+
+--Select "Run" or "Typeset File" from the Compile menu. This will create
+three files in the same location as the original .ly file: an updated
+MIDI, a new PDF, and a Postscript (.ps) file. You may keep the
+Postscript file or delete it; they are automatically generated, but were
+omitted from this Project Gutenberg text because they are very large and
+are easy to make on your own computer.
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_I.ly b/25063-h/music/air_I.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9415601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_I.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {"AIR I. An old Woman clothed in Gray, &c."}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/2
+    \clef treble \partial 2.
+    bf2. | a4 bf g fs e fs | g2. bf | a4 bf g fs e fs | g2. bf2 bf4 |
+    a4 bf g fs e fs | g2. bf | a4 bf g fs e fs | g2.~ g2 a8 bf |
+    c4 bf a c bf a | c2.~ c2 bf8 a | bf4 c d ef d c | d2.~ d2 a8 bf |
+    c4 bf a c bf a | c2. bf | a4 bf g fs e fs | g2. \bar "||" 
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_I.midi b/25063-h/music/air_I.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d939cf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_I.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_I.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_I.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54a442d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_I.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_II.ly b/25063-h/music/air_II.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7bb4ba1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_II.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {"AIR II. The bonny gray-ey’d Morn, &c."}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    f8 | bf8 a bf c d4 c8 bf | d8 ef f g f4. g8 | f8 g f d ef d c bf |
+    a8 bf c d c4. d8 |  ef8 d c bf a4. a8 | bf8 a g f e4. c8 |
+    f8 a g bf a c ef c | bf8 a g f f4. \bar "||" c'8 |
+    c8 a c a f4. f'8 | f8 d f d bf4. d8 | ef8 g, c a fs4. d'8 |
+    c8 bf a g g4. d8 | g8 a bf g ef'4. d8 | d8 g, c bf a4. f8 |
+    bf8 d c ef d f g f | ef8 d c bf bf4.  \bar "||" 
+    % both bars printed as repeats
+    } 
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 150 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
+
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_II.midi b/25063-h/music/air_II.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3cb15ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_II.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_II.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_II.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..70912bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_II.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_III.ly b/25063-h/music/air_III.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0209523
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_III.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text {"AIR III. Cold and raw, &c."} }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    e4. fs8 e4 g4. b8 a4 | b4. c8 d4 d,2 d4 |
+    e2 e4 b'4. a8 g4 | e2. g2 \bar ":|" % printed ":|:"
+    g4 | g4 fs g g2 g4 |
+    a4 g a a2 a4 | b2 b4 e4. d8 c4 | b2. d2 g,4 |
+    g4 fs g g2 g4 | a4 g a a2 c4 | b4. a8 g4 fs4 g ds |
+    e2. b'2. \bar "||" % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { r4 | e4. fs8 e4 g4. b8 a4 | b4. c8 d4 d,2 d4 |
+    e2 e4 b'4. a8 g4 | e2. g2 }
+    g4 | g4 fs g g2 g4 |
+    a4 g a a2 a4 | b2 b4 e4. d8 c4 | b2. d2 g,4 |
+    g4 fs g g2 g4 | a4 g a a2 c4 | b4. a8 g4 fs4 g ds |
+    e2. b'2.
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_III.midi b/25063-h/music/air_III.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5928a50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_III.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_III.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_III.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa7f9c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_III.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_IV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_IV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f78cf0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_IV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text {"AIR IV. Why is your faithful Slave disdain’d &c."} }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 a \times 2/3 {b8 cs d} | a2 g4 | fs4 e8 fs g e | cs2 d4 |
+    e8( fs g4) fs | fs4 b( a) | a4( d) cs | b2. | a2. |
+    e4( d' cs) | b4 gs2 | a2 \bar "||" % printed ":|:"
+    a4 | d2.~ | d4 b( g) |
+    e4( e' d) | cs4( b a) | d2 d,4 | e4 fs2 | g2 a4 | b4 cs2 | d2. |
+    r4 r \times 2/3 {d8 cs b} | a4( d,) g | fs4 e2 | d2. 
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
+  
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_IV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_IV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..23c9b3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_IV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_IV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_IV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b577c79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_IV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_IX.ly b/25063-h/music/air_IX.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac91e0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_IX.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+ 
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR IX. O \italic {Jenny}, O \italic {Jenny}, where hast thou been.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    f4 | f4 d ef f2 d'4 | c2 bf4 g2 f4 | f4 d ef f2 d'4 | c2 bf4 c2. |
+    c4 d ef f( ef) d | ef4 d c a2 f4 | bf4 d2 g,2 c4 | f,4 a2 bf2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_IX.midi b/25063-h/music/air_IX.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c3bae2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_IX.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_IX.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_IX.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2591dcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_IX.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_L.ly b/25063-h/music/air_L.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eae4e1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_L.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR L. Come, sweet Lass.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    e2 b' | gs2. cs4 | b4 gs fs e | fs4 ds cs b | e2 b' | gs2. cs4 |
+    b4 e cs fs | ds1 \bar "||" ds2 fs | b,2. ds4 | e4 b b gs |
+    cs2. b4 | cs4 a a fs | ds4 fs b, b' | a4 gs fs e | e1 \bar "||"
+      % both printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_L.midi b/25063-h/music/air_L.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a489a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_L.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_L.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_L.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cdc32e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_L.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d3c70e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LI. The last time I went o’er the Moor.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    g4 | e4 d8( c) c'4. d8 | e4 d8( c) b4. g8 | a4. c8 a( g) e( g) |
+    a4. b8 c4 g | e4 d8( c) c'4. d8 | e4 d8( c) b4. g8 |
+    a8( b) c( d) e( d) c( b) | a4. b8 c4 d | b4 a8 g g4. e'8 |
+    d8( b) a( b) g4. e8 | g4. a8 g8( e) d( e) | g4. a8 c4 r8 g |
+    a8( g) a( c) a4 g8( e) | g8( e) g( a) c4. d8 |
+    e8( d) c( a) g( a) g( e) | d4. c8 c4 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 150 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c8467c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f301678
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b64e9ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LII. \italic {Tom Tinker’s} my true Love.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 d8 e fs d | g4 d d | b4 g g | g2 d4 | g8 a g a b c |
+    d4 d a | fs4 d d | d2. \bar ":|" a'4. b8 a g | fs4 d d |
+    % printed ":|:"
+    b'4. c8 b a | g4 e e | c'4. d8 c b |
+    a4 fs d' | b4 g g8 a | g2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { d4 d8 e fs d | g4 d d | b4 g g | g2 d4 | g8 a g a b c |
+    d4 d a | fs4 d d | d2. } a'4. b8 a g | fs4 d d |
+    b'4. c8 b a | g4 e e | c'4. d8 c b |
+    a4 fs d' | b4 g g8 a | g2. 
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69044d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..acceb30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4dfb744
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LIII. I am a poor Shepherd undone.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key d \minor
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    d8 | cs8. b16 a8 a b! cs! | d4. f, | g8 bf! a f e d |
+    d4.~ d4 \bar ":|" e8 | f8 e f g f g | a4. r8 r e |  % printed ":|:"
+    f8 e f g f g | a4. r8 r e | f8 e f g a bf | a4. d |
+    c8 bf a g f e | d4. r8 r d16 e | f4. a | f8 d4 r8 r e |
+    f8 e f g f g | a4. r8 r e | f8 e f g a bf | a4. d |
+    c8 bf a g f e | d4.~ d4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key d \minor
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 8
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { d8 | cs8. b16 a8 a b! cs! | d4. f, | g8 bf! a f e d |
+    d4.~ d4 } e8 | f8 e f g f g | a4. r8 r e |
+    f8 e f g f g | a4. r8 r e | f8 e f g a bf | a4. d |
+    c8 bf a g f e | d4. r8 r d16 e | f4. a | f8 d4 r8 r e |
+    f8 e f g f g | a4. r8 r e | f8 e f g a bf | a4. d |
+    c8 bf a g f e | d4.~ d4 
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 120 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fef92cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad5cca9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LIV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LIV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dfa74da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LIV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LIV. \italic {Ianthe} the lovely, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    fs8 fs | g4 fs8 e b'4 a8 b | c8 b a g fs4. g8 | a4 g8 fs g b e b |
+    g4 fs8 e e4. \bar "||" fs8 |  % printed e4 for e4. and  ":|:"
+    g4 g8 a b4 b8 c | d4 c8 b a4. d,8 | g4 g8 a b4 e8 d |
+    c8 b a g g4. b8 |
+    gs4 gs8 gs a4 a8 b | c8 b a g fs4 e'8 ds | e4 b8 a g4 a8 b |
+    c8 b a g fs4 b8 a | g4 fs8 e e4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 150 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LIV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LIV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22251f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LIV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LIV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LIV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8da74bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LIV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LIX.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LIX.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b944fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LIX.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LIX. \italic {Britons} strike home.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    c4 c d | e4. f8 g4 | c,4 d e | d4 e f | g4 f e | d2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 150 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LIX.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LIX.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e63e6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LIX.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LIX.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LIX.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b99458f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LIX.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b43649b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LV. A Cobler there was, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    g8 | d'8. ef16 d8 c bf a | bf8. a16 g8 fs4 fs8 |
+    g8. a16 g8 g8. a16 g8 | g8. fs16 g8 a4 \bar ":|" c16 bf |
+    % printed ":|:"
+    a8. g16 f8 f8. g16 f8 | f8. g16 f8 f'4 fs8 |
+    g8. d16 bf8 ef8. d16 c8 | d8 a bf c bf a | g4. d'4 c8 |
+    d8 a bf c bf a | g4.~ g4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 8
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { g8 | d'8. ef16 d8 c bf a | bf8. a16 g8 fs4 fs8 |
+    g8. a16 g8 g8. a16 g8 | g8. fs16 g8 a4 } c16 bf |
+    a8. g16 f8 f8. g16 f8 | f8. g16 f8 f'4 fs8 |
+    g8. d16 bf8 ef8. d16 c8 | d8 a bf c bf a | g4. d'4 c8 |
+    d8 a bf c bf a | g4.~ g4 
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 120 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d792c39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d7da0cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LVI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LVI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c357c5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LVI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LVI. Bonny \italic {Dundee}.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | d4 g g g2 bf4 | a4 g f a bf c | d2 d4 d2 g4 |
+    d4. c8 bf a g2 \bar ":|" e'4 |  % printed ":|:"
+    f4 a g f a g | f4 f, f a bf c |
+    d4 ef d d2 g4 | a4. g8 fs ef d2 e4 | f4 a g f a g |
+    f4 f, f a4. bf8 c4 | d2 d4 d2 g4 | d4. c8 bf a g2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { d4 | d4 g g g2 bf4 | a4 g f a bf c | d2 d4 d2 g4 |
+    d4. c8 bf a g2 } e'4 |
+    f4 a g f a g | f4 f, f a bf c |
+    d4 ef d d2 g4 | a4. g8 fs ef d2 e4 | f4 a g f a g |
+    f4 f, f a4. bf8 c4 | d2 d4 d2 g4 | d4. c8 bf a g2 
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LVI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LVI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d659850
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LVI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LVI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LVI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7308e5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LVI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LVII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LVII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1ecffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LVII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LVII. Happy Groves.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    d2 e4 d | d8 c b a g2 | b4 a c b | a8 g a b a2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LVII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LVII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7210db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LVII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LVII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LVII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2fd7e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LVII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LVIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LVIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a0f8183
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LVIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LVIII. Of all the Girls that are so smart.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4.
+    g16( f) e8 f | d4. e16( d) c8 d | b4. c16( b) a8 g |
+    f8 e d c c c' | c4. \bar ":|"  % printed "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 108 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LVIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LVIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce39bf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LVIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LVIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LVIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0782dd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LVIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LX.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LX.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..50fe878
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LX.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LX. Chevy Chase.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    d8 | c4 b8 a4 d,8 | fs4 g8 a4. | r8 r b c4 d8 | e4 d8 c4. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 150 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LX.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LX.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d591ec4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LX.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LX.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LX.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d0a7b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LX.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LXI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3c488a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LXI. To old Sir \italic {Simon} the King.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 9/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    g4 | a4. b8 c4 c4. d8 c4 c2 g4 | a4. b8 c4 c4. d8 e4 f2 f4 |
+    a,4 f f f2 g4 a b c | d2 c4 b2 a4 g2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LXI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b49b81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LXI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b23f814
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LXII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0eef1ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LXII. Joy to Great \italic {Cæsar}.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  {
+    \key d \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 d4. e8 | cs4 cs4. cs8 | d4 d4. d8 | e4 e2  \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 150 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LXII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dca0edf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LXII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..339b4a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LXIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9590ef7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LXIII. There was an old Woman.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a4 | b4. cs8 d4 cs4. b8 a4 | d4 cs b a fs a | e2.~ e2 a4 |
+    b4. cs8 d4 cs4. b8 a4 | d4. cs8 b4 a4 fs a | d,2.~ d2 \bar "||"
+      % printed without ties
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LXIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a254e10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LXIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a247af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXIV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LXIV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4b0dc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXIV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LXIV. Did you ever hear of a gallant Sailor.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/2
+    \clef treble \partial 2.
+    b4 c a | g2 a4 b c a | b2 c4 d e f | d2 b c4 a | g2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXIV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LXIV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0008271
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXIV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXIV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LXIV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e066be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXIV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LXV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6864da9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LXV. Why are mine Eyes still flowing.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    c4( e) f | d2 b4 | c8( b c e d c) | b2 b4 | c4 c8 b c g |
+    a4 b c | d4 c e | c2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 150 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LXV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..49aeb19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LXV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..369c590
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXVI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LXVI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d1b723
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXVI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LXVI. Green Sleeves.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    a4 | bf2 bf4 bf c d | c4 a f f g a | bf4 a g g a bf |
+    a2 d,4 d2 a'4 | bf2 bf4 bf c d | c4 a f f g a | bf4 a g a fs2 |
+    g2.~ g2 \bar "||" d'8 ef |  % printed g2~ g2
+    f2 f4 f ef d | c4 a f f2 fs'4 |
+    g4. a8 g4 bf4 a g | fs4 d d d2 e4 | f4 g f f ef d |
+    c4 a f f g a | bf4 a g a fs2 | g2.~ g2 \bar "||" % printed without tie
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 150 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXVI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LXVI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3357b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXVI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXVI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LXVI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c8f50a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXVI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXVII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LXVII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5648e0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXVII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LXVII. All you that must take a Leap, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key f \major
+    \time 3/2
+    \clef treble \partial 2
+    f2 | f2. g4 e2 | f1 f2 | c'2. d4 c2 | c,2. f'4 e2 | f2( e) d |
+    c2 bf4( a) g( f) | g2. f4 g2 | a1 f2 | f2. g4 e2 | f1 f2 |
+    c'2. d4 c2 | c,2. f'4 e2 | f2( e) d | c2 bf4( a) g( f) |
+    g2. f4 g2 | a1 c2 | c2. d4 b2 | c1 c2 | g'2. a4 g2 | g,1 b2 |
+    c2( b) a | g2 f4( e) d( c) | d2. c4 d2 | e1 f2 |
+    f2. g4 a( f )| bf2. c4 bf a | g2 a bf | c1 e2 | f2( e) d |
+    c2 bf4( a) g( f) | c2. d4 c2 | f1 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 2) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXVII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LXVII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38a0770
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXVII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXVII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LXVII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e63ad74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXVII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXVIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_LXVIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a63d93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXVIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR LXVIII. Lumps of Pudding, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    g8 a | bf4. a8 g4 g g' f | d4. c8 d4 g,2 a8 bf | a2 f4 a g' d |
+    c4. bf8 a g f2 f'8 g | a4. g8 f4 d g f | d4. c8 bf4 f'2 d4 |
+    c4 a fs g4. a8 bf c | d2 bf4 g2 \bar "||"  \break
+      bf8 ^\markup {\italic {vio}} a |
+    bf4 d g bf, d g | bf,4 d g g,2 a8 bf | a4 c f a, c f |
+    a,4 c f f,2 bf8 a | bf4 d g bf, d g | bf,4 d g fs2 d4 |
+    c4 a fs g4. a8 bf c | d2 bf4 g2 \bar "||"  \break
+      bf8 ^\markup {\italic {Song}} c |
+    d4 bf8( c d bf) d4 bf8( c d bf) | d4 bf8( c d bf) g2 bf4 |
+    c4 a8( bf c a) c4 a8( bf c a) | c4 a8( bf c a) f2 c'4 |
+    d4 bf8( c d bf) d4 bf8( c d c) | d4 bf8( c d c) f2 d4 |
+    c4 a fs g4. a8 bf c | d2 bf4 g2 \bar "||"  \break
+      d'4 ^\markup {\italic {vio}}  |  % markup "vio" missing
+    g8( fs g a) g4 g8( fs! g a) g4 | g8( fs g a) g4 g,2 c4 |
+    f8( e f g) f4 f8( e! f g) f4 | f8( e! f g) f4 f,2 d'4 |
+    g8( fs g a) g4 g8( fs! g a) g4 | % first g4 missing
+    g8( fs g a) g4 bf2 d,4 |
+    c4 a fs g4. a8 bf c | d2 bf4 g2 \bar "||"  \break
+      bf8 ^\markup {\italic {Song}} c |
+    d4 bf8( c d bf) d4 bf8( c d bf) | d4 bf8( c d bf) g2 bf4 |
+    c4 a8( bf c a) c4 a8( bf c a) | c4 a8( bf c a) f2 \bar "" \break
+      c'4 _\markup {\italic {Chorus}} |
+    d4 bf8( c d bf) d4 bf8( c d bf) | d4 bf8( c d bf) f'2 d4 |
+    c4 a fs g4. a8 bf c | d2 bf4 g2 \fermata \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXVIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_LXVIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..186a468
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXVIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_LXVIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_LXVIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6d4fc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_LXVIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_V.ly b/25063-h/music/air_V.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fa26fba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_V.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text {AIR V. Of all the simple Things we do, &c.} }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    c4 | c2 d4 e2 f4 | g2 a4 b a g | a4 b c d b g |
+    a4 c2~ c2 \bar ":|" b8 c |  % printed "||"
+    d4 b g c d e | a,2. f'2. | e4 d c b c d | g,2. g2 e'4 | f2 e4 d2 c4 |
+    b4 c d g,2 g4 | a4 b c d b g | a4 c2~ c \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  \unfoldRepeats
+  {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { c4 | c2 d4 e2 f4 | g2 a4 b a g | a4 b c d b g |
+    a4 c2~ c2 } b8 c |
+    d4 b g c d e | a,2. f'2. | e4 d c b c d | g,2. g2 e'4 | f2 e4 d2 c4 |
+    b4 c d g,2 g4 | a4 b c d b g | a4 c2~ c 
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 120 2) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_V.midi b/25063-h/music/air_V.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0de8821
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_V.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_V.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_V.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc0b18f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_V.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_VI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_VI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cab89d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_VI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+ 
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {"AIR VI. What shall I do to shew how much I love her, &c."}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  {
+    \key a \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble % \partial 4
+    c4 a b | gs4. b8 a4 | b16( c d8) c( b) c( a) | b2 e,4 | e'4 a, b |
+    c4 e, gs | a8 b b4. a8 | a2. \bar ":|" % printed ":|:"
+    g4 e g | c4 g a | e8 f g4 f8 e | d2 c4 | e4 a fs | g8 a b4 e,8 ds |
+    e8 fs fs4. e8 | e2. | a4 fs b | gs4 e c' | a4 d8 b c a | b2 e,4 |
+    b'8 c d4 c8 b | c8 d e4 a,8 gs | a8 b b4. a8 | a2.  \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+  {
+    \key a \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { c4 a b | gs4. b8 a4 | b16( c d8) c( b) c( a) | b2 e,4 | e'4 a, b |
+    c4 e, gs | a8 b b4. a8 | a2. }
+    g4 e g | c4 g a | e8 f g4 f8 e | d2 c4 | e4 a fs | g8 a b4 e,8 ds |
+    e8 fs fs4. e8 | e2. | a4 fs b | gs4 e c' | a4 d8 b c a | b2 e,4 |
+    b'8 c d4 c8 b | c8 d e4 a,8 gs | a8 b b4. a8 | a2.  \bar "||"
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_VI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_VI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a05c3f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_VI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_VI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_VI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c303c53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_VI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_VII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_VII.ly
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+    {AIR VII. Oh \italic {"London"} is a fine Town.}
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+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR VIII. Grim King of the Ghosts, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | g4 fs g | bf4 a g | a2 d,4 | bf'4 a d |
+    bf4. a8 g4 | g2 \bar ":|"  % printed as ":|:"
+    bf8 c | d4 d g, | ef'4 d c8 bf | c2 d8 c | bf4 a bf |
+    g4 c bf | a2 d,8 d | g4 fs g | bf4 a g | a2 d,4 |
+    bf'4 a d | bf4. a8 g4 | g2. \bar "||"
+  } 
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { d4 | g4 fs g | bf4 a g | a2 d,4 | bf'4 a d |
+    bf4. a8 g4 | g2 }
+    bf8 c | d4 d g, | ef'4 d c8 bf | c2 d8 c | bf4 a bf |
+    g4 c bf | a2 d,8 d | g4 fs g | bf4 a g | a2 d,4 |
+    bf'4 a d | bf4. a8 g4 | g2. \bar "||"
+  } 
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
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index 0000000..8f1dafa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_VIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_VIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_VIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2781108
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_VIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_X.ly b/25063-h/music/air_X.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e631a0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_X.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR X. \italic {Thomas}, I cannot, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+ \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | fs4 g a b2 a4 | d2 cs4 b2 a4 | g4( a fs) e2 d4 |
+    d4 d'2~ d2 \bar ":|" d4 |  % printed "||"
+    cs2 d4( e) d cs | d4( e cs) b2 a4 |
+    cs2 d4 e2 fs,4 | g4( a fs) e2 d4 | cs'2 d4( e d) cs |
+      % first (high) e2 printed e4
+    b4( cs a) cs2 d4 | a4 g fs e2 d4 | b'4 d a b d a |
+    a4 g fs e2 d4 | d'2.~ d2 \bar "||"  % printed d'2~ d2 \bar ":|:"
+    } 
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { d4 | fs4 g a b2 a4 | d2 cs4 b2 a4 | g4( a fs) e2 d4 |
+    d4 d'2~ d2 } d4 |
+    cs2 d4( e) d cs | d4( e cs) b2 a4 |
+    cs2 d4 e2 fs,4 | g4( a fs) e2 d4 | cs'2 d4( e d) cs |
+    b4( cs a) cs2 d4 | a4 g fs e2 d4 | b'4 d a b d a |
+    a4 g fs e2 d4 | d'2.~ d2 \bar "||"
+    } 
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_X.midi b/25063-h/music/air_X.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d882348
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_X.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_X.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_X.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd795bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_X.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ddac34a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XI. A Soldier and a Sailor.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key f \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a4 | a4 c( f) f( g) a | f2. c2 c4 | c4( f) a a bf c | a2. f2 g4 |
+    bf4 bf c c bf a | d2. d,2 e4 | f4( g) a a g( f) | c'2.~ c,2 d4 |
+      % misprint c'2~ c,2 d4 and others similar
+    e4( f) g e d c | c2.~ c2 d4 | e4( f) g g2 b4 | c2.~ c2 \bar "||" c4 |
+    g4 a g g2 a4 | bf2.~ bf2 c4 | d4( ef d) c2 bf4 | a2.~ a2 bf4 |
+    c4( d) c c bf a | g2. a4( bf) c | d4( c bf) a g f | e2. c2 c'4 |
+    d4( e f) e2 f4 | f2.~ f2 g,4 | a4( bf) c a2 g8 f | f2.~ f2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 240 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..832827f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a2ad1f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b100395
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XII. Now ponder well, ye Parents dear.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key f \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    g4 | a8 g f4. g8 | a8 g f4. a8 | bf8 d c4. a8 | g2 a4 |
+    bf8 d c4. bf8 | c8 a f4. c'8 | d8 f a,4 g | f2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 144 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4f6734
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..225e564
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..47605ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XIII. Le printems rapelle aux armes.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key f \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    f4 a g | c2 f4 | c2 bf4 | a4 g8 a f4 | bf4 c8 bf a bf | g8 f g2 |
+    f4 a bf | c2 f4 | c2 bf4 | a4 b c | d4 b2 | c2. \bar "||"
+      % printed ":|:"
+    g2 a4 | g8 f e d c4 | g'2 a4 | g8 f g2 | c2 d4 |
+    c4 bf8 a g f | g4 g2 | f2. \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..345f65f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8346425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XIV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XIV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07a8bfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XIV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XIV. Pretty Parrot, say—.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/2
+    \clef treble
+    g4 d d g bf2 | c8 bf a bf g4 bf d4. ef8 | d4 g8 d ef4 d c bf |
+    a2 g4 d' ef d | c2 bf r4 c |
+    d8( c) bf( a) bf( c) bf4 c8( bf) a( g) |
+    a8( bf a4) bf8( a) g( fs) g( a) g4 | r4 d'4 ef8( d) c( bf) f'4 f, |
+    bf2 bf d8( ef d ef) | f4 f f8( ef) d( c) bf2 |
+    bf8( c bf c) d4 d d8( c bf a) | g4 d' g, d' c8 bf a g |
+    g2.~ g2. \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XIV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XIV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89f3ce8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XIV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XIV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XIV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f78bc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XIV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XIX.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XIX.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ee1d16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XIX.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XIX. Fill every Glass, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    bf4 a g | f2 c'4 | f2 c4 | d4 a bf | c4 f, g |
+    a2 bf4 | c4 c,2 | f2. \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    f'4 e f | d2 c4 | f4 d2 | c2. | bf4 a g | f2 g4 |
+    a4 bf2 | c4. d8 c4 |
+    bf4 a g | f2 c'4 | f2 c4 |
+    d4 a bf | c4 f, g | a2 bf4 | c4 c,2 | f2. \bar "||"
+    } 
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 240 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XIX.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XIX.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bca2dbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XIX.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XIX.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XIX.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..618177d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XIX.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XL.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XL.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da32b4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XL.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XL. If Love’s a sweet Passion, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    b4 | a4. b8 g4 | a4 fs b | g4. fs8 g fs | e2 c'8 b | a4 a d |
+    b4 g b | b4. c8 a4 | b2 \bar "|" b8 a |  % printed as :|:
+    gs4 a b | c4 b e | e,4 fs g | fs2 b8 b | c4 b e |
+    e8( d) e( d) c( b) | c8 b a b a g | g2 b8^\segno c | a4 a a16( b c8) |
+    c4 b b16( cs d8) | d4 cs cs16( ds e8) | ds4. cs8 b4 |
+    e4 b8 c d4 | b4 g8 a b4 | g4. fs8 e4 | e2^\segno \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XL.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XL.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58df207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XL.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XL.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XL.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2cff3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XL.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XLI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b324eb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XLI. \italic{South-Sea} Ballad.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    g8 | g8 f g g f g | a8 f4~ f a8 |  % printed without tie 
+    g4 f8 e4 d8 | c4 c8 c4 e16 f | g4 g8 g f g | a8 f4~ f a8 |
+    g4 f8 e4 d8 | c4.~ c4 c'8 |  % printed without tie 
+    c4 c8 c b c | d8 g,4~ g d'8 | d4 d8 d c d |
+    e8 c4~ c \bar "|:" e8 | % added repeat
+    d4 c8 b4 a8 | g4 g8 g4 e16 f | g4 g8 g f g | a8 f4~ f \bar ":|" a8 |
+    g4 f8 e4 d8 | c4.~ c4 \bar "||" % added repeat
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 8
+    g8 | g8 f g g f g | a8 f4~ f a8 |  % printed without tie 
+    g4 f8 e4 d8 | c4 c8 c4 e16 f | g4 g8 g f g | a8 f4~ f a8 |
+    g4 f8 e4 d8 | c4.~ c4 c'8 | 
+    c4 c8 c b c | d8 g,4~ g d'8 | d4 d8 d c d |
+    e8 c4~ c
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { e8 |
+    d4 c8 b4 a8 | g4 g8 g4 e16 f | g4 g8 g f g | a8 f4~ f }
+    a8 |
+    g4 f8 e4 d8 | c4.~ c4 
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 120 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XLI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ce94e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XLI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8825d23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XLII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce152c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XLII. \italic{Packington’s} Pound.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | g4 fs g | a4 bf c | bf4 a g | a2 d,4 | bf'4 a bf | c4 c d |
+    bf4. a8 g4 | g2 \bar ":|" d'4 |  % printed ":|:"
+    d4 f e | d2 d4 | d4 f e | d2 d4 |
+    d4 f e | d4 e f | g4 f e | d2 f4 | d4 c bf | c4 a f | bf4 a g |
+    a2 d,4 | bf'4 a bf | c4 c d | bf4. a8 g4 | g2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { d4 | g4 fs g | a4 bf c | bf4 a g | a2 d,4 | bf'4 a bf | c4 c d |
+    bf4. a8 g4 | g2 } d'4 |
+    d4 f e | d2 d4 | d4 f e | d2 d4 |
+    d4 f e | d4 e f | g4 f e | d2 f4 | d4 c bf | c4 a f | bf4 a g |
+    a2 d,4 | bf'4 a bf | c4 c d | bf4. a8 g4 | g2
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XLII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..223f5af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XLII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80bf302
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XLIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cda43cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XLIII. Lillibullero.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    g4 | g4. a8 g4 b2 b4 | a4. b8 a4 c2. | b4 d g, c2 b4 |
+    a4 g fs g2 \bar ":|" fs'4 |  % printed ":|:"
+    g2 fs4 g2 d4 | d4 e f e2 d4 |
+    d4 e fs g d e | d4 c b a2 d4 | e4 d c b c d |
+    e4 d c b c d | e4 g g, c2 b4 | a4 g fs g2 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { g4 | g4. a8 g4 b2 b4 | a4. b8 a4 c2. | b4 d g, c2 b4 |
+    a4 g fs g2 } fs'4 |
+    g2 fs4 g2 d4 | d4 e f e2 d4 |
+    d4 e fs g d e | d4 c b a2 d4 | e4 d c b c d |
+    e4 d c b c d | e4 g g, c2 b4 | a4 g fs g2
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 240 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XLIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0147347
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XLIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c41d667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLIV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XLIV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2893c6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLIV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XLIV. Down in the North Country, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | a' 4 g8( fs) g( a) b4  | a2 d  | a4 g8( fs) b( a) g( fs) |
+    e2. a4 | g8( fs) e( d) fs( e) d( cs) | a8 cs d4 g2~ |
+    g2 r4. cs,8 | d4 e8( fs) g( fs) e( d) | d2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLIV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XLIV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c48d9a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLIV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLIV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XLIV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e46f51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLIV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLIX.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XLIX.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8002096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLIX.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XLIX. Would Fate to me \italic {Belinda} give.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 g a | b2 g4 | b4 c2 | d2. | d4 g d | e2 d4 | e8 d c4 b |
+    a2. \bar "||" b4( e) d | e8( d) c4 b | a8 b c b a g | c2. |
+    b4( e) d | e8( d) c4 b | a4 c b | c8 b a4 g | d'4( g) fs |
+    e8( d) c4 b | a8 b c b a g | g2.  \bar "||"
+      % both bars printed as repeats
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLIX.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XLIX.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..895c7de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLIX.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLIX.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XLIX.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3aba85f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLIX.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XLV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..329fd92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XLV. A Shepherd kept Sheep, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key d \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a8 a | a4 c a a c a | a4 c a c2. | a4 d d d2 c4 |
+    a4. bf8 a g f4 d a' | a4 c a c d e | f4 e d c2 d8 e |
+    f4 e d c a c | f,4 g a d2. | a4. bf8 a g f4 d2 | g4. a8 g f d4 c2 |
+    f4 d d f g a | d2 a4 f d2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XLV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d9c9423
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XLV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5580e31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLVI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XLVI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4cc2d91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLVI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XLVI. One Evening, having lost my Way, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    d8 | g4 a8 b a g | d'4 d8 d4 g8 | fs4 e8 d4 c8 | b8 a b g4 d8 |
+    g4 a8 b a g | d'4 d8 d4 g8 | fs8 e d e4. | d4.~ d4 \bar "||" d8 |
+      % printed ":|:"
+    d8 b c d e d | d8 c b c4 c8 | c8 a b c d c | c8 b a b4 d8 |
+    g4 d8 g4 d8 | g4.~ g8 fs e | d8 c b a4. | g4.~ g4   \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 150 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLVI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XLVI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6392bc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLVI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLVI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XLVI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..662a0e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLVI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLVII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XLVII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a804fad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLVII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XLVII. Now \italic {Roger}, I’ll tell thee because thou ’rt my Son.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a4 | bf4 a g bf c d | c4 bf a c d c | bf4 a g g bf c |
+    d2.~ d2 \bar "||" d4 | ef4 d ef f ef d | c4 bf c d2 bf8 c |
+    d4. ef8 d4 c a d | g,2. a | bf2.~ bf2 bf8 c | d4. ef8 d4 c a d |
+    g,2.~ g2 \bar "||"  % printed ":|:" and ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLVII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XLVII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63ef51d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLVII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLVII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XLVII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..833f9b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLVII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLVIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XLVIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eba6b09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLVIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XLVIII. O \italic {Bessy Bell}.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 8
+    d8 | fs8 g a a b c | b8 a b g4 g8 | fs8 g a a b a | fs'4. g4 fs16 g |
+    a8 a, a a b c | b8 a g g'4 fs16 g | a8 g fs e d cs! |
+    d4. fs4 \bar "||" fs16 g | a8 fs d fs a fs | e8 cs e g4 fs16 g |
+    a8 fs d fs a d, | fs4. g4 fs16 g | a8 fs d fs a fs |
+    e8 cs e g4 fs16 g | a8 g fs e d cs | d4. fs4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 120 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLVIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XLVIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2a8a7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLVIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XLVIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XLVIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cfdfba0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XLVIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a083c51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XV. Pray, Fair one, be kind—.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 8
+    f8 | bf,8 c bf bf4 bf8 | c8 d c c4 c8 | d8 ef f a, bf g |
+    a8 f4~ f \bar "||" a8 |  % printed ":|:"
+    bf8 c d g,4 g8 | c8 d ef a,4 a8 |
+    d8 ef f bf,4 d8 | ef8 f g f4. | r8 r ef d c bf |
+    f8 bf c d bf4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 120 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..138dee5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e407309
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XVI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XVI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..52ae4fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XVI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XVI. Over the Hills and far away.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key bf \major  % what key?
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    bf8 c d c bf8 c d c | bf4 g g4. f8 | bf8 c d c bf8 c d bf |
+    ef4 c c4. f,8 | bf8 c ef c bf8 c d c | bf4 g ef'4. g,8 |
+    g4 f8 ef f4 d' | ef4 c c2 \bar ":|"  % printed ":|:"
+    f4. d8 d4 c | bf4 g g2 | f'4. ef8 d4 c8 bf | ef4 c c2 |
+    f4. ef8 d4 c | bf4 g ef'4. g,8 | g4 f8 ef f4 d' | ef4 c c2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { bf8 c d c bf8 c d c | bf4 g g4. f8 | bf8 c d c bf8 c d bf |
+    ef4 c c4. f,8 | bf8 c ef c bf8 c d c | bf4 g ef'4. g,8 |
+    g4 f8 ef f4 d' | ef4 c c2 }
+    f4. d8 d4 c | bf4 g g2 | f'4. ef8 d4 c8 bf | ef4 c c2 |
+    f4. ef8 d4 c | bf4 g ef'4. g,8 | g4 f8 ef f4 d' | ef4 c c2 |
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 144 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XVI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XVI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9beacb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XVI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XVI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XVI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e343f51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XVI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XVII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XVII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c8d18f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XVII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XVII. Gin thou wert mine awn thing—}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4. g8 g4. b8 | a4 g8 fs e2 | g8 fs e d g8 a b4 |
+    c8 b a g b8 c d4 | d,4. g8 g4. b8 | a4 g8 fs e2 |
+    d'8( e )d b c8( b a g) | g4. a8 b2 \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    d4 d, d4. b'8 | a4 g8 fs e4. fs8 | d4 d' d4. e8 |
+    d8( e d c) b4 b8 b | c8 d e d b8 c d c | a8 b c a d,4. e'8 |
+    d8( e d b) c8( b a) g | g4. a8 b2 \bar "||"  % printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 160 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XVII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XVII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ecce6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XVII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XVII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XVII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d0f511
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XVII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XVIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XVIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3065722
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XVIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XVIII. O the Broom, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    ef8 | ef4. g8 bf4. c8 | bf8( g) f g ef4 ef'8( bf) |
+    c4 ef8.( f16) ef16( f g8) f8. ef16 | c2. ef4 |
+    bf8.( c16) ef8.( f16) g4 g16( f) ef8 |
+    ef4 ef,8. f16 g4 g16 f( ef8) |
+    a4 bf8.( c16) bf8.( c16) bf8.( g16) | f2.. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 120 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XVIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XVIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76179a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XVIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XVIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XVIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..650ce3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XVIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XX.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XX.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..830a5f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XX.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+
+% alternative XXa.ly with realized trills
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XX. March in \italic {Rinaldo}, with Drums and Trumpets.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key bf \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d8 ef | f2 f | f2. bf8 c | d8 c d ef d4 d | d2 f |
+    d8 c d ef d4 d | d2 f4. ef8 |
+    ef4 c8 d ef8 d c bf | c2. \bar "||" a8 bf |  % printed ":|:"
+    c2 c | c2.\trill f4 | f,8 g a bf c4 d | ef2 f4. ef8 |
+    d4 c8 d ef d c bf | c4 f, f'4. ef8 |
+    d8 c bf c c4.\trill bf8 | bf2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XX.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XX.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f1a6405
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XX.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XX.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XX.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..888e387
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XX.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f76ab61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXI. Would you have a young Virgin, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    fs8 g | a4. b8 a4 a4. b8 a4 | d2 a4 a2 fs8 g |
+    a4. b8 a4 a4. b8 a4 | e'2 a,4 a2 fs8 g | a4. b8 a4 a4. b8 a4 |
+    d2 a4 e'2 a,4 | fs'4. e8 d4 a4. d8 cs4 | d2 d,4 d2. \bar "||"
+    fs'4. e8 d4 fs4. e8 d4 | e2 a,4 a2. | fs'4. e8 d4 fs4. e8 d4 |
+    g2 e4 e2. | fs4. e8 d4 fs4. e8 d4 | g4. fs8 e4 g4. fs8 e4 |
+    fs4. e8 d4 a4. d8 cs4 | d2 d,4 d2. \bar "||"
+      % both printed ":|:"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d42d722
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf43e60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84ef60b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXII. Cotillon.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    g4 c b c | d8 c d e d2 | g,4 c b c8 d | d2 c\fermata \bar ":|"
+      % printed ":|:"
+    e4 d8 c d2 | e4 d8 c d2 | e4 d8 e f e d e |
+    f8 e d c d2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key c \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { g4 c b c | d8 c d e d2 | g,4 c b c8 d | d2 c\fermata }
+    e4 d8 c d2 | e4 d8 c d2 | e4 d8 e f e d e |
+    f8 e d c d2 |
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c8bd29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28af96c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a881a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXIII. All in a misty Morning, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key d \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    fs8 g | a4 a a a | a2 a4 g8 a | b4 a g a | b2 b4 cs8 d |
+    cs4 a a a | a2 a 4a | g4 e e fs | g2. a8 g | fs4 d d e |
+    fs4 g a g8 fs | e4 d cs d | e2. fs8 g | fs4 d d e |
+    fs4 g a g8 fs | b4 a gs2 | a2. \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4b3b0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b2c5d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXIV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXIV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48c0106
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXIV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXIV. When first I laid Siege to my \italic {Chloris}, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    e8 e | a4. b8 a4 b4. cs8 b4 | cs4 a2~ a \bar ":|" cs4 |
+      % printed ":|:"
+    d4. e8 d4 cs4. d8 cs4 | b4. cs8 b4 gs4. fs8 e4 |
+    a4. b8 a4 b4. cs8 b4 | cs4 a2~ a2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { e8 e | a4. b8 a4 b4. cs8 b4 | cs4 a2~ a } cs4 |
+    d4. e8 d4 cs4. d8 cs4 | b4. cs8 b4 gs4. fs8 e4 |
+    a4. b8 a4 b4. cs8 b4 | cs4 a2~ a2 
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXIV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXIV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55b4222
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXIV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXIV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXIV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b1eff7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXIV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXIX.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXIX.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82446a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXIX.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXIX. How happy are we, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    e8 e | a4 cs8 b a4 a8 gs | fs4 gs8 a b4 b8 cs |
+    d8 cs b a gs4 gs8 a | b2. \bar "||" b8 b |  % printed ":|:"
+    b8 e e d cs4 cs8 b | a8 gs fs16 gs b8 gs4 e8 d |
+    cs4 fs8 d e4 b'8 gs | b2.  \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXIX.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXIX.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1ffabe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXIX.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXIX.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXIX.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db6c83f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXIX.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXV.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXV.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3c5ffa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXV.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXV. Courtiers, Courtiers, think it no Harm, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    g2 e4 g2 a4 | b4. c8 b4 e,2 fs4 | g4. a8 b4 e2 b4 |
+    g2 %{ printed g4 %} fs8 e e2 \bar ":|" e'8 fs |  % printed "||"
+    g4. fs8 e4 ds2 e4 | e2 e,4 e2 fs4 | g4. a8 b4 d2 b4 |
+    d2 b4 a2 fs4 | g4. a8 b4 e2 b4 | g2 fs8 e e2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2 {
+    r4 | g2 e4 g2 a4 | b4. c8 b4 e,2 fs4 | g4. a8 b4 e2 b4 |
+    g2 fs8 e e2 } e'8 fs |
+    g4. fs8 e4 ds2 e4 | e2 e,4 e2 fs4 | g4. a8 b4 d2 b4 |
+    d2 b4 a2 fs4 | g4. a8 b4 e2 b4 | g2 fs8 e e2
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 240 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXV.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXV.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0428fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXV.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXV.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXV.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2da581
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXV.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXVI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXVI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d06bdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXVI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXVI. A lovely Lass to a Friar came, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a8 b | c4 c8 b a4 g | a4 fs g a8 b | c4 c8 b a4 g |
+    a2 g4 \bar ":|" g |  % printed ":|:"
+    g4 d'8 d d4 d | e4 d d d | e4 d c b | b2 a4 b8 c | d2 g, |
+    a8 g a8 b g4 a8 b | c4 b a g | a2 g4 \bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { a8 b | c4 c8 b a4 g | a4 fs g a8 b | c4 c8 b a4 g |
+    a2 g4 } g |
+    g4 d'8 d d4 d | e4 d d d | e4 d c b | b2 a4 b8 c | d2 g, |
+    a8 g a b g4 a8 b | c4 b a g | a2 g4 
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXVI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXVI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c52823
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXVI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXVI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXVI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b07af9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXVI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXVII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXVII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..addb2a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXVII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXVII. ’Twas when the Sea was roaring, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key e \minor
+    \time 6/8
+    \clef treble \partial 8
+    b8 | b8 a g g fs e | b8 a b r r b | e8 fs g fs g e | b'4.~ b4 b8 |
+    c16( d e 8) d c16 b a8 g | fs16( e) d4 r8 r d' | b8 a g d g fs |
+    g4.~ g4 \bar "||" b8 | b16 c d8 d, g fs e | a8 fs4 r8 r b |
+    c8 b c a g a | fs4.~ fs4 ds'8 | e8 d e c b c | a4.~ a4 c8 |
+    b8 a g g fs e | e4.~ e4 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 120 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXVII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXVII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fbb6f76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXVII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXVII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXVII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0ac848
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXVII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXVIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXVIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf623a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXVIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXVIII. The Sun had loos’d his weary Teams, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+    {
+    \new Staff
+    \relative c''
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    a4 | a2 e'4 e fs e | d2 cs4 b cs d | e2 a,4 a2 b4 |
+    cs2. e2 \bar ":|:" e4 |  % printed "||"
+    cs2 b4 a b cs | b2 gs4 e2 e4 | e2 a4 a2 b4 |
+    cs2. e2 \bar ":|"  % printed "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+    {
+    \new Staff
+    \relative c''
+    \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key a \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { a4 | a2 e'4 e fs e | d2 cs4 b cs d | e2 a,4 a2 b4 |
+    cs2. e2 }
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { e4 |
+    cs2 b4 a b cs | b2 gs4 e2 e4 | e2 a4 a2 b4 |
+    cs2. e2 }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXVIII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXVIII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a4cc76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXVIII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXVIII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXVIII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9cef5e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXVIII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXX.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXX.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8f7574
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXX.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXX. Of a noble Race was \italic {Shenkin}.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key a \minor
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    b4 | c4 b8 a gs a b gs | a4 a,2 ^\markup {\italic {vio}} b'4 |
+    c4 b8 a g a b g |
+    a2. \bar ":|" b8 ^\markup {\italic {Song}} b | c4 c8 c g4 g |
+      % printed ":|:"
+    c4 c2. | c,4 ^\markup {\italic {vio}} c b b |
+    a4 a gs b' ^\markup {\italic {Song}} | c4 c b b |
+    a8 c b a gs4 f8 e | f4 d e gs |
+    a4 a2 \bar "||"
+    % second "Song" markup moved back from c to b
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key a \minor
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble
+    \partial 4
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { b4 | c4 b8 a gs a b gs | a4 a,2 b'4 |
+    c4 b8 a g a b g |
+    a2. } b8 b | c4 c8 c g4 g |
+    c4 c2. | c,4 c b b |
+    a4 a gs b' | c4 c b b |
+    a8 c b a gs4 f8 e | f4 d e gs |
+    a4 a2
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXX.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXX.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61cff84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXX.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXX.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXX.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d0730c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXX.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXXI.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXXI.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..224a3e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXXI.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXXI.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key a \minor
+    \time 4/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    e4 | a4 b c b8 a | gs4 a e2 | r4 e c' c | e4 d c2 \bar "||"
+    r4 c b c | d4 b e a, | gs4 e gs a | b4 c a2 | a2 c |
+    gs4 e a2 \bar "||"  % bars printed ":|:" and ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 180 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXXI.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXXI.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91ea9c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXXI.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXXI.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXXI.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38c533a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXXI.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXXII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXXII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b41dd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXXII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXXII. \italic {London} Ladies.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c'
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 6/4
+    \clef treble \partial 4
+    d4 | g4 a b c b a | b4 a g d'2 b4 | c4 d e d c b |
+    a2. a2 d,4 | g4 a b c b a | b4 a g g'2 fs4 | e4 fs d cs d e |
+    e2. d2 d4 | d4 e fs g2 fs4 | e4 d c b2 fs'4 |
+    g4 fs e ds e fs | fs2. e2 d4 | d4 e fs g d e |
+    d4 c b a2 g4 | g4 b c d b e | a,2. g2 \bar "||"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  \midi
+    { \context
+       { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 210 4) } 
+    }
+  } 
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXXII.midi b/25063-h/music/air_XXXII.midi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e977be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXXII.midi
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXXII.pdf b/25063-h/music/air_XXXII.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cfc1ea0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXXII.pdf
diff --git a/25063-h/music/air_XXXIII.ly b/25063-h/music/air_XXXIII.ly
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf39bf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/25063-h/music/air_XXXIII.ly
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+\version "2.10.25" 
+\include "english.ly"
+
+\header
+  {title = \markup \smaller \normal-text
+    {AIR XXXIII. All in the Downs, &c.}
+  }
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    d4 g, g | b2 g4 | a4 b8 c d b | e2 d4 | d4 c8 b a g | c2 e,4 |
+    fs8 g g2 | a2. \bar ":|" d4 fs,( g) |  % printed ":|:"
+    a4( b) c | a4( d) fs, | g4 a2 | b2. |
+    e4 c a | d4 g, fs | e2 c'4 | b8 a a2 | g2.\bar "||"  % printed ":|"
+    }
+  \layout
+    { \context
+      { \Score
+        \remove Bar_number_engraver
+       }
+    }
+  } 
+
+\score
+  {
+  \new Staff
+  \relative c''
+  \unfoldRepeats
+    {
+    \key g \major
+    \time 3/4
+    \clef treble
+    \repeat volta 2
+    { d4 g, g | b2 g4 | a4 b8 c d b | e2 d4 | d4 c8 b a g | c2 e,4 |
+    fs8 g g2 | a2. } d4 fs,( g) |
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Beggar's Opera
+       to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song
+
+Author: John Gay
+
+Editor: Claud Lovat Fraser
+
+Release Date: April 13, 2008 [EBook #25063]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEGGAR'S OPERA ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Louise Hope
+
+
+
+
+
+[Transcriber's Note:
+
+This e-text is based on the same printed edition as Project Gutenberg
+e-text 2421. Readers who prefer a "cleaner", less cluttered-looking text
+file may choose to use that version instead.
+
+The "music" directory associated with the html version of this text
+includes pdf and midi (sound) files for all Airs. More information is
+at the end of this e-text.]
+
+
+
+
+THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+  The
+  BEGGAR'S
+  OPERA.
+
+
+  WRITTEN by Mr. _GAY_.
+
+
+  To which is Prefixed the
+  MUSICK to each SONG.
+
+  [Decoration]
+
+  _Nos haec novimus esse nihil._ --MART.
+
+
+  LONDON:
+  William Heinemann
+  1921
+
+
+
+
+_To J. G. and to G. L. F., without whom I should have been powerless,
+do I dedicate my share in this book. C. L. F._
+
+
+_Note.-- The Text here given is taken from the edition of 1765. The
+scenes have been re-numbered in the modern method denoting actual
+changes of place or intervals of time._
+
+
+_First published September 1921_
+
+_New Impression October 1921_
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF THE PLATES
+
+     I. THE BEGGAR                      Frontispiece
+    II. MRS. PEACHUM                 To face page  6
+   III. POLLY PEACHUM                     "       18
+    IV. SCENE: A TAVERN NEAR NEWGATE      "       28
+     V. CAPTAIN MACHEATH                  "       40
+    VI. LUCY LOCKIT                       "       56
+   VII. PEACHUM                           "       70
+  VIII. LOCKIT                            "       82
+
+
+
+
+CLAUD LOVAT FRASER
+
+  That when I die this word may stand for me--
+  He had a heart to praise, an eye to see,
+  And beauty was his king.
+
+
+Dead at the age of thirty-one after a sudden operation, Claud Lovat
+Fraser was as surely a victim of the war as though he had fallen in
+action. He was full of vigour for his work, but shell-shock had left him
+with a heart that could not stand a strain of this kind, and all his own
+fine courage could not help the surgeons in a losing fight. We are not
+sorry for him--we learn that, not to be sorry for the dead. But for
+ourselves? This terror is always so fresh, so unexampled. I had
+telephoned to him to ask whether he would help me in a certain
+theatrical enterprise. I was told by his servant that he was ill, but
+one hears these things so often that one gave but little thought to it
+beyond sending a telegram asking for news; and now this. Personal griefs
+are of no public interest, but here is as sad a public loss as has
+befallen us, if the world can measure truly, in our generation.
+
+But it is not, I think, of our loss that we should speak now. These
+desolations, strangely, have a way of bringing their own fortitude.
+A few hours after hearing, without any warning, of Lovat Fraser's death,
+I was walking among the English landscape that he loved so well, and I
+felt there how poor and inadequate a thing death really was, how little
+to be feared. This apparent intention to destroy a life and genius so
+young, so admirable, and so rich in promise, seemed, for all the hurt,
+in some way wholly to have failed. We all knew that, given health, the
+next ten years would show a splendid volume of work from the new power
+and understanding to which he had been coming in these later days. But
+just as it seems to me not the occasion to lament our own loss, so does
+it seem idle to speculate with regret upon what art may have lost by
+this sudden stroke. It is, rather, well to be glad that so few years
+have borne so abundantly. Not only is the work that Lovat Fraser has
+left full in volume, it is decisive in character beyond all likelihood
+in one of his years. Greatly as he would have added to our delight, and
+wider as his influence would have grown, nothing he might have done
+could have added to our knowledge of the kind of distinction that was
+his and that will always mark his fame.
+
+The man himself had a charm of unusual definition. One might go to his
+studio at five o'clock and find him lumbering with his great frame among
+a chaos of the rare and curious books that he loved, stacked pell-mell
+on to the shelves, littered on tables and the floor, his clothes and
+face and fingers streaked with paint. And then an hour or two later he
+would come dressed ready for the theatre, an immaculate beau of the
+'fifties, his top coat with waist and skirts, his opera hat made to
+special order by a Bond Street expert on an 1850 last. And then, before
+setting off, he would talk of some fellow-artist who was a little down
+and out, and wonder whether some of his drawings might not be bought at
+a few guineas apiece. Then to book, as it were, such an order gave salt
+to his evening, and if the evening meant contact with some of his own
+exquisite work, a word of admiration was taken with that wistful
+gratitude that it is now almost unbearable to remember.
+
+The theatre is a complex, co-operative affair, and it is idle to inquire
+who gives more than another to it. But on one side of its effort nobody
+in these later years has fought for light and beauty more surely and
+courageously than Claud Lovat Fraser. Like every fine artist, he was
+sometimes a little puzzled, a little hurt, that the critics could not
+see the clear motives inspiring his work. But the purpose never
+faltered. _As You Like It_, _The Beggar's Opera_, _If_, the exquisite
+designs for Madame Karsavina's later ballets--these made it plain enough
+that a new genius of extraordinary power and fertility was at work on
+the stage. With a knowledge of tradition that combined the widest
+learning with profound intuition, Lovat Fraser in his design touched the
+life of five hundred years with the English spirit of our own time, with
+a certainty that every one of his colleagues, I know, will be proud to
+allow was beyond them all. The fertility of which I speak was perhaps
+his peculiar distinction, and it had no touch of common facility. He
+could not draw a line that was not hard with thought and rooted in
+imaginative decision. But he could invent with immense rapidity. It was
+the old, though rare, story. Alike in his theatre design and his tender
+landscape, beauty of spirit flowed in everything he did into beauty of
+execution. He was a man in whose presence everything mean or slipshod
+withered.
+
+But perhaps it is most fitting at this time that we should think of our
+dead friend in yet another way. We are governed by two influences, our
+own character, and example. For each man his own character is for his
+meditation apart, but of example we may sometimes speak together in the
+open with profit. Those of us who live always striving towards creative
+effort believe passionately that the thing towards which we aim makes
+for all that is most chivalrous and most intelligent in life, that it is
+indeed the one true honesty in the world. And yet we know how easily
+that effort is beset by fears and jealousies and failure in generosity,
+how lightly we who should together give all our energy to the service of
+our art, waste it in little concerns of spite and self-interest. And it
+is in just such ways as this that great example may serve us nobly, and
+there has surely never lived an artist in whom such example more clearly
+shone. Art, which for him embraced and crystallised all that was brave
+and adventurous and tender, was the worship of Lovat Fraser's life,
+a worship which he kept with an absolute loyalty.
+
+It is my privilege to know most of the best artists, in all kinds, of my
+age. One has this distinction, another that. But I think that he had the
+loveliest of them all. I have known nobody who brought to his art a
+devotion so pure and utterly removed from self-interest. If he could
+serve the beauty that he loved, he was eager always to do so with
+perfect indifference to his own reward. Nobody could be with him for ten
+minutes without feeling that art was a thing far greater than any
+artist. He had the lovely, humorous humility that is the one sure sign
+of greatness. One felt always that if he should think that another might
+do given work better than he, there could be for him nothing but
+distress if the best was not done, even though it meant the loss of
+personal opportunity. But it is one of the happy things of genius that
+this exquisite humility can only live with great creative gifts, so that
+Lovat Fraser knew from day to day the supreme joy of mastery. The
+humility, however, is our example, and the thought that seems most
+worthy to-day is that he stands at this moment, for all he was younger
+than most of us, as a challenging leader to us all. It will, I think,
+always be impossible to remember him without feeling that anything mean
+or grudging in the spirit in which we do our work is a betrayal and an
+intolerable thing. With all his gaiety, his fun, his simplicities, and
+his powers, he showed us not only what a fine artist can do but what a
+fine artist can be. And under his leadership at this moment may we not
+go back to our work in the world with renewed courage and faith,
+
+  "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."
+
+For his fame none of us have any fear. There is in his public
+achievement and his portfolios a solid body of work that more and more
+must establish itself. However futile prophecy in these things must be,
+one is confident that a hundred years hence his name will be highly
+honoured among the little band who helped to bring back some life and
+truth to the English theatre of this age. He would wish for nothing
+better than that. And idle though it is to ask what his death, at little
+more than youth, may mean in the way of loss to the art that he lived
+for, his friends know that as dear a life as any of our time has gone
+suddenly, inexplicably, taking with it the tenderest love of every one
+who knew him. And he leaves with us an example without any stain.
+
+JOHN DRINKWATER.
+
+_London_,
+
+_Midsummer 1921_.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
+
+NOTE ON THE SCENE AND COSTUMES AT THE LYRIC THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH
+
+
+Superficially the task of staging _The Beggar's Opera_ was one of
+supreme ease. Indeed, so easy was it that it became a matter of some
+embarrassment to prune and select the required amount of data. Here was
+Hogarth and his actual scene of Newgate with Macheath in chains; here
+was Laroon's _Cries of London_ falling, in its edition of 1733, pat into
+the period; here was the National Portrait Gallery and, added to these,
+here was the benefit of all Mr. Charles E. Pearce's research.[1] After a
+month or two of work in designing, the ease became so marked and
+apparent that it engendered in me the beginnings of mistrust. Still,
+I persevered in scene and costume with historically accurate
+reproduction and, until three weeks before the actual work was due to be
+carried out at the costumier's and in the painting shops, I felt
+comparatively cheerful. Then I reviewed my forces--the little scale
+models of the scenes, the characters in painted cardboard--all exact and
+accurate. Something was wrong and the result was, I confess, appalling.
+I had not made allowances either for my theatre or for my audience.
+I had forgotten that it required a spacious Georgian theatre, the
+intimacy of the side-boxes, the great personages sitting on the stage.
+The Duke of Bolton, Major Pauncefoot and Sir Robert Fagg were not in
+their places as in Hogarth's painting; the pit would not be filled with
+tye-wigs and hoops and there would be a sharper line of division between
+the actors and the spectators than ever existed in 1728. Something else
+had to be done. As reproduction was a failure one would try to give an
+impression of the same thing. Impressionism proved even worse than
+accuracy. It was neither one thing nor the other. It merged into "making
+a picture of it"--a crime that is without parallel in the staging of a
+play. To make a pretty picture at the expense of drama is merely to
+pander to the voracity of the costumier and scene-painter.
+
+    [Footnote 1: _Polly Peachum and The Beggar's Opera_, by
+    Charles E. Pearce. Messrs. Stanley Paul & Company, 1913.]
+
+What was then to be done? Added to all these objections was the
+important fact that I had designed scenes that would have seriously
+hampered the resources at Hammersmith. The theatre would have required
+more space for storage than could possibly have been given and, in
+addition, an army of stage hands would be wanted for whom there was not
+in this little theatre the accommodation.
+
+The solution was, of course, to forget one's past work, to scrap the
+models, and to start feverishly afresh. The only method left untried was
+the symbolic. That is to say, to hint at the eighteenth century and to
+suggest that through the doors on the stage existed the London of 1728.
+The scene demanded to be simple and one which, with slight modifications
+in doors and windows, remained before the audience for the whole action
+of the play. It was, therefore, to be a scene of which people did not
+easily tire and that remained interesting, unobtrusive and formally
+neat. To find such a scene it is necessary to refer back to days when
+the Comic and the Tragic scenes were architectural and permanent. This I
+did and, taking Palladio's magnificent scene at Vicenza, by a shameless
+process of _reductio ad absurdum_, evolved the scene that is now in use
+at Hammersmith. Palladio and Gay have much to forgive.
+
+So far the scene, but it called for a corresponding treatment in the
+dresses. In _The Beggar's Opera_ no one is in the height of fashion.
+Macheath and certain Ladies of the Town alone "keep Company with
+Lords and Gentlemen," and even then there must have been apparent a
+distinction. Macheath is unaltered. Here it was essential to keep to
+tradition. Macheath in a blue coat is unthinkable. The rest of the
+characters are frankly in the neighbourhood of Newgate. The clothes
+of Peachum and Lockit would be as equally unfashionable and just as
+possible thirty years before as thirty years after 1728, whilst the
+footpads are clad in whatever Georgian rags that happened to come their
+way. With the women I have taken greater licence. I have kept faithfully
+to the outlines of the age, the close-fitting bodice, the flat hoops,
+the square-toed shoes, but I have taken considerable liberties in the
+manner in which I have shorn them of ribbons and laces and--for the sake
+of dramatic simplicity, be it remembered--I have eliminated yards of
+trimming.
+
+Just so much explanation is, I consider, due to the public, but whether
+I have been justified by results or whether, under the sacred mask of
+Drama, I have erred unpardonably, are points which, so long as this
+revival draws attention to a forgotten masterpiece, can be of no very
+great importance.
+
+C. LOVAT FRASER.
+
+_Chelsea_,
+
+_February 1921_.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
+
+
+MEN.
+
+  MR. PEACHUM
+  LOCKIT
+  MACHEATH
+  FILCH
+  JEMMY TWITCHER      }
+  CROOK-FINGER'D JACK }
+  WAT DREARY          }
+  ROBIN OF BAGSHOT    } _Macheath's_ Gang.
+  NIMMING NED         }
+  HARRY PADDINGTON    }
+  MAT OF THE MINT     }
+  BEN BUDGE           }
+  BEGGAR
+  PLAYER
+
+
+WOMEN.
+
+  MRS. PEACHUM
+  POLLY PEACHUM
+  LUCY LOCKIT
+  DIANA TRAPES
+  MRS. COAXER    }
+  DOLLY TRULL    }
+  MRS. VIXEN     }
+  BETTY DOXY     } _Women of the Town_.
+  JENNY DIVER    }
+  MRS. SLAMMEKIN }
+  SUKY TAWDRY    }
+  MOLLY BRAZEN   }
+
+
+Constables, Drawers, Turnkey, etc.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+BEGGAR, PLAYER.
+
+Beggar.
+
+If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure no-body can dispute mine.
+I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly
+Festivals at _St. Giles's_. I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches,
+and am welcome to a Dinner there whenever I please, which is more than
+most Poets can say.
+
+_Player._ As we live by the Muses, it is but Gratitude in us to
+encourage Poetical Merit wherever we find it. The Muses, contrary to all
+other Ladies, pay no Distinction to Dress, and never partially mistake
+the Pertness of Embroidery for Wit, nor the Modesty of Want for Dulness.
+Be the Author who he will, we push his Play as far as it will go. So
+(though you are in Want) I wish you success heartily.
+
+_Beggar._ This piece I own was originally writ for the celebrating the
+Marriage of _James Chaunter_ and _Moll Lay_, two most excellent
+Ballad-Singers. I have introduced the Similes that are in all your
+celebrated _Operas_: The _Swallow_, the _Moth_, the _Bee_, the _Ship_,
+the _Flower_, &c. Besides, I have a Prison-Scene, which the Ladies
+always reckon charmingly pathetic. As to the Parts, I have observed such
+a nice Impartiality to our two Ladies, that it is impossible for either
+of them to take Offence. I hope I may be forgiven, that I have not made
+my Opera throughout unnatural, like those in vogue; for I have no
+Recitative; excepting this, as I have consented to have neither Prologue
+nor Epilogue, it must be allowed an Opera in all its Forms. The Piece
+indeed hath been heretofore frequently represented by ourselves in our
+Great Room at _St. Giles's_, so that I cannot too often acknowledge your
+Charity in bringing it now on the Stage.
+
+_Player._ But I see it is time for us to withdraw; the Actors are
+preparing to begin. Play away the Overture.
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+
+OVERTURE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ACT I. SCENE I.
+
+_SCENE, _Peachum's_ House._
+
+  _Peachum_ sitting at a Table with a large Book of Accounts before him.
+
+
+AIR I. An old Woman clothed in Gray, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Through all the Employments of Life
+    Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;
+  Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:
+    All Professions be-rogue one another:
+  The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,
+    The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:
+  And the Statesman, because he's so great,
+    Thinks his Trade as honest as mine.
+
+A Lawyer is an honest Employment, so is mine. Like me too he acts in a
+double Capacity, both against Rogues and for 'em; for 'tis but fitting
+that we should protect and encourage Cheats, since we live by them.
+
+  Enter _Filch_.
+
+_Filch._ Sir, _Black Moll_ hath sent word her Trial comes on in the
+Afternoon, and she hopes you will order Matters so as to bring her off.
+
+_Peachum._ As the Wench is very active and industrious, you may satisfy
+her that I'll soften the Evidence.
+
+_Filch._ _Tom Gagg_, Sir, is found guilty.
+
+_Peachum._ A lazy Dog! When I took him the time before, I told him what
+he would come to if he did not mend his Hand. This is Death without
+Reprieve. I may venture to Book him [writes.] For _Tom Gagg_, forty
+Pounds. Let _Betty Sly_ know that I'll save her from Transportation, for
+I can get more by her staying in _England_.
+
+_Filch._ _Betty_ hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year than any
+five of the Gang; and in truth, 'tis a pity to lose so good a Customer.
+
+_Peachum._ If none of the Gang take her off, she may, in the common
+course of Business, live a Twelve-month longer. I love to let Women
+scape. A good Sportsman always lets the Hen Partridges fly, because the
+Breed of the Game depends upon them. Besides, here the Law allows us no
+Reward; there is nothing to be got by the Death of Women-- except our
+Wives.
+
+_Filch._ Without dispute, she is a fine Woman! 'Twas to her I was
+obliged for my Education, and (to say a bold Word) she hath trained up
+more young Fellows to the Business than the Gaming table.
+
+_Peachum._ Truly, _Filch_, thy Observation is right. We and the Surgeons
+are more beholden to Women than all the Professions besides.
+
+
+AIR II. The bonny gray-ey'd Morn, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Filch._ 'Tis Woman that seduces all Mankind,
+    By her we first were taught the wheedling Arts:
+  Her very Eyes can cheat; when most she's kind,
+    She tricks us of our Money with our Hearts.
+  For her, like Wolves by Night we roam for Prey,
+    And practise ev'ry Fraud to bribe her Charms;
+  For Suits of Love, like Law, are won by Pay,
+    And Beauty must be fee'd into our Arms.
+
+_Peachum._ But make haste to _Newgate_, Boy, and let my Friends know
+what I intend; for I love to make them easy one way or other.
+
+_Filch._ When a Gentleman is long kept in suspence, Penitence may break
+his Spirit ever after. Besides, Certainty gives a Man a good Air upon
+his Trial, and makes him risk another without Fear or Scruple. But I'll
+away, for 'tis a Pleasure to be the Messenger of Comfort to Friends in
+Affliction.    [Exit _Filch_.
+
+_Peachum._ But 'tis now high time to look about me for a decent
+Execution against next Sessions. I hate a lazy Rogue, by whom one can
+get nothing 'till he is hang'd. A Register of the Gang, [Reading.]
+Crook-finger'd _Jack_. A Year and a half in the Service; Let me see how
+much the Stock owes to his industry; one, two, three, four, five Gold
+Watches, and seven Silver ones. A mighty clean-handed Fellow! Sixteen
+Snuff-boxes, five of them of true Gold. Six Dozen of Handkerchiefs, four
+silver-hilted Swords, half a Dozen of Shirts, three Tye-Periwigs, and a
+Piece of Broad-Cloth. Considering these are only the Fruits of his
+leisure Hours, I don't know a prettier Fellow, for no Man alive hath a
+more engaging Presence of Mind upon the Road. _Wat Dreary_, alias _Brown
+Will_, an irregular Dog, who hath an underhand way of disposing of his
+Goods. I'll try him only for a Sessions or two longer upon his
+Good-behaviour. _Harry Paddington_, a poor petty-larceny Rascal, without
+the least Genius; that Fellow, though he were to live these six Months,
+will never come to the Gallows with any Credit. Slippery _Sam_; he goes
+off the next Sessions, for the Villain hath the Impudence to have Views
+of following his Trade as a Tailor, which he calls an honest Employment.
+_Mat of the Mint_; listed not above a Month ago, a promising sturdy
+Fellow, and diligent in his way; somewhat too bold and hasty, and may
+raise good Contributions on the Public, if he does not cut himself short
+by Murder. _Tom Tipple_, a guzzling soaking Sot, who is always too drunk
+to stand himself, or to make others stand. A Cart is absolutely
+necessary for him. _Robin of Bagshot_, alias _Gorgon_, alias _Bluff
+Bob_, alias _Carbuncle_, alias _Bob Booty_.
+
+  Enter _Mrs. Peachum_.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ What of _Bob Booty_, Husband? I hope nothing bad hath
+betided him. You know, my Dear, he's a favourite Customer of mine. 'Twas
+he made me a present of this Ring.
+
+_Peachum._ I have set his Name down in the Black List, that's all, my
+Dear; he spends his Life among Women, and as soon as his Money is gone,
+one or other of the Ladies will hang him for the Reward, and there's
+forty Pound lost to us for-ever.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ You know, my Dear, I never meddle in matters of Death;
+I always leave those Affairs to you. Women indeed are bitter bad Judges
+in these cases, for they are so partial to the Brave that they think
+every Man handsome who is going to the Camp or the Gallows.
+
+
+AIR III. Cold and raw, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If any Wench _Venus's_ Girdle wear,
+    Though she be never so ugly;
+  Lilies and Roses will quickly appear,
+    And her Face look wond'rous smugly.
+  Beneath the left Ear so fit but a Cord,
+    (A Rope so charming a Zone is!)
+  The Youth in his Cart hath the Air of a Lord,
+    And we cry, There dies an _Adonis_!
+
+But really, Husband, you should not be too hard-hearted, for you never
+had a finer, braver set of Men than at present. We have not had a Murder
+among them all, these seven Months. And truly, my Dear, that is a great
+Blessing.
+
+_Peachum._ What a dickens is the Woman always a whimpring about Murder
+for? No Gentleman is ever look'd upon the worse for killing a Man in his
+own Defence; and if Business cannot be carried on without it, what would
+you have a Gentleman do?
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ If I am in the wrong, my Dear, you must excuse me, for
+no body can help the Frailty of an over-scrupulous Conscience.
+
+_Peachum._ Murder is as fashionable a Crime as a Man can be guilty of.
+How many fine Gentlemen have we in _Newgate_ every Year, purely upon
+that Article! If they have wherewithal to persuade the Jury to bring it
+in Manslaughter, what are they the worse for it? So, my Dear, have done
+upon this Subject. Was Captain _Macheath_ here this Morning, for the
+Bank-Notes he left with you last Week?
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Yes, my Dear; and though the Bank hath stopt Payment, he
+was so chearful and so agreeable! Sure there is not a finer Gentleman
+upon the Road than the Captain! if he comes from _Bagshot_ at any
+reasonable Hour, he hath promis'd to make one this Evening with _Polly_
+and me, and _Bob Booty_ at a Party of Quadrille. Pray, my Dear, is the
+Captain rich?
+
+_Peachum._ The Captain keeps too good Company ever to grow rich.
+_Marybone_ and the Chocolate-houses are his Undoing. The Man that
+proposes to get Money by play should have the Education of a fine
+Gentleman, and be train'd up to it from his Youth.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Really, I am sorry upon _Polly's_ Account the Captain
+hath not more Discretion. What Business hath he to keep Company with
+Lords and Gentlemen? he should leave them to prey upon one another.
+
+_Peachum._ Upon _Polly's_ Account! What, a Plague, does the Woman mean?
+--Upon _Polly's_ Account!
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Captain _Macheath_ is very fond of the Girl.
+
+_Peachum._ And what then?
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ If I have any Skill in the Ways of Women, I am sure
+_Polly_ thinks him a very pretty Man.
+
+_Peachum._ And what then? You would not be so mad to have the Wench
+marry him! Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their
+Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ But if _Polly_ should be in Love, how should we help
+her, or how can she help herself? Poor Girl, I am in the utmost Concern
+about her.
+
+
+AIR IV. Why is your faithful Slave disdain'd? &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If Love the Virgin's Heart invade,
+  How, like a Moth, the simple Maid
+    Still plays about the Flame!
+  If soon she be not made a Wife,
+  Her Honour's sing'd, and then for Life,
+    She's-- what I dare not name.
+
+_Peachum._ Look ye, Wife. A handsome Wench in our way of Business is as
+profitable as at the Bar of a _Temple_ Coffee-House, who looks upon it
+as her livelihood to grant every Liberty but one. You see I would
+indulge the Girl as far as prudently we can. In any thing, but Marriage!
+After that, my Dear, how shall we be safe? Are we not then in her
+Husband's Power? For a Husband hath the absolute Power over all a Wife's
+Secrets but her own. If the Girl had the Discretion of a Court-Lady, who
+can have a Dozen young Fellows at her Ear without complying with one,
+I should not matter it; but _Polly_ is Tinder, and a Spark will at once
+set her on a Flame. Married! If the Wench does not know her own Profit,
+sure she knows her own Pleasure better than to make herself a Property!
+My Daughter to me should be, like a Court-Lady to a Minister of State,
+a Key to the whole Gang. Married! If the Affair is not already done,
+I'll terrify her from it, by the Example of our Neighbours.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ May-hap, my Dear, you may injure the Girl. She loves to
+imitate the fine Ladies, and she may only allow the Captain Liberties in
+the view of Interest.
+
+_Peachum._ But 'tis your Duty, my Dear, to warn the Girl against her
+Ruin, and to instruct her how to make the most of her Beauty. I'll go to
+her this moment, and sift her. In the meantime, Wife, rip out the
+Coronets and Marks of these Dozen of Cambric Handkerchiefs, for I can
+dispose of them this Afternoon to a Chap in the City.
+
+    [Exit _Peachum_.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Never was a Man more out of the way in an Argument than
+my Husband! Why must our _Polly_, forsooth, differ from her Sex, and
+love only her Husband? And why must _Polly's_ Marriage, contrary to all
+Observations, make her the less followed by other Men? All Men are
+Thieves in Love, and like a Woman the better for being another's
+Property.
+
+
+AIR V. Of all the simple Things we do, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  A Maid is like the Golden Ore,
+    Which hath Guineas intrinsical in't,
+  Whose Worth is never known before
+    It is try'd and imprest in the Mint.
+  A Wife's like a Guinea in Gold,
+    Stampt with the Name of her Spouse;
+  Now here, now there; is bought, or is sold;
+    And is current in every House.
+
+  Enter _Filch_.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Come hither, _Filch_. I am as fond of this Child, as
+though my Mind misgave me he were my own. He hath as fine a Hand at
+picking a Pocket as a Woman, and is as nimble-finger'd as a Juggler. If
+an unlucky Session does not cut the Rope of thy Life, I pronounce, Boy,
+thou wilt be a great Man in History. Where was your Post last Night, my
+Boy?
+
+_Filch._ I ply'd at the Opera, Madam; and considering 'twas neither dark
+nor rainy, so that there was no great Hurry in getting Chairs and
+Coaches, made a tolerable Hand on't. These seven Handkerchiefs, Madam.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Colour'd ones, I see. They are of sure Sale from our
+Warehouse at _Redriff_ among the Seamen.
+
+_Filch._ And this Snuff-box.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Set in Gold! A pretty Encouragement this to a young
+Beginner.
+
+_Filch._ I had a fair Tug at a charming Gold Watch. Pox take the Tailors
+for making the Fobs so deep and narrow! It stuck by the way, and I was
+forc'd to make my Escape under a Coach. Really, Madam, I fear I shall be
+cut off in the Flower of my Youth, so that every now and then (since I
+was pumpt) I have Thoughts of taking up and going to Sea.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ You should go to _Hockley in the Hole_, and to
+_Marybone_, Child, to learn Valour. These are the Schools that have bred
+so many brave Men. I thought, Boy, by this time, thou hadst lost Fear as
+well as Shame. Poor Lad! how little does he know as yet of the _Old
+Baily_! For the first Fact I'll insure thee from being hang'd; and going
+to Sea, _Filch_, will come time enough upon a Sentence of
+Transportation. But now, since you have nothing better to do, ev'n go to
+your Book, and learn your Catechism; for really a Man makes but an ill
+Figure in the Ordinary's Paper, who cannot give a satisfactory Answer to
+his Questions. But, hark you, my Lad. Don't tell me a Lye; for you know
+I hate a Liar. Do you know of anything that hath pass'd between Captain
+_Macheath_ and our _Polly_?
+
+_Filch._ I beg you, Madam, don't ask me; for I must either tell a Lye to
+you or to Miss _Polly_; for I promis'd her I would not tell.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ But when the Honour of our Family is concern'd--
+
+_Filch._ I shall lead a sad Life with Miss _Polly_, if ever she comes to
+know that I told you. Besides, I would not willingly forfeit my own
+Honour by betraying any body.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Yonder comes my Husband and _Polly_. Come, _Filch_, you
+shall go with me into my own Room, and tell me the whole Story. I'll
+give thee a Glass of a most delicious Cordial that I keep for my own
+drinking.
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+  Enter _Peachum_, _Polly_.
+
+_Polly._ I know as well as any of the fine Ladies how to make the most
+of myself and of my Man too. A Woman knows how to be mercenary, though
+she hath never been in a Court or at an Assembly. We have it in our
+Natures, Papa. If I allow Captain _Macheath_ some trifling Liberties,
+I have this Watch and other visible Marks of his Favour to shew for it.
+A Girl who cannot grant some Things, and refuse what is most material,
+will make but a poor hand of her Beauty, and soon be thrown upon the
+Common.
+
+
+AIR VI. What shall I do to shew how much I love her, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Virgins are like the fair Flower in its Lustre,
+    Which in the Garden enamels the Ground;
+  Near it the Bees in play flutter and cluster,
+    And gaudy Butterflies frolick around.
+  But, when once pluck'd, 'tis no longer alluring,
+    To _Covent-Garden_ 'tis sent (as yet sweet),
+  There fades, and shrinks, and grows past all enduring,
+    Rots, stinks, and dies, and is trod under feet.
+
+_Peachum._ You know, _Polly_, I am not against your toying and trifling
+with a Customer in the way of Business, or to get out a Secret, or so.
+But if I find out that you have play'd the Fool and are married, you
+Jade you, I'll cut your Throat, Hussy. Now you know my Mind.
+
+  Enter _Mrs. Peachum_, in a very great Passion.
+
+
+AIR VII. Oh _London_ is a fine Town.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Our _Polly_ is a sad Slut!
+      nor heeds what we have taught her.
+  I wonder any Man alive
+      will ever rear a Daughter!
+  For she must have both Hoods and Gowns,
+      and Hoops to swell her Pride,
+  With Scarfs and Stays, and Gloves and Lace;
+      and she will have Men beside;
+  And when she's drest with Care and Cost,
+      all tempting, fine and gay,
+  As Men should serve a Cucumber,
+      she flings herself away.
+  Our _Polly_ is a sad Slut! &c.
+
+You Baggage! you Hussy! you inconsiderate Jade! had you been hang'd, it
+would not have vex'd me, for that might have been your Misfortune; but
+to do such a mad thing by Choice; The Wench is married, Husband.
+
+_Peachum._ Married! the Captain is a bold Man, and will risk any thing
+for Money; to be sure he believes her a Fortune. Do you think your
+Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we
+had been married? Baggage!
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ I knew she was always a proud Slut; and now the Wench
+hath play'd the Fool and Married, because forsooth she would do like the
+Gentry. Can you support the Expence of a Husband, Hussy, in Gaming,
+Drinking and Whoring? Have you Money enough to carry on the daily
+Quarrels of Man and Wife about who shall squander most? There are not
+many Husbands and Wives, who can bear the Charges of plaguing one
+another in a handsom way. If you must be married, could you introduce no
+body into our Family but a Highwayman? Why, thou foolish Jade, thou wilt
+be as ill-us'd, and as much neglected, as if thou hadst married a Lord!
+
+_Peachum._ Let not your Anger, my Dear, break through the Rules of
+Decency, for the Captain looks upon himself in the Military Capacity, as
+a Gentleman by his Profession. Besides what he hath already, I know he
+is in a fair way of getting, or of dying; and both these ways, let me
+tell you, are most excellent Chances for a Wife. Tell me, Hussy, are you
+ruin'd or no?
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ With _Polly's_ Fortune, she might very well have gone
+off to a Person of Distinction. Yes, that you might, you pouting Slut!
+
+_Peachum._ What is the Wench dumb? Speak, or I'll make you plead by
+squeezing out an Answer from you. Are you really bound Wife to him, or
+are you only upon liking?    [Pinches her.
+
+_Polly._ Oh!    [Screaming.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ How the Mother is to be pitied who hath handsom
+Daughters! Locks, Bolts, Bars, and Lectures of Morality are nothing to
+them: They break through them all. They have as much Pleasure in
+cheating a Father and Mother, as in cheating at Cards.
+
+_Peachum._ Why, _Polly_, I shall soon know if you are married, by
+_Macheath's_ keeping from our House.
+
+
+AIR VIII. Grim King of the Ghosts, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ Can Love be control'd by Advice?
+    Will _Cupid_ our Mothers obey?
+  Though my Heart were as frozen as Ice,
+    At his Flame 'twould have melted away.
+  When he kist me so closely he prest,
+    'Twas so sweet that I must have comply'd:
+  So I thought it both safest and best
+    To marry, for fear you should chide.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Then all the Hopes of our Family are gone for ever and
+ever!
+
+_Peachum._ And _Macheath_ may hang his Father and Mother-in-law, in hope
+to get into their Daughter's Fortune.
+
+_Polly._ I did not marry him (as 'tis the Fashion) coolly and
+deliberately for Honour or Money. But, I love him.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Love him! worse and worse! I thought the Girl had been
+better bred. Oh Husband, Husband! her Folly makes me mad! my Head swims!
+I'm distracted! I can't support myself-- Oh!    [Faints.
+
+_Peachum._ See, Wench, to what a Condition you have reduc'd your poor
+Mother! a Glass of Cordial, this instant. How the poor Woman takes it to
+heart!
+
+  [_Polly_ goes out, and returns with it.
+
+Ah, Hussy, now this is the only Comfort your Mother has left!
+
+_Polly._ Give her another Glass, Sir! my Mama drinks double the Quantity
+whenever she is out of Order. This, you see, fetches her.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ The Girl shews such a Readiness, and so much Concern,
+that I could almost find in my Heart to forgive her.
+
+
+AIR IX. O _Jenny_, O _Jenny_, where hast thou been.
+
+[Music]
+
+  O _Polly_, you might have toy'd and kist.
+  By keeping Men off, you keep them on.
+
+  _Polly._ But he so teaz'd me,
+      And he so pleas'd me,
+  What I did, you must have done.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Not with a Highwayman. --You sorry Slut!
+
+_Peachum._ A Word with you, Wife. 'Tis no new thing for a Wench to take
+Man without Consent of Parents. You know 'tis the Frailty of Women, my
+Dear.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a
+Woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never
+is the time to make her Fortune. After that, she hath nothing to do but
+to guard herself from being found out, and she may do what she pleases.
+
+_Peachum._ Make yourself a little easy; I have a Thought shall soon set
+all Matters again to rights. Why so melancholy, _Polly_? since what is
+done cannot be undone, we must all endeavour to make the best of it.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Well, _Polly_; as far as one Woman can forgive another,
+I forgive thee. --Your Father is too fond of you, Hussy.
+
+_Polly._ Then all my Sorrows are at an end.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ A mighty likely Speech in troth, for a Wench who is just
+married!
+
+
+AIR X. _Thomas_, I cannot, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ I, like a Ship in Storms, was tost;
+  Yet afraid to put in to Land:
+  For seiz'd in the Port the Vessel's lost,
+  Whose Treasure is contreband.
+    The Waves are laid,
+    My Duty's paid.
+  O Joy beyond Expression!
+    Thus, safe a-shore,
+    I ask no more,
+  My All is in my Possession.
+
+_Peachum._ I hear Customers in t'other Room: Go, talk with 'em, _Polly_;
+but come to us again, as soon as they are gone. --But, hark ye, Child,
+if 'tis the Gentleman who was here Yesterday about the Repeating Watch;
+say, you believe we can't get Intelligence of it 'till to-morrow. For I
+lent it to _Suky Straddle_, to make a figure with it to-night at a
+Tavern in _Drury-Lane_. If t'other Gentleman calls for the Silver-hilted
+Sword; you know _Beetle-brow'd Jemmy_ hath it on, and he doth not come
+from _Tunbridge_ 'till _Tuesday_ Night; so that it cannot be had 'till
+then.
+
+    [Exit _Polly_.
+
+_Peachum._ Dear Wife, be a little pacified, Don't let your Passion run
+away with your Senses. _Polly_, I grant you, hath done a rash thing.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ If she had only an Intrigue with the Fellow, why the
+very best Families have excus'd and huddled up a Frailty of that sort.
+'Tis Marriage, Husband, that makes it a Blemish.
+
+_Peachum._ But Money, Wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for Reputations,
+there is not a Spot or a Stain but what it can take out. A rich Rogue
+now-a-days is fit Company for any Gentleman; and the World, my Dear,
+hath not such a Contempt for Roguery as you imagine. I tell you, Wife,
+I can make this Match turn to our Advantage.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ I am very sensible, Husband, that Captain _Macheath_ is
+worth Money, but I am in doubt whether he hath not two or three Wives
+already, and then if he should die in a Session or two, _Polly's_ Dower
+would come into Dispute.
+
+_Peachum._ That, indeed, is a Point which ought to be consider'd.
+
+
+AIR XI. A Soldier and a Sailor.
+
+[Music]
+
+  A Fox may steal your Hens, Sir,
+  A Whore your Health and Pence, Sir,
+  Your Daughter rob your Chest, Sir,
+  Your Wife may steal your Rest, Sir.
+    A Thief your Goods and Plate.
+  But this is all but picking,
+  With Rest, Pence, Chest and Chicken;
+  It ever was decreed, Sir,
+  If Lawyer's Hand is fee'd, Sir,
+    He steals your whole Estate.
+
+The Lawyers are bitter Enemies to those in our Way. They don't care that
+any body should get a clandestine Livelihood but themselves.
+
+  Enter _Polly_.
+
+_Polly._ 'Twas only _Nimming Ned_. He brought in a Damask
+Window-Curtain, a Hoop-Petticoat, a pair of Silver Candlesticks,
+a Periwig, and one Silk Stocking, from the Fire that happen'd last
+Night.
+
+_Peachum._ There is not a Fellow that is cleverer in his way, and saves
+more Goods out of the Fire than _Ned_. But now, _Polly_, to your Affair;
+for Matters must not be left as they are. You are married then, it
+seems?
+
+_Polly._ Yes, Sir.
+
+_Peachum._ And how do you propose to live, Child?
+
+_Polly._ Like other Women, Sir, upon the Industry of my Husband.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ What, is the Wench turn'd Fool? A Highwayman's Wife,
+like a Soldier's, hath as little of his Pay, as of his Company.
+
+_Peachum._ And had not you the common Views of a Gentlewoman in your
+Marriage, _Polly_?
+
+_Polly._ I don't know what you mean, Sir.
+
+_Peachum._ Of a Jointure, and of being a Widow.
+
+_Polly._ But I love him, Sir; how then could I have Thoughts of parting
+with him?
+
+_Peachum._ Parting with him! Why, this is the whole Scheme and Intention
+of all Marriage-Articles. The comfortable Estate of Widow-hood, is the
+only Hope that keeps up a Wife's Spirits. Where is the Woman who would
+scruple to be a Wife, if she had it in her Power to be a Widow, whenever
+she pleas'd? If you have any Views of this sort, _Polly_, I shall think
+the Match not so very unreasonable.
+
+_Polly._ How I dread to hear your Advice! Yet I must beg you to explain
+yourself.
+
+_Peachum._ Secure what he hath got, have him peach'd the next Sessions,
+and then at once you are made a rich Widow.
+
+_Polly._ What, murder the Man I love! The Blood runs cold at my Heart
+with the very thought of it.
+
+_Peachum._ Fie, _Polly_! What hath Murder to do in the Affair? Since the
+thing sooner or later must happen, I dare say, the Captain himself would
+like that we should get the Reward for his Death sooner than a Stranger.
+Why, _Polly_, the Captain knows, that as 'tis his Employment to rob, so
+'tis ours to take Robbers; every Man in his Business. So that there is
+no Malice in the Case.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Ay, Husband, now you have nick'd the Matter. To have him
+peach'd is the only thing could ever make me forgive her.
+
+
+AIR XII. Now ponder well, ye Parents dear.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ O ponder well! be not severe;
+    So save a wretched Wife!
+  For on the Rope that hangs my Dear
+    Depends poor _Polly's_ Life.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ But your Duty to your Parents, Hussy, obliges you to
+hang him. What would many a Wife give for such an Opportunity!
+
+_Polly._ What is a Jointure, what is Widow-hood to me? I know my Heart.
+I cannot survive him.
+
+
+AIR XIII. Le printems rapelle aux armes.
+
+[Music]
+
+  The Turtle thus with plaintive Crying,
+      Her Lover dying,
+  The Turtle thus with plaintive Crying,
+      Laments her Dove.
+  Down she drops quite spent with Sighing.
+  Pair'd in Death, as pair'd in Love.
+
+Thus, Sir, it will happen to your poor _Polly_.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ What, is the Fool in Love in earnest then? I hate thee
+for being particular: Why, Wench, thou art a Shame to thy very Sex.
+
+_Polly._ But hear me, Mother. --If you ever lov'd--
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Those cursed Play-Books she reads have been her Ruin.
+One Word more, Hussy, and I shall knock your Brains out, if you have
+any.
+
+_Peachum._ Keep out of the way, _Polly_, for fear of Mischief, and
+consider of what is proposed to you.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ Away, Hussy. Hang your Husband, and be dutiful.
+
+    [Exit _Polly_.
+
+  Re-enter _Polly_, and listens behind column.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ The Thing, Husband, must and shall be done. For the sake
+of Intelligence we must take other measures, and have him peached the
+next Session without her Consent. If she will not know her Duty, we know
+ours.
+
+_Peachum._ But really, my Dear, it grieves one's Heart to take off a
+great Man. When I consider his Personal Bravery, his fine Stratagem, how
+much we have already got by him, and how much more we may get, methinks
+I can't find in my Heart to have a hand in his Death. I wish you could
+have made _Polly_ undertake it.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ But in a Case of Necessity-- our own Lives are in
+danger.
+
+_Peachum._ Then, indeed, we must comply with the Customs of the World,
+and make Gratitude give way to Interest. --He shall be taken off.
+
+_Mrs. Peachum._ I'll undertake to manage _Polly_.
+
+_Peachum._ And I'll prepare Matters for the _Old-Baily_.
+
+    [Exeunt severally.
+
+_Polly._ Now I'm a Wretch, indeed. --Methinks I see him already in the
+Cart, sweeter and more lovely than the Nosegay in his Hand! --I hear the
+Crowd extolling his Resolution and Intrepidity! --What Vollies of Sighs
+are sent from the Windows of _Holborn_, that so comely a Youth should be
+brought to Disgrace! --I see him at the Tree! The whole Circle are in
+Tears! --even Butchers weep! --_Jack Ketch_ himself hesitates to perform
+his Duty, and would be glad to lose his Fee, by a Reprieve. What then
+will become of _Polly_! --As yet I may inform him of their Design, and
+aid him in his Escape. --It shall be so-- But then he flies, absents
+himself, and I bar myself from his dear dear Conversation! That too will
+distract me. --If he keep out of the way, my Papa and Mama may in time
+relent, and we may be happy. --If he stays, he is hang'd, and then he is
+lost for ever! --He intended to lie conceal'd in my Room, 'till the Dusk
+of the Evening: If they are abroad I'll this Instant let him out, lest
+some Accident should prevent him.
+
+    [Exit, and returns with _Macheath_.
+
+
+_Macheath._
+
+AIR XIV. Pretty Parrot, say--
+
+[Music]
+
+    _Macheath._ Pretty _Polly_, say,
+    When I was away,
+  Did your fancy never stray
+    To some newer Lover?
+
+      _Polly._ Without Disguise,
+      Heaving Sighs,
+      Doting Eyes,
+  My constant Heart discover.
+    Fondly let me loll!
+
+    _Macheath._ O pretty, pretty _Poll_.
+
+_Polly._ And are _you_ as fond as ever, my Dear?
+
+_Macheath._ Suspect my Honour, my Courage, suspect any thing but my
+Love. --May my Pistols miss Fire, and my Mare slip her Shoulder while I
+am pursu'd, if I ever forsake thee!
+
+_Polly._ Nay, my Dear, I have no Reason to doubt you, for I find in the
+Romance you lent me, none of the great Heroes were ever false in Love.
+
+
+AIR XV. Pray, Fair one, be kind--
+
+[Music]
+
+    _Macheath._ My Heart was so free,
+    It rov'd like the Bee,
+  'Till _Polly_ my Passion requited;
+    I sipt each Flower,
+    I chang'd every Hour,
+  But here every Flower is united.
+
+_Polly._ Were you sentenc'd to Transportation, sure, my Dear, you could
+not leave me behind you-- could you?
+
+_Macheath._ Is there any Power, any Force that could tear me from thee?
+You might sooner tear a Pension out of the Hands of a Courtier, a Fee
+from a Lawyer, a pretty Woman from a Looking-glass, or any Woman from
+Quadrille. --But to tear me from thee is impossible!
+
+
+AIR XVI. Over the Hills and far away.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Were I laid on _Greenland's_ Coast,
+  And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass;
+  Warm amidst eternal Frost,
+  Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.
+
+  _Polly._ Were I sold on _Indian_ Soil,
+  Soon as the burning Day was clos'd,
+  I could mock the sultry Toil
+  When on my Charmer's Breast repos'd.
+
+  _Macheath._ And I would love you all the Day,
+
+  _Polly._ Every Night would kiss and play,
+
+  _Macheath._ If with me you'd fondly stray
+
+  _Polly._ Over the Hills and far away.
+
+_Polly._ Yes, I would go with thee. But oh! --how shall I speak it?
+I must be torn from thee. We must part.
+
+_Macheath._ How! Part!
+
+_Polly._ We must, we must. --My Papa and Mama are set against thy Life.
+They now, even now are in Search after thee. They are preparing Evidence
+against thee. Thy Life depends upon a moment.
+
+
+AIR XVII. Gin thou wert mine awn thing--
+
+[Music]
+
+  Oh what Pain it is to part!
+  Can I leave thee, can I leave thee?
+  O what pain it is to part!
+  Can thy _Polly_ ever leave thee?
+  But lest Death my Love should thwart,
+  And bring thee to the fatal Cart,
+  Thus I tear thee from my bleeding Heart!
+    Fly hence, and let me leave thee.
+
+One Kiss and then-- one Kiss-- be gone-- farewel.
+
+_Macheath._ My Hand, my Heart, my Dear, is so riveted to thine, that I
+cannot unloose my Hold.
+
+_Polly._ But my Papa may intercept thee, and then I should lose the very
+glimmering of Hope. A few Weeks, perhaps, may reconcile us all. Shall
+thy _Polly_ hear from thee?
+
+_Macheath._ Must I then go?
+
+_Polly._ And will not Absence change your Love?
+
+_Macheath._ If you doubt it, let me stay-- and be hang'd.
+
+_Polly._ O how I fear! how I tremble! --Go-- but when Safety will give
+you leave, you will be sure to see me again; for 'till then _Polly_ is
+wretched.
+
+
+AIR XVIII. O the Broom, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ The Miser thus a Shilling sees,
+    Which he's oblig'd to pay,
+  With sighs resigns it by degrees,
+    And fears 'tis gone for ay.
+
+    [Parting, and looking back at each other with fondness; he at one
+    Door, she at the other.
+
+  _Polly._ The Boy, thus, when his Sparrow's flown,
+    The Bird in Silence eyes;
+  But soon as out of Sight 'tis gone,
+    Whines, whimpers, sobs and cries.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ACT II. SCENE I.
+
+_A TAVERN near _Newgate_._
+
+  _Jemmy Twitcher_, _Crook-finger'd Jack_, _Wat Dreary_, _Robin of
+  Bagshot_, _Nimming Ned_, _Henry Paddington_, _Matt of the Mint_,
+  _Ben Budge_, and the rest of the Gang, at the Table, with Wine,
+  Brandy and Tobacco.
+
+_Ben._ But pr'ythee, _Matt_, what is become of thy Brother _Tom_? I have
+not seen him since my Return from Transportation.
+
+_Matt._ Poor Brother _Tom_ had an Accident this time Twelve-month, and
+so clever a made fellow he was, that I could not save him from those
+fleaing Rascals the Surgeons; and now, poor Man, he is among the Otamys
+at _Surgeons Hall_.
+
+_Ben._ So it seems, his Time was come.
+
+_Jemmy._ But the present Time is ours, and no body alive hath more. Why
+are the Laws levell'd at us? are we more dishonest than the rest of
+Mankind? What we win, Gentlemen, is our own by the Law of Arms, and the
+Right of Conquest.
+
+_Crook._ Where shall we find such another Set of Practical Philosophers,
+who to a Man are above the Fear of Death?
+
+_Wat._ Sound Men, and true!
+
+_Robin._ Of try'd Courage, and indefatigable Industry!
+
+_Ned._ Who is there here that would not die for his Friend?
+
+_Harry._ Who is there here that would betray him for his Interest?
+
+_Matt._ Shew me a Gang of Courtiers that can say as much.
+
+_Ben._ We are for a just Partition of the World, for every Man hath a
+Right to enjoy Life.
+
+_Matt._ We retrench the Superfluities of Mankind. The World is
+avaritious, and I hate Avarice. A covetous fellow, like a Jackdaw,
+steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it. These
+are the Robbers of Mankind, for Money was made for the Free-hearted and
+Generous, and where is the Injury of taking from another, what he hath
+not the Heart to make use of?
+
+_Jemmy._ Our several Stations for the Day are fixt. Good luck attend us
+all. Fill the Glasses.
+
+
+AIR XIX. Fill every Glass, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Matt._ Fill every Glass, for Wine inspires us,
+    And fires us
+  With Courage, Love and Joy.
+  Women and Wine should life employ.
+  Is there ought else on Earth desirous?
+
+  _Chorus._ Fill every Glass, &c.
+
+_To them enter _Macheath_._
+
+_Macheath._ Gentlemen, well met. My Heart hath been with you this Hour;
+but an unexpected Affair hath detain'd me. No Ceremony, I beg you.
+
+_Matt._ We were just breaking up to go upon Duty. Am I to have the
+Honour of taking the Air with you, Sir, this Evening upon the Heath?
+I drink a Dram now and then with the Stagecoachmen in the way of
+Friendship and Intelligence; and I know that about this Time there will
+be Passengers upon the Western Road, who are worth speaking with.
+
+_Macheath._ I was to have been of that Party-- but--
+
+_Matt._ But what, Sir?
+
+_Macheath._ Is there any Man who suspects my Courage?
+
+_Matt._ We have all been Witnesses of it.
+
+_Macheath._ My Honour and Truth to the Gang?
+
+_Matt._ I'll be answerable for it.
+
+_Macheath._ In the Division of our Booty, have I ever shewn the least
+Marks of Avarice or Injustice?
+
+_Matt._ By these Questions something seems to have ruffled you. Are any
+of us suspected?
+
+_Macheath._ I have a fixed Confidence, Gentlemen, in you all, as Men of
+Honour, and as such I value and respect you. _Peachum_ is a Man that is
+useful to us.
+
+_Matt._ Is he about to play us any foul Play? I'll shoot him through the
+Head.
+
+_Macheath._ I beg you, Gentlemen, act with Conduct and Discretion.
+A Pistol is your last Resort.
+
+_Matt._ He knows nothing of this Meeting.
+
+_Macheath._ Business cannot go on without him. He is a Man who knows the
+World, and is a necessary Agent to us. We have had a slight Difference,
+and 'till it is accommodated I shall be oblig'd to keep out of his way.
+Any private Dispute of mine shall be of no ill consequence to my
+Friends. You must continue to act under his Direction, for the moment we
+break loose from him, our Gang is ruin'd.
+
+_Matt._ As a Bawd to a Whore, I grant you, he is to us of great
+Convenience.
+
+_Macheath._ Make him believe I have quitted the Gang, which I can never
+do but with Life. At our private Quarters I will continue to meet you.
+A Week or so will probably reconcile us.
+
+_Matt._ Your Instructions shall be observ'd. 'Tis now high time for us
+to repair to our several Duties; so 'till the Evening at our Quarters in
+Moor-Fields we bid you farewel.
+
+_Macheath._ I shall wish myself with you. Success attend you.
+
+    [Sits down melancholy at the Table.
+
+
+AIR XX. March in _Rinaldo_, with Drums and Trumpets.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Matt._ Let us take the Road.
+    Hark! I hear the Sound of Coaches!
+    The Hour of Attack approaches,
+  To your Arms, brave Boys, and load.
+    See the Ball I hold!
+  Let the Chymists toil like Asses,
+  Our Fire their Fire surpasses,
+    And turns all our Lead to Gold.
+
+    [The Gang, rang'd in the Front of the Stage, load their Pistols,
+    and stick them under their Girdles; then go off singing the first
+    Part in Chorus.
+
+_Macheath._ What a Fool is a fond Wench! _Polly_ is most confoundedly
+bit. --I love the Sex. And a Man who loves Money, might as well be
+contented with one Guinea, as I with one Woman. The Town perhaps have
+been as much obliged to me, for recruiting it with free-hearted Ladies,
+as to any Recruiting Officer in the Army. If it were not for us, and the
+other Gentlemen of the Sword, _Drury-Lane_ would be uninhabited.
+
+
+AIR XXI. Would you have a young Virgin, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If the Heart of a Man is deprest with Cares,
+  The Mist is dispell'd when a Woman appears;
+  Like the Notes of a Fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly
+  Raises the Spirits, and charms our Ears,
+  Roses and Lilies her Cheeks disclose,
+  But her ripe Lips are more sweet than those.
+    Press her,
+    Caress her,
+    With Blisses,
+    Her Kisses
+  Dissolve us in Pleasure, and soft Repose.
+
+I must have Women. There is nothing unbends the Mind like them. Money is
+not so strong a Cordial for the Time. Drawer-- [Enter Drawer.] Is the
+Porter gone for all the Ladies according to my Directions?
+
+_Drawer._ I expect him back every Minute. But you know, Sir, you sent
+him as far as _Hockley in the Hole_ for three of the Ladies, for one in
+_Vinegar-Yard_, and for the rest of them somewhere about
+_Lewkner's-Lane_. Sure some of them are below, for I hear the Bar-Bell.
+As they come I will shew them up. Coming, Coming.
+
+  Enter Mrs. _Coaxer_, _Dolly Trull_, Mrs. _Vixen_, _Betty Doxy_, _Jenny
+Diver_, Mrs. _Slammekin_, _Suky Tawdry_, and _Molly Brazen_.
+
+_Macheath._ Dear Mrs. _Coaxer_, you are welcome. You look charmingly
+to-day. I hope you don't want the Repairs of Quality, and lay on Paint.
+--_Dolly Trull!_ kiss me, you Slut; are you as amorous as ever, Hussy?
+You are always so taken up with stealing Hearts, that you don't allow
+yourself Time to steal any thing else. --Ah _Dolly_, thou wilt ever be a
+Coquette! Mrs. _Vixen_, I'm yours, I always lov'd a Woman of Wit and
+Spirit; they make charming Mistresses, but plaguy Wives-- _Betty Doxy!_
+Come hither, Hussy. Do you drink as hard as ever? You had better stick
+to good wholesom Beer; for in troth, _Betty_, Strong-Waters will in time
+ruin your Constitution. You should leave those to your Betters. --What!
+and my pretty _Jenny Diver_ too! As prim and demure as ever! There is
+not any Prude, though ever so high bred, hath a more sanctify'd Look,
+with a more mischievous Heart. Ah! thou art a dear artful Hypocrite.
+--Mrs. _Slammekin!_ as careless and genteel as ever! all you fine
+Ladies, who know your own Beauty, affect an Undress. --But see, here's
+_Suky Tawdry_ come to contradict what I was saying. Every thing she gets
+one way she lays out upon her Back. Why, _Suky_, you must keep at least
+a Dozen Tallymen. _Molly Brazen!_ [She kisses him.] That's well done.
+I love a free-hearted Wench. Thou hast a most agreeable Assurance, Girl,
+and art as willing as a Turtle. --But hark! I hear Music. The Harper is
+at the Door. _If Music be the Food of Love, play on._ Ere you seat
+yourselves, Ladies, what think you of a Dance? Come in. [Enter Harper.]
+Play the _French_ Tune, that Mrs. _Slammekin_ was so fond of.
+
+    [A Dance _a la ronde_ in the _French_ manner; near the end of it
+    this song and Chorus.
+
+
+AIR XXII. Cotillon.
+
+[Music]
+
+    Youth's the Season made for Joys,
+      Love is then our Duty,
+    She alone who that employs,
+      Well deserves her Beauty.
+        Let's be gay,
+        While we may,
+  Beauty's a Flower, despis'd in Decay.
+    Youth's the Season, &c.
+
+    Let us drink and sport to-day,
+      Ours is not to-morrow.
+    Love with Youth flies swift away,
+      Age is nought but Sorrow.
+        Dance and sing,
+        Time's on the Wing.
+  Life never knows the Return of Spring.
+
+  _Chorus._ Let us drink, &c.
+
+_Macheath._ Now, pray Ladies, take your Places. Here Fellow. [Pays the
+Harper.] Bid the Drawer bring us more Wine. [Exit Harper.] If any of the
+Ladies choose Ginn, I hope they will be so free to call for it.
+
+_Jenny._ You look as if you meant me. Wine is strong enough for me.
+Indeed, Sir, I never drink Strong-Waters, but when I have the Cholic.
+
+_Macheath._ Just the Excuse of the fine Ladies! Why, a Lady of Quality
+is never without the Cholic. I hope, Mrs. _Coaxer_, you have had good
+Success of late in your Visits among the Mercers.
+
+_Mrs. Coaxer._ We have so many Interlopers-- Yet with Industry, one may
+still have a little Picking. I carried a silver-flowered Lutestring, and
+a Piece of black Padesoy to Mr. _Peachum's_ Lock but last Week.
+
+_Mrs. Vixen._ There's _Molly Brazen_ hath the Ogle of a Rattle-Snake.
+She rivetted a Linen-Draper's Eye so fast upon her, that he was nick'd
+of three Pieces of Cambric before he could look off.
+
+_Brazen._ Oh dear Madam! --But sure nothing can come up to your handling
+of Laces! And then you have such a sweet deluding Tongue! To cheat a Man
+is nothing; but the Woman must have fine Parts indeed who cheats a
+Woman.
+
+_Mrs. Vixen._ Lace, Madam, lies in a small Compass, and is of easy
+Conveyance. But you are apt, Madam, to think too well of your Friends.
+
+_Mrs. Coaxer._ If any woman hath more Art than another, to be sure, 'tis
+_Jenny Diver_. Though her Fellow be never so agreeable, she can pick his
+Pocket as coolly, as if money were her only Pleasure. Now that is a
+Command of the Passions uncommon in a Woman!
+
+_Jenny._ I never go to the Tavern with a Man, but in the View of
+Business. I have other Hours, and other sort of Men for my Pleasure. But
+had I your Address, Madam--
+
+_Macheath._ Have done with your Compliments, Ladies; and drink about:
+You are not so fond of me, _Jenny_, as you use to be.
+
+_Jenny._ 'Tis not convenient, Sir, to shew my Fondness among so many
+Rivals. 'Tis your own Choice, and not the Warmth of my Inclination that
+will determine you.
+
+
+AIR XXIII. All in a misty Morning, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Before the Barn-Door crowing,
+    The Cock by Hens attended,
+  His Eyes around him throwing,
+    Stands for a while suspended.
+
+  Then One he singles from the Crew,
+    And cheers the happy Hen;
+  With how do you do, and how do you do,
+    And how do you do again.
+
+_Macheath._ Ah _Jenny!_ thou art a dear Slut.
+
+_Jenny._ A Man of Courage should never put any thing to the Risk but his
+Life. These are the Tools of a Man of Honour. Cards and Dice are only
+fit for cowardly Cheats, who prey upon their Friends.
+
+    [She takes up his Pistol. _Tawdry_ takes up the other.
+
+_Tawdry._ This, Sir, is fitter for your Hand. Besides your Loss of
+Money, 'tis a Loss to the Ladies. Gaming takes you off from Women. How
+fond could I be of you! but before Company 'tis ill bred.
+
+_Macheath._ Wanton Hussies!
+
+_Jenny._ I must and will have a Kiss to give my Wine a Zest.
+
+    [They take him about the Neck and make signs to _Peachum_ and
+    Constables, who rush in upon him.
+
+_Peachum._ I seize you, Sir, as my Prisoner.
+
+_Macheath._ Was this well done, _Jenny_? --Women are Decoy Ducks; who
+can trust them! Beasts, Jades, Jilts, Harpies, Furies, Whores!
+
+_Peachum._ Your Case, Mr. _Macheath_, is not particular. The greatest
+Heroes have been ruin'd by Women. But, to do them Justice, I must own
+they are a pretty sort of Creatures, if we could trust them. You must
+now, Sir, take your Leave of the Ladies, and if they have a mind to make
+you a Visit, they will be sure to find you at home. This Gentleman,
+Ladies, lodges in _Newgate_. Constables, wait upon the Captain to his
+Lodgings.
+
+
+AIR XXIV. When first I laid Siege to my _Chloris_, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ At the Tree I shall suffer with Pleasure,
+  At the Tree I shall suffer with Pleasure,
+    Let me go where I will,
+    In all kinds of Ill,
+  I shall find no such Furies as these are.
+
+_Peachum._ Ladies, I'll take care the Reckoning shall be discharged.
+
+    [Exit _Macheath_, guarded with _Peachum and Constables_.
+
+_Mrs. Vixen._ Look ye, Mrs. _Jenny_, though Mr. _Peachum_ may have made
+a private Bargain with you and _Suky Tawdry_ for betraying the Captain,
+as we were all assisting, we ought all to share alike.
+
+_Mrs. Coaxer._ I think Mr. _Peachum_, after so long an Acquaintance,
+might have trusted me as well as _Jenny Diver_.
+
+_Mrs. Slammekin._ I am sure at least three Men of his hanging, and in a
+Year's time too (if he did me Justice) should be set down to my Account.
+
+_Trull._ Mrs. _Slammekin_, that is not fair. For you know one of them
+was taken in Bed with me.
+
+_Jenny._ As far as a Bowl of Punch or a Treat, I believe Mrs. _Suky_
+will join with me. --As for any thing else, Ladies, you cannot in
+Conscience expect it.
+
+_Mrs. Slammekin._ Dear Madam--
+
+_Trull._ I would not for the World--
+
+_Mrs. Slammekin._ 'Tis impossible for me--
+
+_Trull._ As I hope to be sav'd, Madam--
+
+_Mrs. Slammekin._ Nay, then I must stay here all Night--
+
+_Trull._ Since you command me.
+
+    [Exeunt with great Ceremony.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE II. _Newgate._
+
+  _Lockit_, Turnkeys, _Macheath_, Constables.
+
+_Lockit._ Noble Captain, you are welcome. You have not been a Lodger of
+mine this Year and half. You know the Custom, Sir. Garnish, Captain,
+Garnish. Hand me down those Fetters there.
+
+_Macheath._ Those, Mr. _Lockit_, seem to be the heaviest of the whole
+Set. With your Leave, I should like the further Pair better.
+
+_Lockit._ Look ye, Captain, we know what is fittest for our Prisoners.
+When a Gentleman uses me with Civility, I always do the best I can to
+please him. --Hand them down I say. --We have them of all Prices, from
+one Guinea to ten, and 'tis fitting every Gentleman should please
+himself.
+
+_Macheath._ I understand you, Sir. [Gives Money.] The Fees here are so
+many, and so exorbitant, that few Fortunes can bear the Expence of
+getting off handsomly, or of dying like a Gentleman.
+
+_Lockit._ Those, I see, will fit the Captain better-- Take down the
+further Pair. Do but examine them, Sir. --Never was better work. --How
+genteely they are made! --They will fit as easy as a Glove, and the
+nicest Man in _England_ might not be asham'd to wear them. [He puts on
+the Chains.] If I had the best Gentleman in the Land in my Custody I
+could not equip him more handsomly. And so, Sir-- I now leave you to
+your private Meditations.
+
+    [Exeunt leaving _Macheath_ solus.
+
+
+_Macheath._
+
+AIR XXV. Courtiers, Courtiers, think it no Harm, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Man may escape from Rope and Gun;
+  Nay, some have out liv'd the Doctor's Pill;
+  Who takes a Woman must be undone,
+    That Basilisk is sure to kill.
+  The Fly that sips Treacle is lost in the Sweets,
+  So he that tastes Woman, Woman, Woman,
+    He that tastes Woman, ruin meets.
+
+To what a woful Plight have I brought myself! Here must I (all Day long,
+'till I am hang'd) be confin'd to hear the Reproaches of a Wench who
+lays her Ruin at my Door-- I am in the Custody of her Father, and to be
+sure, if he knows of the matter, I shall have a fine time on't betwixt
+this and my Execution. --But I promis'd the Wench Marriage-- What
+signifies a Promise to a Woman? Does not Man in Marriage itself promise
+a hundred things that he never means to perform? Do all we can, Women
+will believe us; for they look upon a Promise as an Excuse for following
+their own Inclinations. --But here comes _Lucy_, and I cannot get from
+her. --Wou'd I were deaf!
+
+  Enter _Lucy_.
+
+_Lucy._ You base Man you, --how can you look me in the Face after what
+hath passed between us? --See here, perfidious Wretch, how I am forc'd
+to bear about the Load of Infamy you have laid upon me-- O _Macheath_!
+thou hast robb'd me of my Quiet-- to see thee tortur'd would give me
+Pleasure.
+
+
+AIR XXVI. A lovely Lass to a Friar came, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Thus when a good Housewife sees a Rat
+    In her Trap in the Morning taken,
+  With Pleasure her Heart goes pit-a-pat,
+    In Revenge for her Loss of Bacon.
+      Then she throws him
+      To the Dog or Cat,
+    To be worried, crush'd and shaken.
+
+_Macheath._ Have you no Bowels, no Tenderness, my dear _Lucy_, to see a
+Husband in these Circumstances?
+
+_Lucy._ A Husband!
+
+_Macheath._ In ev'ry Respect but the Form, and that, my Dear, may be
+said over us at any time. --Friends should not insist upon Ceremonies.
+From a Man of Honour, his Word is as good as his Bond.
+
+_Lucy._ 'Tis the Pleasure of all you fine Men to insult the Women you
+have ruin'd.
+
+
+AIR XXVII. 'Twas when the Sea was roaring, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  How cruel are the Traitors,
+    Who lye and swear in jest,
+  To cheat unguarded Creatures
+    Of Virtue, Fame, and Rest!
+  Whoever steals a Shilling,
+    Through Shame the Guilt conceals:
+  In Love the perjur'd Villain
+    With Boasts the Theft reveals.
+
+_Macheath._ The very first Opportunity, my Dear, (have but Patience) you
+shall be my Wife in whatever manner you please.
+
+_Lucy._ Insinuating Monster! And so you think I know nothing of the
+Affair of Miss _Polly Peachum_. --I could tear thy Eyes out!
+
+_Macheath._ Sure, _Lucy_, you can't be such a Fool as to be jealous of
+_Polly_!
+
+_Lucy._ Are you not married to her, you Brute, you.
+
+_Macheath._ Married! Very good. The Wench gives it out only to vex thee,
+and to ruin me in thy good Opinion. 'Tis true, I go to the House; I chat
+with the Girl, I kiss her, I say a thousand things to her (as all
+Gentlemen do) that mean nothing, to divert myself; and now the silly
+Jade hath set it about that I am married to her, to let me know what she
+would be at. Indeed, my dear _Lucy_, these violent Passions may be of
+ill consequence to a Woman in your Condition.
+
+_Lucy._ Come, come, Captain, for all your Assurance, you know that Miss
+_Polly_ hath put it out of your Power to do me the Justice you
+promis'd me.
+
+_Macheath._ A jealous Woman believes every thing her Passion suggests.
+To convince you of my Sincerity, if we can find the Ordinary, I shall
+have no Scruples of making you my Wife; and I know the Consequence of
+having two at a time.
+
+_Lucy._ That you are only to be hang'd, and so get rid of them both.
+
+_Macheath._ I am ready, my dear _Lucy_, to give you Satisfaction-- if
+you think there is any in Marriage. --What can a Man of Honour say more?
+
+_Lucy._ So then, it seems, you are not married to Miss _Polly_.
+
+_Macheath._ You know, _Lucy_, the Girl is prodigiously conceited. No Man
+can say a civil thing to her, but (like other fine Ladies) her Vanity
+makes her think he's her own for ever and ever.
+
+
+AIR XXVIII. The Sun had loos'd his weary Teams, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  The first time at the Looking-glass
+    The Mother sets her Daughter,
+  The Image strikes the smiling Lass
+    With Self-love ever after,
+  Each time she looks, she, fonder grown,
+    Thinks ev'ry Charm grows stronger.
+  But alas, vain Maid, all Eyes but your own
+    Can see you are not younger.
+
+When Women consider their own Beauties, they are all alike unreasonable
+in their Demands; for they expect their Lovers should like them as long
+as they like themselves.
+
+_Lucy._ Yonder is my Father-- perhaps this way we may light upon the
+Ordinary, who shall try if you will be as good as your Word. --For I
+long to be made an honest Woman.
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+  Enter _Peachum_ and _Lockit_ with an Account-Book.
+
+_Lockit._ In this last Affair, Brother _Peachum_, we are agreed. You
+have consented to go halves in _Macheath_.
+
+_Peachum._ We shall never fall out about an Execution-- But as to that
+Article, pray how stands our last Year's Account?
+
+_Lockit._ If you will run your Eye over it, you'll find 'tis fair and
+clearly stated.
+
+_Peachum._ This long Arrear of the Government is very hard upon us! Can
+it be expected that we would hang our Acquaintance for nothing, when our
+Betters will hardly save theirs without being paid for it. Unless the
+People in Employment pay better, I promise them for the future, I shall
+let other Rogues live besides their own.
+
+_Lockit._ Perhaps, Brother, they are afraid these Matters may be carried
+too far. We are treated too by them with Contempt, as if our Profession
+were not reputable.
+
+_Peachum._ In one respect indeed our Employment may be reckon'd
+dishonest, because, like Great Statesmen, we encourage those who betray
+their Friends.
+
+_Lockit._ Such Language, Brother, any where else, might turn to your
+Prejudice. Learn to be more guarded, I beg you.
+
+
+AIR XXIX. How happy are we, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+    When you censure the Age,
+    Be cautious and sage,
+  Lest the Courtiers offended should be:
+    If you mention Vice or Bribe,
+    'Tis so pat to all the Tribe;
+  Each cries-- That was levell'd at me.
+
+_Peachum._ Here's poor _Ned Clincher's_ Name, I see. Sure, Brother
+_Lockit_, there was a little unfair Proceeding in _Ned's_ Case: for he
+told me in the Condemn'd Hold, that for Value receiv'd, you had promis'd
+him a Session or two longer without Molestation.
+
+_Lockit._ Mr. _Peachum_-- this is the first time my Honour was ever
+call'd in Question.
+
+_Peachum._ Business is at an end-- if once we act dishonourably.
+
+_Lockit._ Who accuses me?
+
+_Peachum._ You are warm, Brother.
+
+_Lockit._ He that attacks my Honour, attacks my Livelihood. --And this
+Usage-- Sir-- is not to be borne.
+
+_Peachum._ Since you provoke me to speak-- I must tell you too, that
+Mrs. _Coaxer_ charges you with defrauding her of her Information-Money,
+for the apprehending of curl-pated _Hugh_. Indeed, indeed, Brother, we
+must punctually pay our Spies, or we shall have no Information.
+
+_Lockit._ Is this Language to me, Sirrah,-- who have sav'd you from the
+Gallows, Sirrah!    [Collaring each other.
+
+_Peachum._ If I am hang'd, it shall be for ridding the World of an
+arrant Rascal.
+
+_Lockit._ This Hand shall do the Office of the Halter you deserve, and
+throttle you-- you Dog!--
+
+_Peachum._ Brother, Brother-- We are both in the Wrong-- We shall be
+both Losers in the Dispute-- for you know we have it in our Power to
+hang each other. You should not be so passionate.
+
+_Lockit._ Nor you so provoking.
+
+_Peachum._ 'Tis our mutual Interest; 'tis for the Interest of the World
+we should agree. If I said any thing, Brother, to the Prejudice of your
+Character, I ask pardon.
+
+_Lockit._ Brother _Peachum_-- I can forgive as well as resent. --Give me
+your Hand. Suspicion does not become a Friend.
+
+_Peachum._ I only meant to give you Occasion to justify yourself: But I
+must now step home, for I expect the Gentleman about this Snuff-box,
+that _Filch_ nimm'd two Nights ago in the Park. I appointed him at this
+Hour.    [Exit _Peachum_.
+
+  Enter _Lucy_.
+
+_Lockit._ Whence come you, Hussy?
+
+_Lucy._ My Tears might answer that Question.
+
+_Lockit._ You have then been whimpering and fondling, like a Spaniel,
+over the Fellow that hath abus'd you.
+
+_Lucy._ One can't help Love; one can't cure it. 'Tis not in my Power to
+obey you, and hate him.
+
+_Lockit._ Learn to bear your Husband's Death like a reasonable Woman.
+'Tis not the fashion, now-a-days, so much as to affect Sorrow upon these
+Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if she had not the Chance of
+Mortality for a Release. Act like a Woman of Spirit, Hussy, and thank
+your Father for what he is doing.
+
+
+AIR XXX. Of a noble Race was _Shenkin_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lucy._ Is then his Fate decreed, Sir?
+    Such a Man can I think of quitting?
+  When first we met, so moves me yet,
+    O see how my Heart is splitting!
+
+_Lockit._ Look ye, _Lucy_-- There is no saving him. --So, I think, you
+must ev'n do like other Widows-- buy yourself Weeds, and be chearful.
+
+
+AIR XXXI.
+
+[Music]
+
+  You'll think ere many Days ensue
+    This Sentence not severe;
+  I hang your Husband, Child, 'tis true,
+    But with him hang your Care.
+      Twang dang dillo dee.
+
+Like a good Wife, go moan over your dying Husband. That, Child is your
+Duty-- Consider, Girl, you can't have the Man and the Money too-- so
+make yourself as easy as you can, by getting all you can from him.
+
+    [Exit _Lockit_.
+
+  Enter _Macheath_.
+
+_Lucy._ Though the Ordinary was out of the way to-day, I hope, my Dear,
+you will, upon the first Opportunity, quiet my Scruples-- Oh Sir! --my
+Father's hard heart is not to be soften'd, and I am in the utmost
+Despair.
+
+_Macheath._ But if I could raise a small Sum-- Would not twenty Guineas,
+think you, move him? --Of all the Arguments in the way of Business, the
+Perquisite is the most prevailing-- Your Father's Perquisites for the
+Escape of Prisoners must amount to a considerable Sum in the Year. Money
+well tim'd, and properly apply'd, will do any thing.
+
+
+AIR XXXII. _London_ Ladies.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If you at an Office solicit your Due,
+    And would not have Matters neglected;
+  You must quicken the Clerk with the Perquisite too,
+    To do what his Duty directed.
+
+  Or would you the Frowns of a Lady prevent,
+    She too has this palpable Failing,
+  The Perquisite softens her into Consent;
+    That Reason with all is prevailing.
+
+_Lucy._ What Love or Money can do shall be done: for all my Comfort
+depends upon your Safety.
+
+  Enter _Polly_.
+
+_Polly._ Where is my dear Husband? --Was a Rope ever intended for this
+Neck! --O let me throw my Arms about it, and throttle thee with Love!
+--Why dost thou turn away from me? 'Tis thy _Polly_-- 'Tis thy Wife.
+
+_Macheath._ Was ever such an unfortunate Rascal as I am!
+
+_Lucy._ Was there ever such another Villain!
+
+_Polly._ O _Macheath_! was it for this we parted? Taken! Imprisoned!
+Try'd! Hang'd-- cruel Reflection! I'll stay with thee 'till Death-- no
+Force shall tear thy dear Wife from thee now. --What means my Love?
+--Not one kind Word! not one kind Look! think what thy _Polly_ suffers
+to see thee in this Condition.
+
+
+AIR XXXIII. All in the Downs, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Thus when the Swallow seeking Prey,
+    Within the Sash is closely pent,
+  His Consort, with bemoaning Lay,
+    Without sits pining for th' Event.
+  Her chatt'ring Lovers all around her skim;
+  She heeds them not (poor Bird!) her Soul's with him.
+
+_Macheath._ [Aside.] I must disown her. [Aloud.] The Wench is
+distracted.
+
+_Lucy._ Am I then bilk'd of my Virtue? Can I have no Reparation? Sure
+Men were born to lie, and Women to believe them! O Villain! Villain!
+
+_Polly._ Am I not thy Wife? --Thy Neglect of me, thy Aversion to me too
+severely proves it. --Look on me. --Tell me, am I not thy Wife?
+
+_Lucy._ Perfidious Wretch!
+
+_Polly._ Barbarous Husband!
+
+_Lucy._ Hadst thou been hang'd five Months ago, I had been happy.
+
+_Polly._ And I too-- If you had been kind to me 'till Death, it would
+not have vexed me-- And that's no very unreasonable Request, (though
+from a Wife) to a Man who hath not above seven or eight Days to live.
+
+_Lucy._ Art thou then married to another? Hast thou two Wives, Monster?
+
+_Macheath._ If Women's Tongues can cease for an Answer-- hear me.
+
+_Lucy._ I won't. --Flesh and Blood can't bear my Usage.
+
+_Polly._ Shall I not claim my own? Justice bids me speak.
+
+
+AIR XXXIV. Have you heard of a frolicksome Ditty, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ How happy could I be with either,
+    Were t'other dear Charmer away!
+  But while you thus teaze me together,
+    To neither a Word will I say;
+      But tol de rol, &c.
+
+_Polly._ Sure, my Dear, there ought to be some Preference shewn to a
+Wife! At least she may claim the Appearance of it. He must be distracted
+with his Misfortunes, or he could not use me thus.
+
+_Lucy._ O Villain, Villain! thou hast deceiv'd me. --I could even inform
+against thee with Pleasure. Not a Prude wishes more heartily to have
+Facts against her intimate Acquaintance, than I now wish to have Facts
+against thee. I would have her Satisfaction, and they should all out.
+
+
+AIR XXXV. _Irish_ Trot.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ I am bubbled.
+  _Lucy._ . . . . I'm bubbled.
+  _Polly._ O how I am troubled!
+  _Lucy._ Bambouzled, and bit!
+  _Polly._ . . . . . . My Distresses are doubled.
+  _Lucy._ When you come to the Tree, should the Hangman refuse,
+  These Fingers, with Pleasure, could fasten the Noose.
+  _Polly._ I'm bubbled, &c.
+
+_Macheath._ Be pacified, my dear _Lucy_-- This is all a Fetch of
+_Polly's_, to make me desperate with you in case I get off. If I am
+hang'd, she would fain have the Credit of being thought my Widow--
+Really, _Polly_, this is no time for a Dispute of this sort; for
+whenever you are talking of Marriage, I am thinking of Hanging.
+
+_Polly._ And hast thou the Heart to persist in disowning me?
+
+_Macheath._ And hast thou the Heart to persist in persuading me that I
+am married? Why, _Polly_, dost thou seek to aggravate my Misfortunes?
+
+_Lucy._ Really, Miss _Peachum_, you but expose yourself. Besides, 'tis
+barbarous in you to worry a Gentleman in his Circumstances.
+
+
+AIR XXXVI.
+
+[Music]
+
+    _Polly._ Cease your Funning;
+    Force or Cunning
+  Never shall my Heart trapan.
+    All these Sallies
+    Are but Malice
+  To seduce my constant Man.
+    'Tis most certain,
+    By their flirting
+  Women oft' have Envy shown.
+    Pleas'd, to ruin
+    Others wooing;
+  Never happy in their own.
+
+_Polly._ Decency, Madam, methinks might teach you to behave yourself
+with some Reserve with the Husband, while his Wife is present.
+
+_Macheath._ But seriously, _Polly_, this is carrying the Joke a little
+too far.
+
+_Lucy._ If you are determin'd, Madam, to raise a Disturbance in the
+Prison, I shall be obliged to send for the Turnkey to shew you the Door.
+I am sorry, Madam, you force me to be so ill-bred.
+
+_Polly._ Give me leave to tell you, Madam: These forward Airs don't
+become you in the least, Madam. And my Duty, Madam, obliges me to stay
+with my Husband, Madam.
+
+
+AIR XXXVII. Good-morrow, Gossip _Joan_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lucy._ Why how now, Madam _Flirt_?
+      If you thus must chatter;
+  And are for flinging Dirt,
+    Let's try who best can spatter;
+        Madam _Flirt_.
+
+  _Polly._ Why how now, saucy Jade;
+    Sure the Wench is tipsy!
+  How can you see me made  [To him.
+    The Scoff of such a Gipsy?
+        Saucy Jade!  [To her.
+
+  Enter _Peachum_.
+
+_Peachum._ Where's my Wench? Ah Hussy! Hussy! --Come you home, you Slut;
+and when your Fellow is hang'd, hang yourself, to make your Family some
+Amends.
+
+_Polly._ Dear, dear Father, do not tear me from him-- I must speak;
+I have more to say to him-- Oh! twist thy Fetters about me, that he may
+not haul me from thee!
+
+_Peachum._ Sure all Women are alike! If ever they commit the Folly, they
+are sure to commit another by exposing themselves-- Away-- Not a Word
+more-- You are my Prisoner, now, Hussy.
+
+
+AIR XXXVIII. _Irish_ Howl.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ No Power on Earth can e'er divide
+  The Knot that sacred Love hath ty'd.
+  When Parents draw against our Mind,
+  The True-Love's Knot they faster bind.
+    Oh, oh ray, oh Amborah-- oh, oh, &c.
+
+    [Holding _Macheath_, _Peachum_ pulling her.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE III. The Same.
+
+  _Lucy_, _Macheath_.
+
+_Macheath._ I am naturally compassionate, Wife; so that I could not use
+the Wench as she deserv'd; which made you at first suspect there was
+something in what she said.
+
+_Lucy._ Indeed, my Dear, I was strangely puzzled.
+
+_Macheath._ If that had been the Case, her Father would never have
+brought me into this Circumstance-- No, _Lucy_,-- I had rather die than
+be false to thee.
+
+_Lucy._ How happy am I, if you say this from your Heart! For I love thee
+so, that I could sooner bear to see thee hang'd than in the Arms of
+another.
+
+_Macheath._ But could'st thou bear to see me hang'd?
+
+_Lucy._ O _Macheath_, I can never live to see that Day.
+
+_Macheath._ You see, _Lucy_; in the Account of Love you are in my Debt,
+and you must now be convinc'd, that I rather choose to die than be
+another's. --Make me, if possible, love thee more, and let me owe my
+Life to thee-- If you refuse to assist me, _Peachum_ and your Father
+will immediately put me beyond all means of Escape.
+
+_Lucy._ My Father, I know, hath been drinking hard with the Prisoners:
+and I fancy he is now taking his Nap in his own Room-- If I can procure
+the Keys, shall I go off with thee, my Dear?
+
+_Macheath._ If we are together, 'twill be impossible to lie conceal'd.
+As soon as the Search begins to be a little cool, I will send to thee--
+'Till then my Heart is thy Prisoner.
+
+_Lucy._ Come then, my dear Husband-- owe thy Life to me-- and though you
+love me not-- be grateful,-- but that _Polly_ runs in my Head strangely.
+
+_Macheath._ A moment of Time may make us unhappy for ever.
+
+
+AIR XXXIX. The Lass of _Patie's_ Mill, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lucy._ I like the Fox shall grieve,
+    Whose Mate hath left her Side,
+  Whom Hounds from Morn to Eve,
+    Chase o'er the Country wide.
+  Where can my Lover hide?
+    Where cheat the wary Pack?
+  If Love be not his Guide,
+    He never will come back!
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ACT III. SCENE I.
+
+_SCENE, Newgate._
+
+  _Lockit_, _Lucy_.
+
+_Lockit._ To be sure, Wench, you must have been aiding and abetting to
+help him to this Escape.
+
+_Lucy._ Sir, here hath been _Peachum_ and his Daughter _Polly_, and to
+be sure they know the Ways of _Newgate_ as well as if they had been born
+and bred in the Place all their Lives. Why must all your Suspicion light
+upon me?
+
+_Lockit._ _Lucy_, _Lucy_, I will have none of these shuffling Answers.
+
+_Lucy._ Well then-- If I know any thing of him I wish I may be burnt!
+
+_Lockit._ Keep your Temper, _Lucy_, or I shall pronounce you guilty.
+
+_Lucy._ Keep yours, Sir,-- I do wish I may be burnt. I do-- And what can
+I say more to convince you?
+
+_Lockit._ Did he tip handsomly? --How much did he come down with? Come,
+Hussy, don't cheat your Father; and I shall not be angry with you--
+Perhaps, you have made a better Bargain with him than I could have
+done-- How much, my good Girl?
+
+_Lucy._ You know, Sir, I am fond of him, and would have given Money to
+have kept him with me.
+
+_Lockit._ Ah _Lucy_! thy Education might have put thee more upon thy
+Guard; for a Girl in the Bar of an Ale-house is always besieg'd.
+
+_Lucy._ Dear Sir, mention not my Education-- for 'twas to that I owe my
+Ruin.
+
+
+AIR XL. If Love's a sweet Passion, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  When young at the Bar you first taught me to score,
+  And bid me be free of my Lips, and no more;
+  I was kiss'd by the Parson, the Squire, and the Sot,
+  When the Guest was departed, the Kiss was forgot.
+  But his Kiss was so sweet, and so closely he prest,
+  That I languish'd and pin'd till I granted the rest.
+
+If you can forgive me, Sir, I will make a fair Confession, for to be
+sure he hath been a most barbarous Villain to me.
+
+_Lockit._ And so you have let him escape, Hussy-- Have you?
+
+_Lucy._ When a Woman loves; a kind Look, a tender Word can persuade her
+to any thing-- And I could ask no other Bribe.
+
+_Lockit._ Thou wilt always be a vulgar Slut, _Lucy_. --If you would not
+be look'd upon as a Fool, you should never do any thing but upon the
+foot of Interest. Those that act otherwise are their own Bubbles.
+
+_Lucy._ But Love, Sir, is a Misfortune that may happen to the most
+discreet Women, and in Love we are all Fools alike-- Notwithstanding all
+he swore, I am now fully convinc'd that _Polly Peachum_ is actually his
+Wife. --Did I let him escape, (Fool that I was!) to go to her? --_Polly_
+will wheedle herself into his Money, and then _Peachum_ will hang him,
+and cheat us both.
+
+_Lockit._ So I am to be ruin'd, because, forsooth, you must be in Love!
+--a very pretty Excuse!
+
+_Lucy._ I could murder that impudent happy Strumpet: --I gave him his
+Life, and that Creature enjoys the Sweets of it. --Ungrateful
+_Macheath_!
+
+
+AIR XLI. _South-Sea_ Ballad.
+
+[Music]
+
+  My Love is all Madness and Folly,
+      Alone I lie,
+    Toss, tumble, and cry,
+  What a happy Creature is _Polly_!
+  Was e'er such a Wretch as I!
+  With rage I redden like Scarlet,
+  That my dear inconstant Varlet,
+    Stark blind to my Charms,
+    Is lost in the Arms
+  Of that Jilt, that inveigling Harlot!
+    Stark blind to my Charms,
+    Is lost in the Arms
+  Of that Jilt, that inveigling Harlot!
+  This, this my Resentment alarms.
+
+_Lockit._ And so, after all this Mischief, I must stay here to be
+entertain'd with your Catterwauling, Mrs. Puss! --Out of my Sight,
+wanton Strumpet! you shall fast and mortify yourself into Reason, with
+now and then a little handsom Discipline to bring you to your Senses.
+--Go.    [Exit _Lucy_.
+
+_Peachum_ then intends to outwit me in this Affair; but I'll be even
+with him. --The Dog is leaky in his Liquor, so I'll ply him that way,
+get the Secret from him, and turn this Affair to my own Advantage.
+--Lions, Wolves, and Vultures don't live together in Herds, Droves or
+Flocks. --Of all Animals of Prey, Man is the only sociable one. Every
+one of us preys upon his Neighbour, and yet we herd together.
+--_Peachum_ is my Companion, my Friend. --According to the Custom of the
+World, indeed, he may quote thousands of Precedents for cheating me--
+And shall not I make use of the Privilege of Friendship to make him a
+Return.
+
+
+AIR XLII. _Packington's_ Pound.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Thus Gamesters united in Friendship are found,
+  Though they know that their Industry all is a Cheat;
+  They flock to their Prey at the Dice-Box's Sound,
+  And join to promote one another's Deceit.
+    But if by mishap
+    They fail of a Chap,
+  To keep in their Hands, they each other entrap.
+  Like Pikes, lank with Hunger, who miss of their Ends,
+  They bite their Companions, and prey on their Friends.
+
+Now, _Peachum_, you and I, like honest Tradesmen, are to have a fair
+Trial which of us two can over-reach the other.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE II. _A Gaming-House._
+
+  _Macheath_ in a fine tarnish'd Coat, _Ben Budge_, _Matt of the Mint_.
+
+_Macheath._ I am sorry, Gentlemen, the Road was so barren of Money. When
+my Friends are in Difficulties, I am always glad that my Fortune can be
+serviceable to them. [Gives them Money.] You see, Gentlemen, I am not a
+mere Court Friend, who professes every thing and will do nothing.
+
+
+AIR XLIII. Lillibullero.
+
+[Music]
+
+  The Modes of the Court so common are grown,
+    That a true Friend can hardly be met;
+  Friendship for Interest is but a Loan,
+    Which they let out for what they can get.
+        'Tis true, you find
+        Some Friends so kind,
+  Who will give you good Counsel themselves to defend.
+        In sorrowful Ditty,
+        They promise, they pity,
+  But shift for your Money, from Friend to Friend.
+
+But we, Gentlemen, have still Honour enough to break through the
+Corruptions of the World. --And while I can serve you, you may
+command me.
+
+_Ben._ It grieves my Heart that so generous a Man should be involv'd in
+such Difficulties, as oblige him to live with such ill Company, and herd
+with Gamesters.
+
+_Matt._ See the Partiality of Mankind! --One Man may steal a Horse,
+better than another look over a Hedge. --Of all Mechanics, of all
+servile Handicrafts-men, a Gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of
+the Quality are of the Profession, he is admitted amongst the politest
+Company. I wonder we are not more respected.
+
+_Macheath._ There will be deep Play to-night at _Mary-bone_, and
+consequently Money may be pick'd up upon the Road. Meet me there, and
+I'll give you the Hint who is worth Setting.
+
+_Matt._ The Fellow with a brown Coat with a narrow Gold Binding, I am
+told, is never without Money.
+
+_Macheath._ What do you mean, _Matt_? --Sure you will not think of
+meddling with him! --He's a good honest kind of a Fellow, and one of us.
+
+_Ben._ To be sure, Sir, we will put ourselves under your Direction.
+
+_Macheath._ Have an Eye upon the Money-Lenders. --A _Rouleau_, or two,
+would prove a pretty sort of an Expedition. I hate Extortion.
+
+_Matt._ Those Rouleaus are very pretty Things. --I hate your Bank Bills.
+--There is such a Hazard in putting them off.
+
+_Macheath._ There is a certain Man of Distinction, who in his Time hath
+nick'd me out of a great deal of the Ready. He is in my Cash, Ben;
+--I'll point him out to you this Evening, and you shall draw upon him
+for the Debt. --The Company are met; I hear the Dice-Box in the other
+Room. So, Gentlemen, your Servant. You'll meet me at _Mary-bone_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE III. _Peachum's_ Lock.
+
+_A Table with Wine, Brandy, Pipes and Tobacco._
+
+  _Peachum_, _Lockit_.
+
+_Lockit._ The Coronation Account, Brother _Peachum_, is of so intricate
+a nature, that I believe it will never be settled.
+
+_Peachum._ It consists indeed of a great Variety of Articles. --It was
+worth to our People, in Fees of different kinds, above ten Instalments.
+--This is part of the Account, Brother, that lies open before us.
+
+_Lockit._ A Lady's Tail of rich Brocade. --that, I see, is dispos'd of.
+
+_Peachum._ To Mrs. _Diana Trapes_, the Tally-Woman, and she will make a
+good Hand on't in Shoes and Slippers, to trick out young Ladies, upon
+their going into Keeping.--
+
+_Lockit._ But I don't see any Article of the Jewels.
+
+_Peachum._ Those are so well known that they must be sent abroad--
+You'll find them enter'd under the Article of Exportation. --As for the
+Snuff-Boxes, Watches, Swords, &c. --I thought it best to enter them
+under their several Heads.
+
+_Lockit._ Seven and twenty Women's Pockets complete; with the several
+things therein contain'd; all Seal'd, Number'd, and Enter'd.
+
+_Peachum._ But, Brother, it is impossible for us now to enter upon this
+Affair, --We should have the whole Day before us. --Besides, the Account
+of the last Half Year's Plate is in a Book by itself, which lies at the
+other Office.
+
+_Lockit._ Bring us then more Liquor-- To-day shall be for Pleasure--
+To-morrow for Business-- Ah, Brother, those Daughters of ours are two
+slippery Hussies-- Keep a watchful Eye upon _Polly_, and _Macheath_ in a
+Day or two shall be our own again.
+
+
+AIR XLIV. Down in the North Country, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lockit._ What Gudgeons are we Men!
+    Ev'ry Woman's easy Prey.
+  Though we have felt the Hook, agen
+    We bite and they betray.
+
+  The Bird that hath been trapt,
+    When he hears his calling Mate,
+  To her he flies, again he's clapt
+    Within the wiry Grate.
+
+_Peachum._ But what signifies catching the Bird, if your Daughter _Lucy_
+will set open the Door of the Cage?
+
+_Lockit._ If men were answerable for the Follies and Frailties of their
+Wives and Daughters, no Friends could keep a good Correspondence
+together for two Days. --This in unkind of you, Brother; for among good
+Friends, what they say or do goes for nothing.
+
+  Enter _a Servant_.
+
+_Servant._ Sir, here's Mrs. _Diana Trapes_ wants to speak with you.
+
+_Peachum._ Shall we admit her, Brother _Lockit_?
+
+_Lockit._ By all means, --She's a good Customer, and a fine-spoken
+Woman-- And a Woman who drinks and talks so freely, will enliven the
+Conversation.
+
+_Peachum._ Desire her to walk in.    [Exit Servant.
+
+  _Peachum_, _Lockit_, Mrs. _Trapes_.
+
+_Peachum._ Dear Mrs. _Dye_, your Servant-- One may know by your Kiss,
+that your Ginn is excellent.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ I was always very curious in my Liquors.
+
+_Lockit._ There is no perfum'd Breath like it-- I have been long
+acquainted with the Flavour of those Lips-- Han't I, Mrs. _Dye_.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ Fill it up-- I take as large Draughts of Liquor, as I did
+of Love. --I hate a Flincher in either.
+
+
+AIR XLV. A Shepherd kept Sheep, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  In the Days of my Youth I could bill like a Dove,
+      _fa, la, la, &c._
+  Like a Sparrow at all times was ready for Love,
+      _fa, la, la, &c._
+  The Life of all Mortals in Kissing should pass,
+  Lip to Lip while we're young-- then the Lip to the Glass,
+      _fa, la, &c._
+
+But now, Mr. _Peachum_, to our Business. --If you have Blacks of any
+kind, brought in of late; Mantoes-- Velvet Scarfs-- Petticoats-- Let it
+be what it will-- I am your Chap-- for all my Ladies are very fond of
+Mourning.
+
+_Peachum._ Why, look ye, Mrs. _Dye_-- you deal so hard with us, that we
+can afford to give the Gentlemen, who venture their Lives for the Goods,
+little or nothing.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ The hard Times oblige me to go very near in my Dealing.
+--To be sure, of late Years I have been a great Sufferer by the
+Parliament. --Three thousand Pounds would hardly make me amends. --The
+Act for destroying the Mint, was a severe Cut upon our Business-- 'Till
+then, if a Customer stept out of the way-- we knew where to have her--
+No doubt you know Mrs. _Coaxer_-- there's a Wench now ('till to-day)
+with a good Suit of Clothes of mine upon her Back, and I could never set
+Eyes upon her for three Months together. --Since the Act too against
+Imprisonment for small Sums, my Loss there too hath been very
+considerable, and it must be so, when a Lady can borrow a handsom
+Petticoat, or a clean Gown, and I not have the least Hank upon her!
+And, o' my Conscience, now-a-days most Ladies take a Delight in
+cheating, when they can do it with Safety.
+
+_Peachum._ Madam, you had a handsom Gold Watch of us 'tother Day for
+seven Guineas. --Considering we must have our Profit. --To a Gentleman
+upon the Road, a Gold Watch will be scarce worth the taking.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ Consider, Mr. _Peachum_, that Watch was remarkable, and
+not of very safe Sale. --If you have any black Velvet Scarfs-- they are
+a handsom Winter-wear, and take with most Gentlemen who deal with my
+Customers. --'Tis I that put the Ladies upon a good Foot. 'Tis not Youth
+or Beauty that fixes their Price. The Gentlemen always pay according to
+their Dress, from half a Crown to two Guineas; and yet those Hussies
+make nothing of bilking of me. --Then too, allowing for Accidents.
+--I have eleven fine Customers now down under the Surgeon's Hands-- what
+with Fees and other Expenses, there are great Goings-out, and no Comings
+in, and not a Farthing to pay for at least a Month's Clothing. --We run
+great Risques-- great Risques indeed.
+
+_Peachum._ As I remember, you said something just now of Mrs. _Coaxer_.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ Yes, Sir. --To be sure I stript her of a Suit of my own
+Clothes about two Hours ago; and have left her as she should be, in her
+Shift, with a Lover of hers at my House. She call'd him up Stairs, as he
+was going to _Mary-bone_ in a Hackney Coach. --And I hope, for her own
+sake and mine, she will persuade the Captain to redeem her, for the
+Captain is very generous to the Ladies.
+
+_Lockit._ What Captain?
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ He thought I did not know him-- An intimate Acquaintance
+of yours, Mr. _Peachum_-- Only Captain _Macheath_-- as fine as a Lord.
+
+_Peachum._ To-morrow, dear Mrs. _Dye_, you shall set your own Price upon
+any of the Goods you like-- We have at least half a Dozen Velvet Scarfs,
+and all at your Service. Will you give me leave to make you a Present of
+this Suit of Night-clothes for your own wearing? --But are you sure it
+is Captain _Macheath_.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ Though he thinks I have forgot him; no body knows him
+better. I have taken a great deal of the Captain's Money in my Time at
+second-hand, for he always lov'd to have his Ladies well drest.
+
+_Peachum._ Mr. _Lockit_ and I have a little Business with the Captain;--
+You understand me-- and we will satisfy you for Mrs. _Coaxer's_ Debt.
+
+_Lockit._ Depend upon it-- we will deal like Men of Honour.
+
+_Mrs. Trapes._ I don't enquire after your Affairs-- so whatever happens,
+I wash my Hands on't-- It hath always been my Maxim, that one Friend
+should assist another-- But if you please-- I'll take one of the Scarfs
+home with me. 'Tis always good to have something in Hand.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE IV. _Newgate._
+
+_Lucy._ Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear are at once tearing me to pieces,
+How I am weather-beaten and shatter'd with Distresses!
+
+
+AIR XLVI. One Evening, having lost my Way, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+    I'm like a Skiff on the Ocean tost,
+      Now high, now low, with each Billow born,
+    With her Rudder broke, and her Anchor lost,
+      Deserted and all forlorn.
+  While thus I lie rolling and tossing all Night,
+  That _Polly_ lies sporting on Seas of Delight!
+      Revenge, Revenge, Revenge,
+    Shall appease my restless Spirit.
+
+I have the Rats-bane ready. --I run no Risque; for I can lay her Death
+upon the Ginn, and so many die of that naturally that I shall never be
+call'd in question. --But say, I were to be hang'd. --I never could be
+hang'd for any thing that would give me greater Comfort, than the
+poisoning that Slut.
+
+  Enter _Filch_.
+
+_Filch._ Madam, here's Miss _Polly_ come to wait upon you.
+
+_Lucy._ Show her in.
+
+  Enter _Polly_.
+
+Dear Madam, your Servant. --I hope you will pardon my Passion, when I
+was so happy to see you last. --I was so over-run with the Spleen, that
+I was perfectly out of myself. And really when one hath the Spleen,
+every thing is to be excus'd by a Friend.
+
+
+AIR XLVII. Now _Roger_, I'll tell thee because thou 'rt my Son.
+
+[Music]
+
+    When a Wife's in her Pout,
+    (As she's sometimes, no doubt;)
+  The good Husband as meek as a Lamb,
+    Her Vapours to still,
+    First grants her her Will,
+  And the quieting Draught is a Dram. Poor Man!
+  And the quieting Draught is a Dram.
+
+--I wish all our Quarrels might have so comfortable a Reconciliation.
+
+_Polly._ I have no Excuse for my own Behaviour, Madam, but my
+Misfortunes. --And really, Madam, I suffer too upon your Account.
+
+_Lucy._ But, Miss _Polly_-- in the way of Friendship, will you give me
+leave to propose a Glass of Cordial to you?
+
+_Polly._ Strong-Waters are apt to give me the Head-ache-- I hope, Madam,
+you will excuse me.
+
+_Lucy._ Not the greatest Lady in the Land could have better in her
+Closet, for her own private drinking. --You seem mighty low in Spirits,
+my Dear.
+
+_Polly._ I am sorry, Madam, my Health will not allow me to accept of
+your Offer. --I should not have left you in the rude manner I did when
+we met last, Madam, had not my Papa haul'd me away so unexpectedly--
+I was indeed somewhat provok'd, and perhaps might use some Expressions
+that were disrespectful. --But really, Madam, the Captain treated me
+with so much Contempt and Cruelty, that I deserv'd your Pity, rather
+than your Resentment.
+
+_Lucy._ But since his Escape, no doubt all Matters are made up again.
+--Ah _Polly_! _Polly_! 'tis I am the unhappy Wife; and he loves you as
+if you were only his Mistress.
+
+_Polly._ Sure, Madam, you cannot think me so happy as to be the object
+of your Jealousy. --A Man is always afraid of a Woman who loves him too
+well-- so that I must expect to be neglected and avoided.
+
+_Lucy._ Then our Cases, my dear _Polly_, are exactly alike. Both of us
+indeed have been too fond.
+
+
+AIR XLVIII. O _Bessy Bell_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ A Curse attend that Woman's Love,
+    Who always would be pleasing.
+
+  _Lucy._ The Pertness of the billing Dove,
+    Like Tickling, is but teazing.
+
+  _Polly._ What then in Love can Woman do:
+
+    _Lucy._ If we grow fond they shun us.
+
+  _Polly._ And when we fly them, they pursue:
+
+    _Lucy._ But leave us when they've won us.
+
+_Lucy._ Love is so very whimsical in both Sexes, that it is impossible
+to be lasting. --But my Heart is particular, and contradicts my own
+Observation.
+
+_Polly._ But really, Mistress _Lucy_, by his last Behaviour, I think I
+ought to envy you. --When I was forc'd from him, he did not shew the
+least Tenderness. --But perhaps, he hath a Heart not capable of it.
+
+
+AIR XLIX. Would Fate to me _Belinda_ give.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Among the Men, Coquettes we find,
+  Who court by turns all Woman-kind;
+  And we grant all their Hearts desir'd,
+  When they are flatter'd, and admir'd.
+
+The Coquettes of both Sexes are Self-lovers, and that is a Love no other
+whatever can dispossess. I hear, my dear _Lucy_, our Husband is one of
+those.
+
+_Lucy._ Away with these melancholy Reflections,-- indeed, my dear
+_Polly_, we are both of us a Cup too low-- Let me prevail upon you to
+accept of my Offer.
+
+
+AIR L. Come, sweet Lass.
+
+[Music]
+
+    Come, sweet Lass,
+    Let's banish Sorrow
+    'Till To-morrow;
+    Come, sweet Lass,
+  Let's take a chirping Glass.
+    Wine can clear
+    The Vapours of Despair
+    And make us light as Air;
+    Then drink, and banish Care.
+
+I can't bear, Child, to see you in such low Spirits. --And I must
+persuade you to what I know will do you good. [Aside.] I shall now soon
+be even with the hypocrytical Strumpet.    [Exit.
+
+_Polly._ All this Wheedling of _Lucy_ cannot be for nothing. --At this
+time too! when I know she hates me! --The Dissembling of a Woman is
+always the Forerunner of Mischief. --By pouring Strong-Waters down my
+Throat, she thinks to pump some Secrets out of me,-- I'll be upon my
+Guard, and won't taste a Drop of her Liquor, I'm resolv'd.
+
+  Re-enter _Lucy_, with Strong-Waters.
+
+_Lucy._ Come, Miss _Polly_.
+
+_Polly._ Indeed, Child, you have given yourself trouble to no purpose.
+--You must, my Dear, excuse me.
+
+_Lucy._ Really, Miss _Polly_, you are as squeamishly affected about
+taking a Cup of Strong-Waters as a Lady before Company. I vow, _Polly_,
+I shall take it monstrously ill if you refuse me. --Brandy and Men
+(though Women love them ever so well) are always taken by us with some
+Reluctance-- unless 'tis in private.
+
+_Polly._ I protest, Madam, it goes against me. --What do I see!
+_Macheath_ again in Custody! --Now every Glimm'ring of Happiness is
+lost.
+
+    [Drops the Glass of Liquor on the Ground.
+
+_Lucy._ Since things are thus, I'm glad the Wench hath escap'd: for by
+this Event, 'tis plain, she was not happy enough to deserve to be
+poison'd.
+
+  Enter _Lockit_, _Macheath_, _Peachum_.
+
+_Lockit._ Set your Heart to rest, Captain. --You have neither the Chance
+of Love or Money for another Escape,-- for you are order'd to be call'd
+down upon your Trial immediately.
+
+_Peachum._ Away, Hussies! --This is not a Time for a Man to be hamper'd
+with his Wives. --You see, the Gentleman is in Chains already.
+
+_Lucy._ O Husband, Husband, my Heart long'd to see thee; but to see thee
+thus distracts me?
+
+_Polly._ Will not my dear Husband look upon his _Polly_? Why hadst thou
+not flown to me for Protection? with me thou hadst been safe.
+
+
+AIR LI. The last time I went o'er the Moor.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Polly._ Hither, dear Husband, turn your Eyes.
+
+    _Lucy._ Bestow one Glance to cheer me.
+
+  _Polly._ Think with that Look, thy _Polly_ dies.
+
+    _Lucy._ O shun me not-- but hear me.
+
+  _Polly._ 'Tis _Polly_ sues.
+
+  _Lucy._                     --'Tis _Lucy_ speaks.
+
+    _Polly._ Is thus true Love requited?
+
+  _Lucy._ My Heart is bursting.
+
+  _Polly._                  --Mine too breaks.
+
+    _Lucy._ Must I
+
+  _Polly._       --Must I be slighted?
+
+_Macheath._ What would you have me say, Ladies? --You see this affair
+will soon be at an end, without my disobliging either of you.
+
+_Peachum._ But the settling this Point, Captain, might prevent a
+Law-Suit between your two Widows.
+
+
+AIR LII. _Tom Tinker's_ my true Love.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ Which way shall I turn me-- How can I decide?
+  Wives, the Day of our Death, are as fond as a Bride.
+  One Wife is too much for most Husbands to hear,
+  But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
+  This way, and that way, and which way I will,
+  What would comfort the one, t' other Wife would take ill.
+
+_Polly._ But if his own Misfortunes have made him insensible to mine--
+A Father sure will be more compassionate-- Dear, dear Sir, sink the
+material Evidence, and bring him off at his Trial-- _Polly_ upon her
+Knees begs it of you.
+
+
+AIR LIII. I am a poor Shepherd undone.
+
+[Music]
+
+  When my Heroe in Court appears,
+    And stands arraign'd for his Life;
+  Then think of poor _Polly's_ Tears;
+    For Ah! poor _Polly's_ his Wife.
+  Like the Sailor he holds up his hand,
+    Distrest on the dashing Wave.
+  To die a dry Death at Land,
+    Is as bad as a watery Grave.
+      And alas, poor _Polly_!
+      Alack, and well-a-day!
+      Before I was in Love,
+      Oh! every Month was _May_.
+
+_Lucy._ If _Peachum's_ Heart is harden'd; sure you, Sir, will have more
+Compassion on a Daughter. --I know the Evidence is in your Power. --How
+then can you be a Tyrant to me?    [Kneeling.
+
+
+AIR LIV. _Ianthe_ the lovely, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  When he holds up his Hand arraign'd for his Life,
+  O think of your Daughter, and think I'm his Wife!
+  What are Canons, or Bombs, or clashing of Swords?
+  For Death is more certain by Witnesses Words.
+  Then nail up their Lips; that dread Thunder allay;
+  And each Month of my Life will hereafter be _May_.
+
+_Lockit._ _Macheath's_ Time is come, _Lucy_. --We know our own Affairs,
+therefore let us have no more Whimpering or Whining.
+
+
+AIR LV. A Cobler there was, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Ourselves, like the Great, to secure a Retreat,
+  When Matters require it, must give up our Gang:
+    And good reason why,
+    Or, instead of the Fry,
+    Ev'n _Peachum_ and I.
+  Like poor petty Rascals, might hang, hang;
+  Like poor petty Rascals, might hang.
+
+_Peachum._ Set your Heart at rest, _Polly_. --Your Husband is to die
+to-day. --Therefore if you are not already provided, 'tis high time to
+look about for another. There's Comfort for you, you Slut.
+
+_Lockit._ We are ready, Sir, to conduct you to the _Old Baily_.
+
+
+AIR LVI. Bonny _Dundee_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Macheath._ The Charge is prepar'd; the Lawyers are met,
+  The Judges all rang'd (a terrible Show!)
+  I go, undismay'd. --For Death is a Debt,
+  A Debt on Demand. --So take what I owe.
+  Then farewell, my Love-- Dear Charmers, adieu.
+  Contented I die-- 'Tis the better for you.
+  Here ends all Disputes the rest of our Lives,
+  For this way at once I please all my Wives.
+
+Now, Gentlemen, I am ready to attend you.
+
+    [Exeunt _Macheath_, _Lockit_, and _Peachum_.
+
+  Enter _Filch_.
+
+_Polly._ Follow them, _Filch_, to the Court. And when the Trial is over,
+bring me a particular Account of his Behaviour, and of every thing that
+happen'd-- You'll find me here with Miss _Lucy_. [Exit _Filch_.] But why
+is all this Musick?
+
+_Lucy._ The Prisoners, whose Trials are put off 'till next Session, are
+diverting themselves.
+
+_Polly._ Sure there is nothing so charming as Music! I'm fond of it to
+Distraction! --But alas! --now, all Mirth seems an Insult upon my
+Affliction. --Let us retire, my dear _Lucy_, and indulge our Sorrows.
+--The noisy Crew, you see, are coming upon us.
+
+    [Exeunt.
+
+_A Dance of Prisoners in Chains, &c._
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SCENE V. _The _Condemn'd Hold_._
+
+  _Macheath_, in a melancholy Posture.
+
+
+AIR LVII. Happy Groves.
+
+[Music]
+
+  O cruel, cruel, cruel Case!
+  Must I suffer this Disgrace?
+
+
+AIR LVIII. Of all the Girls that are so smart.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Of all the Friends in time of Grief,
+    When threatning Death looks grimmer,
+  Not one so sure can bring Relief,
+    As this best Friend, a Brimmer.    [Drinks.
+
+
+AIR LIX. _Britons_ strike home.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Since I must swing,-- I scorn, I scorn to wince or whine.
+
+    [Rises.
+
+
+AIR LX. Chevy Chase.
+
+[Music]
+
+  But now again my Spirits sink;
+  I'll raise them high with Wine.    [Drinks a Glass of Wine.
+
+
+AIR LXI. To old Sir _Simon_ the King.
+
+[Music]
+
+  But Valour the stronger grows,
+    The stronger Liquor we'er drinking;
+  And how can we feel our Woes,
+    When we've lost the Trouble of Thinking?    [Drinks.
+
+
+AIR LXII. Joy to Great _Caesar_.
+
+[Music]
+
+  If thus-- A Man can die
+  Much bolder with Brandy.    [Pours out a Bumper of Brandy.
+
+
+AIR LXIII. There was an old Woman.
+
+[Music]
+
+  So I drink off this Bumper. --And now I can stand the Test,
+  And my Comrades shall see, that I die as brave as the Best.
+
+    [Drinks.
+
+
+AIR LXIV. Did you ever hear of a gallant Sailor.
+
+[Music]
+
+  But can I leave my pretty Hussies,
+  Without one Tear, or tender Sigh?
+
+
+AIR LXV. Why are mine Eyes still flowing.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Their Eyes, their Lips, their Busses
+  Recall my Love,-- Ah must I die!
+
+
+AIR LXVI. Green Sleeves.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Since Laws were made for ev'ry Degree,
+  To curb Vice in others, as well as me,
+  I wonder we han't better Company,
+      Upon _Tyburn_ Tree!
+  But Gold from Law can take out the Sting;
+  And if rich Men like us were to swing,
+  'Twou'd thin the Land, such Numbers to string
+      Upon _Tyburn_ Tree!
+
+_Jailor._ Some Friends of yours, Captain, desire to be admitted--
+I leave you together.
+
+  Enter _Ben Budge_, _Matt of the Mint_.
+
+_Macheath._ For my having broke Prison, you see, Gentlemen, I am order'd
+immediate Execution. --The Sheriff's Officers, I believe, are now at the
+Door. --That _Jemmy Twitcher_ should peach me, I own surpris'd me!
+--'Tis a plain Proof that the World is all alike, and that even our Gang
+can no more trust one another than other People. Therefore, I beg you,
+Gentlemen, look well to yourselves, for in all probability you may live
+some Months longer.
+
+_Matt._ We are heartily sorry, Captain, for your Misfortune. --But 'tis
+what we must all come to.
+
+_Macheath._ _Peachum_ and _Lockit_, you know, are infamous Scoundrels.
+Their Lives are as much in your Power, as yours are in theirs.
+--Remember your dying Friend! --'Tis my last Request. --Bring those
+Villains to the Gallows before you, and I am satisfied.
+
+_Matt._ We'll do't.
+
+_Jailor._ Miss _Polly_ and Miss _Lucy_ intreat a Word with you.
+
+_Macheath._ Gentlemen, adieu.
+
+    [Exeunt _Ben Budge_ and _Matt_.
+
+  Enter _Lucy_ and _Polly_.
+
+_Macheath._ My dear _Lucy_-- My dear _Polly_-- Whatsoever hath pass'd
+between us is now at an end-- If you are fond of marrying again, the
+best Advice I can give you, is to Ship yourselves off for the
+_West-Indies_, where you'll have a fair Chance of getting a Husband
+a-piece, or by good Luck, two or three, as you like best.
+
+_Polly._ How can I support this Sight!
+
+_Lucy._ There is nothing moves one so much as a great Man in Distress.
+
+
+AIR LXVII. All you that must take a Leap, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  _Lucy._ Would I might be hang'd!
+
+  _Polly._              --And I would so too!
+
+  _Lucy._ To be hang'd with you.
+
+  _Polly._                 --My Dear, with you.
+
+  _Macheath._ O leave me to Thought! I fear! I doubt!
+  I tremble! I droop! --See, my Courage is out.
+
+  [Turns up the empty Bottle.
+
+  _Polly._ No Token of Love?
+
+  _Macheath._            --See, my Courage is out.
+
+  [Turns up the empty Pot.
+
+  _Lucy._ No Token of Love?
+
+  _Polly._           --Adieu.
+
+  _Lucy._                 --Farewell.
+
+  _Macheath._ But hark! I hear the Toll of the Bell.
+
+  _Chorus._ Tol de rol lol, &c.
+
+_Jailor._ Four Women more, Captain, with a Child apiece! See, here they
+come.
+
+    [Enter Women and Children.
+
+_Macheath._ What-- four Wives more! --This is too much-- Here-- tell the
+Sheriff's Officers I am ready.    [Exit _Macheath_ guarded.
+
+_To them, Enter _Player_ and _Beggar_._
+
+_Player._ But, honest Friend, I hope you don't intend that _Macheath_
+shall be really executed.
+
+_Beggar._ Most certainly, Sir. --To make the Piece perfect, I was for
+doing strict poetical Justice. --_Macheath_ is to be hang'd; and for the
+other Personages of the Drama, the Audience must have suppos'd they were
+all either hang'd or transported.
+
+_Player._ Why then, Friend, this is a downright deep Tragedy. The
+Catastrophe is manifestly wrong, for an Opera must end happily.
+
+_Beggar._ Your Objection, Sir, is very just, and is easily remov'd. For
+you must allow, that in this kind of Drama, 'tis no matter how absurdly
+things are brought about-- So-- you Rabble there-- run and cry,
+A Reprieve! --let the Prisoner be brought back to his Wives in Triumph.
+
+_Player._ All this we must do, to comply with the Taste of the Town.
+
+_Beggar._ Through the whole Piece you may observe such a Similitude of
+Manners in high and low Life, that it is difficult to determine whether
+(in the fashionable Vices) the fine Gentlemen imitate the Gentlemen of
+the Road, or the Gentlemen of the Road the fine Gentlemen. --Had the
+Play remained, as I at first intended, it would have carried a most
+excellent Moral. 'Twould have shewn that the lower Sort of People have
+their Vices in a degree as well as the Rich: And that they are punish'd
+for them.
+
+_To them, _Macheath_ with _Rabble_, &c._
+
+_Macheath._ So, it seems, I am not left to my Choice, but must have a
+Wife at last. --Look ye, my Dears, we will have no Controversy now. Let
+us give this Day to Mirth, and I am sure she who thinks herself my Wife
+will testify her Joy by a Dance.
+
+_All._ Come, a Dance-- a Dance.
+
+_Macheath._ Ladies, I hope you will give me leave to present a Partner
+to each of you. And (if I may without Offence) for this time, I take
+_Polly_ for mine. --And for Life, you Slut,-- for we were really
+marry'd. --As for the rest. --But at present keep your own Secret.
+
+    [To _Polly_.
+
+A DANCE.
+
+
+AIR LXVIII. Lumps of Pudding, &c.
+
+[Music]
+
+  Thus I stand like the _Turk_, with his Doxies around;
+  From all Sides their Glances his Passion confound;
+  For Black, Brown, and Fair, his Inconstancy burns,
+  And the different Beauties subdue him by turns:
+  Each calls forth her Charms to provoke his Desires:
+  Though willing to all, with but one he retires.
+  But think of this Maxim, and put off your Sorrow,
+  The Wretch of To-day, may be happy To-morrow.
+
+  _Chorus._ But think of this Maxim, &c.
+
+
+FINIS.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+  Printed in Great Britain by
+  Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
+  Bungay, Suffolk.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Errata Noted by Transcriber:
+
+  Inconsistencies:
+    Dramatis Personae: "Mat of the Mint"
+      [_The name is spelled "Mat" here and on the character's first
+      entrance, "Matt" everywhere else._]
+    The place name "Mary-bone" is spelled randomly with and without
+      a hyphen.
+    There is no illustration at the end of Act II, Scene II.
+
+  Spelling Unchanged:
+    Air X. ... Whose Treasure is contreband.
+    the hypocrytical Strumpet
+
+  Punctuation or Capitalization Unchanged:
+
+    Dear Wife, be a little pacified, Don't let your Passion
+    of rich Brocade. --that, I see, is dispos'd of.
+    you had a handsom Gold Watch of us 'tother Day
+    --But are you sure it is Captain _Macheath_.
+    but to see thee / thus distracts me?
+    Air LXI. The stronger Liquor we'er drinking;
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+
+_About the Music_
+
+The following information is also given in the text file
+"about_the_music" in the "Music" directory.
+
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+1765 original, retaining or adding assorted minor errors. In particular,
+the use of double bar lines or repeats seems to be almost entirely
+arbitrary. In the PDF and MIDI files, obvious errors such as missing
+dots after notes have been corrected, and a few ties have been added.
+Repeats are used only when required by the lyrics as printed.
+
+All music files, including the PDF images, are in the "Music" directory.
+In addition to individual Airs, there are PDF files containing the
+collected songs for each scene that has more than one song. Air LXVIII
+(the final song) has been omitted because it takes up a complete page by
+itself.
+
+
+_Changing the Tempo_
+
+If you want to change the tempo of a MIDI file, do this:
+
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+
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+same Roman numerals as in the text) and scroll down to the bottom. The
+"make-moment" line works just like a metronome setting. Leave the second
+number alone--usually a 4 for quarter-note--and make the first number
+larger or smaller.
+
+--Select "Run" or "Typeset File" from the Compile menu. This will create
+three files in the same location as the original .ly file: an updated
+MIDI, a new PDF, and a Postscript (.ps) file. You may keep the
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