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Catch that Catch can

or A Choice Collection of Catches, Rovnds, & Canons for 3 or 4 Voyces
Hilton, John (1599-1657)
 
[dedication]

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In Praise of MUSICK.
 
Ad Lectorem.
 
[Now that the Spring]
 
[Turne Amarillis]
 
[As there be three blew Beanes]
 
[Ienny she smiles on me]
 
[O Ale ab Alendo]
 
[Arme, arme, for our Ancient Foe]
 
[Your merry Poets old Boyes]
 
[Here is an old ground]
 
[Me thinks that I do heare]
 
['Mongst all those pretious juces]
 
[I poore and well, thou rich and ill]
 
[Welcome honest Friends from East and West]
 
[Come let us all a Maying go ]
 
[Call George againe Boyes]
 
[Come, come away to the Taverne I say]
 
[We three Wills will drinke our fills]
 
[Come follow, follow me]
 
[Come my hearts let's now be merry]
 
[The pretty Larke clyming]
 
[O Tom Bowles]
 
[Let Symons Beard alone]
 
[If you will drinke for pleasure]
 
[Come follow, follow me]
 
[She that will eat her breakfast in her bed]
 
[O yes, O yes, if there be any man]
 
A Dialogue Catch between two Doctours, and their Patients.
 
[Pratty Naun, bony Naun]
 
[I se goe with thee my sweet Peggy ]
 
[Down in a Dungeon deep]
 
[A Pox on the Jaylor, and on his fat Gouls]
 
[What shall he have that kil'd the Deere]
 
[There was an old man at Waltham Crosse ]
 
[Here lies a woman, who can deny it]
 
[If we will drink Canary]
 
[Call for the Ale, stand or fall]
 
[Come let us cast the Dice]
 
[Drink to Night if the Moon shines]
 
[See how in gathering of their May]
 
[Let's cast away care, and merrily sing]
 
[Never let a man take heavily the clamour of his wife]
 
[Hang sorrow and cast away care]
 
[The Wise men were but seaven]
 
[Goose Law'd with Goose for Cosin Ganders Land]
 
[Dainty fine Aniseed water, fine]
 
[Ile tel you of a matter]
 
[Shew a Roome, shew a Roome]
 
[Mony, mony, mony]
 
[What are we met]
 
[Prepare your hearts for mirth]
 
[Society the life of man]
 
[My Mistresse will not be content to take a jape]
 
[Will you buy a New merry Booke]
 
[This chirping glasse]
 
[This geere goes hard]
 
[Have you observ'd the Wench in the street]
 
[Come follow me merrily, Lads]
 
[Have you any worke for a Tinker Mistris]
 
[How merrily looks the man that hath Gold]
 
[O Hick and Stephen you'r welcome hither]
 
[O The wily, wily Fox]
 
[Yonder he goes takes Corns from your Toes]
 
[Coridon, thou Swain, I am thy lovely Phillis]
 
[Come hither Tom, and make up three]
 
[Here dwells a pretty Mayd]
 
[My Lady and her Mayd upon a merry pin]
 
[Tis Amarillis walking all alone]
 
[Ting, ting. Ding, dong, bell]
 
[Cuckooe, go Neighbours helpe us to hedge in the Cuckoo]
 
[Good Susan be as secret as you can]
 
[Love in thy youth fair Maid]
 
[I have lov'd the jolly Tankard.]
 
[A Boat, a Boat, haste to the Ferry]
 
[Now I am marri'd, Sir John]
 
[Hee that reads this verse now]
 
[If thou art my honest friend]
 
[Fill me my Wine in Christall]
 
[Aske me why I doe not sing]
 
[The silver Swan, who living had no Note]
 
[Wee's au be up dinking ]
 
[Now my Lads, now let's be merry]
 
[Wil't thou lend me thy Mare to ride a mile?]
 
[Hey hoe, hearts delight]
 
[March bravely on boyes, never be dismayd]
 
[Wars are our delight]
 
[If any so wise is that Sack he dispises]
 
[Call for the best the house may ring Sack, White, & Clarret]
 
[Good Symon, how comes it your nose looks so red]
 
[When ever I marry, I'le marry a Maid]
 
[Come quaffe apace this brisk Canary Wine]
 
[Come pretty Maydens, what is't you buy?]
 
[Come honest friends and joviall boys]
 
[Call to the Parson, & let us goe drink some red Cowes milk]
 
[Boy go down, and fill the tother quart]
 
[Boy go up and see what makes them mad]
 
[The bravest of Souldiers is the Valiant drinker]
 
[Stand still and listen]
 
[Ha we to the other World]
 
[Now we are met]
 
[Hey hoe, behold, I will shew a Pye or Parrate]
 
[Horse to trot, to trot, I say]
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Sacred HYMNS & CANONS,
 
[Haste thee O Lord.]
 
[I am so weary of this lingring grief]
 
[O Lord I lift my heart to thee.]
 
[O Absolon, my son, Absolon.]
 
[I wept, & chastned my selfe with fasting.]
 
[Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears.]
 
[Blesse them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.]
 
[I charge yee O Daughters of Jerusalem]
 
[My soule O Lord shall trust in thee and still for mercy cry]
 
[The sorrows of my heart are inlarged]
 
[O Lord Almighty, O God of Israel]
 
[She weepeth sore in the night, & her tears are on her cheeks]
 
[Thus saith the Preacher, all is Vanity under the Sun]
 
[Alasse poor heart, troubled and crost]
 
[O pray for the peace of Jerusalem]
 
[I am weary of my groaning]
 
[Let me sleepe this night a way till the dawning of the day]
 
[Lift up your hearts and rejoyce]
 
[Look down, O Lord, and pitty my distresse]
 
[Look downe O Lord upon my bed-rid soule]
 
[Let Musick be thy sweetest pleasure]
 
[Prostrate on my knees, O Lord]
 
[Arise, & fal down flat]
 
[Sweet Jesu Christ thy Church keep sound]
 
[Praise the Lord, O yee servants of the Lord]
 
[Praise the Lord, O my soule, whilst I live]
 
[Halelujah]

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[Come follow, follow me]

Come follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow mee,
Whither shall I follow
Whither shall I follow thee?
To the Gallow, gallow,
To the gallow gallow tree.
Wee have oft been Rogues together,
Now we must hang 'twixt winde and weather:
We have oft time nipt a Bung boy
Neatly, neatly, in a throng boy,
Neatly, neatly, in a throng boy.
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