GLEE, for 4 Voices.-JAMES HOOK.

(Alto, 2 Tenors, Bass.)

ARISE, my fair one, and receive
All the pleasures love can give :
Hark! the birds on every thorn
Sweetly usher in the morn.

Warren's Collection, No. 20.

(Hawes.)

GLEE, for 3 Voices.-EVANS.

(Alto, Tenor, Bass.)

As a rosy wreath I bound,
'Mongst the roses Love I found;
Swift I seized his pinions fast,
And in wine the wanton cast.
Taking then the laughing cup,
Swift I drank the wanton up;
Now with ever-tickling wings,
Up and down my breast he springs.

GLEE, for 3 Voices.-JOSEPH BAILDON. (Alto, Tenor, Bass.)

As afternoon, one summer's day,

Venus stood bathing in a river,

Cupid a-shooting went that way,

New strung his bow, new filled his quiver.

With skill he chose his sharpest dart,
With all his might his bow he drew,
Swift to his beauteous parent's heart
The too-well guided arrow flew.

"I faint, I die," the goddess cried;
"Oh cruel, couldst thou find none other

To wreak thy spleen on, parricide!

Like Nero, thou hast slain thy mother."

Poor Cupid, sobbing, scarce could speak :
"Indeed, mamma, I did not know ye;
Alas! how easy my mistake,-

I took you for your likeness, Chloe ?"

Warren's Vocal Harmony.

GLEE, for 3 Voices.-WILBYE, 1609.

(Alto, Tenor, Bass.)

As fair as morn, as fresh as May,

A pretty grace in saying nay;

Smil'st thou, my dear? then sing and say

Fa, la, la!

But oh that love-enchanting eye!

Lo! here my doubtful doom I try,

Tell me, my dear, live I or die?

She smiles (fa, la, la !)—she frowns-ah me, I die! Warren's Vocal Harmony.

GLEE, for 4 Voices.-J. C. PRING.

(Alto, 2 Tenors, Bass.)

As I wove, with wanton care,
Fillets for a virgin's hair,

Cupid (and I marked him well)
Hid him in a cowslip's bell,
While he plumed a pointed dart,
Fated to inflame the heart.
Glowing with malicious joy,
Sudden I secured the boy,
And, regardless of his cries,
Bore the little frighten'd prize
Where the mighty goblet stood,
Teeming with a rosy flood;
"Urchin," in my rage I cried,
"What avails thy saucy pride?
Thus I drown thee in my cup,
Thus in wine I drink thee up."

Warren's Collection, No. 31.

GLEE, for 4 Voices.-T. COOKE.

(Alto, 2 Tenors, Bass.)

As it fell upon a day,

In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade,

Which a grove of myrtles made,

Beasts did leap and birds did sing,

Trees did grow and plants did spring;

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Everything did banish moan,
Save the nightingale alone;
She, poor bird, as all forlorn,
Leaned her breast up-till a thorn,
That, to hear her so complain,
Scarce I could from tears refrain;
For her griefs, so lovely shown,
Made me think upon my own.

As it fell, etc.

Ah! (thought I) thou mourn'st in vain,
None take pity on thy pain;

Even so, poor bird, like thee,
None alive will pity me;
Every one that flatters thee

Is no friend to misery.

As it fell, etc.

Words are easy, like the wind,

Faithful friends are hard to find;
Every man will be thy friend
Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;
But if fortune once do frown,
Then farewell his great renown;
They that fawned on him before
Use his company no more.
He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need.
If thou sorrow, he will weep,
If thou wake, he cannot sleep;

Thus, of every grief in heart,
He with thee doth bear a part:
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.

Words from Shakspere.—(This Glee gained
the Prize at the Catch Club, 1831.)

(Cramer and Co.)

GLEE, for 3 Voices.-WEBBE.
(Alto, Tenor, Bass.)

As Nancy danced upon the green,

The sweetest nymph that e'er was seen,
Tom did to me his flame reveal,

But said her heart was made of steel. Oh!

"Dear Tom," said I, "yield her to me,

If you can take the hint,

To raise love's fire we 'll soon agree,
For mine is made of flint.”

Callcott's Collection, Vol. 2. (Lonsdale.)

GLEE, for 3 Voices.-CALLCOTT.

(2 Sopranos, Bass.)

As on the mournful poplar bough,
Sad Philomel renews her strain,
She charms the listening vale below,

And softly plaintive mocks my pain;