How Vile Are The Sordid Intrigues Of The Town
How vile are the sordid Intrigues of the Town,
Cheating and lying, perpetually sway
From Bully and Punk to the Politick Gown,
In plotting and sotting they wast the whole day.
Let me have Musick, and bring in Orpheus there, O, my hard fortune!
First line: How vile are the sordid intrigues of the town
Source Edition: The Richmond Heiress: or, A Woman Once in the Right (1693), 2.2, p.20.
First performed: mid-April 1693 (Danchin)
UMI(2) reel no.: 1401:23
Author: Thomas D'Urfey
Composer: Henry Purcell ( nwc)
Source/s of Music: See TDTMHM3
Text of song:
Fulv. Yet, what care I, I'm Mrs. of my own fate, let 'em drink, let 'em roar, let 'em sing, what is't to me I'll do the same.
Sings.