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Ten Erotic Songs by Purcell and his contemporaries, edited by Timothy Roberts
Anon: By moonlight on the green. Samuel Ackeroyde: Once slumb’ring as I lay. John Blow: Sappho to the Goddess of Love. Raphael Courteville: A lass there lives upon the green. John Eccles: Belinda’s pretty, pleasing form, I gently touch’d her hand, Why do I sigh and languish so? Richard Leveridge: A lusty young smith. Henry Purcell: Cease, anxious world. John Weldon: Panthea.
