A Note on the Project

There are numerous songs in Pagan's collection that have the name of a tune below their title. This project aims to recover those tunes and place them alongside Pagan's work, which was not meant to be silently read off of a page. When MIDI files and musical scores--both with just the skeleton of the melody for these tunes-- accompany Pagan's "poems," they can be read with a slightly better understanding of how the original audience experienced them.

Wednesday

Song ("Pox on the temptation...")

Tune -- The Humors of the Glen
http://www.box.net/shared/7ia5ytam8k

Pox on the temptation,
If one has occasion,
'Tis the sad delusion
Of women and wine.
It raises the passion,
Stupifies the reason,
And makes a man simply
Spend his good time.

But let us be jolly,
And drown melancholy,
Let us join our voices,
In one vocal song.
And as 'tis intended,
Let it be commended,
'Tis a recreation
For a weary mind.

No more of your speeches,
Nor talking of riches,
But let us have music
Of the highest strain.
Come tune up your fiddle,
Bass, counter and treble,
And play the first part,
Of the humours o' glen.

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