...celebrating the Marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two moft excellent Ballad-Singers. I have introduc'd the Similes that are in all your celebrated Operas: The Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, jhe Flower, &c. Befides, I have a Prifon Scene which the the Ladies always reckon charmingly pathetick....

...marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two moil excellent ballad-fmgers. I have introduced the fimilies that are in all your celebrated operas : the Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, &c. Befides I have a prifon fcene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic. As to the parts,...

...marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two moft excellent ballad-fingers. I have introduced the limilies that are in all your celebrated operas : the Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, &c. Befides 1 have a prifon fcene. which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic. As to the parts,...

...marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two most excellent ballad-singers. I have introduced the similies that are in all your celebrated operas, The Swallow, The Moth, The Bee, The Ship, The Flower, &c. besides, I have a prison scene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic. As to the parts,...

...Gay in the " Beggar's Opera," and to have been alluded to in this sentence from his introduction : " I have introduced the similes that are in all your celebrated operas ; and besides 1 have a prison scene, which ^he ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic." Bononcini,...

...Gay in the ' Beggar's Opera,' and to have been alluded to in this sentence from his introduction : " I have introduced the similes that are in all your celebrated operas ; and besides I have a prison scene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic." Bononcini,...

...assumed author of the piece) and the Player, in which the former is made to say, ' I have introduc'd the similes that are in all your celebrated operas...Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, etc. i^sirjes, I have a prison scene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetick. As to the }laj-ts...

...pi«e) md the Player, in which the former is Mde to s»y, ' I have introduc'd the similes that i-> in all your celebrated operas ; the Swallow, the Moth," the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, etc. Beades, I have a prison scene, which the ladies i!«rs reckon charmingly pathetick. As to the ¡ЛП4...

...to the work, " I have not made my opera unnatural, like those in vogue, for I have no recitative ; I have introduced the similes that are in all your...Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, &c.," and, "as I have consented to have neither prologue nor epilogue, it must be allowed an opera...

...Player, in the prologue, which is now usually omitted, but which gives the keynote to the whole : " I have introduced the similes that are in all your...swallow, the moth, the bee, the ship, the flower, &c. Besides, I have a prison scene which the ladies always reckon charming, pathetic. As to the parts,...