An excellent new song, call'd, Celemene. Or, how shou'd I know more than you. In a dialogue between a boy and a girl. Being a new playhouse song, to a pleasant new tune.

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• An excellent new song, call'd, Celemene. Or, how shou'd I know more than you. In a dialogue between a boy and a girl. Being a new playhouse song, to a pleasant new tune.
• Excellent new song, called, Celemene Dialogue sung in Oroonoko, by the boy and girl Dialogue in the second part of the Conquest of Granada Celemene, pray tell me

People / Organizations

• Thomas Moore ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")

Imprint

London: printed and sold by T. Moore, 1697.

Publication year

1697-1697

ESTC No.

R176863

Grub Street ID

69216

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 1/2⁰

Note

Anonymous. By Thomas D'Urfey.

"Celemene, pray tell me", as this is also known, has been associated with both Southerne's "Oroonoko" and Dryden's "The conquest of Granada (the second part)", despite the fact that the words appear in the play-book of neither. The earliest known edition of the song, which appeared in Playford's "Deliciae musicae, the third book" (1696), is headed "A dialogue sung in Oroonoko, by the boy and girl. Sett by Mr. Henry Purcell." However, a single sheet edition of "Celemene" describes it as "A dialogue in the second part of the Conquest of Granada the words by Mr. Tho. D'urfey set by Mr. Henry Purcell sung by the boy & girl. ..."

Verse - "Boy Celemene, pray tell me,"

For another edition cf. R171869, Wing D2707.