BE WELCOME, THEN GREAT SIR ..................Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

*Reading: Upon Entrance to Bedlam

MUSIC FOR A WHILE

Reading: Fiddling Fellows

NOT ALL MY TORMENTS

Reading: “Bread and Cheese”

LET THE DREADFUL ENGINES OF THE ETERNAL WILL

Reading: Laundry

O SOLITUDE

Reading: “The World are all Mad”

BESS OF BEDLAM

Reading: “An unlucky fluctuation of Stock”
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I ATTEMPT FROM LOVE'S SICKNESS TO FLY

SWEETER THAN ROSES

Reading: “The noble sin of Drinking”

IF LOVE'S A SWEET PASSION, WHY DOES IT TORMENT

Reading: “Weep for my Billy”

EVENING HYMN

*Readings from Ned Ward’s The London Spy; Daniel Purcell‘s Letter on
Music; Thomas D’Urfey’s “Music commended and scraping ridiculed”;
Deporte’s Nightmares and Hobbyhorses.