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James Corfe
(1713 - c.1765)
Your musty old rules
(Soprano,Continuo)
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Your musty old rules
(Soprano,Continuo)
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147937 : Corfe : Your musty old rules : sheet music
Catalogued as Choral - Secular (Songs and Concert Airs)
Publ. c.1745, titled The Female Rake. "Sung by Mrs Dunstall at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields in the farce of Bickerstaffe's Unburied Dead".
Lyrics: Anon
Your musty old rules are for thinking fools,
Who to wisdom make awkward pretences;
But the world is so wise, all schemes to despise,
Which prohibit th'enjoying five senses.
I'll rove and I'll range, my lovers I'll change,
Since changing in females is common;
The dull life of a nun all fine ladies shun,
For pleasure's the soul of a woman.
Your musty old rules are for thinking fools,
Who to wisdom make awkward pretences;
But the world is so wise, all schemes to despise,
Which prohibit th'enjoying five senses.
I'll rove and I'll range, my lovers I'll change,
Since changing in females is common;
The dull life of a nun all fine ladies shun,
For pleasure's the soul of a woman.