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The Beggar’s Opera

by John Gay

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Dedication — Claud Lovat Fraser
  3. 3Note on the Scene and Costumes at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
  4. 4Dramatis Personæ
  5. 5Introduction — Beggar, Player Beggar
  6. 6Scene I — Air I. an Old Woman Clothed in Gray, &c.
  7. 7Air II. the Bonny Gray-Ey’d Morn, &c.
  8. 8Air III. Cold and Raw, &c.
  9. 9Air IV. Why Is Your Faithful Slave Disdain’d? &c.
  10. 10Air V. of All the Simple Things We Do, &c.
  11. 11Air VI. What Shall I Do to Shew How Much I Love Her, &c.
  12. 12Air VII. Oh London Is a Fine Town
  13. 13Air VIII. Grim King of the Ghosts, &c.
  14. 14Air IX. o Jenny, o Jenny, Where Hast Thou Been
  15. 15Air X. Thomas, I Cannot, &c.
  16. 16Air XI. A Soldier and a Sailor
  17. 17Air XII. Now Ponder Well, Ye Parents Dear
  18. 18Air XIII. le Printems Rapelle aux Armes
  19. 19Macheath — Air XIV. Pretty Parrot, Say
  20. 20Air XV. Pray, Fair One, Be Kind
  21. 21Air XVI. Over the Hills and Far Away
  22. 22Air XVII. Gin Thou Wert Mine Awn Thing
  23. 23Air XVIII. o the Broom, &c.
  24. 24Act II | Scene I.
  25. 25Air XIX. Fill Every Glass, &c.
  26. 26Air XX. March in Rinaldo, With Drums and Trumpets
  27. 27Air XXI. Would You Have a Young Virgin, &c.
  28. 28Air XXII. Cotillon
  29. 29Air XXIII. All in a Misty Morning, &c.
  30. 30Air XXIV. When First I Laid Siege to My Chloris, &c.
  31. 31Scene II — Newgate
  32. 32Macheath — Air XXV. Courtiers, Courtiers, Think It No Harm, &c.
  33. 33Air XXVI. A Lovely Lass to a Friar Came, &c.
  34. 34Air XXVII. ’Twas When the Sea Was Roaring, &c.
  35. 35Air XXVIII. the Sun Had Loos’d His Weary Teams, &c.
  36. 36Air XXIX. How Happy Are We, &c.
  37. 37Air XXX. of a Noble Race Was Shenkin
  38. 38Air XXXI
  39. 39Air XXXII. London Ladies
  40. 40Air XXXIII. All in the Downs, &c.
  41. 41Air XXXIV. Have You Heard of a Frolicksome Ditty, &c.
  42. 42Air XXXV. Irish Trot
  43. 43Air XXXVI
  44. 44Air XXXVII. Good-morrow, Gossip Joan
  45. 45Air XXXVIII. Irish Howl
  46. 46Scene III — The Same
  47. 47Air XXXIX. the Lass of Patie’s Mill, &c.
  48. 48Act III | Scene I.
  49. 49Air XL. If Love’s a Sweet Passion, &c.
  50. 50Air XLI. South-Sea Ballad
  51. 51Air XLII. Packington’s Pound
  52. 52Scene II — A Gaming-House
  53. 53Scene III — Peachum’s Lock
  54. 54Air XLIV. Down in the North Country, &c.
  55. 55Air XLV. A Shepherd Kept Sheep, &c.
  56. 56Scene IV — Newgate — Air XLVI. One Evening, Having Lost My Way, &c.
  57. 57Air XLVII. Now Roger, I’ll Tell Thee Because Thou ’Rt My Son
  58. 58Air XLVIII. o Bessy Bell
  59. 59Air XLIX. Would Fate to Me Belinda Give
  60. 60Air L. Come, Sweet Lass
  61. 61Air LI. the Last Time I Went O’Er the Moor
  62. 62Air LII. Tom Tinker’s My True Love
  63. 63Air LIII. I Am a Poor Shepherd Undone
  64. 64Air LIV. Ianthe the Lovely, &c.
  65. 65Air LV. A Cobler There Was, &c.
  66. 66Air LVI. Bonny Dundee
  67. 67Scene V — The Condemn’d Hold · Air LVII. Happy Groves — Air Lviii.…
  68. 68Air LIX. Britons Strike Home · Air LX. Chevy Chase — Air LXI. to Ol…
  69. 69Air LXII. Joy to Great Cæsar — Air LXIII. There Was an Old Woman
  70. 70Air LXV. Why Are Mine Eyes Still Flowing — Air LXVI. Green Sleeves
  71. 71Air LXVII. All You That Must Take a Leap, &c.
  72. 72A Dance
  73. 73Finis
  74. 74About the Music
  75. 75Changing the Tempo

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