The masonick minstrel, a selection of masonick, sentimental, and humorous songs, duets, glees, canons, rounds and canzonets respectfully dedicated to the most ancient and honourable fraternity of free and accepted masons... With an appendix, containing a short historical account of masonry: and likewise, a list of all the lodges in the United States.

Author
Vinton, David [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Dedham [Mass.] Printed by H. Mann and Co., for the author, 1816.
Description
463 p. illus., plates. 22 cm.

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    • Added t.-p., engraved.
    • Attrib. to David Vinton, who claimed the copyright as author, compiler and proprietor (cf. t.p. verso).
    • 'Appendix' (p. [329]-[460]) has special t.p.: "Appendix, containing extracts from the most celebrated authors, on masonry: with notes, historical, critical, and elucidative. ... To which is subjoined, a list of all the lodges in the United States."
    • With music.
    Contents
    • All hail to the morning (Most excellent Master's song) / T. S. Webb
    • Arise and blow thy trumpet (Senior Grand Warden's song)
    • Assembled and tyled
    • A Mason's daughter
    • As a buxom young damsel (The straw bonnet)
    • A lawyer, a doctor, a parson (Law, physic, and divinity)
    • Away with melancholy
    • A boat, a boat to cross the ferry
    • Advance each true brother (Grand Master's song)
    • Ah! cruel maid
    • A hero's life I sing (Hamlet travestie)
    • All into service
    • Aldiborontiphoscophornio
    • Ah, dark are the halls (The song of the last harper)
    • Adieu , a heart, warm, fond
    • Begone dull care
    • By the side of a murmuring stream (The wig, cane and hat)
    • Bounding billow
    • Buz, buz, buz
    • Blow, warder, blow (The red Cross [K]night)
    • Come, messmates (The ship) / Joseph L. Tillinghast
    • Come, let us prepare (The entered 'Prentices' song)
    • Come, are you prepared? (Fellow craft's song)
    • Come buy my cherries
    • Come boys, take your part (Cries of Durham)
    • Come, let us have another song
    • Come, come bonnie lassie (or Sandy and Jenny)
    • Cuckoo, good neighbors (or the Cuckoo)
    • Come, come all noble souls --- Come follow
    • Drink to me only with thine eyes
    • Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la (Country singing school)
    • Deserted by the waning moon (All's well)
    • Deep in a vale (Dulce Domum)
    • Dear youth keep this (Dialogue duet)
    • E'er this vast world was made (An ode for the festival of St. John)
    • Faintly as tolls the ev'ning chime (A Canadian boat song)
    • Fidelity once had a fancy to rove
    • Fair Venus call
    • God caused great lights (Royal arch song)
    • God bless this noble band (Knight Templar's song)
    • Go to Jane Glover
    • Great way off at sea (Negro and buckra man)
    • Give thanks to God
    • Hail! Masonry divine!
    • Hail! Mysterious, glorious science!
    • How sweet in the woodlands (The garland of love)
    • How shall we mortals
    • Hark, the goddess Diana
    • Half an hour past
    • Hark! the Hiram
    • Here's a health to all good lasses
    • Hail! Masonry, thou craft divine
    • Have you not seen the Scotchman's wallet --
    • I married a wife (the Tidy one)
    • If I live to grow old (Contentment)
    • In his'try we're told (Royal Master's song)
    • I sing the mason's glory (Master's song) / T.S. Webb
    • In the downhill of life
    • In the dead of night
    • John Anderson, my Jo
    • Johnny Bull (The patriotic diggers)
    • Let Masonry from pole to pole (Past Master's song)
    • Look, neighbors, look
    • Let Masons fame resound
    • Life's a bumper fill'd with fate
    • Loud, roared the dreadful thunder (Bay of Biscay, O!)
    • Let him who sighs in sadness here (The minute gun at sea)
    • Let's live and let's love
    • Mark masters all appear
    • My wife's dead (Epitaph on a termagant wife)
    • Mister speaker, though 'tis late
    • Now we're all met together (The country club)
    • Not the fictions of Greece
    • Now we are met
    • On this cold flinty rock
    • Of all the brave birds
    • On, on, my dear brethren (Deputy Grand Master's song)
    • Oh! Land of sweet of Erin's
    • Of your hearts to take care, now ladies prepare
    • Oh, Lady fair
    • On yonder mount
    • Old chairs to mend
    • Our village is surely the sweetest on earth
    • O'er the bosom of Erie (Perry's victory)
    • Oh, take me to your arms (The willow)
    • O, my love
    • Oh where, tell me where (Blue bell of Scotland)
    • Poor Johnny's dead
    • Praise the Grand Master of the universal lodge
    • Sailor boy, sailor bot
    • Sweet is the vale where innocence resides
    • Sad beats the drum
    • Scotland's burning
    • See, the ocean rising
    • Sir Jerry go nimble was lame of leg Honey and mustard)
    • Sister, sister, oh say (The Quaker's wedding) --
    • The wise men were but seven (The seven wise men)
    • To old Hiram in Heav'n
    • To the craft I will cling
    • The glasses sparkle
    • The liberty's enraptur'd sight (Columbia, land of liberty)
    • There is not in the wide world (The vale of Avoca) / [words by Thomas Moore]
    • There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin (The exile of Erin)
    • To the Knight Templars awful doom (Knight Templar's song)
    • Twas you sir
    • To our minstrel club
    • Take, oh take those lips
    • This bleak and frosty morning (The skater's song)
    • Tom Starboard was a lover true
    • They sat by the fireside (Death's cradle hymn)
    • The bright rosy morning peeps over the hills
    • Under the ground, lies Thomas Round (Epitaph)
    • What is life of love bereft
    • When the Senior Warden (Senior Warden's song)
    • When the sun from the east (The hod carrier's song)
    • When shall we three meet again
    • White sand and grey sand
    • When Bibo went down
    • Who'll serve the king?
    • When earth's foundation first was laid (Masonick ode)
    • When tell-tale echoes whisper
    • When musick, blest maid
    • Why, what's that to you if my eyes I'm a wiping (True courage)
    • When the Junior Warden calls
    • When in death I shall calm recline (The legacy)
    • We come, we come with a song
    • When quite a young spark (Anacreontick song)-- We tars are all fun and glee (Damag'd Jack)
    • When sol with grave motion (The genius of Masonry)
    • Wilt thou say farewell, love
    • Wear with me the rosy wreath
    • What's this dull town to me (Robin Adair)
    • Your pardon kind gentlefolks (Cuddy Clump's first visit)
    • Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon (Bonnie Doon)
    • Yawning, sneezing, crying, laughing
    • You high born Spanish noblemen
    • Ye gentlemen and ladies who live at home (The mariner's songs)
    • Ye winds and ye waves (Cathleen M'Chree) --
    • Harmonia Sacra. Glory to God on high
    • Guide me, O, thou great Jehovah
    • Hail, universal Lord (All hail!) / S. Holyok
    • Let there be light! (Masonick ode)
    • Non nobis, domine
    • Solemn, strikes the funeral chime(Dirge) / D. Vinton
    • Unto thee, great God (A Masonik hymn) .
    Other title(s)
    Masonic minstrel
    LCCN
    09020301
    OCLC
    2275699
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