Appendix C

Index of the Songs in Shakespeare's Plays

The first lines are given. In a few cases it is doubtful whether the verses were sung or spoken.

• A cup of wine that's brisk and fine, 2H4. V. iii.
• And let me the canakin clink, clink; Oth. II. iii.
• And will he not come again? Hml. IV. v.
• An old hare hoar, R&J. II. iv.

• Be merry, be merry, my wife has all; 2H4. V. iii.
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind. AYLI. II. vii.
• By gis, and by Saint Charity, Hml. IV. v.

• Come away, come away, Mcb. III. v.
• Come away, come away, death, TN. II. iv.
• Come, thou monarch of the vine, A&C. II. vii.
• Come unto these yellow sands, Tmp. I. ii.

• Do me right, 2H4. V. iii.
• Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer, 2H4. V. iii.

• Farewell, master; farewell, farewell! Tmp. II. iii.
• Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Cym. IV. ii.
• Fie on sinful fantasy! MWW. V. v.
• Fill the cup, and let it come; 2H4. V. iii.
• Flout 'em and scout 'em. Tmp. III. ii.
• Fools had ne'er less grace in a year; Lear I. iv.
• For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. Hml. IV. v.
• Full fathom five thy father lies; Tmp. I. ii.

• Get you hence, for I must go. WT. IV. iv.

• Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, Cym. II. iii.
• He that has and a little tiny wit,— Lear. III. ii.
• Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Tmp. IV. i.
• How should I your true love know. Hml. IV. v.

• I am gone, sir, TN. IV. ii.
• If it do come to pass, AYLI. II. vi.
• In youth, when I did love, did love, Hml. V. i.
• I shall no more to sea, to sea, Tmp. II. ii.
• It was a lover and his lass, AYLI. V. iii.

• Jog, jog on, the foot-path way, WT. IV. iii.

• King Stephen was and a worthy peer, Oth. II. iii.

• Lawn as white as driven snow; WT. IV. iv.
• Love, love, nothing but love, still more! T&C. III. i.

• No more dams I'll make for fish; Tmp, II. ii.
• No more, thou thunder-master, show. Cym. V. iv.

• Oh mistress mine, where are you roaming? TN. II. iii.
• On the ground, MND. IV. i.
• Orpheus with his lute made trees. (Fletcher?) H8. III. i.
• Over hill, over dale, MND. II. i.

• Pardon, goddess of the night, MAdo. V. iv.

• Round about the cauldron go; Mcb. IV. i.

• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, MAdo. II. iii.

• Take, O, take those lips away, Meas. IV. i.
• Tell me where is fancy bred, Merch. III. ii.
• The god of love, MAdo. V. ii.
• The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I, Tmp. II. ii.
• The ousel cock so black of hue, MND. III. ii.
• The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, Oth. IV. iii.
• They bore him barefac'd on the bier; Hml. IV. v.
• To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, Hml. IV. v.
• To shallow rivers, to whose falls. MWW. III. i.

• Under the greenwood tree, AYLI. II. vi.

• Was this fair face the cause, quoth she, AWEW. I. iii.
• Wedding is great Juno's crown. AYLI. V. iv.
• What shall he have that killed the deer? AYLI. IV. ii.
• When daffodils begin to peer, WT. IV. i.
• When daisies pied and violets blue. LLL. V. ii.
• When that I was and a little tiny boy, TN. V. i.
• Where the bee sucks, there suck I. Tmp. V. i.
• While you here do snoring lie, Tmp. II. i.
• Who doth ambition shun, AYLI. II. vi.
• Who is Silvia? What is she, TGV. IV. iii.
• Will you buy any tape, WT. IV. iv.

• You spotted snakes with double tongue, MND. II. ii.