Cupid and death: a private entertainment : represented with scenes, variety of dancing and musick both vocall & instrumentall, [late 18th century].

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Shirley, James, 1596-1666. Cupid and death: a private entertainment : represented with scenes, variety of dancing and musick both vocall & instrumentall, [late 18th century].

Cupid and death: a private entertainment : represented with scenes, variety of dancing and musick both vocall & instrumentall, [late 18th century].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702175402

Manuscript copy, in unknown hand, from the 1659 print version of a comic musical play in which Cupid and Death, staying at the same inn on the same night, have their respective arrows exchanged by a chamberlain, with confusion resulting. Songs include: "Change, oh change your fatall blows,/ since neither knows/ the vertue of each others darts;/ Alas what will become of hearts." The chamberlain, shot by Death in revenge, falls in love with his pet circus apes.

1 v. (29 p.) ; 19 x 13 cm.

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