Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera

"If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry"

"Through All the Employments of Life"

"Women Are Bitter Bad Judges in These Cases. If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"

"If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"

"A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore"

"I Know As Well As Any of the Fine Ladies. Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre"

"Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice"

"I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed"

"O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe. The Turtle Thus with Plaintive Crying"

"My Heart Was so Free"

"Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast"

"O! What Pain It Is to Part!"

"The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"

"And Now Our Scene Changes. Fill Ev'ry Glass"

"Success Attend You. Let Us Take the Road"

"If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares"

"Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome. Youth's the Season Made for Joys"

"But to Be Sure. The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike. At the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure"

"Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"

"It Is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men. How Cruel Are the Traitors"

"The First Time at the Looking-Glass"

"Fortune Be with You, Lucy"

"Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?"

"O Macheath! I Will Stay with Thee Till Death. Thus When the Swallow"

"Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself! Cease Your Funning"

"Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"

"No Pow'r on Earth Can E'er Divide"

"But All Scores Have a Reckoning"

"Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education. When Young at the Bar"

"Thus Gamesters United in Friendship"

"And Macheath, At Liberty and at Large.The Modes of the Court"

"Bring Us Then More Liquor! What Gudgeons Are We Men"

"In the Days of My Youth"

"Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear. I'm Like a Skiff on the Ocean Tossed"

"A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"

"But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable of It. Among the Men Coquets We Find"

"What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again in Custody! Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"

"Which Way Shall I Turn Me"

"Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence. When My Hero in Court Appears"

"Ourselves, Like the Great"

"We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You to the Old Bailey. The Charge Is Prepared"

"Would I Might Be Hanged!"