Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project

Verses in Vogue with the Vulgar

Will the weaver, together with the Dawn of hope

The first text on this broadside, “Will the Weaver,” is described in a broadside of the same title, Will the Weaver.

In “The Dawn of Hope” by Thomas Augustine Arne, the woman mourns her love’s absence and implores the gods to protect him. In the last verse, he returns and “she sinks into his arms.” The song was published in the Universal Magazine in 1758 (22:360-61) and the tune was copied into several American tune books in the 1790s, appearing in seven songsters between 1760 and 1804 (R. Keller, Early American Songsters). The text appeared in the Boston Gazette on June 20, 1791, and that same year a different musical setting appeared in the Massachusetts Magazine (3:313), but it is likely that Coverly’s text was best known to the Arne melody.

Additional Metadata

Date

1810-1814

Place of Publication

Boston.

Publisher

Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.

Subjects

Cuckolds
Love
Marriage

First Line

O dear mother now I'm marry'd.
Dawn of hope my soul revives.

Identifiers

BIB ID: 290137
OCLC Control No.: (OCoLC)ocm81059569
OCLC Control No.: (OCoLC)ocn191471753
Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 290
AAS General Catalog URL: http://catalog.mwa.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=290137
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Physical Dimensions

28 x 23 cm.

Transcriptions

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Sheet Music for "Will the Weaver"
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Citation

“Will the weaver, together with the Dawn of hope,” Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project, accessed September 23, 2023, https://www.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/253.