An excellent new song, call'd, Celemene. Or, how shou'd I know more than you. In a dialogue between a boy and a girl. Being a new playhouse song, to a pleasant new tune.

Anonymous. By Thomas D'Urfey.
"Celemene, pray tell me", as this is also known, has been associated with both Southerne's "Oroonoko" and Dryden's "The conquest of Granada (the second part)", despite the fact that the words appear in the play-book of neither. The earliest known edition of the song, which appeared in Playford's "Deliciae musicae, the third book" (1696), is headed "A dialogue sung in Oroonoko, by the boy and girl. Sett by Mr. Henry Purcell." However, a single sheet edition of "Celemene" describes it as "A dialogue in the second part of the Conquest of Granada the words by Mr. Tho. D'urfey set by Mr. Henry Purcell sung by the boy & girl. ..."
Verse - "Boy Celemene, pray tell me,"
For another edition cf. R171869, Wing D2707.