Lampe was a composer and bassoonist who wrote songs, original ballads, a pantomine, and he arranged music for other poets and playwrights, including Carey's Amelia, Thomas Lediard's masque-like Britannia, John Gay's Dione, and Henry Fielding's Tragedy of Tragedies. He worked primarily in a satirical and comical vein for various theatres in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh. Though he primarily wrote music, the DNB states that he wrote a collection of original ballads called Wit Musically Embellish'd (1731), though I was unable to find this in ECCO or the ESTC.