Traditional Folk Songs Of Many Nations

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	112	Amaryllis.

	English version by LOUIS. O. ELSON	CHANSON du Roi LOUIS XIII. 1620.



	This song, by a royal hand, can be Iraced with certainty to its composer. Louis XIII, like his father, Henry IV, was a good musician. He composed this song, both words and music, in 1620, in honor of Mme d'Hauteville, whom .he constantly celebrated under tho name of "Amaryllis" To give to a lady some pastoral name and attach this pseudonym to poetry and music, was tho mode of dedication of that time. This work was written by the king as a four-part song. It is quite well harmonized. We have preserved these harmonies, in the piano part. It may be well to add that tho pretty Gavotte melody, arranged by Ghys, always credited to Louis XIII, and printed with the title of "Amaryllis," is falsely named and was not composed by the king. It is a composition by Baltazarini, (de Boaujoyeux) a favorite com�poser at the court of Henry III, and was called "La ClocheiteJ' and antedated this, the true"Amaryllis" by many years, be first performed at the wedding of Margaret of Loraine and tho Due do Jbyeuse, at the Chateau Monticrs, in 1581.