Popular Music Of The Olden Time Vol 1
Ancient Songs, Ballads, & Dance Tunes, Sheet Music & Lyrics - online book
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92 ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC. |
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------" is your Theorbo
Turn'd to a distaff, Signior, and your voice, With which you chanted Roomfor a lusty Gallant, Tuned to the note of Lach-ymce ? "* The ballad of "A famous sea-fight between Captain Ward and the Rainbow" (in the Roxburghe Collection) " to the tune of Captain Ward," &c, begins, " Strike up, you lusty Gallants."
In the Gorgeous Gallery of gallant Inventions, 1578, there is a " proper dittie," to tbe tune of Lusty Gallant; and Pepys mentions a song with the burden of " St. George for England," to the tune of List, lusty Gallants. |
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Twenty journeys would I make, And twenty days would hie me,
To make adventure for her sake, To set some matter hy me. |
Some do long for pretty knacks, And some for strange devices ;
God send me what my lady lacks, I care not what the price is. |
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There are eight more stanzas, which will be found in Evans' Old Ballads, vol. 1, p. 123, edit. 1810, or in the reprint of A Handefull of Pleasant Delites. |
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BY A BANK AS I LAY.
In the Life of Sir Peter Carew, before quoted (page 52), "By the bank as I lay " is mentioned as one of the M-eemen's Songs which Sir Peter used to sing with Henry VIII.; and this is one of the King Henry's Mirth or Freemen's Songs in Deuteromelia. In Laneham's letter from Kenilworth, 1565, " By a bank as I lay" is included in the " bunch of ballads and songs, all ancient," which were then in the possession of Captain Cox, the Mason of Coventry. In Wager's interlude, The longer thou livest the more fool thou art, 1568, Moros sings the two following lines:— " By a bank as I lay, I lay,
Musing on things past, heigh ho!" In Royal MSS. Append. 58, there is another song, of which the first line is the |
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* Lachrymce, a tune often referred to, composed by Dowland. |
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