Popular Music Of The Olden Time Vol 1

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	'284	ENGLISH SONQ AND BALLAD MUSIC.

	ballad entitled " The coy Shepherdess; or Phillis and Amintas;" which was sung to the tune of Amarillis. See Roxburghe Collection, ii. 85. Among the ballads to the air, are also the following:— " The Royal Recreation of Jovial Anglers ;" beginning— "Of all the recreations which Attend on human nature," &c. Roxburghe Collection. Collier's Roxburghe Ballads, p. 232; and Merry Drollery complete, 1661 and 1670. It is also in Pills to purge Melancholy; but there set to the tunc of My father was born before vie. "Love in the blossom; or Fancy in the bud: to the tune Amarillis told her swain." Roxburghe, ii. 315. " Fancy's Freedom; or true Lovers' bliss: tune of Amarillis, or Phillis on the new-made hay." Roxburghe, iii. 114. " The true Lovers' Happiness; or Nothing venture, nothing have," &c.: tune of Amintas on the new-made hay; or The Loyal Lovers." Douce Collection, and Roxburghe, ii. 486. " The Cotsall Shepherds: to the tune of Amarillis told her swain," in Folly in print, or a Book of Rhymes, 1667. The following stanza, set to the tune, is the first of the above-named ballad, " The coy Shepherdess; or Phillis and Amintas :"—