Popular Music Of The Olden Time Vol 1
Ancient Songs, Ballads, & Dance Tunes, Sheet Music & Lyrics - online book
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324 ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC. |
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containing Jive excellent new songs sung at the Drolls in Bartholomew Fair, 1691, there is another song, under the name of The Green Gown, " to an excellent playhouse tune."
The tune of Hunting the Hare is now in common use for comic songs, or for such as require great rapidity of utterance; but it has also been employed as a slow air. For instance, in Gay's ballad-opera of Achilles, 1733, it is printed in | time, and entitled " A Minuet." |
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Stars quite tir'd with pastimes Olympical,
Stars and planets which beautiful shone, Could no longer endure that men only shall Swim in pleasures, and they but look on ; Round about horned ' Lucina they swarmed, And her informed how minded they were, Each god and goddess, To take human bodies, As lords and ladies, to follow the hare. |
Chaste Diana applauded the motion,
While pale Proserpina sat in her place, To light the welkin, and govern the ocean, While she conducted her nephews in chase :
By her example,
Their father to trample, The earth old and ample, they soon leave the air;
Neptune the water,
And wine Liber Pater, And Mars the slaughter, to follow the hare. |
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