Popular Music Of The Olden Time Vol 2
Ancient Songs, Ballads, & Dance Tunes, Sheet Music & Lyrics - online book
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496 ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC. |
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silk petticoats to make colours for the late D[uke] of M[onmouth]'a army" (ante p. 444). It commences—
" In Lime began a rebellion, Rebels, almost a million,
For there the rebels came in; Came there to make M[onmouth] king."
and there are many others, such as " A Fairing for young men and maids " (Roxburghe Collection, ii. 162), &c.
Ritson reprinted The Winchester Wedding in his Ancient Songs, from a black-letter ballad in the British Museum, but apparently without knowing it to have been written by D'Urfey. It is scarcely reprintable now, and therefore the folÂlowing first stanza must suffice. |
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