Popular music of the olden timeA collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes ..with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesAlso a short account of the minstrels ... . et and turn single : that again. Sides all: that again. Arms all:that again. As before, as before. Country dances were formerly danced asoften in circles as in parallel lines. The following songs were sung to the tune :—The merry wooing of Robin andJoan, the West-country Lovers, to the time of the Beginning of the World, orScllengers Ro
Popular music of the olden timeA collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes ..with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesAlso a short account of the minstrels ... . et and turn single : that again. Sides all: that again. Arms all:that again. As before, as before. Country dances were formerly danced asoften in circles as in parallel lines. The following songs were sung to the tune :—The merry wooing of Robin andJoan, the West-country Lovers, to the time of the Beginning of the World, orScllengers Round.—Roxburgh Collection. The Fair Maid of Islington, or theLondon Vintner over-reached, in the Bagford Collection. Robins Courtship,in Wit Restored, 1658. As a specimen of old harmony, I have added the arrangement of SellengersRound by Byrd, from Queen Elizabeths Virginal Book. Having an instrumentthat would not sustain the tone (for the virginals, like the harpsichord, onlytwitted the wires with a quill) it is curious to see how he has filled up the harmonyby an inner part, that seems intended to imitate the prancing of the hobby-horse was the usual attendant on May-day and May Games. In moderate time. WITH THE OLD HARMONY BY fr&rtaT~fT Er WW** d rT Er Hobby-horse. 72 ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC. I CANNOT EAT BUT LITTLE MEAT. This song was sung in a right pithy, pleasant, and merry comedy, calledGammer Ghcrtons Needle, which was printed in 1575, but the Rev. Alex. Dycehas given a copy of double length from a manuscript in his possession, and certainly of an earlie ,e than the play. It may be seen in his account ofSkelton and his writings, vol. i., p. 7. I have selected four from the eightverses, as sufficiently long for singing. Warton calls it the first drinking song ofany merit in our language. In early dramas it was the custom to sing old songs,or to play old tunes, both at the commencement and at the end of the acts. Forinstance, in Summers La
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