. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . SONGS AND BALLADS. 29 IV. I From a parckment book, temp. Henry YIII, in the pes- \ session of the editor. The music is in three parts by a com- ^ poser who signs himself Browne. Another copy of both < words and music is contained in the Fayrfax MS. in theBritish Museum (Add. MSS. No. 5465, fol. 102 b). On i the margin of the editors MS. is written in a contemporary I hand— In prayse of y^ kyngs sister. Margaret Meke, Whom I now seke,Ther is none lyke I dare well say ; So manerly, So curtesly, So prat
. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . SONGS AND BALLADS. 29 IV. I From a parckment book, temp. Henry YIII, in the pes- \ session of the editor. The music is in three parts by a com- ^ poser who signs himself Browne. Another copy of both < words and music is contained in the Fayrfax MS. in theBritish Museum (Add. MSS. No. 5465, fol. 102 b). On i the margin of the editors MS. is written in a contemporary I hand— In prayse of y^ kyngs sister. Margaret Meke, Whom I now seke,Ther is none lyke I dare well say ; So manerly, So curtesly, So delits allway. That goodly las, When she me pas,Alas ! I wote not where I go or stonde; I thynke me bonde, In se in lond,To comfort her. 3§ 30 SONGS AND BALLADS. Her lusty chere,Her eyes most dere,I know no fere In her beaute: Both Gate and Bes,Mawde and Anes,Sys is witnes Of her fetysnesse. My MargaretI cannot meteIn feeld ne strete, Wofull am I; Leve love this chaunce,Yom* chere avaunce,And let us daunce Herh my Lady?. SONGS AND BALLADS. 31 V. Satirical Song on tfje jHeminss. The following piece of satire is preserved in the FairfaxMS., wMcli once belonged to Ealph Thoresby, and is nowamong the additional MSS. in the British Museum (5465,fol. 114). Sir John HawMns, who has printed it with themusic, teUs us that it is supposed to be a satire on thosednrnken Flemings who came into England with the piincessAnne of Cleves, upon her marriage with Henry VIII.{History of Music, vol. iii, p. 2.) But the song probablyrelates to rutterkyns of a much earlier period. It is notunKkely to be the composition of Skelton. In the Interlude of Magnyfycence, Courtly Abusyon ex-claims— Eutty bully, joly rutterkyn, heyda! Dyces Skelton, vol. i, p. 249. Rutter, says the Eev. A. Dyce, which properly meansa rider, a trooper (Grerm. reiter, renter), came to be employed,Kke its diminutive rutterlcin, as a cant term, and with varioussignifications. (See Hormanni Vulgaria, sig. q. iii, ed. 1
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