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 ... . the following 19th June, A new songe, intituled—Sick, sick, in grave I mould I were, For grief to see this wicked world, that will not mend, I was probably a moralization of the former. In the Harleian Miscellany, 4to, 10. 272, is A new ballad, declaring thedangerous shooting of the gun at the court (1578), to the tune of Sick
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 ... . the following 19th June, A new songe, intituled—Sick, sick, in grave I mould I were, For grief to see this wicked world, that will not mend, I was probably a moralization of the former. In the Harleian Miscellany, 4to, 10. 272, is A new ballad, declaring thedangerous shooting of the gun at the court (1578), to the tune of Sicke andsicke;commencing—? The seventeenth day of July last,At evening toward night, Our noble Queen ElizabethTook barge for her delight; And had the watermen to row,Her pleasure she might take, About the river to and fro,As much as they could , weep, still I weep,And shall do till I die,To think upon the gun was shotAt court so dangerously. The ballad from which the tune derives its name is probably that printed inRitsons Ancient Songs, (1793, p. 139) from a manuscript in the Cotton Library(Vespasian, A 25), and entitled Captain Car. The event which gave rise to itoccurred in the year 1571. The first stanza is here printed to the tune :—. MM -k-=r tin-mas, When weather wax - edry sick, And sick and like to cold,die; The 3 T & ^m i w t Cap - tain Car said tosick - est night that I his men, We must go take a - node, Good Lord, have mercy on me. S ^= * ST w ILLUSTRATING SHAKESPEARE. 227 TO-MORROW IS ST. VALENTINES DAY. This is one of Ophelias songs in Hamlet. It is found in several of the balladoperas, such as The Gobblers Opera (1729), The Quakers Opera (1728), &c,under this name. In Pills to purge Melancholy (1707, ii. 44) it is printed to asong in Heywoods Rape of Lucrece, beginning, Arise, arise, my juggy, mypuggy. Other versions will be found under the names of Who list to leada soldiers life, and Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor. See pages 144 and Cheer
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