dad, Bishops' Wars, France, Great Rebellion, Ireland, Monmouth (Duke of), naval battles, Northern Rebellion, Rye-House Plot, Spain, Thirty Years' War, Turks, West Indies Warboys, Hunts., three witches of, 1419 Ward, Captain, a pirate, 2393 Ward and Danseker, 2393 Ware, Herts, murder at, 2349 Warmster's colt, beware to ride on, 969 warrener, the, and Will, 1891 Warton, Thomas, English Poetry, 1370, 2302 Warwick, Guy of, 1057, 2119 Warwickshire, fire in, in 1625, 894; three wonderful wells in, 2631 Was ever man so tossed in love, a tune, 2118 Waterton, Thomas. See W., T. Watling Street, London, London, the widow of, 2958 Watson, Christopher, death of, 1424 Watt, cogging, 317 Watt Fool at the gallows, 2781 Webster, John, 960 wedding goes by destiny, 2216 wells, three wonderful, in War wickshire, 2631 Wellington, Alice, death of, com motion about the, 1473 Welsh, ballads in, 962, 2496 Welsh Ambassador, The, 249 Welshman entertained in Eng land, 2897 Wem, Shropshire, monstrous chil dren born at, 888 Wentford. See Wentworth Wentworth, Thomas, Lord, 1549 West Country, poor of the, their complaint, 367 West Indies, war in, between Spain and England, 417. See Jamaica Westchester. See Chester Westcote, Thomas, Devonshire, 252 f. Westerham ('Westram '), Kent, miraculous moving of the ground in, 268 Westminster, London, child mur dered by its' mother-in-law' in, 1801; Crowe murdered in, 2352; Gunpowder Plot traitors executed in, 1515; jousting in, in 1588, 1332; Long Meg of, 1524; maid hanged in, for child-murder, 619; 619; Mrs. Dorrington hanged in, 1399; murder in, in 1588, 1801; new created cuckold of, 1866; she-devil of, 2412; wanton wife of, 2847 Westminster Drollery, 1861, 2584 Westminster Hall, London, Charles I's trial in, 2727; great feast in, in 1683, 1877 Westmoreland, Lady Jane of, 318 Wharton, Sir George, his combat with Steward, 324 Wharton, John, ballad by, 2908 wherrymen, three, at Bristol, 1321 Whetstone Park privateer, 308 Whig and Tory, between, 194 Whight, Nicholas, ballad by, 338 whips prepared by the Spaniards for the English, 2544 whipper, merry pranks of the, 64 whipping of the pretended daugh ter of the King of Spain, 2421 White, Andrew, monstrous child of, 1622 White, Laurence, ballads by, 66, 127, 280, 1647, 1879 Whitehall, London, execution at, 95; James I goes from the Tower to, 1327; Princess Elizabeth betrothed at, 688; tilting before the Court at, 1140, 1142, 1144 Whitehall Chapel, London, plot to burn it in 1657, 1691 Whitsuntide, banquet, 1111; praise of, 1233 Whittington, Sir Richard, life of, 2822 whore, cunning, overmatched, 454; Essex man cozened by a, 774; ranting, resolution of the, 2238 whoredom, and theft, against, 46; plagues that insue, declared by the Scriptures, 512; Zaleucus on, 1343. See fornication widow, complaint of the, 358; dis- Wollay, Edward, ballad by, 1387 against, 531; God's threatenings to, 980; praise and dispraise of, 1258; vain beauty of, praised, 2165; wicked, cruelty of, to men, Women Will Have Their Will, Wonders of This Windy Winter, The, 1551 Wood, Anthony, ballad-collection of, 66, 651, 776, 1024, 1147, 1322, 1411, 1564, 1570, 1647, 1886, 1934, 1985, 2226, 2437, 2685, 2741, 3072 Woodward, Katherine, murders her husband and child, 1344 1344 Worcester, cruel murder at, in 1577, 1417; news from, of Wil- liam Poole, 2534; thrifty maid of, 1470; traitors executed at, in 1606, 516 Worcestershire, murder in, in 1605, 437. See Malvern Hills world, age of the, 47; complaint of the people against the, 365; end of the, 683; frailty of the, 518; how it shall decay with fire, 528; miserable estate of the, 521; strange challenging against, 2535; thus goeth, 2635; unsteadfast state of, 526; van- ity of, 2805 godly, 588; warning to, 1025, worldly vanity, conviction of, 392 mas, robbed and tortured, 94 Worslay, Richard, epitaph of, 771 three, at Chelmsford, 1500; flood at, 1445 Wylken (welkin?) waxen black in Wymondham. See Windham Xantippe, wife of Socrates, 3081 Yale, Sir Yevan Lloyd of, 749 Yarington, Robert, Two Lament able Tragedies, 175 Yonge, Walter, Diary, 443, 812, 1284 York, Archbishop of. See Gray, Walter de York, Harrington suffers at, 1076; houses overthrown at, by a flood in 1564, 1426; James I entertained at, 719; merry maid of, 1729; rich man of, 2294 Yorkshire, example of two false lovers in, 1105; letter from seven tailors in, 1456; Marmaduke Lacy of, 746; murder in, in 1605, 1413; the Nortons in, 549. See Pontefract, Wakefield young men, caveat to, 273, or warning to, 2017 youth, age and, between, 584, wicked behavior of, 818; admonition for unbridled, 14; admonition to, to leave, 1922; conscience and, 791; death and, between, 190; old age and, disputation between, 608; warning to, 1227, to die, 2179 Zaleucus, judgment of, on whore dom, 1343 Zorobabell (Zerubbabel), wise, 2592 FINIS New York University. J. H. FURST CO., PRINTERS, BALTIMORZ The original music used for the songs in Fletcher's plays seems to have received no attention from modern scholars. In fact the music for all the Elizabethan dramatists except Shakespeare has been neglected by musical historian and dramatic historian alike. The texts of the songs in Fletcher have been studied by men interested in the reconstruction of the Elizabethan drama. But the music has lain neglected and unknown. Although many a scholar is familiar with the text of the song, “ Tell me, Dearest, what is love?" and knows its source and its use in Fletcher's The Captain, Act II, scene 2, very few know that the music is preserved in a manuscript of the time of James I; and perhaps not one scholar in a hundred knows what that piece of music sounds like. The same remark might apply equally to any of the dozens of songs in Fletcher. This neglect of Fletcher's music is strange, in view of the facts that two-thirds of his plays contain songs, and that the original music for eighteen of the songs has come down to us. These eighteen pieces of music are sufficient to give us a good idea of the various musical types found in the plays. For this study the field is restricted to thirty-two plays in which Fletcher had the sole hand, or at least the main hand. The works in which he collaborated extensively with Beaumont, Massinger, Middleton, or Jonson are here excluded. Twenty-one 1 * See Jaggard, W. Shakespeare Bibliography, Stratford, 1921, the section on Music and Dancing. The best book on Shakespeare music is Edward W. Naylor's Shakespeare and Music, London, 1896. Naylor prints all the extant original music. of the thirty-two plays contain songs, a total of seventy-two songs. The following table shows the plays examined, the number of songs in each play, and the number of musical settings now extant. Play Musical Song Setting 4 1 1 1 2 2 3 In short, we have music for exactly 25% of the songs. Of the eighteen pieces of music now available three are from seventeenth century Mss. in the British Museum;? eight are from Dr. John Wilson's Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads, Oxford, 1660;8 one is from J. Stafford Smith's Musica Antiqua, London, 1812; six are from William Chappell's History of the Popular Music of the Olden Time, 1855.* The Mss. and Cheerfull Ayres are origi 2 Egerton Ms. 2012 f3b; Add. Ms. 29396 f18b; Egerton Ms. 2013 f12b. 3 Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads. First Composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices. By John Wilson, Doctor in Music, and Professor of the same in the University of Oxford. Oxford, 1660. The Library of Congress has a copy of the part for the “Cantus” or leading voice. The Cantus part also contains a bass for the lute or viol. * There are two volumes, published 1855 and 1859. Since all of our ballads come from Volume 1, page references are to that volume. This fine old collection was reëdited by H. E. Wooldridge and published as Old English Popular Music, 2 vols., London, 1893. |
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