CLASS THE SECOND. 1. Robin Lyth 2. Requiem to the Confpirators against Henry IV. 3. Satire aginft the Lollards 4. A Roundell of Kyng Henry pe Sext' ayens bis Coronation, made by Lydegate Daun John 5. A Roundel on Fortune 6. A Song on an inconftant Mistress 10. A Christmas Carol 11. Carol for St. Stephens Day 12. Carol for St. Edmunds Day CLASS THE THIRD. 1. Balet, by Anthony Wood-vyle Earl Rivers 2. Gramercy myn own Purfe 3. Troly lo 4. The dying Maidens Complaint 5. Upon the Inconftancy of his Mistress An A Maides Denial 8. Downe, Belly, downe 9. Beware my lyttyll Finger 10. Dialogue between Two Lovers 12. My fwete fweting 11, In praife of the joyful Life of a Batchelor 112 113 114 115 120 122 17. A Caroll, 13. [Love] Songe 14. Song on the Victory of Floddon Field 15. O Death, rocke me on Slepe 16. Befs, forfaken, maketh Complaint 17. A Caroll, bring yng in the Bores Heed 125 18. In die Nativitatis 127 19. In die Nativitatis 128 12. The ungrateful Knight, and the fair Flower of Northumberland 169 15. The Power of Mufic. By Shakspeare 182 16. Hark! hark! the Lark. By Shakspeare 183 17. The Jovial Tinker 184 18. The Lancashire Song 188 CLASS THE FIFTH. 1. The Life and Death of Sir Hugh of the Grime 2. Lay a Garland on my Hearfe 3. The Mothers Lullaby 4. A lamentable Ballad " of a Combate. tween Sir James Steward and Sir George Whar 14. The Two conftant Lovers in Scotland; or, A Pattern of true Love fought with and 7. The Taming of a Shrew 8. Beauty incompatible with Chastity 215 221 9. A Ballad upon a Wedding. By Sir John Suckling 223 10. When the King enjoys his own again 11. Phillida flouts me 12. John and Joan; or, A mad Couple well met 13. Coridons Song, in the Praife of a Countrymans Life. By John Chalkhill, Efq. 235 239 245 249 5. A Worshipper of Cruelty 260 16. Tom of Bedlam 261 17. Tom om of Bedlam 265 18. Nerves 268 19. O Anthony 270 20. An old Song on the Spanish Armado 271 21. The new Courtier 275 22. The Prodigals Refolution; or, My Father was 27. A Carrol for a Waffel-bowl, to be fung upon ANCIENT SONGS. CLA SS I. Comprehending the Reigns of HENRY III. ED. WARD I. EDWARD II. EDWARD III. and RICHARD II. I. A SONG OR CATCH IN PRAISE OF THE CUCKOW. This curious piece, which is thought to be " the most ancient English fong, with [or without] the mufical notes, any where extant," is preferved in a manufcript of the Harleian Library, in the Museum (N° 978). It has been already published by Sir John Hawkins in his very inStructive B inftructive and entertaining History of Mufic, Vol. ii. p. 93 ; and at p. 96 of the fame volume it is reduced into the scale of modern compofition. The ingenious author remarks that "Mr. Wanley has not ventured precisely to ascertain the antiquity of this venerable mufical relic," but adds, "that the following obfervations will go near to fix it to about the middle of the fifteenth century." A conjecture in which he is, doubtless, greatly mistaken, as the MS. is evidently of much higher antiquity, and may, with the utmost probability, be referred to, as early a period (at least) as the year 1250. So good a judge of ancient MSS. as Mr. Wan ley was could never have been restrained by FEAR from giving his opinion of their age: that confideration, however, might have had its weight both with the learned hiftorian, and with those who have adopted his opinion*. Under the words here given are thofe of a Latin hymn, to which Sir John Hawkins, on the authority of Du Cange, thinks the term Rota alone refers; an opinion for which there does not appear fufficient reafon; the word implying no more than our Round. And hence perhaps a paffage in Shakspeare may receive fome illuftration. In Hamlet, Ophelia, Speaking of a ballad of "The falfe Steward who stole his masters daughter," exclaims — "O how the wheel becomes it!" evidently meaning the burthen or return of the ftanza. A ROTE was likewife an ancient musical inftrument, as we may learn from Chaucer : "Wel coude he fing and playen on a ROTE. Dr. Burney, T. Warton. |