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KEItiN OF CHARLES II.
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THE TWENY-NINTH OF MAY.
The following song " On the King's Birthday, May 29," (on which day
Charles the Second entered London after his restoration), is from a copy
printed in 1667.
The spirited tune is to be found in The Dancing Master of 1686, and in every
subsequent edition, under the title of The twenty-ninth of May. In several
of the editions ii is printed twice ; the second copy being under another
name. For instance, in the " Additional Sheet " to The Dancing Master of
1686, it appears as May Hill, or The Jovial Creiv ; in " The Second Part " of that
of 1698, as The Jovial Beggars ; in the third volume of The Dancing Master, n.d.,
as the Restoration of King Charles.
It also bears the name of The Jovial Grew in Apollo's Banquet for the Treble
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