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ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
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There are two other ballads of " Arthur-a-Bradley," — one commencing, "All
in the merry month of May" (included in the third volume of the Roxburghe
Ballads), and the second, " Come, neighbours, and listen awhile," reprinted in
" Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England," by J. H.
Dixon. Both are evidently of later date than the above.
There may have been a fourth ballad, for Gayton, in his Festivous Notes on
Bon Quixote, 4to., 1654, p. 141, says, " 'Tis not alwaies sure that His merry in
hall token beards wag all, for these men's beards wagg'd as fast as they could tug
'em, but mov'd no mirth at all : They were verifying that song of —
' Heigh, brave Arthur o' Bradley,
A beard without haire looks madly.' "
The last line is not to be found in any of the above-mentioned.