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ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
NEWMARKET.
This tune is contained in The Dancing Master of 1675, and in every subsequent
edition.
A tune called Newmarket is sometimes referred to in ballads, as " The Country
Farmer, or The buxom Virgin : to a new tune called Newmarket, or King James 1
Jigg " (Rox. ii. 77), but " To horse, brave boys, to horse " seems intended, rather
than this.
In the Travels of Cosmo, 3rd Grand Duke of Tuscany, throughout England, in
1669, he says, " Newmarket has, in the present day, been brought into repute by
the King [Charles II] , who frequents it on account of the horse-races ; having
been before celebrated only for the market for victuals, which was held there, and
was a very abundant one." When Charles visited Newmarket, Tom D'Urfey
used often to sing to him : one of his songs, which is named after the town, and
begins " The golden age is come," was printed in one of D'Urfey's collections,
and in the Pills, as having been " sung to the King there."
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