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FROM HENRY VII. TO MARY.
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lord and groom, lady and kitchen maid, no distinction. So in our court in Queen
Elizabeth's time, gravity and state were kept up. In King James's time things were
pretty well, but in King Charles's time, there has been nothing hut Trenchniore and
the Cushion Dance, omnium gatherum, tolly polly, hoite come toite."
Trenchmore is mentioned also in Stephen Gosson's Schoole of Abuse, 1579; in
Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, 1600; in Chapman's Wit of a
Woman, 1604; in Barry's Ram Alley, 1611; in Beaumont and Fletcher's Island
Princess ; in Weelkes' Ayres or Phantasticke Sprites, 1608 ; and in 1728 was
still to be found in Tlie Dancing Master. In the comedy of The Rehearsal,
1672, the earth, sun, and moon, are made to dance the Sey to the tune of
Trenchmore.
Several political songs were sung to it, one of which is in the collection of
" Poems on AfFau's of State, from 1640 to 1704." In the Roxburghe Collection
of Ballads is one called " The West-country Jigg, or a Trenchmore Galliard,"
" Four-and-twenty lasses went over Trenchmore Lee."
The following is the song in Deuteromelia.
Moderate time.
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