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REIGN OP ELIZABETH.
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PEPPER IS BLACK.
This tune is to be found in Tlie Dancing Master, from 1650 to 1690. It is
mentioned as a dance tmie by Nashe in Save ivith you to Saffron- Walden, 1596.
(See ante p. 116.) A copy of the following ballad by Elderton is in the collection
of Mr. George Daniel, of Canonbary : " Prepare ye to the plough, to the tune
of Pepper is black."
" The Queen holds the plough, to continue good seed,
Trusty subjects, be ready to help if she need."
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Of nymphs, or muses fgigned, By Christ himself ordained, &c.
There are twelve stanzas, each of eight lines, subscribed W. Elderton. Printed
by Wm. How, for Richard Johnes.
WALSINGHAM.
This tune is in Queen Elizabeth's, and Lady Neville's, Virginal Books (with
thirty variations by Dr, John Bull) ; in Anthony Holborne's Cittharn ScJioole,
1597 ; in Barley's Ifew Boohe of Tablatitre, 1596, &c. It is called " Walsingham,"
'■'■Have with you to Walsingham" and '■^ As I went to Walsingham."
It belongs, in all probability, to an earlier reign, as the Priory of Walsingham,
in Norfolk, which was founded dui-ing the Episcopate of William, Bishop of
Norwich (1146 to 1174), was dissolved in 1538.
Pilgrimages to this once famous shrine commenced in or before the reign of
Henry HI., who was there in 1241. Edward I. was at Walsingham in 1280, and
again in 1296 ; and Edward H. in 1315. The author of The Vision of Piers
Ploughman, says —
" Heremytes on a hepe, with hooked staves,
Wenten to Walsyngham, and her [their] wenches after."
A curious reason why pilgrims should have both singers and pipers to accompany
them, will be found in note a, at page 34.
Henry VH., having kept his Christmas of 1486-7, at Norwich, " from thence
went in manner of pilgrimage to Walsingham, where he visited Our Lady's Clnu'ch,
famous for miracles ; and made his prayers and vows for help and deliverance."