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(183) Page 149 - All you that love good fellows, or The London prentice
REIGN OF ELIZABETH.
149
ALL YOU THAT LOVE GOOD FELLOWS, oe THE LONDON PRENTICE.
The tunes called Nancie in Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book; Uduward
Wouwels, in Bellerophon (Amsterdam, 1622, p. 115); Sir Eduward NomveVs
Delight, in Friesclie Lust-hof, 1634 ; and Tlie London Prentice, in Pills to purge
Melancholy (vi., 342), and in The Devil to pay, 1731, are the same: but the two
last contain only sixteen bars, while all the former consist of twenty-four.
The following is the version called Sir Hdivard Noel's Delight.
In marching time.
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The ballad of " The honour of a London Prentice : being an account of his
matchless manhood, and brave adventures done m Turkey, and by what means he
married the king's daughter," is evidently a production of the reign of Elizabeth.
The apprentice maintams her to be " the phoenix of the world," " the pearl of
princely majesty," &c., against "a score of Tm-kish Knights," whom he over-
throws at tUt.
The ballad is printed in Ritson's JEnglish Songs (among the Ancient Ballads),
and in Evans' Old Ballads, vol. iii., 178. Copies will also be found in the Bagford
Roxbui'ghe (iii. 747), and other Collections. It was "to be sung to the tune
of All you that love good fellows ; " under which name the air is most frequently
mentioned.

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Volumes 1-2 - Popular music of the olden time
DescriptionA collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes ... with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also a short account of the minstrels. Airs harmonized by G.A. Macfarren. London: Cramer, Beale & Chappell, [1859]. 2 volumes. Paged continuously. [An expansion of his "Collection of national English airs", published 1838-40.]
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Glen Collection of printed music
DescriptionScottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject.
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DescriptionThe Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi.