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ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
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THE SPANISH LADY.
Dr. Percy says, " this beautiful old ballad most probably took its rise from one
of those descents made on the Spanish coasts in the time of Queen Elizabeth :
and, in all likelihood, from the taking of the city of Cadiz (called by our sailors,
corruptly. Gales), on June 21, 1596, mider the command of the Lord Howard,
admiral, and of the Earl of Essex, general."
The question as to who was the favored lover, has been fully discussed; it may
therefore be sufficient here to refer the reader to Tlie Edinhnrgh Revieiv for April,
1846 ; Tlie Times newspapers of April 30, and May 1, 1846 ; and The Quarterly
Review for October, 1846.
The ballad is quoted in Cupid's Wliirligig, 1616, and parodied in Rowley's
A Match at Midnight, 1633. In the Douce Collection, ii. 210 and 212, there
are two copies, the one " to a pleasant new tune ; " the other (which is of later
date) to the tune of Flying Fame ; but could not be sung to that air. In the
same volume, p. 254, is " The Westminster Wedding, or Carlton's Epithalamium,"
(dated 1663) : to the tune of Tlie Spanish Lady. It commences thus :
"Will you hear a German Princess,
How she chous'd an English Lord," &c.