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254 ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
In the academic play of Lingua, Phantastes says —
" heavens 1 how am I troubled these latter times with poets — ballad-makers. Were
it not that I pity the printers, these sonnet-mongers should starve for conceits for all
Phantasies."
The popular music of the time of Charles I. was so much like that: of James,
as not to require separate notice. I have therefore included many ballads
of Charles' reign in this division ; but reserved those which relate to the troubles
and to the civil war, for the period of the Protectorate.
UPON A SUMMER'S-DAY.
In The Dancing Master, from 1650 to 1665, and in MusicVs Delight on the
Cithren, 1666, this is entitled " Upon a Summer' s-day ; " and in later editions of
The Dancing Master, viz., from 1670 to 1690, it is called " The Garland, or a
Summer's-day."
The song, "Upon a Summer's-day" is in Merry Drollery Complete, 1661,
p. 148. " The Garland " refers, in all probability, to a ballad in the Roxburghe
Collection, i. 22, or Pepysian, i. 300; which is reprinted in Evans' Old Ballads,
iv. 345 (1810), beginning, "Upon a Summer's time." It is more frequently
quoted by the last name in ballads. In the Pepys Collection, vol. i., is a
" Discourse between a Soldier and his Love ;" —
" Shewing that she did hear a faithful mind,
For land nor sea could make her stay behind.
To the tune of Upon a Summer time."
It begins, " My dearest love, adieu." And at p. 182 of the same volume,
"I smell a rat: to the tune of Upon a Summer tide, or The Seminary Priest.''''
It begins, " I travell'd far to find."
In the Roxburghe Collection, vol. i. 526, " The good fellow's advice," &c., to
the tune of Upon a Summer time ; " the burden of which is —
'' Good fellows, great and small,
Pray let me you advise
To have a care withall ;
'Tis good to be merry and wise."
And at p. 384 of the same volume, another by L.P., called " Seldom cleanely, or —
A merry new ditty, wherein you may see
The trick of a huswife in every degree ;
Then lend your attention, while I do unfold
As pleasant a story as ever was told.
To the tune of Upon a Summer's tiTne."
It begins- — " Draw near, you country girls.
And listen unto me ;
111 tell you here a new conceit,
Concerning huswifry."
I have chosen a song which illustrates an old custom, instead of the original
words to this tune, because it is not desirable to reprint them. In Wit and