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ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
a ballad to the tune of Lucina, entitled " A most pleasant Dialogue, or a merry
greeting between two Lovers," &c. ; beginning, " Good morrow, fair Nancie,
whither so fast; " which I suppose to be also to the tune. It is subscribed C.R.
Printed at London for H[enry G[osson.]
The following is also from the Roxburghe Collection (i. 462) , and is reprinted
in Collier's Roxburghe Ballads, p. 7.
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THE BOATMAN.
This is a bagpipe tune, and might be harmonized with a drone base. In
MusicVs Recreation on the Viol, Lyra-ioay, 1661, the viol is strung to the " bag-
pipe tuning," to play it. It is to be found in every edition of The Dancing Master,
from the first to that of 1698. I have not discovered the song of The Boatman,
but have adapted a stanza from Coryat's Orambe, 1611, to the air. It resembles
Trip and go (see p. 131), and the same words might be sung to it. The accent
of the tune seems intended to imitate the turning of the scull in boating.
In the Roxburghe Collection, ii. 496, is a ballad entitled " The wanton wife of