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ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
WHEN DAPHNE DID FROM PHCEBUS FLY.
This tune is to be found in Nederlandtsche Gredenclc-Olanck, 1626 ; in Friesche
Lust-Hof, 1634; and in The Dancing Master, from 1650 to 1690.
In the first named it is entitled Prins Daphne ; in the second, Wllen Daphne
did from Phoebus fly ; and in the last, Daphne, or TJie Shepherdess.
A copy of the words will be found in the Koxburghe Collection, i. 388, entitled
" A pleasant new Ballad of Daphne : To a new tune." Printed by the assignees
of Thomas Symcocke. It ia on the old mythological story of Daphne turned into
a laurel.
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