The Ballad Literature And Popular Music of the Olden Time : a History of the Ancient Songs, Ballads, And of the Dance Tunes of England, With Numerous Anecdotes And Entire Ballads : Also a Short Account of the Minstrels
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; The true tears fell from him would have melted the stones, Sing, &c. Come, all you forsaken, and mourn you with me. Sing, &c. ; Who speaks of a false love, mine's falser than she, &c. Let love no more boast her in palace nor bower. Sing, &c. ; It buds, but it blasteth ere it be a flower, &c. Though, fair, and more false, 1 die with thy wound, Sing, &c. ; Thou hast lost the truest lover that goes upon the ground, &c.' Let nobody chide her, her scorns I approve [though I prove] ; She wag born t...o be false, and I to die for her love, &c. Take this for my ferewell and latest adieu. Sing, &c. ; Write this on my tomb, that in love I was true, &c. The above copy of the words is from the same manuscript as the music. It differs from that in Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry ; and Shakespeare has somewhat varied it to apply to a female character. WHOOP! DO ME NO HARM, GOOD MAN. This is twice alluded to by Shakespeare, in act iv., sc. 3, of A Winter's Tale ; and by Ford, in act iii., sc. 3, of The Fancies chaste and nolle, where Secco, applying it to Morosa, sings " Whoop !
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