Part 40

Division No. 1.

Division No. 3 (more elaborate).

3. Example of Sol-Fa, 16th and 17th centuries, see p. 35. Lear I, ii, 137.

The augmented fourths formed by the notes fa and mi, marked with x, are the mi contra fa, which diabolus est, or 'is the divider,' see p. 36.

Solmisation of the six notes of the Hexachord, 11th century, see p. 37. Shrew III, i, 72.

(Hard Hexachord) Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La]

The six notes from F, with B flat, were called the 'Soft' Hexachord.

4. Lesson for the Lute, by Thomas Mace, b. 1613, from Musick's Monument, 1676, see p. 55. Shrew III, i, 58.

Cf. p. 30, on 'Broken' music.

5. Tune of Light o' Love, original words not known, but date before 1570, p. 70. Much Ado V, iv, 41, etc.

6. Parson Hugh's song, 'To Shallow Rivers,' tune anonymous, date probably 16th century, p. 71. Merry Wives III, i, 18.

To shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals; There will we make our beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. When as I sat in Babylon, And a thousand vagram posies.]

7. 'Come Live with Me,' tune printed 1612, but probably much older. See p. 71. Marlowe's 'Passionate Pilgrim,' XX., or Merry Wives III, i, 18.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That hills and valleys, dales and fields, And all the craggy mountain yields.]

8. Peg-a-Ramsey, p. 71. Tw. Nt. II, iii, 76.

9. 'Three Merry Men be We,' p. 71. Tw. Nt. II, iii, 76. Words from Peele's 'Old Wives Tale,' 1595, where it is sung. Music from J. Playford, 1650 circ., but may be older.

Three merry men, and three merry men, and three merry men be we, I in the wood and thou on the ground, And Jack sleeps in the tree.]

10. 'There Dwelt a Man in Babylon,' p. 71. Tw. Nt. II, iii, 80. Music anon., but most probably later than Shakespeare's time.

slow

Til-ly val-ley, Lady!

lively

There dwelt a man in Bab-y-lon, in Bab-y-lon, in Bab-y-lon, There dwelt a man in Bab-y-lon, Lady! Lady! Lady!]

Here is one verse of the 'Ballad of Constant Susanna,' to which Toby refers.

'There dwelt a man in Babylon Of reputation great by fame; He took to wife a faire woman, Susanna she was callde by name. A woman faire and vertuous, Lady, lady! Why should we not of her learn thus To live godly?'

11. 'Farewell, Dear Heart,' p. 72. Tw. Nt. II, iii, 102.

Toby

Farewell dear heart, since I must needs be gone,

Clown