A Collection of National English Airs: Consisting of Ancient Song, Ballad, and Dance Tunes, Interspersed With Remarks and Anecdote, and Preceded by an ... for the Pianoforte (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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No. 1, Gravedigger's Song, in Hamlet. - No. 2, King Lear and his Three Daughters, and When Arthur first in court began. No. 11, Green Sleeves. - Nos. 38, 39, How should I your true love know. - No. 40, Good Morrow, it is St. Valentines day. - Nos. 41 and 41 bis, And will he not come again - No. 233, For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. No 61, Under the Greenwood Tree. - No. 84, Light 0' Love. - No. 132, When that I was a little tiny boy. -. No 164, It was a lover and his lass. - Nos. 169 and 170, Peg a Ramsey. - No. 206, Three merry men we be. - No. 62, Fortune my foe, and Titus Andron icus' Complaint. - No. 178, Heart's s-ease -. No 180, Come live with me and be my love. -no. 196, The hunt is up. -no. 203, Trip and go. - No. 231, The Carman's Whistle. - No. 237, Jog on, jog on, the footpath-way. - And No. 241, O mistress mine.

N.b. - The first figure column refers to the Numbers of the Tunes, the second to the page of Letterpress, and the third to the page of Music. For facility of reference, each Air is indexed by the Title, by the First Line, and occasionally by the Burden of the Song.

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