L. 212.

_Clo._ Pr'ythee, bring him in, and let him _approach
singing_.

_Perdita._ Forewarn him, that he use _no scurrilous words_
in 's tunes.

L. 259.

_Clo._ [to Autolycus]. What hast here? _ballads_?

_Mopsa._ 'Pray now, buy some: I love a _ballad in print_, o'
life, for _then we are sure they are true_.

_Autolycus._ Here's one to a _very doleful tune_ ... [of a
usurer's wife].

L. 273.

_Clo._ Come on, lay it by: and let's first see _more
ballads_....

_Aut._ Here's _another ballad, of a fish_, that ... sung
this ballad against the hard hearts of maids: ... the ballad
is _very pitiful_, and as true.

L. 285.

_Clo._ Lay it by too: another.

_Aut._ This is a _merry ballad_, but a _very pretty_ one.

_Mop._ Let's have some merry ones.

_Aut._ Why, this is a passing merry one, and _goes to the
tune of_ "Two maids wooing a man," there's scarce a maid
westward but she sings it: _'tis in request_, I can tell
you.

_Mop._ We can _both_ sing it: if _thou'lt bear a part_
[_i.e._, Autolycus], thou shalt hear; 'tis in _three parts_.

_Dorcas._ We had the _tune_ on't a month ago.

_Aut._ _I can bear my part_; you must know, _'tis my
occupation_: have at it with you.

[They sing 'Get you hence,' in three parts.]

_Clo._ We'll have the song out anon _by ourselves_.

L. 328.

_Servant._ Master, there is _three_ carters, _three_
shepherds, _three_ neat herds, _three_ swine herds, that
have made themselves all _men of hair_: they call themselves
_Saltiers_; and they have a _dance_, which the wenches say
is a _gallimaufry_ of gambols, because they are not in't....

* * * * *

L. 609.

_Aut._ _My clown_ (who wants but something to be a
reasonable man) grew so in love with the wenches' _song_,
that he would not stir his pettitoes, _till he had both tune
and words_.

The tabor and pipe, in the servant's first speech, were common popular
instruments. The tabor, of course, was a small drum, which was used as
accompaniment to the pipe, a small whistle with three holes, but with
a compass of 18 notes. (See Frontispiece.) In its curiously
disproportionate compass, it may be compared to the modern 'Picco'
pipe of the music shops. Mersennus (middle of 17th century) me