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ong accompanied by lute. _H._ 8. III, i. 'Orpheus.' Besides these there are allusions to the names of various popular tunes and catches, of which the music is still to be had. Amongst these are-- 'The Hunt is up' [Appendix]. See _Rom. and Jul._ III, v, 34. Juliet says of the lark's song, 'that voice doth us affray, Hunting thee hence with _hunts-up_ to the day.' Any rousing morning song, even a love-song, was called a _hunts-up_. The tune of this song was also sung (in 1584) to 'O sweete Olyver, leave me not behind the,' but altering the time to 4 in a bar. See _As You Like It_ III, iii, 95. 'Heart's ease' [Appendix], the words of which are not known. Tune before 1560. See _Romeo_ IV, v, 100. _Id._, 'My heart is full of woe.' _Id._ l. 125. 'When griping grief' [Appendix], by Richard Edwards, gentleman of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel, printed in the 'Paradyse of daynty Devises' (printed 1577). Hawkins gives four verses, the first of which is here quoted by Shakespeare, but with several variations-- '_Where_ griping grief the hart _would_ wound, And doleful domps the mind oppresse, _There_ Musick with her silver sound _Is wont with spede to give_ redresse; Of troubled minds, for every sore, Swete Musick hath a salve in store.' The last verse is charming-- 'Oh heavenly gift, that turnes the minde, Like as the sterne doth rule the ship, Of musick whom the Gods assignde, To comfort man whom cares would nip; Sith thou both man and beast doest move, What wise man then will thee reprove.' 'Green Sleeves' [Appendix]. _Wiv._ II, i, 60. _Mrs Ford._ ... I would have sworn his disposition [Falstaff's] would have gone to the truth of his words; but they do _no more adhere_ and _keep place_ together, than the _Hundredth Psalm_ to the _tune of 'Green Sleeves_.' Also see _Wiv._ V, v, 20. The tune is given in its most complete form by Chappell, and is probably of Henry VIII.'s time. The ballad was published in 1580, with title, 'A new Northerne dittye of the Ladye Greene Sleeves.' Verse 1 is as follows:-- "Alas my love, you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously, And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but my Lady Greensleeves." The 'Hundredth Psalm' (All people tha
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