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Brit. Mus. Lans. MS 241. Fol. 49. III. Philotus. Edinburgh: Robert Charteris, 1603. IV. An Hour's Recreation in Music. By Richard Alison, Gentleman. 1606. British Museum. V. A Scottish version copied by Sir James Murray of Tibbermuir, ab. 1612? Univ. Libr. Cambr. K. K. 5. 30. Fol. 82 b. VI. Giles Earle his booke, 1615. Brit. Mus. Add. MS 24,665. Fol. 25 b. VII. Alexander Gil's Logonomia Anglica. 1619. VIII. The Golden Garland of Princely pleasures and delicate Delights. The third time imprinted, enlarged and corrected by Rich. Johnson. 1620. IX. Richard Wigley's Commonplace Book. Brit. Mus. Add. MS 6704. Fol. 163. (1591-1643). X. Cantus, Songs and Fancies, &c. Second edition. Aberdene, (Brit. Mus. K. 1. e. 12.) XI. Select Poetry, Chiefly Sacred, of the Reign of King James the First. Collected and edited by Edward Farr, Esq., editor of Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Gems of Sacred Poetry, etc., etc. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press for J. & J. Deighton; and J. W. Parker, London, 1847. P. 102. XII. Collection of Ballads in the Pepysian Library, at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Vol. I, p. 52. XIII. The Roxburghe Ballads. Edited by Charles Hindley. London, 1873. Vol. I, pp. 439-44. XIV. Professor Edw. Arber, Shakespeare Anthology. 1899. P. 247. (From An Hour's Recreation. = No. 4.) XV. Thomas Campion, Songs and Masques. Edited by A. H. Bullen. London, 1903. P. 270. XVI. A Collection of National English Airs, Consisting of Ancient Song, Ballad, and Dance Tunes. Interspersed with Remarks and Anecdotes, and preceded by an Essay on English Minstrelsy. The airs harmonized for the pianoforte by W. Crotch, Mus. Doc., G. Alex. Macfarren and J. Augustine Wade. Edited by W. Chappell. London: Chappell, 1840. P. 63, No. 127, music and words; No. 128, music. Page 108 of the companion volume containing the notes (published 1838) gives under No. CXXVII remarks and another version. XVII. W. Chappell, Popular Music of the Old Time: A Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, Illustrative of the National Music of England. London, 1855-59. XVIII. Old English Popular Music. By William Chappell, F.S.A. A new edition, with a preface and notes, and the earlier examples entirely revised by H. Ellis Wooldridge. Vols. I and II. London, 1893. Vol. I, pp. 100, 101. XIX. Wright-Halliwell, Reliquiae Antiquae, I, 323 (=Sanderson's Diary). II, 123 (=Wigley's Commonplace Book). Inaccurate copies! XX. [William Slatyer]. Psalmes or Songs of Sion: Turned into the language, and set to the tunes of a strange Land. By W. S. "Intended for Christmas Carols, and fitted to divers of the most noted and common, but solemne tunes, everywhere in this land familiarly used and knowne. London. Printed by Robert Young." 1642. On p. 36: "Psalme 126; tune: 'What if a day." XXI. Skene MS, Advocates' Library. "What if a day." 1615-35. Lute tablature to the tune of |