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Old Song Books

Though it is precisely the old music-books that have furnished all the poetic acquisitions of recent times, witness Mr. A. H. Bullen's splendid incursions into Elizabethan song, it is not a little remarkable that to this day some of the most famous Campions and Dowlands (deliberately wrested from their music-books) still continue to appear as Anonymous. This is not fair, and these pages should do something to make such negligence impossible.

By far the greater number of the songs selected are from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and little attempt has been made to cull flowers from the innumerable song books of Victorian and later days. A few more modern songs, however, have been included, and acknowledgment must here be made to Mr. John Murray for permission to give the songs of Browning, and to Messrs. Longmans Green and Co., Ltd., for allowing the insertion of William Morris's "Sir Giles' War Song."

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George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.

Broadway House: 68-74 Carter Lane, London, E.C.

1927

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