The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lyrics from the Song-Books of the
Elizabethan Age, by Various
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Title: Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
Author: Various
Editor: A. H. Bullen
Release Date: November 2, 2008 [EBook #27129]
Language: English
Produced by Bethanne M. Simms, Nigel Blower and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Transcriber’s Notes:
Footnotes to the Preface are collected at the end of that section, but other footnotes appear immediately below the relevant song lyrics. All footnotes are numbered sequentially.
A hyperlinked Table of Contents has been added to this version.
There is some Greek in this text, which may require adjustment of your browser settings to display correctly. A transliteration of each line is included. Hover your mouse over words underlined with a grey dotted line to see the transliteration.
Text underlined with a red dotted line has been amended. In particular:
In the index, “... land in Kent (Malismata)” has been corrected to “Melismata.”
In the index, “... heavenby fire” has been corrected to “heavenly fire.”
In “Thrice blessèd be the giver”, “failed” has been corrected to “failèd.”
Inconsistencies in the spelling and hyphenation of words between different songs have been retained, but minor punctuation omissions have been silently corrected.
| Page | |
|---|---|
| PREFACE | v |
| INDEX OF FIRST LINES | xxiii |
| LYRICS FROM ELIZABETHAN SONG-BOOKS | xxxi |
| NOTES | 177 |
| LIST OF SONG-BOOKS | 198 |