Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age

The present Anthology is intended to serve as a companion volume to the Poetical Miscellanies published in England at the close of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. A few of the lyrics here collected are, it is true, included in «England's Helicon,» Davison's «Poetical Rhapsody,» and «The Ph[oe]nix' Nest»; and some are to be found in the modern collections of Oliphant, Collier, Rimbault, Mr. W.J. Linton, Canon Hannah, and Professor Arber. But m