Oxford Music Faculty

  • MS Mee e.1

    A quarto songbook, 138 leaves.

    Mid-18th-century.

    Once owned by John Henry Mee.

    • EtG 71.8 ff. 5r-6r

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 24.

      Sir George Etherege, Song ('Tell me no more you love. in vain')
    • VaJ 3.5 f. 10v

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, A song set by Mr Vanburghe A 2 voice ('For bright Irene fair and young, poor Damon sigh'd in vain')
    • CwT 692.8 ff. 88v-9r

      Copy, in William Lawes's musical setting.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
    • HeR 247.5 f. 106r

      Copy, in William Lawes's musical setting.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')
    • MrC 10.5 f. 122r

      Copy, in a musical setting, headed The words by Kit: Marlow.

      First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.

      Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ('Come live with mee, and be my love')

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