Misc. MS 170, Filmer MS 4
Three oblong quarto music part books (4/a, 4/b, and 4/c), 103, 93, and 75 leaves (including numerous blanks) respectively, in contemporary calf gilt.
Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660).
Mid-17th century.In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).
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CmT 139 4/a ff. 10v-11r; 4/b f. 8v; 4/c f. 11v
Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 573-5.
First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.
Thomas Campion, 'Though your strangenesse frets my hart' -
B&F 173 4/a f. 14v; 4/b f. 10v; 4/c f. 15r
Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 207-316 (p. 243). Bullen, IV, 207-321, ed. R.G. Martin (pp. 247-8). Bowers, IV, 276-380, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 307-8). The musical setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, II, v, 4-23. Song ('Now the lustry spring is seen') -
B&F 72 4/a f. 15r; 4/b f. 11r; 4/c f. 15v
Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 105-95 (p. 149). Bowers, III, 12-93, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 48). This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song ('Turn, turn thy beauteous face away') -
ShW 94.5 4/a f. 20v; 4/b f. 14v; 4/c f. 20r
Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I, ii, 400-9. Song ('Full fathom five thy father lies') -
ShW 103.8 4/a f. 21r; 4/b f. 15r; 4/c f. 20v
Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song ('Where the bee sucks, there suck I') -
B&F 55 4/a f. 21v; 4/b f. 15v; 4/c f. 21r
Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
Bowers, III, 545. This setting first published in John Wilson, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, III, i, 429-36. Song ('Do not feare to put thy feete') -
B&F 39 4/a f. 22r; 4/b f. 16r; 4/c f. 21v
Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.
Bowers, I, 624-5.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, IV, iv, 85-104. Song ('Come hither you that love, and heare me sing') -
B&F 9 4/a f. 22v; 4/b f. 16v; 4/c f. 22r
Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled and here beginning
Cast your Capps and cares away
.Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song ('Cast our Caps and cares away!') -
StW 1036 4/a f. 27r; 4/b f. 21r; 4/c f. 26r
Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played') -
LoR 47 4/a f. 27v; 4/b f. 21v; 4/c ff. 26v-7r
Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled and here beginning
Where Love with vnconfined wings
, the full lyrics appearing in 4/c.First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings') -
B&F 102 4/a ff. 28v-9r; 4/b ff. 23v-4r; 4/c ff. 28v-9r
Copies of a version, untitled and here beginning
O divinest God of Loue
, in a musical setting by John Wilson.Dyce, VI, 194. Bullen, III, 198-9. Bowers, V, 79-80.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, V, i, 13-24. Song ('Oh, fair sweet goddess, queen of loves')