The age of Queen Elizabeth was one of transition, the Commonwealth marked the birth of the new era, and with it the final disappearance of the picturesque, even if somewhat depraved, English troubadour.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] A country that has taken its music at the hands of the foreigner for three centuries can scarcely be called musical.
[2] In its original meaning, the term implied a cheerful and righteously joyful sense of living. Its popular significance after three centuries of Puritanism, rather inclines to alcoholic elation.
[3] The leading note is a semi-tone lower than the keynote, and is essential to the modern scales, both major and minor.
[4] More familiarly known as shawn.
[5] "Short Apologies of the School of Abuse," London.