Scene 2. Page 113.
Clown. ... three-man songmen all.
"They have also Cornish three-mens songs, cunningly contrived for the ditty, and pleasantly for the note." Carew's Survey of Cornwall, fo. 72.
Scene 2. Page 113.
Clown. ... but one Puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.
An allusion to a practice, common at this time among the Puritans, of burlesquing the plein chant of the Papists, by adapting vulgar and ludicrous music to psalms and pious compositions.
Scene 3. Page 123.
Per. For you there's rosemary, and rue;
Grace and remembrance be to you both.
The following lines are from a song entitled, A nosegaie alwaies sweet for lovers to send for tokens of love at newyere's tide, or for fairings, as they in their minds shall be disposed to write, printed in Robinson's Handefull of pleasant delites, 1584, 16mo:—
"Rosemarie is for remembrance,
Betweene us daie and night,
Wishing that I might alwaies have
You present in my sight."