Begone, my love, my dear.
The weather is warm;
’Twill do thee no harm;
Thou can’st not be lodged here.”
It is again quoted in Fletcher’s “Monsieur Thomas,” and again in “The Tamer Tamed.”
Almost certainly this was originally a ballad. But the ballad tale has been lost, and only scraps of rhyme were committed to writing.
1588, 26th Sept. John Wolfe had license to print “Peggy’s Complaint for the Death of her Willye.”[37]
9th Nov. Thomas Orwyn had license to print “Martyn said to his man, Who is the foole now?”
This has been preserved for us, with its tune, by Ravenscroft, in his “Deuteromelia.”
“Martyn said to his man, fie man, fie O!