widow, complaint of the, 358; distressed, complaint of, 611; I'll have a, if I marry, 1203 widows, warning for, 2874 Wight, Isle of, monstrous child born in the, 2076 Wilkin of the West, 568 Will, Jack, and Tom, cruel fortune of, 434; Son (?) and the warrener, 1891; Wicked, and Turner, 2954 William of Cortell, 785 225; royal pastime of, 1373 William Wax-wise, on the Sabbath, 596 Williams, John, murderer, 777 Williams, Sir Roger, death of, 506 willow ballads, 108, 966, 1187 Willy, death of, Peggy's complaint of, 2059; Nanny and, merry scuffle of, 1750 Wilson and Caulfield, Characters, 3018 Wilson, Christopher, ballad by, 801 Wiltshire. See Marlborough, Salisbury, Wrekell Wily Beguiled, 569 wily beguiled, the woman's, 3004 Winchester, Hampshire, traitors arraigned at, 2682 Winchester, Thomas, murdered by the Merrys, 175 Windham (Wymondham), Norfolk, burning of, 96; ravens gather at, 947 Windy Year, The, 1551 wine, proof and praise of, 2212; women, and dice, 598 Wingham, John, marvelous deliverance of, 1683 Wisdom, Robert, ?ballad by, 2489 Wit and Drollery, 678, 1564 Wit Restored, 561 Wit's Interpreter, 1724 witch, scratching of the, 2382 witches, mad humors of, 2209; three, at Chelmsford, 1500; three, of Warboys, 1419; warning to, 2890 Wither, George, ballads by, 797, 3069 Worcester, cruel murder at, in 1577, 1417; news from, of William Poole, 2534; thrifty maid. of, 1470; traitors executed at, in 1606, 516 Worcestershire, murder in, in 1605, 437. See Malvern Hills world, age of the, 47; complaint of the people against the, 365; end of the, 683; frailty of the, 518; how it shall decay with fire, 528; miserable estate of the, 521; strange challenging against, 2535; thus goeth, 2635; unsteadfast state of, 526; vanity of, 2805 worldlings, glorious, condemn the godly, 588; warning to, 1025, by an ape, 2891 worldly vanity, conviction of, 392 worm in a horse's heart, 3039 Worrall (alias Winterstore), Tho mas, robbed and tortured, 94 Worslay, Richard, epitaph of, 771 worthies, England's, 722 Wrekell (Wraxall), Wiltshire, flood at, 1445 Wright, Thomas, Carols, 202 Wylken (welkin?) waxen black in winter, 1248 Wymondham. See Windham Xantippe, wife of Socrates, 3081 Yale, Sir Yevan Lloyd of, 749 Yarington, Robert, Two Lamentable Tragedies, 175 Yonge, Walter, Diary, 443, 812, 1284 York, Archbishop of. See Gray, Walter de York, Harrington suffers at, 1076; houses overthrown at, by a flood in 1564, 1426; James I entertained at, 719; merry maid of, 1729; rich man of, 2294 Yorkshire, example of two false lovers in, 1105; letter from seven tailors in, 1456; Marmaduke Lacy of, 746; murder in, in 1605, 1413; the Nortons in, 549. See Pontefract, Wakefield Yorkshire Tragedy, A, 1413 young man, choice of a, 464; comfortable dream of a, 334; maid and a, communication between a, 345 young men, caveat to, 273, or warning to, 2017 youth, age and, between, 584, wicked behavior of, 818; admonition for unbridled, 14; admonition to, to leave, 1922; conscience and, 791; death and, between, 190; old age and, disputation between, 608; warning to, 1227, to die, 2179 Zaleucus, judgment of, on whoredom, 1343 Zorobabell 2592 FINIS (Zerubbabel), wise, New York University. J. H. FURST CO., PRINTERS, BALTIMORE The original music used for the songs in Fletcher's plays seems to have received no attention from modern scholars. In fact the music for all the Elizabethan dramatists except Shakespeare 1 has been neglected by musical historian and dramatic historian alike. The texts of the songs in Fletcher have been studied by men interested in the reconstruction of the Elizabethan drama. But the music has lain neglected and unknown. Although many a scholar is familiar with the text of the song, "Tell me, Dearest, what is love?" and knows its source and its use in Fletcher's The Captain, Act II, scene 2, very few know that the music is preserved in a manuscript of the time of James I; and perhaps not one scholar in a hundred knows what that piece of music sounds like. The same remark might apply equally to any of the dozens of songs in Fletcher. This neglect of Fletcher's music is strange, in view of the facts that two-thirds of his plays contain songs, and that the original music for eighteen of the songs has come down to us. These eighteen pieces of music are sufficient to give us a good idea of the various musical types found in the plays. For this study the field is restricted to thirty-two plays in which Fletcher had the sole hand, or at least the main hand. The works in which he collaborated extensively with Beaumont, Massinger, Middleton, or Jonson are here excluded. Twenty-one 1 See Jaggard, W. Shakespeare Bibliography, Stratford, 1921, the section on Music and Dancing. The best book on Shakespeare music is Edward W. Naylor's Shakespeare and Music, London, 1896. Naylor prints all the extant original music. |