APPENDIX
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Words from Peele's 'Old Wives Tale,' 1595, where it is sung. Music from J. Playford, 1650 circ., but may be older.
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d2*1/2 c4*1/2 d bes2*1/2 f |
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c\breve*1/2 \bar "||"
c2*1/2 c4*1/2 a f2*1/2 f | %eol 2
f' f4*1/2 ees d2*1/2 bes |
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\addlyrics { Three mer -- ry men, and three mer -- ry men, and
three mer -- ry men be we, I in the wood and thou on the ground, And Jack sleeps in the tree.} }](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/q/z/qzxfv3igwy7dpyhr3due4uix1pe9227/qzxfv3ig.png)
10. 'There Dwelt a Man in Babylon,' p. 71. Tw. Nt. 23, 80. Music anon., but most probably later than Shakespeare's time.
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Here is one verse of the 'Ballad of Constant Susanna,' to which Toby refers.
'There dwelt a man in Babylon
Of reputation great by fame;
He took to wife a faire woman,
Susanna she was callde by name.
A woman faire and vertuous,
Lady, lady!
Why should we not of her learn thus
To live godly?'