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FAMOUS SONGS
song so inimitably that she gained the un-enviable approval of Charles I I , and their daughter was that Mary Tudor who married the second Earl of Derwentwater.
It is rather strange that though Robert Her-rick's delightful lyric " Gather ye Rosebuds" was set to music by William Lawes and pub-lished in Playford's "Ayres and Dialogues," 1659, his " Cherry Ripe" was never so honoured until about 1824 when Charles Edward Horn (1786-1849), a vocalist and composer, set it and sung it, and it became an enormous favourite and still remains popular. Horn was un-doubtedly indebted to a song by the distin-guished Thomas Attwood (1765-1838), and called " Let me die," for his pleasing melody, as Herrick was under obligations to Richard Allison's charming stanzas, " There is a Garden in Her Face," written about 1606, for his main idea, the last line of each verse being,
"Till cherry ripe themselves do cry."
Robert Herrick's " Hesperides/" in which his " Cherry Ripe" first apeared in print, was pub-lished at the " Crown and Marygold" in Saint Paul's Churchyard, 1648.
Who wrote that famous love-song, "If
Doughty Deeds my Lady Please" ? Dr. Mac-11.-2 j.7 |
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