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come, Master, you can sing well ; you must sing a part of it as 

 it is in this paper. 



to us." He adds, that a person unable to sing from notes, was then as 

 rarely to be met with as one that can, is now. — Am. Ed. 



THE ANGLER'S SO^G.*— {See next page.) 



* This song is given in the first edition with the music for a treble and 

 a bass, composed, probably at the request of Walton, by Henry Lawes, an 

 eminent musician, master of music to Charles L, and composer of the mu- 

 sic of Milton's Comus, as it was performed at Ludlow Castle, the residence 

 of the Earl of Bridgewater {Hawkins's History of Music). There are 

 some feeble lines, not worth transcribing, addressed by Waller " To Mr. 

 William Lawes, who had then newly set a song of mine in the year 1635." 

 It is proper to add, that Walton is mistaken in calling it an " Old Ketch'* 

 (1st ed.) ; for it is not a catch, but rather in the style of a madrigal {Ma- 

 jor). The music is inserted as it is found in the first edition. — Am. Ed. 



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