Tamsin Lewis wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a tune for 'Gallants all come mourn with me' - given as
> the tune for 'An excellent new ballad shewing the petigree of our royal
> king Iames, the first of that name', registered 16 June 1603
> Many thanks
> Tamsin Lewis
The tune is unknown. The ballad itself does not seem to have been
reprinted, beyond a fragment given by Ebsworth in Roxburghe Ballads.
Margaret Crum's 'First Line Index.. MS Poetry..Bodleian',
item N 300, gives the first line as "Nobles all come mourn with me".
It's a lament on the execution of the Earl of Essex, in MS Rawl.
A. 122, where it is without tune or tune direction.
[The ballad on the royal pedigree of King James I is ZN829 in the
broadside ballad index on my website, where most of the information
above is given.]
Bruce Olson
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