IX.

Song from the Enterlude of the iiii Elements.

AN imitation of "The Kynges Balade," from a singular Interlude, entitled The Nature of the Four Elements, written about 1517, and printed by John Rastall, probably in 1519. The Song is accompanied by the music in score, and affords the earliest instance of a printed partition in this kingdom. It has entirely escaped the notice of our musical historians.

TYME to pas with goodly sport,
Our spryts to revyve and comfort;
To руре, to synge,

To daunce, to spryng,

With pleasure and delyte,
Following sensual appetyte.

X.

Jhoone is sike and ill at ease.

FROM an ancient volume once the property of Henry VIII. It is a collection of part songs used by the royal tyrant and his companions. It afterwards came into the hands of old John Heywood, the dramatist and epigrammatist, whose autograph it bears. A copy of the same may also be found in the Fayrfax MSS. (Add. MSS. Brit. Mus., No. 5465.)

JHOONE is sike and ill at ease,
I am full sory for Jhoon's disease;

Alak, good Jhoone, what may you please?
I shal bere the cost be swete sent Denys!

She is so prety in every degre,

Good lord who may a goodlyer be,
In favoure and in facion lo will ye se,
But it were an angell of the Trinitie.

Alak, good Jhoone, what may you please?
I shal bere the cost be swete sent Denys !

Her countynaunce with her lynyacion,
To hym that wolde of such recreacion,

That God hath ordent in his first formacion,
Myght wel be calld a conjuracion.
Alak, good Jhoone, &c.

She is my lytell prety one,

What shulde I say? my mynde is gone,
Yff she and I were togethir alone,
I wis she will not gyve me a bone.

Alas, good Jhone, shal all my mone
Be lost so sone ? 3

XI.

I had both Monie and a Frende.

THE following subtle caution, "never to lend money to a friend," is from the old music-book before mentioned, with the autograph of John Heywood. It has been printed by Sir John Hawkins (vide History of Music, vol. iii, p. 88), but from a different copy.

I HAD both monie and a frende,
Of neither though no store;
I lent my monie to my frende,
And tooke his bonde therfore.

I asked

my monie of my frende,
But nawght save words I gott;

I lost my monie to keepe my frende,
For sewe hym would I not.

But then if monie come,

And frende againe weare founde,
I woulde lend no monie to my frende,
Upon no kynde of bonde.

But, after this, for monie cometh,
A frende with pawne to paye,
But when the monie should be had,
My frende used such delay.

That neede of monie did me force, ·
My frende his pawne to sell,

And so I got my monie, but
My frende then from me fell.

Sith bonde for monie lent my frende,

Nor

pawne assurance is,

But that my monie or my frende,
Therbye I ever misse.

If God send monie and a frende,

As I have had before,

I will keepe my monie and save my frende, And playe the foole no more.