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disfigured by some trumpery Avood cuts Avhich Avould disgrace a child ' s primer ; these are of no manner of use to elucidate the text , and , ive can only suppose , have been inserted to help to fill up some space , as the most peculiar taste could not consider them iu the light of embellishments . Indeed , some of them are mere caricatures , and perfectly suitable for the pages of a comic periodical—a figure of a hih priest is represented in a crinoline

g that would clo justice to Broad-Avay or Regent-street , the head of the august individual being encased in a hollowed out pumpkin , as well as ive can make out—while the Avonder of the Avorld—the glorious temple of Solomon , is represented as a kind of long two storied barn with a shot tower or gasworks chimney at one end of it . We would also counsel the abolition of some ' miserable

1111-grammatical rhymes ( whence derived AVC knoiv not ) Avhich are dignified Avith the title of Masonic "Odes" ancl "Hymns . " ancl inserted in various parts of the ivork . We should lie sorry to think that- the august and time honoured ceremonies of flu ' s sublime degree arc ever disfigured hy the interpolation of this doggerel , ivhich the most- solemn music would fail to elevate to a dignity worthy of the occasion . Surely the first object- of a commentator on such a subject as this should be to divest it- of any thing approaching to frivolitv .

I opular Musa- ofthe . Olden Time : a Collection of Ancient Simr / s , / kt / litt / s , and Dance Tunes , itlnslrittirc . of the National Music of England . ^ Willi , short Introductions lo the different . I ' rii / us , arid notices of ( he Airs from Writer . * of the Sixteen Ih ami Seren / ei'iitli denlaries . Also a short Account ofthe Minstrels , by W . CIIAPIU-U . L , iyS . A . 2 vols . London : Cramer , Beale . and Chapped . _ AnoL'T twenty years since . Mr . Chapped published his collection of

" . National English Airs , " ivhich was the first and onl y Avork deserving the name of a collection ofthe songs , ballads , and dance times of " merry England in the olden time . " Six years afterwards the edition was exhausted , and our author , who has until , the present moment been collecting fresh materials , ancl revising the old , ibund it much easier to " rewrite the ivork than to incorporate the immense mass of new matter his reading and research had

- brought to bear on the subject : hence he may he said to liave produced a new ivork . and has entitled it Popular Mimic of lite Olden Time , the former Avork being an outline and skeleton of the present . In noticing this work , it becomes a necessary part of onr duty to caution onr readers against falling into the error of consideriimit , front its title , as a mere music book . The Popular Music of flic Olden Time

, it is true , gives us the music of all the old ballads , songs , and dances , that were the favourites of our ancestors ; but it does something more—it has appended to every example a running commentary , treating of the history of the words of each song , and of its tunc ; added to ivhich our old dramatists , writers on maimers and customs , theologians , musicians , historians , and all other writers of eminence ancl their works have been ransacked

, and their treasures brought to bear upon the various subjects , and they were A'arious enough in those days , that formed the staple of the numerous ballad and song ivriters so that the Popular Music of the Olden Time is a Avork of "Teat literary importance and untiring research . Mr . Chappcll has divided his work into chronological periods , commencing with Saxon minstrelsy and ending with tunes of tlie time of George IL , as well as classifying in one section all the tunes to which , no date could be assigned through uncertainty as to their internal evidence .

_ In a notice like the present , it is absolutely impossible to clo justice to such a work , so , opening the first volume at random , wc will give au extract , to show how Mr . Chappcll has exhausted his subject At page 130 wc find a heading , "Trip and Go ; " and Air . Chappcll tells

us' This ivas one of the favourite Morris dances of the sixteenth and t ? m » c 01 ltul ' ws ; » "d frociucntly alluded to by the ivriters of those " Xashe , in his Introductory Epistle to the surreptitious edition of Sidney s Astr-yilid and Stella , - ( to ., J 591 , says , Indeedo . to wivthe truth , » nys . ile is somewhat heavy gated , aud cannot dance Trip ' and . noe so l 0 h lovoittlluve

1 e-i ci ;» y ' T ra ' " my > ; , ' y = " - ' ' « other shepe . Klcs thiu , h , ivC beene Fooles m the morris time out of miiide . ' He file ' U- i -T' ° . ° usth ' ! lml , vith description ofthe Morris dance , m the play ol S „„ tllKl- - , / asl WM , 2 * .,, „; ite ^ . ¦ e-h <> d ^ JjSulJlJ' '"" ' ' h c , / l ° ' " Ilobhti-honc and . the Morris dunce ,

i » .-l- lim ' iviiw ^ "V '' y ' | , ut y '"» - lmi-. se Lo it ; rein him harder ; . lei k linn Viith A ' OIr wuvl K ^ i-., .,. ,-,. ,- . , ,, , , , , ' ladle there . * U ' Slt tnit ' *""" F "" l , hold up your * The ladle is still used by the sweeps on Mar-dav .

' '' Will Summer . —0 brave Hall ! + 0 well said butcher ! Now for the credit of Worcestershire . The finest set of Morris dancers that is betweeu this and Streatham . Marry , luetliiuks there is one of them daneeth like a clothier ' s horse , Avith a wool-pack upon his back . You , friend , with , the hobby-horse , go not too fast , for fear of wearing out my lord ' s tile-stones ivith your hob-nails . '" Ver . —So , so , so ; trot the ring twice over , and away . " After this , three clowns and tliree maids enter , dancing and singing

the song ivhich is here printed with the music . " " Trip und i / o seems to have become a proverbial expression . In Gosson ' s Schoole of Abuse , 1579— 'Trip and go . for I dare not tarry . ' In The lico angrie Women , of Abington , l 5 M - ' ]\ ay , then , trip and go . " In Ben . / onsen's Case is Altered— ' 0 delicate trip and go . ' And iu Shakespeare ' s Lore ' s Labour Lost— ' Trip anil r / o , my sweet . ' The music is taken from Mustek ' s IkU ' jht on the Cithern , 1 GG 6 . It resembles another tune , called . Bedlam . "

Mr . Chappcll then prints the tune and the ivords , and as AVC cannot give the former , we Avill the latter : — " Trip and go , heave and ho , Up aucl down , to and fro ; From the town to the grove . Two and two let us rove , A maying , a playing ;

Love hath no gainsaying : So trip and go , trip ancl go . Merrily trip and go . " Mr . Chappcll then gives us nearly three pages on the morris dance ; but ire forbear to quote , because we should like our readers to read for themselves . Let us take another extract . This time it shall he n popular song ( vol . ii ., p . 045 ) :-

—" . LY ix oru . irj . m * . " This extremely popular ballad was written aud composed by Henry Carey . ' •' Carey ' s tune is to be found hi his jlfiisicnl Century , vol . ii ., p . " 2 ; in Walsh ' s Dancing Master , vol . ii ., 1719 ; in The Beggars Opera ; Tin Deril to Pay ; The Fashionable Lady ; The Merry Cobbler ; ' Lore in a Riddle ; The ll-kul Milliners ; and on numerous half sheet songs , " The following is the author ' s account of the origin of the ballad : —

" A A'ulgar error having prevailed among many persons AVIIO imagine Sally Salisbury the subject of this ballad , the author begs leave to undeceive and assure them it has not the least allusion to her , he being a stranger to her very name at the time this song was composed : for , as innocence and virtue were ever the boundaries of his muse , so is this little poem . He had no other view thau to set forth the beauty of a chaste and disinterested passion , even in the lowest class of human life . T'he veal occasion was this ; a shoemaker ' s ' prentice , making holiday with his

sweetheart , treated her with a sight of Bedlam , the puppet-shows , the flying chairs , aud all the elegancies of Moorfields , from whence , proceeding to the farthing pye-house , he gave her a collation of buns , cheescakes , gammon of bacon , stuffed beef aucl bottled ale , through all which scenes the author dodged them . Charmed Avith the simplicity of their courtship , he drew from what he had witnessed this little sketch of nature ; but , being then young and obscure he was very much ridiculed by some of his acquaintance for this performanceivhich nevertheless-made its

, , way into the polite world , and amply recompensed him by the applause of tho divine Addison , who ivas pleased more than once " to mention it with approbation . " ' ¦ 'Amongthe songs printed to Carey ' s tune are the following : — I . " ' Sally ' s Lamentation ; or Tlie Answer to Sally : ' beginning" ' What pity ' tis so bright a thought Should e ' er become so common

; At ev ' ry corner brought to nought By ev ' ry bawling woman . 1 little thought when you began 'To write of charming Sally , That ev ' ry brat would sing so soon , ' She lives in our Alley . '' 2 . ' * ' Sully in our Alley to Billy in Piccadilly ; with proper graces to the tune

. ' " ' Of . ill the lads that are so smart There ' s none I love like Billy ; lie is the darling of my heart , And he lives iu Piccadilly , ' & c o . " * ' Sally iu her oivu cloathcs , ' beginning—¦ " Of all the niauxes in the laud

There ' s none I hate like Sally , ' & o . t The Tract of " Olcl . Meg of Herefordshire for a Muyd Marian , and , Hereford towuo for a Morris-dance , " -Ito ., 1 " 9 () , is dedicated to Old Halt , a celebrated laborer of Herefordshire , and the author says— " The people of Herefordshire are beholden to thee : thou givest the men light hearts by thy pipe , and the women light heels by thy tabor . 0 wonderful piper ! 0 ; idmii - iible tabor-man I" etc ,