Lyr Req: Willy prithee go to bed

Subject: Willy prithee go to bed
From: Charcloth
Date: 25 Nov 00 - 02:37 PM

I am looking for the words to a Ren. song "Willy prithee go to bed" does anybody have them

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Willy prithee go to bed
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 25 Nov 00 - 04:20 PM

Number 21 in Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609).  There is a .gif of the page, with lyrics, at the  Thomas Ravenscroft  pages (Society for Creative Anachronism):  Willy Prethe.  Modern staff notation may be seen at the same site, here:  Willy Prethe

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Willy prithee go to bed
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Aug 02 - 12:12 AM

Transcribed from http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/deuteromelia/deut_33.gif. I don't understand it all, but I find the idea of dogs saying "yeaffe a yaffe, yeaffe a yaffe" utterly charming.

[WILLIE, PRITHEE GO TO BED]

Willy prethe goe to bed,
For thou wilt have a drowsie head,
To morrow we must a hunting,
And betimes be stirring,
With a hey trolly loly, loly, loly, &c.
Hey ho tro lo lo lo ly ly lo.

It is like to be fayre weather,
Couple up all thy hounds together:
Couple Iolly with little Iolly,
Couple Trole with old Trolly.
With a hey tro ly lo lo ly,
Tro ly lo ly lo.

Couple Finch with black Trole,
Couple Chaunter with Iumbole:
Let Beauty goe at liberty,
For she doth know her duty.
With a hey, &c.

Let Merry goe loose it makes no matter,
For Cleanly sometimes she will clatter,
And yet I am sure she will not stray,
But keepe with us still, all the day.
With a hey, &c.

With O masters and wot you where,
This other day I start a Hare?
On what call hill upon the knole,
And there she started before Trole.
With a hey, &c.

And downe she went the common dale,
With all the hounds at her taile:
With yeaffe a yaffe, yeaffe a yaffe,
Hey Trol, hey Chaunter, hey Iumbole,
With a hey, &c.

See how Chooper chopps it in,
And so doth Gallant now begin:
Looke how Trol begins to tattle,
Tarry a while yee shall heare him prattle.
With a hey, &c.

For Beauty begins to wag her tayle,
Of Cleanlies helpe we shall not faile:
And Chaunter opens very well:
But Merry she doth beare the bell.
With a hey, &c.

Goe prick the path, and downe the laune,
She useth still her old traine:
She is gone to what call wood,
Where we are like to doe no good.
With hey tro ly lo ly lo,
Tro ly lo &c.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Willy prithee go to bed
From: masato sakurai
Date: 01 Aug 02 - 10:50 AM

On the music ("Trenchmore"), Claude M. Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music (pp. 716-717) writes:

"Trenchmore" was a lively dance tune in vogue from the middle of the sixteenth century. [...] Among the printed sources, the earliest versions of the tune are probably those in Thomas Ravescroft's Deuteromelia, 1609, set to two songs, "Tomorrow the Fox will come to towne" (No. 20), and "Willy prethe goe to bed" (No. 21). The latter is also preserved in Pills, eds. of 1699-1714, I, 51, with the music. Perhaps the best version of the tune is in The Dancing Master, 2nd ed., 1652, et seq., set to a longways dance (1652, p. 103=Fig. 471). [...]"

~Masato

Subject: Tune Add: WILLY PRITHEE GO TO BED
From: MMario
Date: 01 Aug 02 - 11:26 AM

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