Music from J.
Playford, 1650 _circ._, but may be older.
[Music: Sir Toby
Three merry men, and three merry men, and three merry men be we,
I in the wood and thou on the ground,
And Jack sleeps in the tree.]
10. 'There Dwelt a Man in Babylon,' p. 71. _Tw. Nt._ II, iii, 80.
Music anon., but most probably later than Shakespeare's time.
[Music: Sir Toby
_slow_
Til-ly val-ley, Lady!
_lively_
There dwelt a man in Bab-y-lon, in Bab-y-lon, in Bab-y-lon,
There dwelt a man in Bab-y-lon,
Lady! Lady! Lady!]
Here is one verse of the 'Ballad of Constant Susanna,' to which Toby
refers.
'There dwelt a man in Babylon
Of reputation great by fame;
He took to wife a faire woman,
Susanna she was callde by name.
A woman faire and vertuous,
Lady, lady!
Why should we not of her learn thus
To live godly?'
11. 'Farewell, Dear Heart,' p. 72. _Tw. Nt._ II, iii, 102.
[Music:
Toby
Farewell dear heart, since I must needs be gone,
Clown
His eyes do shew his days are almost done.
Toby
But I will never, never, never die!
Clown
Oh there, Sir Toby, there, oh there you lie.]
This can hardly be the original tune to "Corydon's Farewell to
Phillis," from parts of the first and second verses of which the above
words are quoted. See Percy's "Reliques," Vol.
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