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_LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1854._
Notes.
"SHAKSPEARE'S RIME WHICH HE MADE AT THE MYTRE."
In the third volume of Mr. Collier's valuable _History of Dramatic Poetry_
(p. 275.) is the following passage, which forms part of a note:
"Mr. Thorpe, the enterprising bookseller of Bedford Street, is in
possession of a MS. full of songs and poems, in the handwriting of a
person of the name of Richard Jackson, all copied prior to the year
1631, and including many unpublished pieces, by a variety of celebrated
poets. One of the most curious is a song in five seven-line stanzas,
thus headed 'Shakspeare's rime, which he made at the Mytre in Fleete
Streete.' It begins 'From the rich Lavinian shore;' and some few of the
lines were published by Playford, and set as a catch."
In Mr. Thoms' _Anecdotes and Traditions_ (published by the Camden Society)
is a story of the celebrated Dr. John Wilson, to which the editor has
appended an interesting note, adding:
"Wilson was the composer of a glee for three voices, published in
Playford's _Musical Companion_, where the words are attributed to
Shakspeare; and the supposition that they were really written by him
having been converted into a certainty, by their appearing with
Shakspeare's name to them in the MS. Collection of Poetry, copied prior
to 1631 by Richard Jackson," &c.
Mr. Thoms then prints the "rime," not inappropriately calling it "A Song
for Autolycus," with this remark:
"My late respected friend Mr. Douce once told me, that some musical
friend at Chichester, I think the organist, possessed a copy of this
song, with an additional verse."
Mr. Thoms' version of "Shakspeare's Rime" was inserted (probably by our
worthy Editor himself?) in the first volume of "N. & Q." (p. 23.) with a
view of obtaining the additional stanza; a desideratum which I am now
enabled to supply. The following copy has _two_ additional stanzas, and is
transcribed from a MS. Collection of Songs, with the music, written in the
early part of the reign of James I. The MS. was formerly in the possession
of Mr. J. S. Smith, the learned editor of _Musica Antiqua_.