Tudor and Stuart Love Songs

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Tudor and Stuart Love Songs Author: Various Editor: J. Potter Briscoe Release Date: August 23, 2008 [EBook #26398] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS *** Produced by David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Notes Small discrepancies in punctuation between the Table of Content and poem titles have been retained. "Cherry Ripe" and "Julia" are on pages 91 and 90 respectively, rather than on pages 90 and 91 as listed in the Table of Contents. John Dowland's poem is titled "True till death" in the Table of Contents, but is titled "Love's constancy" on page 95. TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS SELECTED AND EDITED BY J. POTTER BRISCOE, F.R.S.L. Editor of "The Bibelots" E. P. DUTTON AND CO. RD31 W. 23 STREET NEW YORK [vii]INTRODUCTION. The spirit of reform which was developed during the early part of the sixteenth century brought about a desire on the part of young men of means to travel on the continent of Europe.