_Page_ 121. "The man of life upright."--In some old MS. copies this poem is ascribed to Francis Bacon: see Hannah's "Poems of Raleigh and Wotton," p. 119. Canon Hannah makes no mention of Campion's claim. Campion distinctly tells us that he wrote both the verses and the music of his songs: and I have no doubt that he was the author of the present lyric, which has more merit than any of Bacon's poems. In an epigram printed in his "Observations in the Art of English Poetry," 1602, there is a striking image that reappears in the present poem:-- "A wise man wary lives yet most secure, Sorrows move not him greatly, nor delights, Fortune and death he scorning only makes _Th' earth his sober inn_, but still heaven his home." (SIG. C2). Henceforward let nobody claim "The man of life upright" for Bacon. _Page_ 124. "The Nightingale so pleasant and so gay."--"According to Peacham," says Oliphant ("_Musa Madrigalesca_," p. 45), "there was a virtuous contention between W. Byrd and Ferrabosco who of the two should best set these words; in which according to his (Peacham's) opinion, Ferrabosco succeeded so well that 'it could not be bettered for sweetness of ayre and depth of judgment.'" _Page_ 124. "The Nightingale so soon as April bringeth."--From the first stanza of a poem printed in the third edition of Sidney's "Arcadia," 1598. _Page_ 126. "There is a garden in her face."--This poem is also set to music in Alison's "Hour's Recreation," 1606, and Robert Jones' "Ultimum Vale" (1608). Herrick's dainty verses "Cherry-Ripe" are well-known:-- "Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe! I cry: Full and fair ones, come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer,--There, Where my Julia's lips do smile, There's the land or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow." _Page_ 127. "There is a lady sweet and kind."--Printed also in "The Golden Garland of Princely Delights," 1620. _Page_ 128. "There were three Ravens."--The north-country version of this noble dirge contains some verses of appalling intensity:-- "His horse is to the huntin gane His hounds to bring the wild deer hame; His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. "O we'll sit on his bonny breast-bane, And we'll pyke out his bonny gray een; Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair, We'll theek our nest when it blaws bare. "_Mony a ane for him makes mane, But none sall ken where he is gane: Ower his banes when they are bare, The wind sall blaw for evermair_." _Page_ 130. "Think'st thou to seduce me," &c.--In William Corkine's "Airs," 1610, this song is found with considerable variations. Corkine gives only three stanzas. The first stanza agrees closely with Campion's text; the second and third stanzas run thus:--