"This tune was greatly admired by Queen Mary, the consort of King William; and she once affronted Purcell by requesting to have it sung to her, he being present. The story is as follows: the Queen having a mind one afternoon to be entertained with music, sent to Mr. Gostling, then one of the chapel, and afterwards sub-dean of St. Paul's, to Henry Purcell and Mrs. Arabella Hunt, who had a very fine voice and an admirable hand on the lute, with a request to attend her; they obeyed her commands; Mr. Gostling and Mrs. Hunt sang several compositions of Purcell, who accompanied them on the harpsichord: at length the Queen beginning to grow tired, asked Mrs. Hunt if she could not sing the old Scots' ballad, 'Cold and raw.' Mrs. Hunt answered yes, and sang it to her lute. Purcell was all the while sitting at the harpsichord unemployed, and not a little nettled at the Queen's preference of a vulgar ballad to his music; but seeing her majesty delighted with this tune, he determined that she should hear it upon another occasion: and accordingly in the next birthday song, viz. that for the year 1692, he composed an air to the words, 'May her bright example,' the bass whereof is the tune to 'Cold and raw:' it is printed in the second part of the _Orpheus Britannicus_, and is note for note the same with the Scots' tune." Hawkins no doubt had this story from Gostling, the son of the Gostling mentioned in the anecdote, and it is therefore probably true. In the same year he composed one of his most celebrated odes, for the festival held in honour of St. Cecilia at the Stationers' Hall, November 22nd. The _Gentleman's Journal or Monthly Miscellany_, a periodical published immediately afterward, gives an account of the performance as follows:-- "In my first journal I gave you a large account of the music feast on St. Cecilia's Day; so to avoid repetition, I shall only tell you that the last was in no ways inferior to the former. The following Ode was admirably set to music by Mr. Henry Purcell, and performed twice with universal applause, particularly the second stanza, which was sung with incredible graces by Mr. Purcell himself. Though I was enjoined not to name the author of the Ode, I find a great deal of reluctance to forbear letting you know whom you must thank for so beautiful a poem; and to use Ovid's words, 'Sequoque nunc, quàm vis est quiscere, Quinte Nominet invitum, vix mea, Musa tenet.'" The author was the Rev. Nicholas Brady of the churches of St. Catherine Cree, and St. Michael, Wood Street, better known as the co-labourer with Tate in the versions of the Psalms published under their joint names. The _Gentleman's Journal_, January, 1693, has an Epigram "by Mr. B--y, whose Ode for St. Cecilia's Day you liked so well." The words of the ode were printed in 1782[45] with Dr. Brady's name as author.