Note 1. From William Byrd’s Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets, 1611. “Quaint, old-fashioned moral verses were much affected by Byrd, particularly in his latest song-book. He inculcates precepts of homely piety in a cheerful spirit, with occasional touches of naïve epigrammatic terseness. Many men strongly object to be bullied from a pulpit, but he must be a born churl who could be offended at such an exhortation as the following.” (Bullen, Introduction, Lyrics from Elizabethan Song-Books, ed. 1891.) [back]
