Now Robin, Lend to Me Thy Bow

DESCRIPTION: Wilkin: "Now Robin lend to me thy bow For I must now a hunting with my lady goe" to Uppingham. Robin: Take my hawk and hound also; your hunting doesn't please me; "beware thy babling hounds." Lady: let's agree that hunting is no sin
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1609 (Ravenscroft, _Pammelia_)
KEYWORDS: hunting nonballad
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REFERENCES (6 citations):
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 79-80, "Robin, Lend To Me Thy Bow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chappell/Wooldridge-OldEnglishPopularMusic, p. 53, "Now, Robin, Led to Me Thy Bow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritson-AncientSongsBalladsFromHenrySecondToTheRevolution, pp. 207-208, "Robin Lend to Me Thy Bow" (1 text)
Broadwood/Maitland-EnglishCountySongs, pp. 54-55, "Now Robin, Lend to Me Thy Bow" (1 text, 1 tune)
GirlScouts-SingTogether, p. 57, "Now Robin, Lend Me Thy Bow" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: (no author listed), _Selections from the Works of Thomas Ravenscroft; A Musical Composer of the Time of King James the First_, Roxburgh Club, 1822 (available on Google Books), No. 65 (no page number), "Now Robin, Lend" (1 text)
Roud #1373
NOTES [103 words]: Ritson: "A canon on the unison, for four voices, from 'Pammelia. Musicks Miscellanie. Or, Mixed varietie of Pleasant Roundelayes, and delightful Catches. of 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. parts in one. Lond. 1609. 4to.' That it was a popular song in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths reign appears from its being mentioned (amongst others) in ... [two citations]."
Broadwood/Maitland-EnglishCountySongs: "The inclusion of this fine canon may be pardoned, in view of the difficulty of finding any more direct representative of Rutland than the allusion to Uppingham [Ritson re Uppingham: "A market town in Rutlandshire]." - BS
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