On Matters of Manner and Music in Jacobean and Caroline Song

“Presenting a Book to Orinda”: Anne Twice, Katherine Philips, and John Oldham in New York Public Library, Drexel MS 4175

“…The same lute setting also occurs in Lawes's own autograph manuscript, and as Elise Jorgens Bickford notes, if musicological scholars' dating of the Drexel manuscript's song collection to c. 1620 is correct, this would indicate that "Lawes's prominence began a good decade earlier than most sources would indicate", at the age of twenty-four. 10 While this dating, and the attribution itself, has been the subject of debate, the setting also occurs in the songbook of Elizabeth Davenant, the Oxford-based sister of the playwright William, whose volume is a close comparator to Anne Twice's book, and is dated 1624. 11 Whether or not Twice's collection is quite as early as 1620, its contents accord broadly with a 1620-1630 dating.…”

“…[3] 9 On hills so high where the condensed air seem'd turn'd to stones true Emblems of som fair Relenting silvia blam'd each Beutious shee whos hearts remorsles as these Rocks* could bee 10 & thô not fair did thence Resolve that shee 5 would make them* monitors of constancy 11 as shee a myrroir of chast Love would bee.…”

“…Devout shee is as the old Euchists were 19 9 3] This poem is in a different hand from the other four. 10 3.4] See Herrick's "Teares", "Teares most prevail, with teares too thou mayst move / Rocks to relent, and coyest maids to love". The asterisks link the later pronoun, "them", (l. 6) with its referent.…”