First printed in Melismata, 1611. Chappell remarked, about 1855 (Popular Music of the Olden Time, I, 59), that the ballad was still so popular in some parts of the country that he had "been favored with a variety of copies of it, written down from memory, and all differing in some respects, both as to words and tune, but with sufficient resemblance to prove a similar origin."
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