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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
1660
- Feb
Fly boy, fly boy (Simon Ives)
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
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First Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
Fly boy to the cellar's bottom
http://www.rism.org.uk/manuscript…
Simon Ives (sometimes spelled Yves) (1600 - 1662) was an English composer and organist who was active in the court of Charles I of England. He composed many pastoral dialogues, partsongs, glees, and works for organ. He also composed music for the theatre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo…
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
A CATCH.
FLy, Boy, Fly, Boy, to the Cellars bottom:
View well your Quills and Bung, Sir.
Draw Wine to preserve the Lungs Sir;
Not rascally Wine to Rot u'm.
If the Quill runs foul,
Be a trusty soul, and cane it;
For the Health is such
An ill drop will much profane it.
An Antidote Against Melancholy: Made Up in Pills. Compounded of Witty ...
edited by John Payne Collier, 31, p. 93.
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Terry Foreman • Link
Fly Boy fly Boy to the Cellars bottom (tune)
Printed in Select Ayres and Dialogues (1659)
http://www.rism.org.uk/manuscript…