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It would be of great interest if it were possible to identify Queen Katherine's 'Knell.'

There is an old song, given in Chappel's Popular Music, 'O Death, rock me to sleep,' which might be the very one, for both music and words are singularly appropriate. The Refrain is as follows:—

The song is most plaintive, and has a very striking feature in the shape of a real independent accompaniment, which keeps up a continual figure of three descending notes, like the bells of a village church. Hawkins gives the poem, with certain variations, and two extra verses at the beginning, the first commencing—

and he says the verses are thought to have been written by Anne Boleyn. Hawkins also gives