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Rh with title, 'A new Northerne dittye of the Ladye Greene Sleeves.' Verse 1 is as follows:—

The 'Hundredth Psalm' (All people that on earth do dwell) will only adhere and keep place with the tune of Green Sleeves to a certain extent. If the reader will try to sing it to the tune in the Appendix, he will find that in the first half he is led into several false accents; while the second half is quite unmanageable without altering the notes. There is, however, a form of the tune in Hawkins which is much further off 'the truth of the words,' for it has exactly the right quantity of notes, but the accents are all as wrong as possible, thus—

It may be that this form of 'Green Sleeves' was known better than the older one in Shakespeare's day.