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Rh should I your true love know'; 'Good morrow, 'tis St Valentine's day'; 'They bore him barefaste'; 'Bonny sweet Robin'; 'And will he not come again.'

The one line of 'Bonny sweet Robin' is all that remains of the song, except the title, which is also the first line—viz., 'My Robin is to the green-wood gone.' The line Shakespeare gives would be the last. One tune to it is at any rate older than 1597.

Lastly, there are the old catches, 'Hold thy peace,' sung by Toby, Sir Andrew, and Feste in Twelfth Night $2⁄3$; 'Jack boy, ho boy, news, The cat is in the well,' etc., referred to by Grumio in Shrew $4⁄1, 42$; besides 'Flout 'em and scout em,' sung by Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban in Tempest $3⁄2$; and 'What shall he have that killed the deer,' for the foresters in As You Like It $4⁄2, 5$. The original music of the first two, probably much earlier than Shakespeare, is in the ../Appendix/. A Round for four voices by John Hilton (flourished 1600) to 'What shall he have,' is probably the first setting, and may be seen in Rimbault, p. 19. Purcell (1675) set 'Flout 'em' as a catch for three voices, which is in Caulfield's Collection of Shakespeare Vocal Music, 1864. These last two are poor specimens of Catches, so they are not printed here. [The proper reading of 'Flout 'em,' in the 4tos and 1st Fol. is