A broadside song originally registered in 1562-3; also in 1592, 1624 and 1675. Apparently modelled on William Elderton's King Salomon (1559) and sung to the same tune. A transcription of the Roxburghe Collection example, printed for John Wright the Elder, appears in Roxburghe Ballads (I, 190-193) as 'An excellent Ballad Entituled: The Constancy of Susanna.' It is rather longer than the above.

Presumably this and other songs found as fragments in Shakespeare plays can be found in various books on the subject. Perhaps someone here still has their copy of the cd insert. Failing that, I'll try to get back to it later.

See also Claude M Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 410-412. Simpson prints the tune from Thomas Dallis' MS Lute Book of c.1570.