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Thread #71159   Message #1220259
Posted By: CapriUni
06-Jul-04 - 07:42 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Chivalry/Courtesy in Shakespeare?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Chivalry/Courtesy in Shakespeare?
This might be held to suggest that there was an older song with the same refrains, that Shakespeare wrote two separate versions of.

Indeed, or that, perhaps the whole song was older, and Shakespeare just modified the lyrics a little bit to fit the scene the song appeared in...