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Thread #15603   Message #141376
Posted By: Bruce O.
27-Nov-99 - 01:27 PM
Thread Name: Tom of Bedlam
Subject: RE: Tom of Bedlam
It's first know published appearance was in Choyce Songs and Ayres, 1673, but variant texts appear earlier in manuscripts (including the Percy Folio) and it is in several later books, and a broadside ballad expansion was entered in the Stationers' Register in 1675 (ZN910 in the broadside ballad index on my website). Its tune is "Grays Inn Masque" (ABC of it is B165 on my website). It's in Pills, III, p. 43-4, 1719, without music or tune direction (and in all earlier editions of Pills).