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Thread #37814 Message #3024077
Posted By: GUEST,baz parkes
05-Nov-10 - 04:52 AM
Thread Name: Origin: How Shall I Your True Love Know (Shakesp'r
Subject: RE: Origin: How Shall I Your True Love Know (Shakesp'r
FWIW I've always thought of them as songs she would have heard in her childhood...a time of innocence, perhaps, before the world around her, a world of absolutes, fell apart.
I have no academic justification for this at all...it's just very pleasant to speculate without the prospect of the threat of an academic sausage machine at the end..
Baz