Annotation:O Mistress Mine
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O MISTRESS MINE. English, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune was arranged by the English composer William Byrd for Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book (1611). Shakespeare has the clown sing this song in Twelfth Night (act II, scene 3).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Kines (Songs From Shakespeare's Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time), 1964; p. 9.
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