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- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 39
was reprinted with frequent alterations and additions. Jaggard’s version was again drawn from a ‘private’ copy other than that used by Deloney in any extant edition. Jaggard’s text is here the better. Line 4 in Jaggard’s text, ‘Youth like summer braue, Age like winter bare,’ is omitted by Deloney. In line 6 Jaggard reads ‘Youth is nimble’ for Deloney’s ‘Youth is wild’, and in line 10 ‘my loue is young’ for Deloney’s ‘my lord is young’. ‘Crabbed age and youth’ was set to music early, but the original air has not survived.¹
‘It was a Lording’s daughter,’ a ballad or song for music, No. XV. opens the appended ‘Sonnets To sundry notes of Musicke’, and fills the fifteenth place in the miscellany. Nothing has been discovered respecting it. It narrates the struggle of a man of arms (an Englishman) with a tutor or man of learning for the hand of ‘a Lording’s daughter’, with the result that ‘art with armes contending was victor of the day’. It is in the vein of Deloney’s ballads and may possibly be from his somewhat halting pen.
The remaining five poems, numbered respectively VII, X, XIII, XIV, XVIII, are all in six-lined stanzas, the metre of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis. They occupy ten of the thirty-one printed pages of the volume, and confirm the impression given by the four ‘Venus and Adonis’ sonnets, that Jaggard and Leake were anxious to bring their venture into close touch with Shakespeare’s earliest poem. The metre is
¹ Dramatists make frequent reference to the song. William Rowley notes in his play A Match at Midnight (1633), how ‘the Widdow and my sister sung both one song, and what was’t but Crabbed age and youth cannot live together?’ (Act v, Sc. 1 (4to), Sign. I 2, back). John Ford imitated the song in his Fancies (Act iv, Sc. 1) in the lines:—
Crabbed age and youth
Cannot jump together;
One is like good luck,
T’other like foul weather.
The piece was included in Percy’s Reliques (ed. Wheatley, i. 237).
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