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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
Walton in the second chapter of his *Compleat Angler* (1653, pp. 66–7). Walton heads the first song ‘The Milkmaid’s Song’ and describes it as ‘that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe now at least 50 years ago’. Walton’s version resembles that in *England’s Helicon*, but to the six stanzas which figure there he added in the second (not in the first) edition of his *Compleat Angler* a seventh of his own invention.
The ‘Answer’, which Walton also cited in his *Compleat Angler*, he drew from *England’s Helicon*, and gave it the new title ‘The Milkmaid’s Mother’s Answer’. In the second edition of his *Compleat Angler* he added as in the former case a seventh stanza. Of the second poem Walton wrote that it ‘was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days’. The two pieces, Walton adds, ‘were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good’.
No. XII.
The lyric ‘Crabbed age and youth’, which fills the twelfth place in *The Passionate Pilgrim*, obtained little less popularity in Elizabethan England than ‘Come live with me and be my love’. It was probably in print before Jaggard designed his miscellany. It forms with textual variations the first two stanzas of a long lyric of over one hundred lines in Deloney’s *Garland of Good Will*. That anthology, which was of the normal type, was, according to Nashe’s *Have with you to Saffron-Walden*, in existence in 1595.¹ But no earlier edition than that of 1604 is now extant. The *Garland of Good Will* was repeatedly reissued during the seventeenth century, and the song ‘Crabbed age and youth’
¹ Nashe wrote in 1595 (cf. his *Works*, ed. McKerrow, iii. 84): ‘Euen as Thomas Deloney the Balletting Silke-weauer hath rime inough for all myracles, & wit to make a Garland of good will.’ Deloney died in 1600. Thomas Pavier, the publisher, received on March 1, 1602, an assignment of the copyright ‘uppon condicon that yt be no others mans copie’; cf. Arber, iii. 202. Nevertheless Edward White published the edition of 1604.
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