This is one of Freeman’s
Songs of Four Voices in Thomas Ravenscroft’s
Deutromelia, published in 1609. The three spoken passages are from (respectively),
Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem (Thomas Nashe, 1593),
The Seven Deadly Sins of London (Thomas Dekker, 1606), and
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare).
from notes by Douglas Wootton © 1981
