21 SCENE III. "I see, love hath made thee a quently used to express a poor contemptible

22 SCENE III." It was a lover, and his lass." a duet, unless the two pages sang in unisonperformed in the play, either as this was originIN the Signet-Office library at Edinburgh is a ally acted, or not long after its production. But MS. in 4to., formerly in the possession of Mr. whether our conjecture-and only as such we Heber, containing many songs set to music, and offer it-be well or ill founded, there can be no among them the following. It seems quite clear doubt that the composition is one of those that this manuscript cannot have been written which, in musical chronology, is classed as later than sixteen years after the publication of ancient. We here give it, with the simple and the present play, and may have existed at a modern accompaniment, as it is printed in the much earlier period; it is, therefore, not strain-Collection of National Airs,' edited by Mr. ing probability too hard to suppose that the air Chappell (vol. i. p. 81), a valuable work, to here inserted was, in some form-most likely as which we have before been indebted.

hey non ne no, and a

hey

no nee no, ni

no,

That

o'er the greene corne field did passe 'In spring tyme, in spring tyme, in spring tyme, The

on - lie prettie ring tyme, When birds doo sing, Hey ding a ding a ding, Hey

ding a ding a ding, Hey ding a ding a ding; Sueet lovers love the spring.

COSTUME.

Although Shakspere has not given a name Anne of Brittany incorporated that last and either to the duchy in which the scene is laid, most independent province with the royal door the duke who has been deprived of it, we minions. Illuminations of the reign of Charles have one point to guide us in our selection of VIII., the immediate predecessor of Louis XII., the costume of this exquisite comedy,-namely, have been elsewhere suggested as furnishing a the circumstance of an independent duchy in picturesque and appropriate costume for the France. The action must therefore be supposed usurping duke and his courtiers, and a MS. in to take place before the union of the great fiefs the Royal Library at Paris (Rondeaux Chants to the crown, and consequently not later than a Costume of Shakespear's Comedy of As You Like It, the reign of Louis XII., whose marriage with | by J. R. Planché.' 12mo, London, 1825.

Royal, No. 6989) as supplying the hunting dress | tation on the clowns of Shakspere, has made the of the time. Many of the former are engraved following remarks on the dress of this chain Montfaucon's 'Monarchie Française, and racter:-"Touchstone is the domestic fool of some figures from the latter will be found in Frederick, the duke's brother, and belongs to Mons. Willemin's superb work, 'Monumens the class of witty or allowed fools. He is inédites, &c.' The dress of a shepherd of this threatened with the whip, a mode of chastiseperiod may be found in Pynson's 'Shepherd's ment which was often inflicted on these motley Kalendar:' and the splendid Harleian MS. personages. His dress should be a partyNo. 4425, presents us with the ordinary habits coloured garment. He should occasionally of an ecclesiastic when not clad in the sacred carry a bauble in his hand and wear ape's ears vestments of his office or order. to his hood, which is probably the head-dress intended by Shakespeare, there being no allusion whatever to a cock's head or a comb."

The late Mr. Douce, in his admirable disserSee also Modus le Roy. Livre de Chasse.' Folio, Chambery, 1486.