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Shakespeare's Songs

Shakespeare's Songs
Not surprisingly, Shakespeare alludes to or includes the text of over one hundred songs in his works. Music was an integral part of Elizabethan life, as it is today. The following is an annotated collection of the songs Shakespeare used in his works.

Spring come to you at the farthest (The Tempest)
Spring come to you at the farthest

foison (The Tempest)
foison

wight (Othello)
wight

lown
lown

In youth, when I did love, did love (Hamlet)
In youth, when I did love, did love

rude
rude

waters warp (As You Like It)
waters warp

O, how the wheel becomes it! (Hamlet)
O, how the wheel becomes it!

Hey non nonny (Hamlet)
Hey non nonny (Hamlet)

By cock (Hamlet)
By cock

As friend remember'd not (As You Like It)
As friend remember'd not (As You Like It)

turn his note (As You Like It)
turn his note

All flaxen was his poll (Hamlet)
All flaxen was his poll

And will a' not come again? (Hamlet)
And will a' not come again?

dupp'd (Hamlet)
dupp'd

Full fathom five thy father lies (The Tempest)
Full fathom five thy father lies

Phoebus (Cymbeline)
Phoebus

gins (Cymbeline)
gins

chaliced (Cymbeline)
chaliced

winking (Cymbeline)
winking

Mary-buds (Cymbeline)
Mary-buds

pink eyne (Antony and Cleopatra)
pink eyne

Bacchus (Antony and Cleopatra)
Bacchus

fats (Antony and Cleopatra)
fats

tumbled me (Hamlet)
tumbled me

cockle hat (Hamlet)
cockle hat

suffer (The Tempest)
suffer

knell (The Tempest)
knell

Flout 'em and scout 'em (The Tempest)
Flout 'em and scout 'em

firing (The Tempest)
firing

By Gis (Hamlet)
By Gis

swabber (The Tempest)
swabber

trenchering (The Tempest)
trenchering

shoon (Hamlet)
shoon

auld
auld