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'', a volume issued in 1602 by two brothers,

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and Walter Davison. In the ''Rapsody'' the poem is ascribed to Francis Davison, but in Davison's own manuscript, to "A. W.". Not only the eight

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-endings, but the actual words that compose them, are the same in each of eight

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s, a virtuoso display. The mysterious "A.W." has never been identified but the songs of "A.W." found places in many anthologies and song-books of the early seventeenth century.

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