Excerpt from A Handful of Pleasant Delights: Containing Sundry New Sonnets and Delectable Histories in Divers Kinds of Metre Etc., 1584 Being thus intended for singing, there is not a true Sonnet in the Collection. An important feature of these early printed ballads is that they gave the names - either from their title, their first line, their burden or some prominent words therein - to the tunes to which they were first sung; by which names, these tunes are frequently quoted in the writings Of shakespeare and his contemporaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.