Re: [Mid] Greensleeves

Whew!!!! For a bit there, I thought I was going to have to dye all my
green garb .... which is *most* of my garb! What a relief. I can just be
a "handsomely dressed" woman. :)
Or rather, perhaps I should say " a handsomely dressed widow".

Medb ni Ciaran MacMurchadha
Widow by Trade

-----Original Message-----
From: Kate/Constance <fairfax@tir.com>
To: sca-middle@midrealm.org <sca-middle@midrealm.org>
Date: Monday, November 29, 1999 1:38 AM
Subject: RE: [Mid] Greensleeves

>Rhi asked about "Greensleeves":
>
>The earliest documentation for the song "Greensleeves" is in the
Stationers'
>Register 9/3/1580. The earliest copy of it (manuscript or print) is in "A
>Handefull of Pleasant Delites", 1584 (which Hyder Rollins edited for Dover
>in this century).
>There is some unsubstantiated speculation that Greensleeves was written by
>Henry VIII, however, there's absolutely no reference to the song until
>almost 30 years after he dies, but there are many songs which he wrote or
>liked which are extant in several contemporary song books (one of which was
>HIS)...but no reference to Greensleeves.
>
>In any case, as soon as the first Greensleeves was printed in 1580, many
>parodies, responses, and moralizations were published.
>In 1581, this song was printed:
> Greene Sleeves is worne awaie,
> Yellow Sleeves come to decaie,
> Blacke Sleeves I holde in despite,
> But White Sleeves is my delighte,
>
>By 1599 "Greensleeves " was a term for a courtesan, but sometimes just a
>handsomely dressed woman.
>There is some speculation that the reason loose women wore green sleeves
was
>because if they wore any other color the grass stains would show. :)
>
>Constance Fairfax
>
>From: "Kate/Constance" <fairfax@tir.com>
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