tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post3635699926036561715..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: exercise, conversation, warmAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-81957026777158839662009-10-12T13:15:10.772+01:002009-10-12T13:15:10.772+01:00I'm on it! However, I know for certain that T...I'm on it! However, I know for certain that Taverner, (the original, 1490-1545, not the modern one, who claims to be descended from him), used the tuen of it as part of a 'Western Wind' mass, creating a vogue for these. (It's on a Tallis Scholars CD I've got!) It was a folk song by then. <br /><br />The Oxford Book of English Verse puts it between Cornish and Dunbar, so early 16th century, and says it's on a British Museum manuscript. That's what I can find out from the concrete resources I have to hand, doubtless more can be found out with a Google search, which takes some of the fun out of it and make one look less clever! Am I remembering right, does it feature as a motif in 'A Farewell to Arms'? Is that partly why one thinks of it as a soldier's poem? It wouldn't have to be necessarily...Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-63103077052864229752009-10-05T12:26:10.947+01:002009-10-05T12:26:10.947+01:00According to the Oxford Dictionaary of Quotations ...According to the Oxford Dictionaary of Quotations this was published in 1789. I had always thought it came from the 14th Century. There are some spellings such as the one you use (where does that version come from?, which suggest something earlier. What do you think?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-79811500131976748312009-10-04T18:45:50.166+01:002009-10-04T18:45:50.166+01:00Before I scrolled down and saw it there, I thought...Before I scrolled down and saw it there, I thought 'That reminds me of the 'Westron Wynde' poem.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com