Metaphysical & Cavalier

Nathaniel Field

1587–1620


Nathaniel Field (1587–1620) began as a boy actor, became a leading player of his generation and also wrote plays: A Woman Is a Weathercock and Amends for Ladies, and The Fatal Dowry with Philip Massinger.

The two songs here are those Bullen printed from his comedies in Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age (1889).

  1. Pari Jugo Dulcis Tractus
  2. Rise, Lady Mistress, Rise!

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