Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton (baptised 1580, buried 1627) was one of the most versatile English dramatists of his day, writing city comedies, tragedies, masques and civic pageants, often in collaboration. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, The Changeling (with William Rowley) and Women Beware Women are the plays most often revived, and A Game at Chess (1624) was a political sensation.

The lyrics here are those printed in A. H. Bullen's Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age (1889), including songs from A Mad World, My Masters and The Widow. Songs Bullen lists under Middleton and Rowley jointly, or under Middleton with a query, say so in their notes.