George Peele

George Peele (1556–1596) was an English poet and dramatist, born in London and educated at Christ's Hospital and at Oxford. One of the "University Wits" who wrote for the Elizabethan stage, he made his living as a playwright and as a writer of civic pageants, and is best remembered for The Arraignment of Paris, The Old Wives' Tale and David and Bethsabe.

The songs in this file are those A. H. Bullen printed from his plays and from the tilt-yard poem Polyhymnia in Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age (1889), among them "His golden locks Time hath to silver turned" and the snatches of song in The Old Wives' Tale. Bullen's attributions are followed; his introduction and notes are not reproduced.