William Rowley

William Rowley (c. 1585–1626) was an English actor and dramatist who wrote many plays in collaboration with Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, John Ford and others; The Changeling (1622), written with Middleton, is the best known. He died in 1626.

The songs here are those Bullen assigns to Rowley from The Thracian Wonder, a play printed in 1661 whose authorship is uncertain, in his Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age (1889).