From: NO_SPAM_asale@ft.newyorklife.com   
      
   On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:24:39 +0000, Jack Campin - bogus address   
    wrote:   
      
   >The oldest known version is in one of Thomas Ravenscroft's collections   
   >from the 1590s; can't remember it offhand.   
      
   Me too.  But then I can barely remember anything anymore.  So I looked:   
      
   http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/melismata/mel37small.html   
      
   "Melismata" - 1611   
      
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