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green-sleeves
A woman wearing green sleeves; the name given to an inconstant lady-love, who is the subject of a ballad published in 1580 (see quot.), which, together with the tune to which it was sung, became very popular; hence, a name for the ballad and the tune themselves.
1580in Arber Stationer's Reg. (1875) II. 376 A newe northe[r]n Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves. 1584C. Robinson New Sonet of Ladie Green Sleeues in Roxb. Ball. (1887) vi. 398 Green-sleeues was all my ioy, Green-sleeues was my delight: Green-sleeues was my heart of gold, and who but my Ladie Green-sleeues? 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. i. 64. Ibid. v. v. 22 Let it thunder to the tune of Greene-sleeues. 1717Prior Alma ii. 320 Old Madge, bewitch'd at Sixty one, Calls for Green Sleeves, and Jumping Joan. |