Katherine of Aragon in music

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catherine of aragon


Here you can find music
which were written to or about
Queen Katherine of Aragon
Pastime with a good company by Henry VIII

Pastime with good company,

I love, and shall until I die.

Grudge who will, but none deny,

So God be pleased, thus live will I.

For my pastance:

Hunt, sing, and dance,

My heart is set!

All goodly sport,

For my comfort,

Who shall me let?



Youth must have some dalliance,

Of good or ill some pastance.

Company methinks them best,

All thoughts and fancies to digest.

For idleness,

Is chief mistress

Of vices all:

Then who can say,

But mirth and play,

Is best of all?



Company with honesty,

Is virtue, vice to flee.

Company is good and ill,

But every man has his free will.

The best ensue,

The worst eschew,

My mind shall be:

Virtue to use,

Vice to refuse,

Thus shall I use me
Also known as "the king's Ballad" is a song created by Henry VIII and thought to be written for Katherine of Aragon, in their early relationship.






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Green Groweth the Holly

Green groweth the holly.
So doth the ivy.
Though winter blasts blow never so high,
Green groweth the holly.

As the holly goweth green,
And never changeth hue,
So I am,ever hath been,
Unto my lady true.

As the holly groweth green
With ivy all alone
when flowers cannot be seen
And greenwood leaves be gone.

Now unto my lady,
Promise to her I make
From all other only
To her I me betake.

Audieu,mine owne lady,
Audieu,my special,
Who hath my heart truely,
Be sure,and ever shall.		Wrote by Henry VIII, also it's believed that this song was written to Katherine
I had a little nut tree

I had a little nut tree,
Nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg,
And a golden pear;
The King of Spain's daughter
Came to visit me,
And all for the sake
Of my little nut tree.

Her dress was made of crimson,
Jet black was her hair,
She asked me for my nut tree
And my golden pear.
I said, "So fair a princess
Never did I see,
I'll give you all the fruit
From my little nut tree.I had a Little Nut Tree		The characters in the nursery rhyme 'I had a little nut tree' are believed to refer to the visit of the Royal House of Spain to King Henry VII's English court in 1506. The 'King of Spain's daughter' refers to the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. There were two daughters, Princess Juana and her sister Katherine of Aragon. The princess in the nursery rhyme is probably Katherine of Aragon who was betrothed to Prince Arthur, the heir to the throne of England. Arthur died and Katherine eventually married King Henry VIII. It was sad that "So fair a princess" had such a difficult life with Henry as she was the first of Henry's six wives and discarded by the King to make way for Anne Boleyn. Queen Katherine was much loved by the British people who hated her replacement. The young, beautiful princess relates to the young Katherine, as a princess and is immortalised in this old nursery rhyme

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Sing a Song of Sixpence

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Was not that a dish Dainty,
To set before the king?

The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlor,
Eating bread and honey.

The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes;
When down came a Blackbird
And snapped off her nose.

They send for the king's doctor,
who sewed it on again;
He sewed it on so neatly,
the Seam was never seen.		The blackbirds are the choirs of the "Dainty dish" of the monasteries dissolved by Henry VII and that is the Katherine of Aragon as Queen and Anne Boleyn as the maid.


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Catherine of aragon By Rick Wakeman
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