I picked the first answer to your first question, because it's closest, but my real answer is more similar to pdcawley's.
Also, when I'm learning interminably long Elizabethan broadsides (I got a fabulous book of them not that long ago) I'll usually go through the ones I might actually want to sing in public and mark sets of verses that can be dropped to save time (e.g., the condensed version of "Shore's Wife" that I usually sing is maybe half the length of the full text and still gets the story across perfectly well, plus it's not very obviously ripped off from Heywood's Edward IV, not like most people would recognize that)...
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Date: 2006-07-24 08:09 pm (UTC)Also, when I'm learning interminably long Elizabethan broadsides (I got a fabulous book of them not that long ago) I'll usually go through the ones I might actually want to sing in public and mark sets of verses that can be dropped to save time (e.g., the condensed version of "Shore's Wife" that I usually sing is maybe half the length of the full text and still gets the story across perfectly well, plus it's not very obviously ripped off from Heywood's Edward IV, not like most people would recognize that)...
Neat poll, btw!