¶ The Sheepheard Carillo his Song. +Printed in Yong, Diana (1598), pp. 326-7. The song is prefaced by Cardenia’s request to Carisus to watch her kine, cows ‘while I goe hard by to see a kinswoman of mine. .. Carisus putting some strings on his Rebecke, that he had his hand, and tuning his voice to this that followes, answered Cardenias request thus, taking for his ground (bicause it made so fit for his purpose) that common Castillian countrey dance, that saieth in Spanish.’ Rollins points out that the ‘original of the song is the villancico , ‘Guarda me las vacas’, that was added to a ballad of Count Alarcos printed at Sargossa about 1520’. For the music for this lyric, see Musical Settings . Author: Bartholomew Yong. Structure (May/Ringler): 68: 1×4, 8×8, a8b6a8b6, aa8b6cc8b6dd8

Guarda mi las Vaccas Carillo, por tu fe, Besa mi Primero, Yo te las guardare.