Have with Yow to Walsingham

The church at Walsingham in North Norfolk had been a place for pilgrimage for centuries in the time of Dowland, Byrd and Shakespeare. The melody which they knew as "Walsingham" was also probably at least a hundred years old by then, and was associated with various sets of words, such as "As you came from the Holy land of Walsingham, met you notwith my true love, by the way as you came?" . It is suggested that Ophelia is singing scraps of this song in Hamlet At 4 scene 5. The melody itself seems to have neen pretty well standardised, as can be seen from the settings included below (except that Byrd and Bull have eight 3-bar measures, whereas the lutenists repeat the second half to get 12 measures).
Byrd's setting, quite an early work, as well as being his longest set of variations is also in my view his very best. Commentators tend to prefer it to the Bull version, — but there is no denying that this also is a magnificent tour-de-force.