 Willa McClung Evans suggested that Jonson's lyrics were fitted to a tune already in existence and that the fortunate marriage of words to music accounted in part for its excellence.This seems unlikely since Jonson's poem was set to an entirely different melody in 1756 by Elizabeth Turner.Another conception is that the original composition of the tune was by [[John Wall Callcott]] in about 1790 as a [[Glee (music)|glee]] for two [[Boy soprano|treble]]s and a [[Bass (voice type)|bass]].