dump
“Formerly the received term for a melancholy strain in music,
vocal or instrumental. . . . A dump appears to have been also a kind of dance.”
Nares's Gloss.
On the first of the following passages Mr. Chappell remarks:
“A dump was a slow dance. Queen Mary's
Dump is one of the tunes in William Ballet's Lute Book, and My Lady Carey's Dompe is printed in Stafford Smith's Musica Antiqua, ii. 470, from a manuscript in the British Museum,
temp. Henry VIII.”
Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. i. p. 210, sec. ed.
:
“Tune a deploring dump,”
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iii.
2. 85
;
“play me some merry dump,”
ROMEO AND JULIET, iv. 5.
104
;
“dumps so dull and heavy,”
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 3.
66
;
“Distress likes dumps,”
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 1127.