Old Ballads: Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date, Volume 1

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R. H. Evans, 1810 - Ballads, English

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Contents

Sir John Armstrong and Musgraves contest
21
A Lovers Praise of his Lady
26
A most sweet Song of an English Merchant born in Chichester
28
Queen Elizabeths Champion or a Victory obtained
31
Loyal Lover
33
Fair Portion for a Fair Maid
35
The Lovers Indifference
38
Bachelors Plea against Matrimony
40
Country Lass
41
11+Sonnet to the Virgin Mary
43
Warning Piece to England or the Fall of Queen
44
Maidens Nay or I Love not you
46
Sonnet sung before Queen Elizabeth attributed to the Earl of Essex
48
Sonnet on Elizabeth Markhame
49
Young Palmus and fair Sheldra
50
Bishop Thurstan and the King of Scots
51
22+Anne Askew burnt for heresy
52
The Spanish Tragedy
57
Battle of Cuton Moor
58
Proper New Song by a Student in Cambridge
59
Address to a Disappointed Lover wearing a Willow branch
63
The Deceased Maiden Lover
64
True Maid of the South
70
Pleasant History of Alexander and Lodwicke
77
London Lasss Lamentation
85
Courage Crowned with Conquest or Sir Eglamore
86
Lovely Northern Lass
88
Fickle Northern Lass
93
Cumnor Hall
94
Stout Cripple of Cornwall
97
Arabella Stuart
99
Lamentation of John Musgrave executed at Ken dal for robbing the Kings Receiver
102
Anna Bullen
105
Jockie is Growne a Gentleman
107
Complaint of the Shepherd Harpalus
110
Shepherds Delight
113
Northern Lasss Lamentation
115
Fair Maniac
117
24+ Description of a most noble Lady Queen Mary
120
Lamentable Complaint of Queen Mary for the unkind
127
The Bridal Bed
128
The Lordling Peasant
134
The Dutchess of Suffolks calamity
135
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137
The Mad Mans Morrice
139
Queen Elizabeths behaviour at Tilbury
143
The Elves Dance
145
RedCross Knight
148
London Ordinary or every Man in his Humour
166
2167
171
Merry Careless Lover
176
41 Married Mans Lesson
182
The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hoods Preferment
183
Julia
184
Bitter Fruits of Jealousy
187
Robin Hoods Entertainment of the Bishop of Here
216
Complaint and Lamentation of Mistresse Arden
217
35+ Mas Mault
220
Lord Wigmore and the Fair Maid of Dunsmore
226
ford
231
Pithiass Lament for the Loss of Damon
232
Song from the fair Maid of the Exchange
237
Hedone
239
Lullaby Song
240
Lullaby Song
241
Lullaby Song
242
The May Pole
243
MayDay Song
245
Symptoms of Love
246
Shepherds Love for Philliday
248
Maidens Complaint of her Loves Inconstancy
249
Seldom comes the better
251
No Constancy in Man
254
Lady Wronged by False Suspect
255
The New Balow
259
Musidorus and Amadine
263
Countrymans Lamentation for the Death of his Cow
268
Take Time while tis offered
272
Song of Queen Isabel with the Fall of the Spencers
276
Wanton Wife of Bath
277
Most excellent Ditty of Sampson and the Phi listines
283
David and BathSheba
291
The Dead Mans Song
297
Edward the Third and the Countess of Salisbury
301
The Turtle Dove
305
The Winning of the Isle of Man by the Earl
308
Mad kind of Wooing
312
Banishment of the Dukes of Hereford and Norfolk
315
Nothing to be had without Money
318
77 Lewd Life of a Marchants Sonne of London
323
62+Song from the Lords Mask
324
The Prophecy of Queen Emma
327
Deposition of Richard the Second and his Murder
330
Shepherds Slumber
332
Death of Earl Oswald
333
The Barginet of Antimachus
337
The Lover compareth himself to the painful Falconer
340
Merry Ballet of the Hathorne Tree
342
53+ Ancient Hunting Song
343
The Woodmans Walk
345
Jack Doves Resolution
349
55+ Venuss Search after Cupid
350
The Victory of Agincourt
351
Alphonso and Ganselo
354
58+ Song by Sir Robert Aytoun
357
Cupids Revenge
361
Pleasant Ballad of two Lovers
362
The Pleasures of Love
363
Sir Hugh the Grime
367
Strange Lives of two Young Princes of England 53
374

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Page 248 - Altair, then I was really there, or at an equal remoteness from the life which I had left behind, dwindled and twinkling with as fine a ray to my nearest neighbor, and to be seen only in moonless nights by him. Such was that part of creation where I had squatted; 'There was a shepherd that did live, And held his thoughts as high As were the mounts whereon his flocks Did hourly feed him by.
Page 148 - All travellers, as they do pass on their way, At gentlemen's halls are invited to stay, Themselves to refresh, and their horses to rest, Since that he must be Old Christmas's guest ; Nay, the poor shall not want, but have for relief, Plum-pudding, goose, capon, minced pies, and roastbeef.
Page 241 - By by lully lullay, Lully lullay thou littell tyne child, By by lully lullay. O sisters too, how may we do, For to preserve this day This pore yongling, for whom we do singe By by lully lullay. Herod the king, in his raging, Chargid he hath this day; His men of might, in his owne sight, All yonge children to slay. That wo is me, pore child for thee, And ever morne and say; For thi parting, nether say nor sing, By by lully lullay.
Page 144 - By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day : As we dance the dew doth fall, Trip it, little urchins all. Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three by three, And about go we, and about go we.
Page 237 - Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain, Saint Hugh be our good speed : 111 is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need.
Page 17 - The birds sang sweet in the midst of the day ; I dreamed fast of mirth and play ; In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure. Methought I walked still to and fro, And from her company I could not go ; But when I waked, it was not so : In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure.
Page 332 - And everything that I can name, Or may in fancy come. The substance of the sights I saw In silence pass they shall, Because I lack the skill to draw The order of them all; But Venus shall not pass my pen, Whose maidens in disdain Did feed upon the hearts of men That Cupid's bow had slain. And that blind boy was all in blood, Be-bathed up to the ears, And like a conqueror he stood, And scorned lover's tears. "I have...
Page 246 - ONCE did my thoughts both ebb and flow, As passion did them move ; Once did I hope, straight fear again,— And then I was in love. Once did I waking spend the night, And tell how many minutes move.
Page 235 - But O, I spy the cuckoo, the cuckoo, the cuckoo; See where she sitteth; come away, my joy: Come away, I prithee, I do not like the cuckoo Should sing where my Peggy and I kiss and toy.

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