First Lines, Burdens, Titles, and Tunes.

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"With joy we do leave thee"

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394

Wives, Lady Fretchwell's Song of the ("You Scribblers") title, quoted, 314 "Woman was made Man's Sovereignty to own

Woman's Wish, The Old

quoted, 64 title, mentioned, 64 title, quoted, 350 title, mentioned, 433, 463

Woman's Usurpation (Rochester's "Woman was made")

Wonder at the Great Frost, London's

Wonder, Great Britain's

Wonder of the Thames, A Winter Wonder, London's (="This Winter.") "Woons! what now is the matter?"

World, A View of the

Would you be a Man in Fashion? "Would you have at your devotion" "Would'st thou be wilful still, my jo?" "Wretch that I am! and is it come to this?"

title, mentioned, 468

title, mentioned, 469

title, mentioned, 462; given, 463 244, 262; given, 263 title, mentioned, 715

"YE Gentlemen of England, who live at home at ease”

"Ye Gods! you gave to me a wife"

"Ye London lads, be merry!

461, 468

558

707

burden, quoted, and tune, 139, 148 burden, mentioned, 465

"Ye Loyal lads be sorry" (sometimes "You Loyal lads be merry ") 25, 72, 470 "Ye Mariners of England" (suggested by Parker's "Ye Gentlemen ") 137 "Ye Whigs and Dissenters, I charge ye, attend ! ” "Ye wish to know her, for she sweeter is " "Yes, fickle Cambridge! Perkin found this true' Yet Sawney will ne'er be my love again! Yet this Waterman ne'er was in want of a fare! Yew-trees at the Oxford Physic-Gardens, A Poem on the mentioned, 156 York's Return, An Heroic Poem on the Duke of York's Return from Scotland, The Duke of York's Return from Shipwreck, The Duke of..... "You Calvinists of England, who surfeit with your ease "You Freemen, and Masters, and 'Prentices, mourn! "You Gallants of Country and City

"You London lads, be merry, for Perkin that State buffoon" "You London lads, rejoice, and cast away your care "You Loyal lads be merry. (See "Ye Loyal lads, be sorry.") 25, 72; g. 470 "You Loyalists all now rejoice, and be glad "You maidens and wives, and young widows, rejoice!" (= Four able P.) m. 107

"You Master Colliers, pray draw near!"

You Rebels of England, you murder'd your King! "You Scribblers that writ of Widows and Maids'

"You that delight in wit and mirth." (By Thomas Jordan.)
"You traitors of England, how dare you conspire?"
"You, whom the gazing world did once admire"
Young Jemmy is a lad

354

mentioned, 32 burden, 543

quoted, 107, 314

177

330

634

tune, 168, 169

title (of Tom Moore's song), quoted, 68
(John Bannister's) tune, 727

Young Phaon strove the bliss to taste
Young Statesmen, On the ("Clarendon had law," etc.).... title, quoted, 715
Youth and Art (Browning's, "It once might have been ") title, quoted, 560
Youth, youth, you had better been starv'd by thy Nurse, etc. burden, parodied, 573

FINALE: TO THE MANES OF CAROLUS II.

Ave Caesar! morituri te salutant.”

I saw, in a Vision or Dream of the Night,
(Not blue-ribbon'd, but still with sobriety,)
A meeting late held in The Halls of Delight,
Our subscribers," The Ballad Society."

They had got Volume Five of Roxb. Ballads in hand; (Let us hope they had been somewhat pleas'd from it;) And the Editor's self could not well understand

How he ever felt glad when releas'd from it.

We all wore deep hat-bands of crape, and black gloves,
So intensely bereavement we reckon'd;

Even Venus had changed into Ravens her Doves:

For we all mourn'd our King, Charles the Second.

"The longer we knew him," the chief of us cried,
"The better we loved and approved him ;
We had rather have seen that all other kings died,
Than that Death had unkindly removed him.

"There are people who say he had faults!" (cries of“ Shame!”) They hint about bribes from King Lewis!!

Also women (a few), not unsmirch'd in fair fame!!!
Were such counted as errors, we knew his!

“Ave Cæsar! morituri te Salutant."

"A Spendthrift, perhaps, but no Miser was he,
To hoard up the nation's grudged riches;

He loved others to please, and be pleased, frank and free,
While disporting with ducklings, or

spaniels.

"A man of the World, with sound hatred of Cant, And a habit of making things pleasant,

He had smiled at the Saintly's' fanatical rant,

That did mischief to townsfolk and peasant.

"Not a tyrant was he, would they leave him in peace;
He was kind to his Children and Brother;
When life lost its zest, 'twas a happy release:
'Twill be long ere we see such Another!”

Here we all shed our tears, laid a wreath on his tomb,
And departed, with sobbing and sorrow;

Gave the rest of the night-time to mourning and gloom,
Then began Volume Sixth on the morrow.

25, vi. '84.

One-Acre Priory, Kent.

775

J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH.

"The old order changeth, giving place to new !"-Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur.

ERRATA FOR THIS VOLUME

Will be given at the close of the next, Vol. VI., which will complete the series of Roxburghe Ballads; with the exception of such ballads as form part of the final and separate Volume, VII., devoted chiefly to a General Index for the entire Work. But the following corrigenda may as well be noted for the reader :

On p. 309, note 6, 3rd line, 1497 is the correct date (misread as 1499). On p. 336, in bracketted dropt-line read, "None others so happy we see." On p. 631, the marginal reference concerning the Fall of Lucifer ought to read "Cf. p. 634," not "p. 624."

On p. 716, 6th line. the reference to woodcut should be p. 717.

From p. 740, the unidentified initials of " C. F." ("A Song," p. 295) and of "J. S. (p. 382)" were omitted.

Despite unflagging editorial care, with the best of printers, and also an unsurpassed Reader of the Press (Mr. W. M. Wood, of Hertford), a few mistakes are unavoidable. They will creep in. As Karl von Nirgends had already noted, Earth-tremors dislocate strata,

Accidents happen in families,
But one hates a long list of Errata,

With as many grim corpses as Ramillies.

The page (xvi) of Addenda and Corrigenda should be retained by the Binder. Children of sweetness and light will no doubt keep all the Temporary Prefaces, etc., as our gallant young friend Arthur Henry Bullen advises and practises. They could be included, each in situ between the groups, which correspond with Parts XIII., XIV., and XV. Keep everything that you can get about Old Ballads! is an excellent maxim. And "Do not begrudge any money expended in Subscriptions to the Ballad Society, or for binding its books," is another. To follow these two rules of life is the perfection of Virtue. We mention this in passing, for the moral guidance of poor Human Nature.-J. W. EBSWORTH.

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