ΤΟ ELIZABETH, LATE DUCHESS AND COUNTESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND, IN HER OWN RIGHT BARONESS PERCY, ETC. ETC. ETC., WHO, BEING SOLE HEIRESS TO MANY GREAT FAMILIES OF OUR ANCIENT NOBILITY, EMPLOYED THE PRINCELY FORTUNE, AND SUSTAINED THE ILLUSTRIOUS HONOURS, WHICH SHE DERIVED FROM THEM, THROUGH HER WHOLE LIFE, WITH THE GREATEST DIGNITY, GENEROSITY, AND SPIRIT; AND WHO FOR HER MANY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES WILL EVER BE REMEMBERED AS ONE OF THE FIRST CHARACTERS OF HER TIME THIS LITTLE WORK WAS ORIGINALLY DEDICATED : AND AS IT SOMETIMES AFFORDED HER AMUSEMENT, AND WAS HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED BY HER INDULGENT APPROBATION, IT IS NOW. WITH THE UTMOST REGARD, RESPECT, AND GRATITUDE, CONSECRATED TO HER BELOVED AND HONOURED MEMORY. 7. Sir Patrick Spence. A Scottish Ballad, 8. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, 9. An Elegy on Henry, Fourth Earl of Northumberland. By Skelton, 10. The Tower of Doctrine. By Stephen Hawes, 11. The Child of Elle, . 12. Edom (Adam) o' Gordon. A Scottish Ballad, : BOOK THE SECOND. (CONTAINING BALLADS THAT ILLUSTRATE SHAKESPEare.) Essay on the Origin of the English Stage, 1. Adam Bell, Clym o' the Clough, and William of Cloudesly, 2. The Aged Lover renounceth Love, 3. Jepthah, Judge of Israel, 4. A Robyn, Jolly Robyn, 5. A Song to the Lute in Musicke, 6. King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid, 7. Take thy old Cloak about Thee, 8. Willow, Willow, Willow, 9. Sir Lancelot du Lake, 10. Corydon's Farewell to Phillis, The Ballad of Constant Susannah, 11. Gernutus, the Jew of Venice, 12. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. By Marlow, The Nymph's Reply. By Sir W. Raleigh, 13. Titus Andronicus's Complaint, 14. Take those Lips away, 15. King Leir and his Three Daughters, 16. Youth and Age. By Shakespeare, 17. The Frolicksome Duke, or the Tinker's Good Fortune, 18. The Friar o Orders Gray, . BOOK THE THIRD. 1. The more Modern Ballad of Chevy Chase, Illustration of the Northern Names, 2. Death's Final Conquest. By James Shirley, 3. The Rising in the North, 4. Northumberland betrayed by Douglas, Essay on the Metre of Pierce Plowman's Visions,. 1. The Complaint of Conscience, 2. Plain Truth and Blind Ignorance, . 4. The Lye. By Sir Walter Raleigh, 5. Verses (viz. two Sonnets). By King James I., 6. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury,. 7. You Meaner Beauties. By Sir H. Wotton, 8. The Old and Young Courtier, 9. Sir John Suckling's Campaigne, 10. To Althea from Prison. By Col. Lovelace, 11. The Downfall of Charing Cross, 12. Loyalty Confined. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, 13. Verses. By King Charles I., 14. The Sale of Rebellious Household Stuff, 15. The Baffled Knight, or Lady's Policy, |