Old Heroic Ballads, Songs,

AND OTHER PIECES OF OUR EARLIER POETS;

L. A. LEWIS, 125, FLEET-STREET.

MDCCCXXXIX.

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10. The Gaberlunzie Man, Scottish. By K. James V.

11. On Thomas Lord Cromwell

12. Harpalus. An ancient English Pastoral

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13. Robin and Makyne. An ancient Scottish Pastoral

14. Gentle Herdsman, tell to me

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15. K. Edward IV. and the Tanner of Tamworth.

16. As ye came from the Holy Land

17. Hardyknute. A Scottish Fragment. By Sir J. Bruce

BOOK THE SECOND.

1. A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Hus-

bandman.

2. John Anderson my Jo. A Scottish Song

3. Little John Nobody.

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6. Gascoigne's Praise of the Fair Bridges, afterwards Lady

singing

10. The Beggar's Daughter of Bednal Green

11. Fancy and Desire. By the Earl of Oxford

12. Sir Andrew Barton

13. Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament.

14. The Murder of the King of Scots

15. A Sonnet by Q. Elizabeth

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An Essay on the word FIT, and the ancient Ballad-

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16. The K. of Scots and Andrew Browne.

17. The Bonny Earl of Murray.

By W. Elderton 217

A Scottish Song

223

18. Young Waters. A Scottish Song

19. Mary Ambree

20. Brave Lord Willoughby

21. Victorious Men of Earth. By James Shirley

22. The Winning of Cales

23. The Spanish Lady's Love

24. Argentile and Curan. By W. Warner

25. Corin's Fate.

26. Jane Shore

27. Corydon's doleful Knell

BOOK THE THIRD.

Essay on the Metre of Pierce Plowman's Visions

1. The Complaint of Conscience

2. Plain Truth and Blind Ignorance

3. The Wandering Jew

4. The Lye. By Sir Walter Raleigh

5. Verses (viz. two Sonnets) by K. James I.

6. K. 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 Downfal of Charing Cross

13. Verses by King Charles I.

14. The Sale of Rebellious Houshold Stuff

15. The Baffled Knight, or Lady's Policy

18. The Distracted Puritan. Mad Song the second

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16. Why so pale? By Sir John Suckling

17. Old Tom of Bedlam. Mad Song the first

19. The Lunatic Lover. Mad Song the third

20. The Lady Distracted with Love. Mad Song the fourth 382

21. The Distracted Lover. Mad Song the fifth

22. The Frantic Lady. Mad Song the sixth

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386

23. Lilli-burlero. By Lord Wharton

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24. The Braes of Yarrow. In imitation of the ancient