. The Roxburghe ballads. es of Shame I) They hint about bribes from King Lewis ! !Also women (a fezv), not unsmirchd in fair fame ! ! ! Were such counted as errors, we knew his ! Ave Caesar ! morituri tc Salutant. 77fi A Spendthrift, perhaps, but no Miser was he, To hoard up the nations grudged riches ;He loved otJiers 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 Saintlys fanatical rant, That did mischief to townsfolk and peasant. Hot a tyrant wa
. The Roxburghe ballads. es of Shame I) They hint about bribes from King Lewis ! !Also women (a fezv), not unsmirchd in fair fame ! ! ! Were such counted as errors, we knew his ! Ave Caesar ! morituri tc Salutant. 77fi A Spendthrift, perhaps, but no Miser was he, To hoard up the nations grudged riches ;He loved otJiers 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 Saintlys fanatical rant, That did mischief to townsfolk and peasant. Hot a tyrant was he, would they leave him in peace ; He was kind to his Children and Brother ;When life lost its zest, tzvas a happy release: Twill be long ere zve see such Another ! Here we all shed our tears, laid a wreath on his tomb, A nd departed, with sobbing and sorrow ;Gave the rest of the night-time to mourning and gloom, Then began Volume Sixth on the morrow. & J. WOODFALL EBSWORTII. 25, vi. 84. One-Acre Priory, Kent. 77G. The old order changeth, giving place to new ! —Tennysons Morte dArthur. ERRATA FOR THIS VOLUME Will be given at the close of the next, Vol. VI., which will complete the series ofRoxburghe Ballads; with the exception of such ballads as form part of the finaland separate Volume, VII., devoted chiefly to a General Index for the entireWork. But the following corrigenda mag as well be noted for the reader :— On p. 309, note 6, 3rd line, 1497 is the correct date (misread as 1499).336, in bracketted dropt-line read, None others so happy we , the marginal reference concerning the Fall of Lucifer ought to read634, not p. 624. 716, 6th line, the reference to woodcut should be p. p. 740, the unidentified initials of C. F. ( A Song, p. 295) and ofJ. S. (p. 382) were omitted. Despite unflagging editorial care, with the best of printers, and also anunsurpassed Reader of the Press (Mr. W. M. Wood, of Hertford), a few mistakesare unavoidab
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