The Roxburghe ballads . ten by J. P. (John Playford?), of date 12thJanuary, 166f (reprinted in these Roxburghe Ballads, vol. 530), which begins, Through the cool shady woods, as I was-walking. Robin the Devil could not have been the same airs held many an alias; after each successive employmentthey took a new lease of celebrity and fresh title-deeds. We havean instance in l How many pounds and crowns have L spent whichwe discover to have flowed from the true fountain-head of NicholasStagginss music, set to Sir C. song, beginning withPhillis sat. Genealogy here


The Roxburghe ballads . ten by J. P. (John Playford?), of date 12thJanuary, 166f (reprinted in these Roxburghe Ballads, vol. 530), which begins, Through the cool shady woods, as I was-walking. Robin the Devil could not have been the same airs held many an alias; after each successive employmentthey took a new lease of celebrity and fresh title-deeds. We havean instance in l How many pounds and crowns have L spent whichwe discover to have flowed from the true fountain-head of NicholasStagginss music, set to Sir C. song, beginning withPhillis sat. Genealogy here of the same tune, successively named, 1st.—Amoret and Phillis, 1676. 2nd.—Soulcliers Delight ( = A young man lately loved a lass, vide —Ploughman [or Husbandmaii], his Honour made known (p. 237).4th.—How many Pounds and Crowns have I spent [cf. vi. 343).5th.—It was in the prime of Cucumber time (v. 252, 254).6th.—The Trappand Taylor (p. 467). This we now ascertain as the sequence of the \Jttm v/flffl 11 * (ilJIUil 111 L ^3^ \_Bolh belong to p. 517 ; the man alone to p. 566.] 516 [Roxburghe Collection, II. 262; III. 547; Bagford, II. 158; Pepys, III. 10;Wood, E. 25, fol. 3 ; Jersey, II. 96=Lindes., 1323.] %\)t i&ensttoe 09atU: ©r, Z,f)t Firgmg ILamcntation foe tge 1000 of Sec Holier* For seven years space she patiently did bear,The Absence of her Love, as you shall hear,At length sad Tydings came that he was slain,And that they never more should meet again. Tune of, Through the cool shady woods, or, Beep in Love. [See p. 515.]


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