The Roxburghe ballads . gan. But of the Sequel, The CitizensVindication, one exemplar alone remains known, and we reprint it on p. 275. The cut on p. 273 (2nd in Roxb. Coll., II. 228) was earlier used in A NewDialogue between Dick of Kent and Wat the Welshman. By Laurence for John Andrews at the White Lyon in the Old Baily; July 2, again for Now would I give my life to see, Monk, (March 28,) 1660. At the end of second stanza is an allusion to the old style of Horn-Book (ofwhich a full representation is given as frontispiece to J. 0. Halliwell-PhillippssFugitive Tracts a
The Roxburghe ballads . gan. But of the Sequel, The CitizensVindication, one exemplar alone remains known, and we reprint it on p. 275. The cut on p. 273 (2nd in Roxb. Coll., II. 228) was earlier used in A NewDialogue between Dick of Kent and Wat the Welshman. By Laurence for John Andrews at the White Lyon in the Old Baily; July 2, again for Now would I give my life to see, Monk, (March 28,) 1660. At the end of second stanza is an allusion to the old style of Horn-Book (ofwhich a full representation is given as frontispiece to J. 0. Halliwell-PhillippssFugitive Tracts and Chap-Books, Percy Society, 1849. It was printed about1570, and, beginning with a Cross and the Alphabet, includes the baptismalformula and the Lords Prayer. Such a Horn-book is suggestively held aloft bythe Cornuto Cuckold in the woodcut on p. 275. 273 [Roxb. Coll., III. 74, 228 ; Pepys, IV. 232 ; Euing, 124 ; Douce, I. 92 ; III. 35.] Ci)e (threat Boobee* To a pleasant New Tune ; or, Sallengers Round. [Pp. 170, 307.]. MY friend, if you will understand my fortunes what they are,I once had Cattel, House, and Land, but no w I am never the near;My Father left a good estate, as I may tell to thee,I couzned was of all I had, like a great Boohee. I went to School with a good intent, and for to learn my book, And all the day I went to play, in it I never did look; Full seven years, or very nigh, as I may tell to thee, I could hardly say my Christ- Cross-Roiv, like a great Boohee. 8 My father then in all the haste, did set me to the Plow,And for to lash the horse about, indeed, I knew not how;My father took his Whip in his hand, and soundly lashed me,He calld me Fool and Country Clown, and great Boohee. But I did from my Vather run, for I will plow no more, Because he had so slashed me, and made my sides so sore; But I will go to London town, zorae Vashions for to see ; When I came there, they calld me Clown, and great Boohee. 16 But as I went along the street, I carried my Hat in my
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