The Roxburghe ballads . d? 54 We have not seen brave happy days, in Country, Court, or Town,Since Women did their Topping raise, like Monuments on each Crown,Young Women, why should you so obstinate stand ?Let a Reformation be made out of hand :Down, down, with your Toppings, the Pride of the Land !Young Women, excellent Women, then will you be indeed. 60 Printed for C. Baes, at the White-Hart in West Smithjield. [In Black-letter. Two curious woodcuts: 1st, John Bunyan sleeping near theCity of Destruction; 2nd, a Top-knot woman looking in a glass, with ablack devil leaping behind her. Compare
The Roxburghe ballads . d? 54 We have not seen brave happy days, in Country, Court, or Town,Since Women did their Topping raise, like Monuments on each Crown,Young Women, why should you so obstinate stand ?Let a Reformation be made out of hand :Down, down, with your Toppings, the Pride of the Land !Young Women, excellent Women, then will you be indeed. 60 Printed for C. Baes, at the White-Hart in West Smithjield. [In Black-letter. Two curious woodcuts: 1st, John Bunyan sleeping near theCity of Destruction; 2nd, a Top-knot woman looking in a glass, with ablack devil leaping behind her. Compare Bagford Ballad*, Appendix, p. 93 I,a similar woodcut, showing the Topping, but no devil. The London LadiesVindication of Top-knots, answers it, in spite of all Poets, beginning, Young Woman and Damsels that love to go fine. A Topping cut, p. 830. Note.—Line 47. To turn Crack,1 was to go on the town. Compare p. 23-5,and As Jenny Crack, etc. Our small woodcut of a Topping is on p. 830. 830 The God/// IJans Instruction*.. On p. G94 we had shown the interconnection of the tunes : IIow the GodlyMans Instructions (i e. Good people, all T pray, hear what I read) was theantecedent to The Letter for a Chris/inn Family (the name cited in A Lessonfor all pood Christians ) ; also, on p. 692, in «troubles of these Time*. It isexpedient that the twain (Lesson and Letter) so interwoven should be included inthis volume, not forgetting to mention the Young Mans Repentance (, II. 562). Fortunately we possess in the Trowbesh exact transcript of the unique broadside, a Wack-letterballad entitled The Godly Mans Instructions; or, The DyingMans Last Words to his Children. It is appointed to besung to the tune of, Aim not too high (see vol. i. p. 326),its most usual tune-name (following after Fortune myFoe, registered 1590). Of eighteen stanzas, beyond themotto-verse, we give stanzas 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 14, and 18 : — We Sinners all, do see here what is pennd,Lets leave our sins, and
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