The Roxburghe ballads . THere was a shaving royster as I heard many tell,In Michael Beans fair Forrest in Glostershire did dwell;Some calld him William Wiseman, but in that they were to blame;Some calld him Leonard Lack-icit, but that was not his name :His name was Simple Simon, as it is well approvd,And amoDgst his friends and kinsfolks he dearly was capered and vapored, and livd a merry life,But yet good man, at all times, he could not Rule his Wife. Note.—Laurence Price was the declared author of this Gloucestershire Dittyfrom the Forest of Dean, in the days of the Commonwealth. H
The Roxburghe ballads . THere was a shaving royster as I heard many tell,In Michael Beans fair Forrest in Glostershire did dwell;Some calld him William Wiseman, but in that they were to blame;Some calld him Leonard Lack-icit, but that was not his name :His name was Simple Simon, as it is well approvd,And amoDgst his friends and kinsfolks he dearly was capered and vapored, and livd a merry life,But yet good man, at all times, he could not Rule his Wife. Note.—Laurence Price was the declared author of this Gloucestershire Dittyfrom the Forest of Dean, in the days of the Commonwealth. He gave us manychoice ballads that have descended to our time, and are reproduced in the pagesof our Bagford Ballads and Roxburghe Ballads. If we find him somewhatverbose and diffusive in this present account of Simple Simon, who inadvertentlypoisoned himself by drinking a bottle of sack, and reaped the consequences in adrubbing, we must pardon his forty-parson power of sermonizing for the sake ofhis livelier ditties.
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