The Roxburghe ballads . pany ofStationers, 14th Dec, 1624, as When Jesus Christ was 12 (sic). The names of the associated publishers are given on p. 784. The first ballad on the list of one hundred and twenty-eight is Christes teares over Jerusalem (our p. 797).Others are When fair Jerusalem did stand; Joseph and Mary (p. 781); and the Clark ofBod nam (see p. 40, and the woodcut on p. 778).Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary ofBethany, is mentioned in this ballad, the eighthstanza; the larger cut, used for The DeadMans Song. The smaller woodcut representsS. John the Evangelist, holding the
The Roxburghe ballads . pany ofStationers, 14th Dec, 1624, as When Jesus Christ was 12 (sic). The names of the associated publishers are given on p. 784. The first ballad on the list of one hundred and twenty-eight is Christes teares over Jerusalem (our p. 797).Others are When fair Jerusalem did stand; Joseph and Mary (p. 781); and the Clark ofBod nam (see p. 40, and the woodcut on p. 778).Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary ofBethany, is mentioned in this ballad, the eighthstanza; the larger cut, used for The DeadMans Song. The smaller woodcut representsS. John the Evangelist, holding the symbolical Cup which he was willing to drink, typicalof martyrdom, full of poisonous reptiles. These Religious Carols were sung topopular secular tunes. On p. 785, wehave indicated some of these and othersfollow (pp. 792, 797). The SweetVirgin of p. 785 can scarcely be thesame as Sweet Virgin, hath disdain of vol. vi. p. 255. Our Miracles hadbeen sung to the lively tune of Green-sleeves, identical with Triumph and •91 [Roxburghe Collection, III. 36; Pepys, ; II. 12.] a ifteto Dittp, sbetmng tfje auon&etful piracies of our Eorti [ant! &abtour] Jesus Christ, fofjfri) ty tittJ to J) tie tiercmatneti upon (£artf). The Tune is, Triumph and Joy. [See Yol. vi. p. 397.]
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