The Roxburghe ballads . [Note. — This five-fold illustration, mentioned on p. 774, belongs to the Pepysianexemplar of our Clerk of Bodnam, ou p. 40, ante, Now my painful eyes lierolling ; a ballad included in the Group of Trades and Callings, instead ofbeing reserved for the Religious Carols. The woodcut was appropriate inPepys Coll., II. 41, printed for /. Wright, Clarke, Thackeray and Passenger;insomuch as the pious Clerk of Bodmin was supposed to be conversant withOld-Testament history. The ballad was of earlier date than 1624. The presentwoodcut of St. John the Evangelist serves to illustr
The Roxburghe ballads . [Note. — This five-fold illustration, mentioned on p. 774, belongs to the Pepysianexemplar of our Clerk of Bodnam, ou p. 40, ante, Now my painful eyes lierolling ; a ballad included in the Group of Trades and Callings, instead ofbeing reserved for the Religious Carols. The woodcut was appropriate inPepys Coll., II. 41, printed for /. Wright, Clarke, Thackeray and Passenger;insomuch as the pious Clerk of Bodmin was supposed to be conversant withOld-Testament history. The ballad was of earlier date than 1624. The presentwoodcut of St. John the Evangelist serves to illustrate the 3rd Carol, on p. 776.]. 79 [Lost before 1788, from Roxburghe Coll., II. 577; Rawlinson, 566, fol. 176; Pepys, II. 30, Euing, 126.] [8 Nifo CaroII Of] C&e angel Gabriel: f)is Salutation to tfje ftecti Uircftn Mary, To the Tune of, The Blazing Torch is soon burnt out. [See vol. i. p. 418.] WHen righteous Joseph wed[d]ed was to Israels Hebrew Maid,A glorious Augel came from Heaven, who to the Virgin said, IJ ail, blessed Mary ! full of Grace, the Lord remains in Thee,Thou shalt conceive and bear a Son, thy Saviour to be. Thats wondrous strange, quoth Mary then, I should conceive and breed,Being never toucht by Mortal man, but pure in thought and deed. Fear not ! (quoth Gabriel by and by), It is no work of man,But only Gods, ordaind at first before the world began. 8 Which heavenly message she believes, and did to Jury go [ = Jewry = Judea. Three mon[e]ths with her friends to stay, Gods blessed will to show; And then returnd to Joseph back, her husband meek and mild, AVho thought it strange his wife should b
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