The Roxburghe ballads . form another disguise for J[ohii\P[hi/lips], S[atyrist of Hypocrites]. He in 1679 wrote How now, Jockey,what agen? {Ibid., iv. 541.) Notes to ballad on p. 297 : The Maidens Reply to the Young Mans Resolution. Line 20.—The allusions to Oliver Cromwell are palpable: When Brewersare Protectors made being an understood reference to his fathers business inHuntingdon as a maltster; while the great storm of wind on Sept. 3rd, 1658,wherein Oliver went home, characteristically, escorted by the Prince of thepowers of the air, helps to fix the ballad as slightly posterior in date.
The Roxburghe ballads . form another disguise for J[ohii\P[hi/lips], S[atyrist of Hypocrites]. He in 1679 wrote How now, Jockey,what agen? {Ibid., iv. 541.) Notes to ballad on p. 297 : The Maidens Reply to the Young Mans Resolution. Line 20.—The allusions to Oliver Cromwell are palpable: When Brewersare Protectors made being an understood reference to his fathers business inHuntingdon as a maltster; while the great storm of wind on Sept. 3rd, 1658,wherein Oliver went home, characteristically, escorted by the Prince of thepowers of the air, helps to fix the ballad as slightly posterior in date. Line 34.—The bitterness of Cromwellian Independents against the Quakers,shown unmercifully in New England, has been noted in Bagford Ballads, p. allusion to George Foxs followers, the Friends, is on p. 297, line 34. The four woodcuts to it, mentioned on p. 298, are, 1st, the man on p. 276 ;2nd, the lady of p. 138 ; 3rd, this man, below ; 4th, Rope-maker at work, givenlater. This woman belongs to p.
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