The Roxburghe ballads . , p. 131, along-side of the skilful political parody, In Praise of the Loyal Company ofStationers, who, after the general forfeit, for their singular Loyalty, obtainedthe first Charter of London, 16^4. It begins, In London was such a Quarter,the like was never known, about the forfeited Charter, betwixt the Court andthe Town. Ba^fords exemplar has two other cuts, the single head (fromJohn Taylors Kings of England) helmed, given in vol. vi. p. 184, with thevase and flowers, ante, p. 184. The Italicized Finale is in broadside only.] Line 64.—Marrying with a Push-Ring,
The Roxburghe ballads . , p. 131, along-side of the skilful political parody, In Praise of the Loyal Company ofStationers, who, after the general forfeit, for their singular Loyalty, obtainedthe first Charter of London, 16^4. It begins, In London was such a Quarter,the like was never known, about the forfeited Charter, betwixt the Court andthe Town. Ba^fords exemplar has two other cuts, the single head (fromJohn Taylors Kings of England) helmed, given in vol. vi. p. 184, with thevase and flowers, ante, p. 184. The Italicized Finale is in broadside only.] Line 64.—Marrying with a Push-Ring, a Ring made of twisted sedge,had been already mentioned on p. 123. It was esteemed among loose-life peopleas a kind of betrothal, called Holdfasting, but was more a substitute for wedlockthan an equivalent, consequently a preparatory to the seduction of maids. (SeeBrand, snh voce.) The only Shakespearean allusion to the custom, is perhaps thisin Alls Well that Ends Well, ii. 2-It is as Tibs Rush for Toms [This woodcut belongs VOL. VII. 210 [Roxburgh© Collection, III. 855 ; Pepys, IY. 290; C. 22. c. 2, fol. 73.] Eogcrs Ocligbt; ©r, tije WitsUCottntrg (Efjtistruncf anfi ©osstptncj. To an Excellent New Tune, or Cold and Raw. Licensed according to Order.
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