The Roxburghe ballads . young man, he pardond him his life,And gave his daughter to him to be his wedded wife, Where then they did remain, and live in quiet peace, In spending of their happy days in joy and loves encrease. 72 London : Printed by and for W. 0[nley], and sold by the Booksellersof Pye- Corner and London-Bridge. [This ballad is No. 74 of William Thackerays list. In Roxb. Coll., III. 618, thefirst woodcut agrees with the picture in Old Ballads,, 1723, i. 129 ; but in , III. 747, and Bagford, are three cuts joined together ; 1st, two horsemencontending; 2nd, the Prentice s
The Roxburghe ballads . young man, he pardond him his life,And gave his daughter to him to be his wedded wife, Where then they did remain, and live in quiet peace, In spending of their happy days in joy and loves encrease. 72 London : Printed by and for W. 0[nley], and sold by the Booksellersof Pye- Corner and London-Bridge. [This ballad is No. 74 of William Thackerays list. In Roxb. Coll., III. 618, thefirst woodcut agrees with the picture in Old Ballads,, 1723, i. 129 ; but in , III. 747, and Bagford, are three cuts joined together ; 1st, two horsemencontending; 2nd, the Prentice standing in front of the stricken man; 3rd, hiscontest with the lions, p. 589. Date of original, Elizabeths reign, before 1598.] The woodcut below was owing; a debt from The Lady Isabellas Tragedy,vol. vi. p. 652, and 629. It appeared early in Englands Lamentation forthe late Treasons of Francis Throgmorion, 1584 ; again for the Lord Strafford,1641, etc., and belongs to p. 708, post. The Queen, p. 589, belongs to p. 592 Combat fcettoecn §>tetoarti anD COIjatton. (Wear fLotrtron, 1609.) It ^rieveth me to tell you o\ near London late what did befalTwixt two young gallant Gentlemen : it grieveth me, and ever shall. One of them was Sir George Wharton, my good lord Whartons son and heir ;The other, James Stuart, a Scottish Knight, one that a valiant heart did bear. —Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, iii. 131. BIASSED, no doubt, by bis partiality for tbe Ettrick Sbepberdsnative genius and sbrewdness, Walter Scott bad accepted fromhim in 1802, as thougb it were genuine, a garbled and Scottifiedversion of our English broadside black-letter ballad, that celebratesthe combat fought by Stewart and Wharton. James Hoggs ownso-called Ettrick-side border-ballad, first printed in the Minstrels//of the Scottish Border, is named The Duel of Wharton and is divided into two parts, respectively of thirteen and fifteenstanzas, twenty-eight in all. These, some being evidently s
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