The Roxburghe ballads . r,a tragi-comedy by , 4to. 1663. It was acted by Persons of Quality inWhitsun-week, with great applause. The plot of it is founded on the storyof Mary Carleton, the German Princess, whose life was formed into a novel andprinted in 8vo., 1673. ( was Thomas Porter, author of The Villain.) The tune of The German Princesss Farewell was used later for two ballads(on pp. 106, 107), and re-named from the former Long days of absence: thuscited for Long days of sadness we your scorns endured (The Maids Complaint.) As showing the career of a beautiful but unscrupulous Adv
The Roxburghe ballads . r,a tragi-comedy by , 4to. 1663. It was acted by Persons of Quality inWhitsun-week, with great applause. The plot of it is founded on the storyof Mary Carleton, the German Princess, whose life was formed into a novel andprinted in 8vo., 1673. ( was Thomas Porter, author of The Villain.) The tune of The German Princesss Farewell was used later for two ballads(on pp. 106, 107), and re-named from the former Long days of absence: thuscited for Long days of sadness we your scorns endured (The Maids Complaint.) As showing the career of a beautiful but unscrupulous Adventuress we includeher in this Group of Trades and Sports. Another ballad on her is on p. 230,beginning, Will you hear a German Princess, how she trickd an 64 [Hoxburghe Collection, III. 35. Apparently unique.] ^ome Luck, ^>ome 2xUit, Being a Sonnet upon the mertjj life anb ttntimclg ocatfj of fftistressMary Carlton, commanlg calletJ Cl)e German princess* To a new Tune, called the German Princess FArewel, German Princess, the Fates bid adieu !Whose fall is as strange as her story is true,Her pedigree she from a Fidler does bring,And Fidlers do commonly end in a string :How many mad pranks has she plaid on the earth,Which equally moves us to pitty and mirth,But now for a gamhall at Christmas the foolMust show us a trick on a Three-legged Stool. [=galiows. g The first of her tricks was a freak into France, To learn the French language, to sing and to dance, And who but a Taylor should lye in the lurch, To cut out her work and to lead her to Church : He plyd her too with Gold, hut when all was prepard To measure the Princess about with his yard, She bobd off the Taylor, and made him a Goose ; But for all her mad pranks she must dye in a Noose. 16 The German Princess : Mary Carleton. 65 Next after to Holland she steered her course, And there she abused a Jeweller worse, For when he so many rich jewels had brought, Seald up in a box, she another had wrought;
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