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The Roxburghe ballads . our Wedding, and we will have a most costly Bedding;So for the present farewel my Sweeting, a thousand thanks fortius happy meeting. With by /. Z\_oeh], for /. C[lark], at the Bible and Harp, in West-Smithfuld. [In Black-letter. Three woodcuts: 1st, Man, p. 380: 2nd, Woman, p. 499 ;3rd, Woman, p. 296, Eight. Date of this exemplars issue, 1688-89.] Note.— Sing Old Rose, and burn the bellows! is seldom heard now as ithad been in the days of our fathers, who could be temperate when they chosewithout ostentatiously anathematizing every one who followeth no
The Roxburghe ballads . our Wedding, and we will have a most costly Bedding;So for the present farewel my Sweeting, a thousand thanks fortius happy meeting. With by /. Z\_oeh], for /. C[lark], at the Bible and Harp, in West-Smithfuld. [In Black-letter. Three woodcuts: 1st, Man, p. 380: 2nd, Woman, p. 499 ;3rd, Woman, p. 296, Eight. Date of this exemplars issue, 1688-89.] Note.— Sing Old Rose, and burn the bellows! is seldom heard now as ithad been in the days of our fathers, who could be temperate when they chosewithout ostentatiously anathematizing every one who followeth not with us. %* This ballad had its own special tune, the name being derived from thesecond stanza. It was mentioned on p. 428. In vol. vi. p. 159, we gave TobiasBounes ballad entitled, Two Faithful Lovers; or, A Merry Song in Praise ofBetty ^not unique, for another exemplar is Lindesiana, 634), begiuning, In a3I(ii/ Morning as I was walking, I heard two Lovers together talking. Tuneof out Amorous Damsel o/Biislol [This cut belongs to p. 522 ;the couple, to pp. 527, 533.]
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