Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle Ages ; . orse,and a swan; but, in the end, meets with a beggar-man,who leaves him a fortune. The annexed cut of thewitches is taken from p. 12. Chap. 1. Robins place of abode: he is married to awench; with his pitiful lamentation. 2. Robin runsaway, and the entertainment he found on the Robin wakes in the morning, and missed his bed-fellow, who soon returns with some witches; themanner of his punishment, and other particulars. goes to London; with his bitter lamentation onthe road. 5. Robin meets an old blind b
Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle Ages ; . orse,and a swan; but, in the end, meets with a beggar-man,who leaves him a fortune. The annexed cut of thewitches is taken from p. 12. Chap. 1. Robins place of abode: he is married to awench; with his pitiful lamentation. 2. Robin runsaway, and the entertainment he found on the Robin wakes in the morning, and missed his bed-fellow, who soon returns with some witches; themanner of his punishment, and other particulars. goes to London; with his bitter lamentation onthe road. 5. Robin meets an old blind beggar. lives with a beggar, who dies and leaves him all NOTICES OF POPULAR HISTORIES. 89 his money; Robin goes home, and what use he makesof his good fortune. Some of the wood-cuts are in-congruous with the narrative. At p. 16, is one of aknight and a lady at a well; at p. 18, a cut of twocountrymen, the same which was a favourite embellish-ment in ballads of the seventeenth century; and atp. 21 is a representation of the devil bringing a gobletto a person in 104. The Famous and Memorable History opWat Tyler and Jack Straw. 12mo. Lon-don, Bow-Church Yard, n. d. In five chapters, with wood-cuts. 105. The History of the Royal Martyr, KingCharles the First, with the ,ncs of thoseworthy Persons that suffered, and tlic Time andPlaces where they lost their lives in his Majestys 90 NOTICES OF POPULAR HISTORIES. cause, during the Usurpation of Oliver Crom-well. 12mo. London, Bow-Church Yard, n. d. In two parts, with twenty-four cuts. It appears to be a popular compilation from Lord Clarendon. 106. The History of the Wicked Life and Hor-rid Death of Doctor John Fatjstus, shewinghow he sold himself to the Devil to have powerfor twenty-four years to do as he pleased. Alsothe strange things done by him and Mephisto-philus. With an account how the devil came forhim at the end of twenty-four years, and tore himto pieces. 12mo. Glasgow, 1777. An abridgment, in twenty-four
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