. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . 14 §. LX. Wijt i^eto f^umours; of Bartfjolometo Jair. (from the same work.) Here are the rarities of the whole Fair, Fimper-le-Fimp, and the wise Dancing Mare; Heres vaUiant Bt. George and the Dragon, a farce, A girl of fifteen with strange moles on her a—: Heres Vienna besiegd, a rare thing, And heres FuncJdnello^^ shown thrice to the king. Ladies maskd to the cloisters repair, But there will be no raffling, a pise on the Fair. 2* The author of The History of Punch and Judy was unable to dis-cover any


. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . 14 §. LX. Wijt i^eto f^umours; of Bartfjolometo Jair. (from the same work.) Here are the rarities of the whole Fair, Fimper-le-Fimp, and the wise Dancing Mare; Heres vaUiant Bt. George and the Dragon, a farce, A girl of fifteen with strange moles on her a—: Heres Vienna besiegd, a rare thing, And heres FuncJdnello^^ shown thrice to the king. Ladies maskd to the cloisters repair, But there will be no raffling, a pise on the Fair. 2* The author of The History of Punch and Judy was unable to dis-cover any earher notice for his chapter * On the arrival of Punch inEngland, or that heros popularity in our own country, than the annalsof Queen Annes reign afforded. But he deduced from the fact thatno writer of that reign who notices him at all, speaks of him as anovelty, that he could not have recently emigrated from his nativecountry. The earliest notice that the editor has yet found is in a of the year 1660. The overseers books of the parish of also contain some


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