I anxa 87-B 25666 sented by the Editor.^ EDITED BY FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, M.A. OF TRIKITT HALL, CAMBRIDGE, LONDON: pdnteH be antr for tit ^liftof. ia68. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/bishoppercysfoliOOperc S.oo0e ant) l^umorous S»on90« EDITED BY FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, M.A. OP THINITY HALT.. CAMBRIDGE. LONDON : ^rtnteH bg antr for tje ^Kitor. 1868. iii NOTICE. Qui 8 excuse accuse ; but we make no excuse for putting forth these Loose and Humorous Songs. They are part of the Manu- script which we have undertaken to print entire, and as our Prospectus says, to the student, these songs and the like are part of the evidence as to the character of a past age, and they should not be kept back from him." Honi soit qui mat y pense. They serve to show how some of the wonderful intellectual energy of Elizabeth's and James I.'s time ran riot somewhat, and how in the noblest period of England's literature a freedom of speech was allowed which Victorian ears would hardly tolerate. That this freedom dulled men's wits or tarnished their minds more than our restraint does ours, we do not believe. We cannot give in to Mr. Procter's opinion that because ladies of the Court liked Jonson's jokes, coarse to us, therefore they could not appreciate his fancy and the higher qualities of his mind.^ Manners refine slowly, and speech as ' "On referring, after an interval of many years, to these old Masques, we find ourselves somewhat staggered at the character of the jests, and the homely (not to say vulgar) allusions in which they abound. The taste of the times was, indeed, rude enough ; and we can easily understand that jests of this nature were tolerated or even relished by common audiences. But when we hear that the pieces which contain them were exhibited repeatedly, with ap- plause, before the nobles and court ladies of the time (some of them young unmarried women), we are driven to the conclusion that civilisation must have failed in some respects, and to fear that the refined and graceful compli- ments which our author so frequently lavished upon the high ' damas ' of King James's court was a pure waste of his poetical bounty. It is scarcely possible that the ladies who could sit and hear jokes far coarser than Smollett's, uttered night after night, could ever have fully relished the delicate and sparkling verses which flowed from Jonson's pen." — Introduction to Ben JonsorCs Works, ed. 1838, p. xxiii-iv. iv NOTICE. well. 'Tis custom that prevents the ill effects of habits that seem likely to injure mental and moral health. Foreigners judging from the low dresses in our ball-rooms, English maids judging from French fishwomen's bare legs,^ often come to very wrong conclusions. Water clear to one generation needs straining for the next. Even Percy, and he a bishop, has not marked with his three crosses (his marks of loose and humorous songs) a few which we, easy-going laymen, have now thought better to transfer to this volume. These are. See the Bwild- inge, Fryar qbnd Boye, The Man that hath, Dulcina, Cooke Laurell, , The Mode of France, Lye alone, Downe sate the Shepard, We have not written Introductions to every one of these pieces, as to the Ballads and Romances of the MS. Let it be enough that they are put in type. * Cp. Punch : " Biit that indelicate ! There ! you might have knocked me down with a feather ! " V SECOND NOTICE. Some of these songs the Editors would have been glad had it not fallen to their lot to put forth. But, as was said before, they are part of the Manuscript which has to be printed entire, and must be therefore issued. They are also part of our Elizabethan and Jacobite times ; and when you are drawing a noble old oak, you must sketch its scars and disfigurements as well as the glory of its bark, its fruit and leaves. Students must work from the nude, or they'll never draw. Of the general character of Early English Literature enough has been said in the Introduction to Conscience, in vol. ii. of the Ballads and Romances ; but no age, no man, has been without drawbacks, without sensual feelings or the expression of them. They are natural : improper delight in them alone is wrong. And from the expressions of this improper delight our Early Literature is singularly free. Plain speaking there is, broad humour there is ; but of delight in sensuality for sensuality's sake, there is very little indeed. Some of it is here, but it's of our Middle Time, a time when the pressure of early wrongs, and perchance the earnestness of national feeling, had somewhat lessened, when luxury and indulgence more abounded. It is well for the student to see it, that he may be under no illusion as to that time ; as it will be right for the student of Victorian England, two or three hundred years hence, to see productions vi SECOND NOTICE. that we would not willingly circulate now. But still, let no one doubt that Professor Morley's words are true — that the spirit of our Early and Middle Times was noble and pure ; that, notwithstanding prurient novels and review-articles, and Holy- well Street filth, our Victorian time is, in the main, noble and pure too. The Poems not marked with Percy's three crosses as loose, which we have transferred to these pages, are Men that more ; Panche; In a May Morninge; The Turk in Linen; Lowers hearke alarum ; 0 nay, 0 nay, not yet ; I cannot he contented ; Lillumwham ; Last night I thought ; A Dainty Ducke (incom- plete); A mayden heade; Tom Longe; Allinagreene meadowe. We had not at first intended to have side-notes added to this volume, but See the hwildinge, the Fryar and Boye, and some other poems, having been set with side-notes for the Ballads and Romances before they were turned into this volume, the rest of the pieces were side-noted for uniformity's sake. The italics in the text are extensions of the contractions of the Manuscript. Auffust, 1867. vii CONTENTS. PAGE SEE THE BWILDINGE 1 WALKING IN A MEADOW GREN 3 0 JOLLY EOBIN 6 WHEN PHEBUS ADDREST 7 FRTAR AND BOTE 9 AS I WAS RIDINGE BY THE WAY 29 THE MAN THAT HATH 31 DULCINA 32 OFF A PURITANE 35 COOKE LAUEELL 37 THE MODE OF FRANCE 45 BE NOT AFRAYD 47 DOE YOU MEANE 49 A MAID AND A YOUNGE MAN 61 A CREATURE FOR FEATURE 53 LYE ALONE 55 DOWNE SATE THE SHEPARD 57 MEN THAT MORE 59 PANCHE 61 WHEN AS I DOE RECCORD 68 WHEN SCORTCHING PHOEBUS ....... 70 IN A MAY MORNINGE 74 THE TURK IN LINEN 76 COME WANTON WENCHES 80 AS IT BEFFELL ON A DAY 82 BLAME NOT A WOMAN 84 OFF ALLE THE SEAES 85 viii CONTENTS. PAGE LOUERS HEARKE ALARUM 87 A FREINDE OF MINE 89 0 NAY: 0 NAT: NOT YETT 92 1 CANNOTT BEE CONTENTED 94 LILLUMWHAM 96 THE SEA CRABB 99 LAST NIGHT I THOUGHT 101 I DREAMED MY LOUE 102 PANDERS COME AWAYE 104 A DAINTY DUCKE 108 NOW FYE ON DREAMES 109 A MAYDEN HEADE Ill TOM LONGE 112 ALL IN A GREENE MEADOWE 114 THOMAS YOU CANNOTT 116 1 [Page 56 of MS.] This song is to be found in the Eoxburghe Collection of Black-letter Ballads, I. 454, with the title " A well-wishing to a place of pleasure. To an excellent new tune," and with six more lines in each stanza. We quote it here for contrast sake. A WELL-WISHING TO A PLACE OF PLEASUKE. To an excellent neiu Tune. See the building Wliere whilst my misuris lived in Was pleasures essence, See how it droopeth And how nakedly it looketh Without her presence : 2 Every creature That appertaines to nature 'bout this house living, Doth resemble, If not dissemble, due praises giving.^ Harke, how the hollow Windes do blow And seem to murmur in every corner, for her long absence : The which doth plainly show The causes why I do now All this grief and sorrow show. See the garden Where I receivde reward in for ray true love : Behold those places Where I receivde those graces the Gods might move. - The Queene of plenty With all the fruits are dainty, delights to please • Not inelegant, — P. Note on a se- parate slip of paper : — " This was once a very popular song, as appears from a parody of it inserted (as a solemn piece of music) in Hamming's Flora springing Is ever bringing Dame Venus ease.^ Oh see the Arbour where that she with melting kisses distilling blisses From her true selfe with joy did ravish me. The pretty nightingale did sing melodiously. Haile to those groves Where I injoyde those loves so many dayes. Let the flowers be springing, And sweet birds ever singing their Roundelay es, * Many Coipids measures And cause for true Loves pleasures, Be dancd around, Let all contentment For mirth's presentment this day be found ^ : And may the grass grow ever green where we two lying have oft been trying More severall wayes than beauties lovely Queen When she in bed with Mars by all the gods was seen. Jew's Tragedy, act 4, 4to, 1662.— N.B. The marginal corrections are made from this Parody."— P. Not in the Percy Folio copy. — F. 2 SEE THE BWILDINGE. Mr. W. Chappell says that the " excellent new tune of this song was adopted for other songs." See my mistress's house ! It is desolate in her absence. the building which whilest ^ my Mistress Hued in was pleasures asseince ^ ! see how it droopeth, & how Nakedly it looketh wtYh-out her presence ! heearke how the hollow winds doe blowe, & how the ^ Murmer in every corner for her being absent, from whence they cheefly^ grow ! the cause that I doe now this greeffe & sorrow showe. See the garden where we have loved, the arbour where we kissed, 16 See the garden where oft I had reward in for my trew loue ! see the places where I enioyed those graces they ^ goddes might moue ! oft in this arbour, whiles that shee w^th melting kisses disstilling blisses through my frayle lipps, w^hat loy did ravish me ! the pretty Nightingale did sing Melodiouslee. and the groves I Blessings on them ; and on the grass wliere we lay 1 Haile to those groves where wee inioyed our loues soe many daies ! May the trees be springing, & the pretty burds be singing 20 theire Roundelayes ! Oh ! may the grasse be euer greene wheron wee, lying, haue oft beene tryinge More seuerall wayes of pleasure then loues queene, 24 which once in bedd with Mars by all the godds was scene. • • lling \_half a page missing. 1 where once, — P. With pleasure's essence. — P * they.— P. * MS. cheesly.- the.— P. 3 Sisaalfemg in a ;iMealjniD s^m. [Page 93 of MS.] Perhaps the following may have been suggested by the ballad of "The Two Leicestershire Lovers; to the tune of And yet methinks I love thee,'^ a copy of which is in the Eoxburghe Col- lection, I. 412. The subject of each is two lovers; both poems are in nearly the same metre, and begin with the same line. The difference is in the after-treatment. The " Two Leicester- shire Lovers " begins thus : — Walking in a meadow green For recreation's sake, To drive away some sad thoughts That sorrowful did me make, I spied two lovely lovers, Did hear each other's woe, To 'point a place of meeting Upon the meadow brow. This was printed by John Trundle, at the sign of " The Nobody," in Barbican — the ballad-publisher immortalized by Ben Jonson in his " Every Man in his Humour." ('^ Well, if he read this with patience, I'll go and troll ballads for Master John Trundle yonder, the rest of my mortality.") The printed copy is there- fore as old as the manuscript. — W. C. Walking in a meadowe greene, Walking fayre flowers for to gather, where p[r]imrose rankes did stand on bankes to welcome comers thither, 4 WALKING IN A MEADOW GREN. I heard a lass ask for " Once more." She was under a lad. and cried " Once more." He was dull, 12 16 but still she said " Once more." He liried and failed, but still slie cried " Once more." She helped him 20 24 28 32 36 I hard a voice which, made a Noise, which caused me to attend it, I heard a lasse say to a Ladd, " once more, & none can mend it." They lay soe close together, they made me much to wonder ; I knew not which was wether, vntill I saw her vnder. then off he came, & blusht for shame soe soone thai he had endit ; yet still shee lyes, & to him cryes, " Once More, & none can mend it." His lookes were dull & verry sadd, his courage shee had tamed ; shee bad him play the lusty lad or else he quite was shamed ; " then stifly thrust, hee hit me iust, ffeare not, but freely spend it, & play about at in & out ; once more, & none can mend it." And then he thought to venter her, thinking the ffitt was on him ; but when he came to enter her, the poynt turnd ^ backe vpon him. Yet shee said, " stay ! goe not away although the point be bended ! but toot againe, & hit the vaine ! once more, & none can Mend it." Then in her Armes shee did him fold, & oftentimes shee kist him, yett still his courage was but cold for all the good shee wisht him ; ' There is a tag to the d like ao s. — F. WALKING IN A MEADOW GREN. 5 40 yett with her hand shee made it stand soe stiffe shee cold not bend it, & then anon shee cryes " come on once more, & none can mend it ! " and cried still " Once more." 44 48 " Adew, adew, sweet hart," quoth, hee, " for in faith I mnst be gone." " nay, then you doe me wronge," quoth shee, " to leaue me thus alone." Away he went when all was spent, wherat shee was offended ; Like a troian true she made a vow shee wold have one shold mend it.' ffins. He declined and went She declared she'd get some one ' Qui n'en a qu'un, rHen appoint : Prov. good have none as have no more but one. (Meant of Cocks, Bulls, &c., and some- Cotgrave. — F. times alledged by lascivious women,) as [Pago 95 of MS.] Robin, leave off I I'll cry out. 12 " 0 lolly Robin, hold thy hande ! I am not tyde in ^ Cupids bande ; I pray thee leaue thy foolinge, heyda ! by my faith & troth I cannot : heyda, fie ! what ? doe yon meane to be soe bold ? I must cry out ! I cannot holde : heyda, fie ! * *' what a deale of doe is here, is here, is here ! " *' I begin to fainta ! heyda, fye ! oh ! oh ! oh ! oh ! " " what was that you sayd ? heyda ! heyda ! heyda ! heyda ! you will neuer leaue till I be paide." Robin, do yoiir worst 1 Let me go I 16 20 " O lolly Robin, doe thy worst ! thou canst not make my belly burst. I pray thee leaue thy fooling : heyda ! " "by my faith & troth I cannot : heyda, fie ! " " what ? doe you meane to vse me soe ? I pray thee Robin let me goe : heyda, fye ! " " what a deale of doe is heere, is heere, is heere " I begin to fainta. &c." ffins. ' wretched stuff. — Percy. MS. lydain.— F. 7 Wften ^f)tb\x^ airlrresit* [Page 96 of MS.] This song is printed in "Merry Drollery Complete," Part 2, 1661 and 1670, also in "Wit and Drollery, Jovial Poems," 1656, p. 35. The tune is printed under the title of the burden " 0 doe not, doe not kill me yet," in J. J. Starter's Boertigheden," Amsterdam, 4tp, 1634, with a Dutch song written to the tune. This proves that the popularity of the song had extended to Holland twenty-two years before the earliest English copy that I have hitherto found. If the date given for the Percy folio, about 1620, is right, it contains the earliest copy known. — W. C. When Pliebus addrest himselfe to the wesi & set vp his rest below, Cynthia agreed in her gliteringe weede 4 her bewtie on me to bestow ; & walking alone, attended by none, by chance I hard one crye " O doe not, doe not, kill me yett, 8 for I am not prepared to dye ! " With that I drew neare to see & to heare, & strange did appeare such a showe ; the Moone it was bright, & gaue such a light 12 as ffitts not each wight to know : a man & a Mayd together were Laid, & euer the mayd shee did cry, " O doe not, doe not, kill me yet, I, 16 for I am not resolued to dye ! " b. By moon- light, walking alone, I heard a maid say " Don't kiU me yet." I saw a strange show, and still the maid cried " Don't kin me yet." WHEN PHEBUS ADDREST. The youth was rough, he tooke vp her stuffe, & to blindmans buffe they did goe ; hee kept such a coyle, he gaue her the foyle, soe great the broyle it did growe. but shee was soe yonge, & he was soe stronge, & he left her not till shee did crye, " O doe not, doe not, kill me yett, for I am not resolued to dye ! " w^th that he gaue ore, & solemplye swore he wold kill her noe more that night, but badd her adew : fall litle he knew shee wold tempt him to more delight. But when they shold part, it went to her hart, & gaue her more cause for to crye, " 0 kill me, kill me, once againe, ffor Now I am willing to dye ! " ffins. 9 ^ffrpar: anD asope*^ The present is the completest copy known to us of this capital story. Wynkyn de Worde's, reprinted (with collations) by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt (" Early Popular Poetry," v. 3, p. 54-8 1 ), runs with it, though less smoothly, to 1. 456, but there suddenly throws up its six-line stanzas, and ends the story with six four-line stanzas, a circumstance not noticed by Mr. Hazlitt. The present copy either wants half a stanza after 1. 495, or a stanza of 9 lines is given at 1. 493-501, as in stanzas of four lines one is often increased to six. Mr. Hazlitt's introduction gives all the bibliography of the poem, except a notice of Mr. Halliwell's print of it in the Warton Club " Early English Miscellanies," 1854, p. 46-62, from Mr. Ormsby Grore's Porkington MS. No. 10. This Porkington copy is in seventy-one six-line stanzas (426 lines), but does not contain the citation of the boy before the " officiall " and the scene in court. The tale ends at 1. 402 (corresponding with 1. 396 here, no doubt the end of the first version of the tale), the last four stanzas winding it up with a moral. That god that dyed for vs all & dranke both vinigar & gall, bringe vs out of balle,^ and giue them both good life & longe which, listen doe vnto my songe, or tend vnto my talle"* ! • The rhyme every where requires p. 209, col. 1. E. E. Text Soc. 1867. — F. that it should be written or pronounced ^ Collated with a copy in Pepys library, FRERE, as in Chaucer.— P. In our 12°, Vol. N° 358. Lettered, JF^/Zace.— P. earliest Rhyming Dictionary, Levins's This song is very different and much su- Manipidus, 1670, under the words in perior to the common printed story book. eare, are entered a Bryar, a Fryar, a For date see st. 71 [1. 428, p. 25]. — P. Whycr, chorus, a Quear of papor, Hbcr, ^ bale. — P. * tale. — P. [page 97.] May God bless US ! 10 FRYAK AND BOTE. A man, thrice married, has a son his first wife, 12 there dwelt a man in my countrye wJiich ^ in his life had wiues 3, a blessing full of loye ! By the first wife a sonne he had,^ w^^^ch was a prettye sturdye ladde, a good vnhappy^ boye. whom he loves well, but the stepmother spites. 16 His father loned him well,^ but his stepmother neue[r] a deale, — I tell you as I thinke, — All things shee thought lost, by the roode, w^^ch to the boy did anye good,^ as either meate or drinke ; The boy fares ill. 20 24 And yet I- wis it was but badde, nor halfe enouge therof he hade, but euermore the worst ; And therfore euill might shee fare, that did^ the litle boy such care, soe forth^ as shee durst. The step- mother asks her husband to send him away. 28 Ynto the man the wiffe gan say, " I wold you wold put® this boy awaye, & that right soone in haste ; Trulie he is a cursed ladde ^ ! I wold some other man him hade that wold him better chast.^o" The husband will not, Then said the goodman, " dame,^^ not soe, 32 I will not lett the yonge boy goe, he is but tender of age ; • who.— P. 2 his first . . a child . .— P. 3 i. e. unlucky, full of waggery. — P. * loved him very well, — P. ^ which might the boy do. — P. ^ that wrought. — P. so far forth.— P. I would ye put. — P. wicked lad. — P. i.e. chasten, chastise. — P. dane in MS.— F. He's but of tender age. — P. FRTAR AND BOTE. 11 36 Hee shall this yeere with me * abyde till he be growne more strong & tryde ffor to win better wage : 40 Wee haue a man, a sturdie lout, which keepeth ^ our neate the feilds about, & sleepeth all the day, Hee shall come home,^ as god me sheeld, and the Boy shall into the feild to keepe them if hee may." but proposes he shall take the neatherd's place. 44 48 Then sayd the wiffe in verament, *' husband, therto I giue consent, for that I thinke it neede." On the Morrow when it was day, the litle boy went on his way vnto the feild* with speede. Next day the boy does so, 52 Off noe man hee tooke anye care,^ but song " hey ho ! away the Mare^ ! " much mirth ^ he did pursue ; fforth hee went ^ with might & maine vntill he came vnto the plaine, where he his ^ ^ dinner drew. singing as he goes. 56 60 But when he saw it was soe bad, full litle list therto he had, but put it from 12 sight, Saying he had noe list to tast, but that his hunger still shold last till hee came home att Night. The food given him is so untempting that he cannot eat it. ' with me this year. — P. ' who keeps. — P. 3 bide home. — P. * And Jack shall pass. — P. * towards the field. — P. ^ took he . . cure. — P. ' mure. — P. 8 with mirth.— P. * Forward he drew. — P. amidst.— P. " And then his.— P. '2 it up from. — P, 13 no will to.— P. And that.— P. 12 FRYAR AND BOTE. An old man comes his way, And as the boy sate on a hill, there came an old man him vntill, was walking by the way ; 64 " Sonne," he said, "god thee see^ ! " " now welcome, father, may you bee ^ ! the litle boy gan say.^ and asks for food. The boy offers what he has. The old man sayd, " I hunger sore ; 68 then hast ^ thou any meate in store which thou mightest^ giue to me ? " The child'' reply ed, " soe god me saue ! to such poore victualls as I haue, 72 right welcome shall you be." The old man eats and is happy, 76 Of this the old man was full gladd, the boy drew forth such as he hadd, & sayd *' goe to gladlie." The old man easie was to please, he eate^ & made himselfe att ease, saying, " sonne, god amercye ® ! then bids the boy choose three presents. He chooses 1. a bow. 80 84 " Sonne," he sayd, " thou hast giuen meate to me,^ & I will giue 3 things to thee,^^ what ere thou wilt intreat." Then sayd the boy, "tis best, I trow,^^ that yee bestow on me^^ ^ bowe with which. I burds may gett." The old man promises him a right good one. " A bow, my sonne, I will thee giue, the which shall Last while thou dost line, was neuer bow more fitt ! ' Who said my son now God thee see. -P. full welcome father ' did say. — P. * Jack, liast. — P. ^ mayest. — P. « the boy.— P. ate.— P. ye- -p. * gramercye. — P. -P. I will . . unto.— P. " The best . . know.— P. ye give to me. — P. Yea never bow nor break. — P. FRYAR AND BO YE. 13 88 ffor if thou shoot therin all day, waking or winking, or ^ anye waye, the marke^ thou shalt hitt." Now when the bowe in hand he felt, s^^^ ' him. 92 & had the^ arrowes vnder his belt, hartilye he laught I-wiss,"* And sayd, " had I a pipe with-all, ? apipe^ tho neuer litle or soe small,^ 96 I then had all my wishe." ® " A pipe, Sonne, thou shalt haue alsoe,^ The old man ^ promises which in true Musicke soe shall ffoe — ^™ ^ charming I put thee out of doubt — o"®- 100 As who that Hues ® & shall it heare, shall haue noe power to forbeare, but laugh & leape about. " Now tell me what the 3'! shalbee ; The boy is 104 for 3 things I will giue ^ to thee content, as I haue sayd before." The boy then smiling, answere made, " I haue enough for my pore trade, 108 I will desire noe more." The old man sayd, " my troth is plight. The old man thou shalt haue all I thee behight ; choose his third pre* say on now, let me see." sent. 112 " Att home I haue," the boy replyde, " a cruell step dame full of pride, who is most curst to mee ; * -walking : del. or. — P. ' shalt thou have.— P. 2 [insertj still. — P. * that whoso-ever. — P. 3 the, del— P. « will I give.— P. * He merry -was I, &c. — P. behight, -printed copy, behett; be* * Though ne'er so little. — P. hight, behote, promittere, vovcre, pro* ^ I had all that I wish. — P. missus, pollicitus. — P. B 2 u FKYAR AND BOTE. The boy wishes that whenever his step- mother stares spitefully at him she may " a rap let go." 116 120 when meate my father giues to mee, shee wishes poyson it might bee, and stares me in the ^ face : Now when shee gazeth on me soe, I wold shee might a rapp ^ let goe thai might ring through the place." The old man The old man answered then anon, "when-ere^ shee lookes thy face vpon, her tayle shall wind'* the horne ^ 124 Soe Lowdlye, that who shold ^ it hears shall not be able to forbeare, but laugh her vnto scorne. ami departs. Soc, farwell sonnc ! " the old man crycd ; 128 " god keepe you, ^iv ! " the boy'replyed, " I take my leaue of thee ! God, thai blest ^ of all things, may keepe ^ thee save^ both night & day ! " 132 " gramercy, sonne ! " sayd hee. At nightfall When it grew neere vpon^o the night, Jack pipes 1 1 i • his cattle lacke, wcU prepared, hied home full right ; — home, itt was his ordinance ; — 136 And as he went his pipe did blow, the whilest his cattell on a row about him gan to dance ; ' stareth in my. — P. ^ fart. — P. 8 that.— P. * wynd. — ^P. * Compare Grloton in the Vision of Piers Plowman, who blew his rounde ruwet At his nigge-bones ende, That alle that heard that horn Hclde hir noses after, And wisshed it had been wcxed With a wispe of firses. (ed. Wright, V. 1, p. 98, 1. 3171-6).— P. « shall.— P. ' And he that best.— P. ^ protect. — P. » safe.— P. •° drew . . . unto. — P. " advised. — P. '2 fast did.— P. FRYAB AND BOYE. 15 140 144 Thus to the towne he pipt^ fall trim, [page 99.] his skipping beasts did ^ jBPollow him into his ffathers close. He went & put them [up] each ^ one ; w7iwh done, he homewards went anon ; * vnto his fathers halP he gooes. 148 His ffather att his supper sate, & litle lacke espyed well thatt, and said to him anon, " father, all day I kept yoi^r neate, at night I pray you giue me some^ meate, I am^ hungry e, by Saint lohn ! finds his father supping, and asks for u help. 152 156 *' Meateless ^ I haue lyen all the day, & kept jour beasts, they did not stray My dinner was but ill." His ffather tooke a Capon ^ winge, & at the boy he did it fling, bidding him eate his fill. His father throws him a capon'3 wing. 160 This greened^* his stepdames hart full sore, who lothed^^ the Ladd still more & more ; shee stared him in the face : with that shee let goe such a blast that made^* the people all agast, itt sounded'^ through the place ; The step- dame stares at him, fulfils the old man's promise, Each one laught & made good game, 164 but the curst wife grew red for shame & wisht shee had beene gone. and is laughed at. pipes. — P. do.— P. up each. — P. Then went into the house anon. — P. into the hall.— P. del.— P. I'm.— P. meatless. — P. capon's. — P. at his son. — P. loathes. — P. grieves. — P. And stares. — P. As made. — P. And sounded. — P. did laugh & make. — P. 16 FRYAR AND BOTE. She stares again, with the same result. " Perdy," the boy sayd, " well I wott that gun was both well charged ^ & shott, 168 & might haue broke a stone." ffuU curstlye^ shee lookt on him tho : that looke another cracke ^ lett goe y^hich did a thunder^ rise. 172 Q?*oth the boy, " did^ you euer see a woman let her pelletts flee More thioke & more at ease ? The boy triumphs. She tellrt her wrongs to a friar. " ffye ! " said the boy vnto his dame, 176 " temper yoi^r^ teltale bumm, for shame ! " w/i'ich made her full of sorrow. " Dame,"^ said the goodman, " goe thy way, for why, I sweare, by night nor day® 180 thy geere is not to borrow." Now afterwards, as you shall heare, Vnto the house there came a fryar, & lay there all the night. 184 The wiffe this fryer loued as a Samt,® & to him made a great complaint of lackes most vile despight. "We haue," q^^oth shee, "within, I- wis, 188 a wiced boy, — none shrewder is, — which doth me mighty care ; I dare not looke vpon his face, or hardly tell^° my shamefuU case, 192 soe filthylie I fare ; ' well, not in P. C— P. ^ Cp. Cotgrave's ^'Feroce, cruell, fierce, curst, hard-hearted, sterue, austere:" " the auncient Eomanes . . vsed to ty a wispe of Hay about the one horne of a shrewd or curst Beast," ( w. foin). " Belle femme mauvaise teste : Pro. Faire women fither curst or cruell be." — F. 3 And then another fart. — P. < Which gart the Thunder.— P. 5 Quoth Jack, Sir, did.— P. « thy.— P. ^ good maid, — P. ^ and day. — P. ^ This wife did love him as a saint. —P. "* Nor . . . shew. — P. FRYAR AND BOTE. 17 196 " for gods loue meet this boy ^ to-morrow, beat him well, & giue him sorrow, & make 2 him blind or lame." The fryar swore he wold him beat, the wiffe prayd him ^ not to forgett, the boy did her much shame : and asks him to beat the boy soundly. 200 204 " Some wiche he is," quoth.* shee, " I smell.' " but," quoth, the fryar, " He beat him well ! of that take you noe care ; He teach him witchcraft, if I may." "0," quoth the wiffe, " doe soe, I pray, lay on & doe not spare." The friar agrees. 208 Early next mome the boy arose, & to the field full soone he goes, his cattell for to driue. The fryer then^ vp as early gatt, he was afrayd to come to ^ late, he ran full fast & blythe. [page 100.] Next day the boy goes afield as before, followed by the friar ; 212 216 But when he came vnto the land,® he found where litle lacke did stand, keeping his beasts alone. "Now, boy," he sayd, " god giue thee shame ! what hast thou done to thy stepdame ? tell me forthwith anon ! who asks him to explain hid conduct. " And if thou canst not quitt ^ thee well, lie beate thee till thy body swell, I will not longer 10 ]3yde." ' For my sake meet him. — P. Yea, make. — P. ^ She prayed him. — P. * He is a witch, q***. — P. * dele then.— P. * he came too. — P. * And ran.— P. * upon the land. — P. » quite.— P. "* no longer. — P. 18 FRYAR AND BOTE. Jack changes the subject ; offers to shoot a bird and give it to the friar. 220 The boy replyed, " what ayleth thee ? my stepdame is as well as thee ; what needs you thus to Chyde ? ^ " Come, will you seemy 2 arrow flye 224 & hitt yon small bird in ^ the eye, & other things w^thall ? Sir fryer, tho I* haue litle witt, yett yonder bird I meane to hitt, 228 & giue her you I shall." Shoots it. There sate a small birde in a^ bryar : *' Shoot, shoot, you wagg," then sayd the fryer, " for that I long to see." ^ 232 lacke hitt the bird vpon the head soe right that shee fell downe for dead, noe further cold shee flee. The friar gone among the bushes to pick it up, Jack pipes and makes him dance. 236 240 ffast to the bush the fryar went, & vp the bird in hand^ hee hent,® much wondering at the chance. Meane while ^ lacke tooke his pipe & playd soe lowd, the fryar grew mad apaide,^^ & fell to^^ skip & dance ; The briars scratch and tear him. 244 Now sooner was^^ the pipes sound heard, but Bedlam like he bou[n]cet & fared, & leapt the bush about ; The sharpe bryars cacth him by the face, & by the breech & other place, that fast the blood ran out ; ' Clyde in MS.— F. 2 Sir, will . . . mine.- - yon on.— * Good Sir, if I. -P. on a. -P. « that fain I see. — P. ' hands.— P. ^ hent, seized, laid hold on. capere, assequi, prehendere, arripere. — Junius. — P. ^ mean time. — P. perhaps mal-apaid. Id est iU-apaid. See p. 363, lin. 23 [of MS.].— P. ' ' And gan to. — P. '2 no . . . he.— P. Jolmson : madman-like. — P. scratcht. — P. FRYAR AND BOTE. 19 It tare ' his clotlies downe to the skirt, 248 his cope,2 his coole,^ his linen shirt, & enery other weede.^ The thornes this while ^ were rough & thicke, & did his priny members pricke, 252 that fast they gan to bleede. lacke, as he piped, laught amonge ^ ; the fryar with bryars was vildlye stunge, he hopped wonderous hye. 256 Att last the fryar held vp his hand, & said, " I can noe longer stand ! Oh ! I shall dancing dye ! *' Gentle lacke, thy pipe hold still, 260 & here I vow for goode nor ill to doe thee any woe ! " lacke laug[h]ing, to him thus replyed, " fryer, sckipp out on the^ other side, 264 thou hast free leaue to goe." Out of the bush the fryar then went, all Martird,® raggd,^ scratcht & rent, & tome on euery side ; 268 Hardly on him was left a clout to wrap his belly round about, his harlotrye to hide. The thornes had scratcht him by the face, 272 the hands, the thighes,^^ & euery place, he was all bathed in bloode Jack laughs. The friar begs for mercy. Jack lets him go. The friar goes away- ragged and lacerated, * He tare. — P. ' So the French martirise, tormented, ^ His cap. — P. put to great pain, torture. So martyrit, ' cowle, a monk's hood. — P, Scot., is martyr' d, murder'd, kill'd. Item, * garment, A.-S. weed, wed. — F. sore wounded or bruised. — Gloss, to s the while.— P. G[awin] D[ouglas].— P. ^ at intervals. — F. " ragged. — P. ' at the.— P. on hands & thighs.— P. 20 FRTAR AND BOTE. Soe much, that who the fryar did see, for feare of him was faine ^ to flee, 276 thinking he had beene woode. tame When to the good wife home ^ he came, CP^ge loi.] he made noe bragge for verry shame to see his clothes rent all ; 280 Much sorrow in his hart he had, & euery man did guesse him made^ when he was in the hall. and recounts his woes. The goodwiffe said, " where hast thou beene ? 284 sure in some evill place, I weene, by sight of thine array." " Dame," said he, "I came from thy sonne ; the devill & he hath me vndone, 288 noe man him conquer may." complains of the boy to the goodman, 292 with that the goodman he came in, the wiffe sett on her madding pin,* cryed, " heeres ^ a foule array ! thy Sonne, that is thy liffe & deere, hath almost slaine the holy fryar,^ alas & welaway ! " ■who inquires into the 296 300 The goodman said, " Benedicitee ! what hath the vile boy done to thee ? now tell me wtthout let." " The devill him take ! " ^ the fryar he sayd, " he made me dance, despite my head,® among the thomes the hey-to-bee.^ " ' were fain. — P. 2 MS. hone.— F. 3 mad.— P. * See note ^ to 1. 484, p. 28.— F. • ' here is.— P. « frere.— P. ' take him . . . then. — P. * mine head. — P. ^ hey -go-beat. — P. Hey, to sport, play or gambol ; to kick about. Hal li well. — F. FRYAR AND BOYE. 21 The goodman said vnto him thoe, " father ! hadst thou beene murdered soe, it had beene ^ deadly sine.^ " 304 The fryar to him made this replye, " the pipe did sound soe Merrilye that I cold never blin.^ " Now when it grew to almost night, 308 lacke the boy came home full right as he was wont to doo ; But when he came into"* the hall, full soone his father did him call, 312 & bad him come him too : " Boy," he said, " come tell me heare,^ what hast thou done vnto this fryer ? lye not in anything." 316 " ffather," he said, " now by my birthe, I plaide him but a fitt of Mirth & pipet him vp a® spring." " That pipe,^" said his father, "wold I heare."® 320 " now god forbidd ! " cryed out the fryar ^ ; his hands he then did'^ wringe. " You shall," the boy said, " by gods grace." the ffryar replyed, "woe & alas ! " 324 making his sorrowes ringe. "ffor gods loue ! " said the warched fryar, " & if you will that strange pipe heare, binde me fast to a post ! ' It sh? be : — It had been no deadly ^ piped him a. — P. sin. — P. ' There is a tag to the e sin, pr. copy. — P. ^ Pypf"- ... I woidd.— and, when Jack comes home, calls him to account for his doings. Wishes himself to hear the pipe. At his own request the friar ^ blin, cessare, desinere, desistere.- Lye.-P. * unto.— P. ^ let me hear. — P. ^ frere. — P. then did he.— P. " frere.— P. 22 FRTAR AND BOTE. 328 for sure my fortune thus I reade, if dance I doe, I am but deade, my woe-full life is lost ! " fast°to^a strong ropes they tooke, both sharpe & round, post. 332 & to the post the fryer bounde* in the middest^ of the hall. All they which att^ the table sate, laughed & made good sport theratt, 336 sayinge, fryer, thou canst not fall ! " Then sayd the goodman to the boy, *' lacke, pipe me vp a merry toye, pipe freelye when thou will ! 340 " ffather," the boy said, " verelye you shall haue mirth enoughe & glee till you bidd me bee still." Jack pipeg, With, thai his pipe he quicklye sent,'* and eve creatur dances. crLtm? 344 & pipt, the whilest in verament each creature gan to dance ; Lightly the scikipt & leapt about, yarking^ in their leggs, now in, now out, 348 striuing aloft to prance. the goodman The good man, as in sad dispaire, [page 102.] leapt out & through & ore his chayre, J noe man cold caper hyer ^ ; 362 Some others leapt quite ore the stockes, some start att strawes & fell att blockes,^ some ® wallowed in the fyer. ' they bound. — P. 2 middle.— P. » that at. * hent.— P. • yerking their Legs. To t/erk is to throw out or move with a spring. — Johnson. — P. * caper higher, — P. ' o'er blocks. — P. » MS. sone, with a mark of contraction over the n. — F, FRTAR AND BOTE. 23 Tlie goodman made himselfe good sportt and his wife. 366 to see them dance ^ in this madd sortt ; the goodwiffe sate not still, But as shee dancet shee^ looket on lacke, & fast her tayle did double each cracke, 360 lowd as a water Mill. 364 The fryer this while was almost lost, he knocket^ his pate against the post, it was his dancing grace ; The rope rubd him vnder the chinn* that the blood ran from his tattered sckin in many a Naked place. The friar, in spite of his pre- cautions, is much damaged. 368 372 lacke, piping, ran into the street ; they followed him w^th nimble fifeet, hauing noe power to stay. And in their hast they^ dore did cracke, eche tumbling over his ffellows backe vnmindfall of their way. Jack passes into the street with his dancers. 376 The Neighbors that were dwelling by, hearing the pipe soe Merrilye, came dancing to the gate ; Some leapt ore dores, some oer the hatch,^ Noe man wold stay to draw the latch but thought they came to Late ; The neighbours join the rout. Some sicke or sleeping in their bedd, 380 as the ^ by chance lift vp their heade, were w^th the pipe awaked ; even sick folks, and undressed. ' the dance. — P. 2 But dancing still she. knockt. — P. chim, MS.— F. P. his chin. — P. » the.— P. ^ A wicket, or half-door. Gloss.— F. ' they.— P. Halliwell's 24 FRYAR AND BOTE. and lame. Straight forth • tliQ ^ start thorrow dores & kockes,^ some in their shirts, some in their smockes, 384 & some starke belly naked. When all were gathered round about, there was a vild vnrulye rout that dancing'* in the street, 388 Of w/wch, some lame that cold not goe, striuing to leape, did tumble soe they dancet on hands & feet. At last Jack, tired, rests. 392 396 The friar summons Jack to appear before the official. 400 404 408 lacke tyred w^th the sport ^ said, " now He rest." " doe," qiioth his father, " I hold it best, thou cloyest me with this cheere^ ; I pray thee, boy, now ^ quiett sitt ; in faith ^ this was the Merryest fitt I heard this 7 yeere." All those ^ that dancing thither came, laught heartilye & made good game, yett some gott many a fall. " Thou cursed boy ! " cryed out the fryar,^^ "heere I doe summon thee to appeare beffore the Officiall ! " Looke thou be there on fry day next ; He meet thee then, thou'^ now perplext, for to ordaine thee sorrow. " The boy replyed, " I make^^ avowe, fryer. He appeare as soone as thou, if fryday were to Morrowe." ' out.— P. « MS. y«.— F. 3 ? small openings; cf. Phillips. " Among Sea-men Cocks are little square pieces of Brass, with Holes in them, put into the middle of great Wooden Shivers, to keep them from splitting and galling by the Pin of the Block or Pulley on which they turn." — F. * danced. — P. ' with sport. — P. ® this not in P[rinted] C[opy]. ' thou.— P. 8 In truth.— P. » these. -P. '« MS. thy.— F. frere.— P. thee appear. — P. '3 though.— P. ^* they sorrow. — P. '5 I'll make.— P. FRYAR AND BOTE. 25 412 But fryday came, as you shall heare ; lackes stepdam & the dancing fryar,* together they were mett, And other people a great pace flockt to the court to heare eche case : the Officiall ^ was sett. On Friday all the world flocks to the court. Much c[i]uill matters were to doo, 416 more libells read then one o tow^ both [against priest & clarke ; ] Some there had testaments to proue, [page 103.] some women there through wanton loue, 420 which gott strokes in the darke. Each Proctor ^ there did plead his case ; when forth did stepp fryer Topias^ & lackes stepdame alsoe : 424 " Sir Officiall," a-lowd said hee, " I haue brought a wicked boy to thee, hath done me mightye woe ; " He is a wiche, as I doe feare, 428 in Orleance'^ he can find noe peere, this of my troth® I know." other business disposed of, the friar steps forward. and accuses Jack of witchcraft ; ' fi-ere.— P. 2 Phillips defines an Official, " In the Canon Law, a Person to whom any Bishop commits the Charge of his Spiritual Ju- risdiction ; the Chancellor or Judge of a Bishop's Court. In the Statute or Common Law,- a Deputy whom an Archdeacon substitutes in the executing of his Juris- diction." Chaucer, in his Freres Tale, tells us the offences that an Archdeacon tried, and we quote his words to illustrate the next stanza above — Whilom there was dwellyng in my countre An erchedeken, a man of gret degre, That boldely did execucioun In punyschyng of fornicacioun. Of wicchccraft, and eek of bauderye, Of diffamacioun, and avoutrie, Of chirche-reves, and of testainentes, Of contractes, and of lak of sacraments, And eek of many another [maner] cryme "Which needith not to reherse at this tyme. Canterbury Tales, ed. Morris, v. 2, p. 246, 1. 1-10; ed. Wright, p. 78, col. 2, 1. 6883-90.— P. ^ one or two. — P. * MS. cut away. " Both with preest and clerke," ed. Hazlitt ; but the bits of letters left in the folio require against and priest. — P. ^ Proctor, an Advocate who, for his Fee, undertakes to manage another Man's Cause in any Court of the Civil or Eccle- siastical Law : Phillips. — P. « Tobias.— P. ^ alluding to the Pucelle d' Orleans, accounted a witch by the English. — P. ^ of my ruth. — P. 26 FRTAR AND BOTE. and so does the step- mother, 432 " He is a Devill," quoth the wiffe, "& almost hatli bereaued mj^ lijBfe ! " at tJiai her taile did blow 436 Soe lowd, the assembly laught theratt, & said * her pistolls cracke ^ was flatt, the charge was all amisse.' " Dame," q-woth the gentle Oficiall, " proceed & tell me forth thy tale, & doe not let for this." but is abruptly made ashamed and dumb. 440 444 The wiffe that feared another cracke, stood mute, & neere a word shee spake ; shame put her in such dread. " Ha ! " said the fryer right angerlye, '* knaue ! this is all along sill of ^ thee ; now euill mayst* thou speed ! " The friar tells of Jack's pipe, 448 The fryer said, " Sir Officiall ! this wicked boy will vexe vs all vnlesse you doe him chast. Sir, he hath yett a pipe trulye will make you dance & leape full hie & breake jouv hart at last." and raises the official's curiosity, 452 456 The Officiall replyd, " perdee ! such a pipe faine wold^ I see, & what mirth it can make." " Now god forbidd ! " replyed the fryar,^ " that ere wee shold that vild pipe heare ere I my way hence take." ' almost ber* me of my. — P.. Compare Eussell's Boke of Nurture, 1. 304 :— And euer beware of gunnes with thy hynder ende blastyng. — F. 8 all still long of.— P. ? sill, beam. — F. * mote.— P. ^ I fain would. — P. ° frere. — P. FRYAR AND BOTE. 27 460 " Pipe on, lacke ! " sayd the officiall, " & let me heare thy cuning ^ all." lacke blew his pipe full lowde That euery man start vp & dancte ; Proctors & preists, & somners^ pranct, & all in that great crowde ; at whose bidding Jack pipes away, and all the -world begins dancing, 464 468 Over the deske the officiall ran, & hopt vpon the table, then straight lumpt vnto^ the flore. The fryer that danct^ as fast as hee, mett him midway, & dangerouslye broke eithers^ face full sore. even the official, ■who suffers a collision with the friar. 472 The register leapt from his pen, & hopt into the throng of men, his inkhorne in his hande ; with swinging round about his head, some he stracke^ blind, some almost dead, some they cold hardly stand. The Eegister's ink-horn swings about banefuUy. 476 480 The proctors flung their bills ^ about, the goodwiues tayle gaue many a shout, perfuming all the Mirthe ; The Somners, as they had beene woode, leapt ore the formes & seates a goode,® & wallowed on the earth. Proctors and somners hop madly. Wenches that for their pennance came, & other Meeds of wordlye ^ shame, danct^° euery one as fast; ' cunning. — P. 2 sompners or somners, i.e. summoners, they who cited to the court. — ^P. •■' into.— P. * dauns't. — P. ' others. — P. « strake.— P. ' the bills.— P. * i. e. at a good rate. — ^P. good 'un." — P. ^ worldly. — P. '» daunst.— P. Cp. our ■** a 28 FRYAK AND BOYE. 484 Eacli sett on ^ a merry pin,^ some broke their heads, & some tlieir sliin, & some their noses brast. At last the official begs the boy to 433 give over playing. 492 Jack will do so on condition of an amnesty. 496 The officiall thus sore tarmayld, Halfe swelt^ with sweat, & almost spoyld, cryed to the wanton childe * To pipe noe more w?^thin that place, but stay the sound, euen for gods grace, & loue of Mary Milde.' lacke sayd, " as you will, it shalbe, provided I may hence goe free, & no man doe me wrong,"* Neither this woman nor this fryer,^ nor any other creature heere." [page 104.] The condition agreed to, J ack stops liis pipe. he answered him anon, " lacke, I to thee my promise plight, 500 in thy defence I mean to fight, & will oppose thy fone.^" lacke ceast ^ his pipes : then all still stood ; some laughing hard, some raging woode. 504 soe |j(27'ted at thai tide The Officiall & the Somner, the stepdame & the wicked fryer, ^ w^th much loy, mirth, & pride, ffins. ' sat upon. — P. ^ Oa the pin, on the qid vive. In a merry pin, i. e. a merry humour, half intoxicated. Halliwell's Gloss.— F. " MS. pared away, read by Percy. — P. * Half a stanza seems wanting here and in Pr. Copy. — P. * frere.— P. ^ fone, i. e. foes. — P. ' cast.— P. 8 frere.— P. 29 as? J teas; rftmge lip tbt toaj?*' [Page 104 of MS.] As I was ryding by the way, a woman profered me a bagge, & 40*y®. cattell more, to stay & giue her belly but a swagge. A pox on the whore, they were but scrapps that I supposed was single monye ; the cattell had lice, or else perhapps I had light and tooke her by the coney. First I met a woman who wanted I had not further rydd a Myle but I mett with a market Maide who sunge, the way for to beguile, in these same words, and thus shee said : Then I met a market maid who " I see the Bull do the Bull the cow ; & shall I Hue a maiden still ? I see the bore doth brim the sow ; & yet there is neuer a lacke for gill." I had some hope, & to her spoke, t " sweet hart, shall I put my flesh in thine ? " " with all my hart, Sir ! your nose in my arse,' quoth, she, " for to keepe out the winde." that she wanted a lover. T offered myself, and she sold me. Shee ryde vpon a tyred mare, & to reuenge noe time w^thstoode, I bluntlye asket pro to occupye her ; i asked to but first shee wold know wherfore that was good. °^^"Py'^^*'* A loose but humorous song. — P. 30 AS I WAS RIDINGE BY THE WAY. "Occupy my mare,' said she. 28 " It will make thee liuelye," I did say, " put loy and spiritt in stead of woee." " then occupy my mare, I pray, good S^r, for shee can hardlye goe." I asked to kiss her, but was sold again. 32 I milder grew, & wold but feele : She said she was neuer felt, but kist ; I was content, & shee said, " weele, youst kisse my bum & feele my fist." So I rode away, and told nobody. 36 I was red & pale w^th shame & spight to be soe answered of the drabb, that I swore, & spurrd, & away did ride, & of my wooinge was noe blabbe. fFins. 31 Cfte JMan tftat Wh [Page 104 of MS.] The man that hatli a hansome wiffe & keepes her as a treasure, it is my cheefest ioy of liffe to haue her to my pleasure ; stolen waters j sweet ; But if thav man regardless were as tho ^ he carde not for her, tho shee were like to venus fayre, in faith I wold abhor her. [page 105.] unwatched, are nought. 12 If to doe good I were restrained, & to doe euill bidden, I wold be puritan, I sweare, ffor I loue the thing forbidden. 16 It is the care that makes the theft ; none loues the thing forsaken ; the bold & wilHnge whore is left when the modest wench is taken. Care tempU the theft. 20 Shee dulle that is ^ too forwards bent not good, but want, is reason ; fish at a feast, & flesh in lent, are never out of season. ffins. ' MS. has a mark between o and h. — F. * ? for is that's.— F. 32 [Page 178 of MS.] The first notice of this ballad that Mr. Chappell has found is " in the registers of the Stationers' Company, under the date of May 22, 1615, [where] there is an entry transferring the right of publication from one printer to another, and it is described as * A Ballett of Dulcina, to the tune of Forgoe me nowe, come to me soone,^ " the burden of the present ballad : (" Pop. Music," V. 2. p. 771). At V. 1. p. 143 the tune is given ; it is to be played " cheerfully." The earlier title of the tune seems to have soon disappeared; for, says Mr. Chappell, v. 1. p. 142, "this tune is referred to under the names of ' Dulcina,' ' As at noon Dulcina rested,' ' From Oberon in Fairy-land,' and ' Eobin Groodfellow.' . . The ballad of • As at noon Dulcina rested ' is said, upon the authority of Cayley and Ellis, to have been written by Sir Walter Kaleigh. The milk- woman in Walton's ' Angler ' says, ' What song was it, I pray you ? Was it, * Come shepherds, deck your heads,' or ' As at noon Dulcina rested ? ' &c." Mr. Chappell gives a list of eight ballads and songs directed to be sung to this tune, and the last of them is one that shows an earlier person than Rowland Hill (?) didn't see why the devil should have all the good tunes to himself : for " Dulcina is one of the tunes to the Psalms and Songs of Sion, turned into the language and set to the tunes of a strange land," 1642. As att noone Dulc[i]na rested in her sweete & shade ^ bower, *' Let me there came a shepeard, & requested lap!" 4 in her lapp to sleepe and hower ; ' This song is printed in many col- shady. — P. lections of songs. — P. ' an hour. — P. DULCINA. 33 but from her looke a wound he tooke soe deepe, thai for a further boone the Nimph he prayes ; wherto shee sayes 8 "forgoe me now, come to me soone." "Go away." 12 16 But in vajne shee did coniure him to depart her presence soe, hauing thousand tounges to allure him, & but one to say him noe. where lipps invite, & eyes delyght, & cheekes as red as rose in lune perswade delay, what boots shee say^ " forgoe me &c." "What? go, when your tongue says No, but your eyes say Yes I" 20 24 Words whose hopes might have enioyned him to lett Dulcina sleepe.^ Can a mans loue be conjfined, or a mayd her promise keepe ? But hee her wast still held as fiast as shee was constant to her tune, though neere soe fayre her speechers were, "forgoe me &c." Did he let her sleep 1 No, he held her fast. 28 32 He demands, "what time or^ pleasure can there be more soone"* then now? " shee sayes, " night giues loue that ley sure that^ the day cannott allow." " the said kind sight forgiues delight," q-Moth hee, " more easilye then the moone." "In Venus playes be bold," shee sayes, "fforgoe me &c." " What better time than now ? ' " Be bold," she says. ' to say. — P. ' for, qu. — P. The e has a flourish at the end like * apt, meet, or fit. — P. ? MS. seene. — F. another c. — F. ' which. — P. 34 DULCINA. But who knowes how asTeed these loues ? What was the result? Shec was fayre, & he was younge ; tounge 1 may tell what eyes discouer ; ni not tell 36 loyes vnseene are neuer songe. did shee consent or he relent ? accepts he night, or grants shee none ? left hee her Mayd or not ? shee sayd She said, .^cif i a "Go away!" 40 " lorgoe me now, come to me soone. * tongues. — P. 35 [Page 182 of MS.] There are several other ballads of this kind extant, about Puritans and holy sisters. They were a favourite topic with the Cavaliers, more especially after the Puritans came into power. — W. C. It was a puritanicall ladd that was called Mathyas, & he wold goe to Amsterdam 4 to speaks with Ananyas. he had not gone past haUe a mile, but he matt his holy sister ; hee layd his bible vnder her breeche, 8 & merylye hee kist her. Mathias, going to Amsterdam, meets his sister, and kisses her. 12 16 " Alas ! what wold they wicked say? " q?^oth shee, " if they had seene itt ! my Buttocckes the lye to lowe : I wisht appocrypha were in itt ! " " but peace, Sweet hart, or ere wee part, I speake itt out of pure devotion, — by yee & nay He not away till thou feele my spiritts motion." " What would the wicked say if they'd seen it ? " Before we part, you must feel my spirit's motion. The huft & puft w*th many heaues, till that the both were tyred, " alas ! " quoth, shee, " youle spoyle the leaues ; she does. 20 my peticoates all Myred ! OFF A PURITANE. if wee professors shold bee knowne to the English congregation eyther att Leyden or Amsterdam, itt wold disgrace our nation ; " But since itt is, that part wee must, tho I am much vnwilling, good brother, lets haue the tother thrust, & take thee this fine shilling to beare thy charges as thou goes, & passage ore the ocean." then downe shee Layd, & since tis sayd, shee quencht his spiritts motion. 37 [Page 182 of MS.] This song is from Ben Jonson's " Masque of the Metamorphosed Gripsies, as it was thrice presented to King James — first at Burleigh-on-the-Hill, next at Belvoir, and lastly at Windsor, August, 1621." {Ben Jonson's Works, ed. Procter (after Grifford), 1838, p. 618.) Puppy the Clown terms it "an excellent song," and of its singer says, " a sweet socgster, and would have done rarely in a cage, with a dish of water and hemp-seed ! a fine breast of his own ! " Grifford also says : " This * song ' continued long in favour. It is mentioned with praise not only by the poets of Jonson's age, but by many of those who wrote after the Eestoration." The present copy contains eight more stanzas than Jonson's own MS. printed by Grifford, and (after him) by Mr. Procter at p. 626 of his edition of Jonson's Works. The presence of these additional stanzas may be explained by Gifford's remarks on the Masque itself : " This Masque, as the title tells us, was performed before James and his Court at three several places. As the actors, as well as the spectators, varied at each, it became necessary to vary the language ; and Jonson, who always attended the presentation of his pieces, was called on for additions adapted to the performers and the place. These unfortunately are not very dis- tinctly marked either in the MS. or the printed copies, though occasional notices of them appear in the former. As everything that was successively written for the new characters is not come down to us, the Gipsies Metamorphosed ' By Ben Jonson. See Dryden's Misc. vol. 2. page 142. See also Ben Jonson's Works, vol. 6. p. 103. See Pepys Col- lectio7i, vol. 4. page 284. — P. See Chap- pell's Popular Music, p. 160-1. Another copy of this Ballad is in the Eoxburghe Collection, ii. 445. Percy's reference to Dryden's Miscellanies is to the fourth edi- tion of 1716, where Coo^ Laurel is called " A Song on the Devil's Arse of the Peak. By Ben Jonson." It is reprinted from the folio edition, as it has the three extra verses at the end, and slirted iov flirted in the stanza before them. This poem is not in the original edition of the Mis- ceUanics,'Pavt II., in 1685.— F. 38 COOKE LAURELL. 1 appears of immoderate length ; it must however have heen highly relished by the Court ; and the spirit and accuracy with which the male characters are drawn, and the delicacy and sweetness with which some of the female ones are depicted, though they cannot delight (as at the time) by the happiness of their application, may yet be perused with pleasure as specimens of poetic excellence, ingenious flattery, or adroit satire." — Ben Jonson's Works (ed. Giflbrd, 1816), vol. vii. p. 366. On the text of this Metamorphosed Gipsies GifFord says in his Introduction : "A Masqtte, &c.] From the folio 1641. But a copy of it had stolen abroad, and been printed the year before, together with a few of Jonson's minor poems, by J. Okes, in 12mo. " The folio, never p;reatly to be trusted, is here grievously incorrect, and proves the miserable incapacity of tliose into whose hands the poet's papers fell. The surreptitious copy in 12mo. is somewhat less imperfect, but yet leaves many errors. These I have been enabled in some measure to remove, by the assistance of a MS. in the possession of my friend Richard Heber, Esq., to whose invaluable collection, as the reader is already apprised, I have so many obligations. This, which is in his own hand, and is perhaps the only MS. piece of Jonson's in existence, is more full and correct tnan either of the printed copies, the folio in particular, and is certainly prior to them both. It fills up many lacunae and, in once instance, completes a stanza, by furnishing three lines, which no ingenuity could have supplied." In speaking of Jonson's Masques, Mr. Procter says, " Jonson returned to London in May, 1619," and "speaks of his wel- come by King James, who was pleased to see him. Towards the end of May our author went to Oxford, where he resided for some time at Christchurch, with Corbet, afterwards Bishop of Norwich, with whom he was on terms of friendship. During his stay at Oxford he composed several of his Masques and other works ; quitting the place occasionally, however, to accompany the Court in its royal progresses, and probably visiting the gentry around. Amongst these Masques, the best were. The Vision of Delight, Pleasure reconciled to Virtue, and The Gypsies Meta- morphosed, Although the dialogue in the Masques, generally, strikes us as being tedious and somewhat too pedantic, yet the contrast of the Masque with the Anti-Masque — the mixture of the elegant with the grotesque, the introduction of graceful dances, the ingenious machinery, and the music ' married ' to the charming lyrics, of which these little dramas are full, must have rendered them in the main very delightful performances. . . . The COOKE LAURELL. 39 Metamorphosed Gypsies is a much longer and more elaborate performance than the others. It comprises, as its title will pro- bably suggest, a considerable quantity of the gipsy cant or slang, and some rough and not over-delicate jesting; but several of the lyrics are, as usual, very delightful." (P. xxiii-iv.) The present song is the answer to the following question of Puppy's to the gipsy Patrice : — " But I pray, sir, if a man might ask on you, how came your Captain's place first to be called ' the Devil's Arse? ' " Mr. Chappell prints the tune of it at p. 161 of his Popular Music, and says that other copies of the song are in the Pepys Collection of Ballads, and, with music, in Pills to purge Melancholy. Also that " in S. Rowland's Martin Markhall, his defence and answer to the Bellman of London, 1610, is a list of rogues by profession, in which Cock Lorrel stands second. He is thus described: — 'After him succeeded, by the general council, one Cock Lorrell, the most notorious knave that ever lived.' . . By trade he was a tinker, often carrying a pan and hammer for shew ; but when he came to a good booty, he would cast his profession into a ditch, and play the padder." Grifford, who quotes the same treatise from Beloe's Anecdotes, adds that Cock Lorrell as he "past through the town would crie. Ha' ye any worke for a tinker? To write of his knaveries, it would aske a long time. This was he that reduced in forme the Catalogue of Vagabonds or Quartern of Knaves, called the Five and twentie Orders of Knaves. This Cock Lorell continued among them longer than any of his predecessors ; for he ruled almost two and twentie years until the year a.d. 1533, and about the five and twenty year of Hen. VIII." In 1565, says Mr. Chappell, a book was printed called The Fraternity e of Vaca- bondes ; whereunto also is adjoyned the twenty-Jive orders of knaves : confirmed for ever by Cocke Lorell. Cocke LoreWs Bote, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, is, we hope, so well known by the Percy Society's edition of it, as to need no further mention. 40 COOKE LAURELL. Cooke Cooke Lanrell wold needs have the devill his g-uest Laurell asks ° ' the Devil who Came in his hole ' to the Peake to dinner. to dinner. ' Where neuer ffeend had such a feast 4 provided him yet att the charge of a sinner. His stomacke was qiieasie, he came thither coachet,^ the logging itt^ made some crudity es ryse; Sks?o7a *o helpe itt hee Called for a puritan pochet* rStan; 8 that vsed to tume up the eggs of his eyes. And soe recovered to ^ his wish, he sett him downe ^ & fell to ' Meate ; then, Pro- Promootcrs ^ in plumbe^ broth was his first dish, plum broth, 12 his owne priuyc kitchen had noe such meate. 6 pickled ^2 gi^G pickeld taylors slasht & cutt, With Sempsters & tire women ffitt for his pallatt,''* and a salad W^'th ffeathermen^^ & perfumers put ofPerfumers. _ ^ ^ 16 Some 12 in a charger, to make a graue sallett. Yett thoe w^th this hee much was taken, Upon a sudden hee shifted his trencher, Next a ^ soone he spyed the Baude & Bacon Bawd and Bacon, 20 by ^Mch you may know the devill is a wencher.^o ' to his hole in the &c. — P. And bade him in. — W. (or "Works, ed. Procter, after Gifford.) 2 coached.— P. ' had.— P. * poached. — P. ^ unto. — ^P. « straight.— P. ' his.— P. * A Promoter : s. An informer ; from promoting causes or prosecutions. . . . " There goes but a pair of sheers between & promoter and a knave." (Match at Midn. Old Plays, vii. 367) in Nares.— F. " plumb Pottage.— P. MS. may he plimke. "Plum-broth: an article in cookery which appears to have been formerly in great repute, and to have been a favourite Christmas dish :" Nares. See the long recipe in Nares for making it.— F. privy. — P. The first e has been changed into y. — F. " never. — P. *2 W. transposes this and the next stanza. — F. " slashed, sliced. — P. palate.— P. See Eandolph's Muses Looking G-lass. —P. grand. — P. as soon as. — ^W. a Baud's fat bacon. — P. note. — P. 2" Wencher or Wenching- Man, one that keeps Wenches Companye, or goes a whoring ; a Whoremaster. Phillips. — F. COOKE LAURELL. 41 A rich fFatt vserer stewed in his Marrowe, & by him a lawj^ers head in * greene sawce,^ both wJiich. his belly tooke in Like a barrowe 24 As if tell ^ then he had neuer seene sowce.^ a stewed Usurer, Then, Carbonadoed ^ & cooket ^ w^'th paynes,^ was sett on ® a clouen sergeants ^ face ; the sawce was made of his yeamans braynes, 28 thai had beene beaten out wi^th his owne mace. a carbona- doed Ser- jeant's face. Tow roasted sherriffes came whole to the borde, — the ffeast had beene nothing w^lthout them ; — both lining & dead they were foxed & furred, 32 theire chaines like sawsinges hang about them. The next dish was a Maior of a towne, * Mayor, with a pudding of Maintenance [thrust in his bellye, like a goose in his fethers drest in his gowne, 36 & his couple 18 of hinch boyes >9 boyled to 20 lellye. Hf^^ 2 roast Sheriffs > and.— W. 2 See the Kecipes for " Pur verde sawce," in Liber Cure Cocorum, p. 27, & " Vert Sause" (herbs, bread-crumbs, -vnnegar, pepper, ginger, &c.), in Household Ordi- nances, p. 441. " Grene sawce is good with grene fische." John Eussell's Boke of Nurture, Sawce for Fische. — F. 3 tiil.— P. * sauce. — W. Souse means pickle. — F. ^ Carbonado, meat broil'd on the Coals. — Phillips. And see Markham's Housewife. — F. ^ cooked. — P. ' ? pains, care. " In Cookery Fains signifie certain Messes proper for Side- dishes, so call'd as being made of Bread, stuff'd with several sorts of Farces and Eagoos." Phillips. — F. " brought up. — W. ^ grave face. — P. yeoman's. — P. " in truth had.— P. ? wore foxes skins as fur. — F. '3 Sausages hanging. — P. " very next. — P. Cap of Maintenance, one of the Regalia, or Ornaments of State, belong- ing to the King of England, before whom it is carry'd at the Coronation, and other great solemnities. Caps of Main- tenance also are carry'd before the Mayors of several Cities of England. Phillips. — F. thrust.— P. the.— P. An I has been altered into p in the MS.— F. i. e. pages. — P. A hench-man or hench-boy, page d'honneur qui marche devant quelque Seigneur de grande au- thorife. — Sherwood (in Cotgrave). See Mr. Way's note*, Promptorium, p. 293, and Household Ordinances as there re- ferred to. Henchman or Heinsmen, a Ger- man Word signifying a Household-Ser- vant; and formerly taken amongst us for a Page of Honour or Footman. Phillips.— F. 20 to a.— W. 42 COOKE LAURELL. a roast Cuckold, a Lecher's back, a Harlot's haunch, a Midwife pasty, an old Justice of the Peace, 40 44 48 52 and a Holy Sister's kidney, which nearly made the Devil sick, 56 a Traitor's- guts' pie, 60 A London Cuckold ' hott from the spitt : but 2 when the Carver vpp had broke ^ him, the devill chopt up his head att a bitt, [him. but the homes were verry neere like to haue choakt* The chine of a leacher too there was roasted, With a plumpe ^ harlotts haunche & garlike ; a Panders petitoes that had boasted himselfe for a Captaine, yet neuer was warlike. A long ^ fiatt pasty of a Midwiffe hot : & for a cold baket meat ^ into the storye, a reuerend painted Lady was brought, had beene^ confined in crust till ^ shee was hooary. To these an ouer worne^^ justice of peace. With a Clarke like a gisarne trust vnder eche arme ; & warrants for sippitts laid in his owne grace, Sett ore a chaffing dish to be kept warme. Then broyled and broacht on a buchers pricke, the kidney came in of a holy sister ; this bitt had almost made his devillshipp sicke, thai his doctor did feare he wold need a glister. " ffor harke," quoth, hee, " how his belly e rumbles ! " & then with his pawe, that was a reacher, hee puld to a pye of a traitors nurables,'^^ & the gibbletts ^"^ of a silent teacher. ' came hot. — P. ^ ^nd. — P. ^ " Termes of a Keruer. Breke that dere," (Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruyng) : the right name therefore for a horned biped. — F. * to choake. * plunpe in MS.— F. * large. — W. meat pie. — F. ^ And. — "W. ' nntil shee. — P. overgrown. — W. " gizzard. — P. Gjserne (of fowles) idem quod Garbage supra : Garbage of fowls (or gyserne infra), Entera, vel enteria, vel exta. Promptorinm, p. 194, p. 186. Gisie, m. the gyserne of birds. Cotgrave. — F. '2 grease. — P. over. — W. W. omits this stanza and the next one. — F. i.e. rosted. — F. Humbles. The humbles of a deer are the Liver, &c. — P. "Noumbles of a dere, or beest, entrailles. Palsgrave. Pracordia, the numbles, as the hart, the splene, the lunges, and lyver. Elyot. . . . Skinner writes the word the * hum- bles ' of a stag, and rightly considers it as derived from umhUicus." Way in Promptorium, p. 360, note. — F. Gybelet, idem quod Garbage (see note above). Gybelet of fowlys. Pro- fectum. Promptorium. — F. COOKE LAURBLL. 43 64 The lowle of a laylor was ^ semed for a ffisli, with vinigar 2 pist by tlie deane of Dustable ^ ; tow aldermen lobsters a-sleepe in a disb, with a dryed deputye & '* a sowcet ^ constable.^ 2 Aldermen lobsters. 68 These gott him soe feirce a stomacke againe, that now he wants meate wheron to ffeeda :® he called for the victualls were drest for his traine, and they brought him vp an alepotrida,^ The Devil asks for more food. They give him an Olla Podrida 72 Wherin were^^ mingled conrtier,^^ clowne, tradsmen,^2 marchants,^^ banquerouts store, Churchmen, ^2 Lawyers of either gowne, — of civill, comwen,*3 — player & whore, of Bank- rupts, Countess,^'* servant, Ladyes,^* woman, mistris,^^ chambermaid, coachman, knight, hord & visher, groome ^® & yeaman ; 76 where first the ffeend with his forke did light. Ladies, Chamber- maids, &c. He eats it all. 80 All which devowred, he now for to close doth for a draught of Derbye ale call. he heaued the huge vessell vp to his nose, & left not till hee had drunk vp all. asks for some Derby ale, and drinks it up. * W. omits was. — F. - Vynegur is good to salt purpose & torrentyne, Salt sturgeon, salt swyrd- fysche, savery & fyne. John Eussell. Boke of Nurture. Sawce for Fische. — F. ' A constable sous'd with vinegar by. — W. Deputy dried and. — P. ^ sowced. — P. Cooked in vinegar, &c. " Souce, a sort of Pickle for a Collar of Brawn, Pork, &c." Phillips.— F. " A deputy tart, a churchwarden pye. — W. ' W. omits this and the next two stanzas. — F. 8 feed-a.— P. OUa-podrida.— P. Olla Podrida (Span.) a Hotch-pot, or a Dish of Meat made of several Ingredients, the chief of which is Bacon. Phillips. — F. The first e is made over an k. — F. " and.— P. '2 and — and — and. — P. " of civil and common Law. — P. '* and — and — and — and. — P. groone in MS. — F. he then for a close Did for a full. — W. " it.— P. 44 COOKE LAURELL. Then the Devil breaks wind. Then from the table hee gaue a start, where banquett & wine were nothing scarce all which hee blew ^ a^vay with a ffartt, 84 from wence itt was called the Devills arse. and the stink of that is the Tobacco which Punks smoke ; from which may Grod keep King James ! ^And there he made such a breach w^^th the winde, the hole yett ^ standing open the while, the sente of the vay[pour'*] hee left^ behind 88 hath since infected^ most part of the He. And this was tobbacco, the learned suppose, which both ^ in countrye, court and towne,^ in the devills glister pipe smokes att the nose 92 of punke ^ & Madam, gallant & clowne ; IFrom w/w'ch wicked perfume, swines flesh, and linge,'^ ^3 or any thing else he ^'^ doth not loue, preserue & send our gracious king 96 such meate as he loues, I beseeche god aboue ! ffins. ' flirted. — W. slirted. — Folio ed. 2 W. omits these last three stanzas. — P. ^ too.— Folio. * Scent of i; Ae Vapour w^fch he left. — P. ^ That the sent of the vapour, before and. — Folio. ^ fouly perfumed. — Folio. ' since. — Folio. ^ in Court and in towne. — P. s Pollcat.— Folio. 10 of Gallant.— Folio. " Cp. the 2nd Gipsy's speech, p. 51 of Masques, in the Folio edition of 1640 : Where the Cacklers, but no Grunters, Shall uncas'd be for the Hunters. On which Gifford, vii. 372, says : " a side compliment to the King, who hated pork in all its varieties." — F. '2 Lota wo/m (Cuvier) or Gadus molva (Linnaeus). The livg, AseJlus lovgus: Way. Lecnge, fysche, Lucius marinus : Promptorium. Norse laanga, Dan. lange, Du. linge, levge, a kind of codfish : Wedg- wood.— F. "-'^ Or any thing else thats feast for the Fiend : Our Captaine, and wee, cry God save the King, And send him good meate, and mirth without end. — p. 72 of Masques, Folio ed. 1640. It shoidd seem to mean James I. whose aversion to Tobacco is well known, as also to Pork -being a Scotchman. — P. '5 -which, he doth. — P. James I.'s Counterblast to Tobacco was first printed in folio, as the King's work, in 1616. Harris says there was an earlier edition in quarto, without name or date. — F. 45 [Page 193 of MS.] Will you teare the Mode of franca to stopp tlie moutlie of those thai done you* ? neatly Leade them in a dance, because wee are behind in mony. I'U tell you the French way to put off duns : If jouY Lanlord chance to call either for dyett or for rayment, Leade him in a dance w^thall, & forgett itt in jour payment. your Land- lord, 12 If jouv taylor chance to strike you w^th his bill, & stay noe Leasure ; Lead him in a dance that likes you, & in- stead of coyne take measure. your Tailor, 16 If JOUY shoemaker come on with his last, & neatly Lead itt ; lett [t]his euerlasting done^ see his owne boots ^ neatly tread itt. [page 194.] your Shoe- maker, 20 If yoOT Landlady doe call, needs must satisfye her pleasure ; shee despises jour carrant,'* sheele be payd with standing measure. your Land- lady, ' dun ye. — P. - Let this everlasting Dun. — P. ^ Boots were formerly worn at Balls as Pumps now. — P. * currante. — P. current coin. — F. 1) 2 46 THE MODE OP PRANCE. and your Lawyer. 24 If yowr Lawer^ finds you out for fees for tliis devise or tother, let him dance for all his goute, & pay one Motion w^^tli another. This way gets you out of all troubles. 28 Thus wee range the world about, thus wee scape then all disasters ; then Let all the world declare that wee are nimble quicke paymasters. ffins. ' Lawyer. — P. 47 ase not afrapa^ •[Page 194 of MS.] 'Bee not affrayd thou fayrest, thou rarest thai euer was made ! deny me not a kisse ; then thou shalt see the Measure of pleasure that I will haue from thee, what hurts there in this? Then lets imbrace, & lett pleasure be free, the world shall neere take notice how delightfull [we be.^] O fairest I deny me not; let me en- joy tliee 1 " I see that spyes, both peeping & creeping, in eche corner lyes to hinder all our loyes ; but Cupidd shall see, & find them, & blind them thatt hindrance wilbe to the getting of Boyes. Then lets, &c : / Cnpid will bUnd aU spies. 12 Yenus, lupiter, faire nature. Dame creature,^ Made thee for delight, but yett for none but I ; Then lets imbrace, & rifile & trifle, leaue a lewell in the place, but keeptt till you d[ye.3] 16 Then Lets, &c." You were made for i alone. Let us em- brace 1 '* Nay pish ! nay fye ! youle venter to enter! a trespas soe high, youle wist were * vndone ; should any spie, theyle wonder, looke yonder ; 20 but youle not fly the place you haue begunn. Then Lets, &c. Man, you will enter me. What will spies say ? ' Added by Percy.— F. » dye.— P. * Dame Nature, faire creature.— P. * wish 'twere. — F. 48 BE NOT AFRAYD. If you tell " Now you haue enioyed the Measure of pleasure, any one, I'm undone. indeed I['ni] destroyed if you speake of it againe ; 24 for women doe proue neclected, reiected, when freedome of love is known to other men. Now you haue enioyed me, & all things be free, in faith youle vndoe me if a teltale you hee. But I love 28 " Then heeres my hart ! He euer endeuer you, and that wee will neuer part till death assignes the time. that's why I Were itt not you, beleeue me it wold greeue m[e] to doo what I doo ; that loue shold be a crime ; the fault is 32 but it is a fault of soe sweet a degree, that sure I am perswaded, court nor country be fr[ee.] " ffins: 80 sweet. 49 Mot pou mtmt. [Page 197 of MS.] you meane to onerthrow me ? out ! alas ! I am betraid ! what ! is this the loue you show mee ? 4 to vndo a sillye Maide. alas ! I dye ! my hart doth breake ! I dare not crye, I cannot ^ speake ! what ! all alone ? nay then I finde 8 men are to strong for women kind. Out vpon the maid that put mee How wrong of that in this roome to be alone ! woman to put me in yett she was noe foole to shut mee iierei 12 where I shold be seen of None. harke ! harke ! alac ! what Noyce is that ? Jioise *^ is that? o, now I see itt is the Catt. come gentle pus, thow wilt not tell ; 16 if all doe soe thou shalt not telL Is this your love ? to undo a silly maid? Seely foole ! why doubts thou telhnsre No matter. ° Babies tell where thou didst not doubt to trust ? their own stories. if thy belly fall a swellinge, 20 theres noe helpe, but out itt must. alas the spite ! alas the shame ! for then I quite Loose my good name ; but yett the worst of Maids disgract, 24 I am not first nor shalbe last. • camot in MS.-F. DOE YOU MEANE. Once againe to try yowr forces, thus I dare thee to the feild ; time is lost thai time diuorces from the pleasures loue doth yeeld. Ah ha ! fyee, fye ! itt comes yett still ! itt comes, I, I ! doe what you will ! my breath doth passe, my blood doth trickle was euer lasse in such a pickle ? ffins. 51 came to a Bhady place. a maft $c a potmge mam [Page 197 of MS.] A MAN & a younge maid thai loued a long time a man and were tane in a frenzye ithe Midsomwer prime ; the maid shee lay drooping, hye ; 4 the man he lay whopping, hey, the man he lay whopping hoe. Thus talking & walking the came to a place Inuironed about with trees & with grasse. The maid shee, &c. 8 He shifted his hand wheras he had placet, hee handled her knees instead of her wast, The Maid, &c. He shiffted his hand till hee came to her knees, ho tickled 12 he tickeled her, & shee opened her thyhes, yett s[t]ill shee, &c. He hottered & totered, & there was a line that drew him on forward ; he went on amaine ; 16 yett still shee, &c. He light in a hole ere he was aware ! the lane itt was streat ; he had not gone farr, but shee fell a kissing, hye ! she idssod 20 & he lay drooping, hoe, & he lay drooping, hoe. " My BiUy, my pilly ! how now ? ' * quoth, shee ; " gett vp againe, Billy, if that thou louest me ; " yett still he Lay, &c. him, 52 A MAID AND A YOUNGE MAN. a second 24 He thought Mickle shame to lye soe longe ; time as well • o as the first. he gott vp agame & grew very strong ; the Mayd shee Lay, &c. The trees & the woods did wring about, 28 & Query leafe began to showte, & there was such, &c. 53 91 rreature ffor ffeature. [Page 199 of MS.] 12 A creature, for feature I neuer saw a fairer, soe witty, soe prettye, I neuer knew a rarer ; sliee soe kind, & I soe blynd, that I ^ may say another day " I did complaine, & I mett a swaine, but [he] knew not how to wooe me nor doe mee, he was soe dull conceipted. I gaue a smile him to beguile, I made a show to make him know, I pincht his cheeke to make him seeke & find some further pleasure, whose treasure needs not to be Expected. I met a lass so pretty and kind. But I was duU. She may tell how she tempted me, "I stayd him, & praide him, & proffered him a favour ; he kist mee, & wisht me to beare with his be- hauior ; but hie tro lolly lolly, le silly willy cold not doe. 16 all content with him was spent when he had chpt & kist me, & mist me, & cold not . . kisse . . \_Une cut off by the hinder] then thought I, & thought noe lye, perhapps his pipe is not yett ripe ; 20 yett an hower may haue the power to make itt grow in fall Lenght & full strenght ; but fooles are led in blindnesse. and 1 only kist her. She waited for me to serve her. » ?she.— F. 54 A CREATURE FOR FEATURE. but I didn't or couldn't, and was not moved. 24 28 32 " But woe mee, & woe mee ! alas, I cold not raise ! itt wold not, nor cold not, doe all I cold to please.' his inke was run, his pen was done. lacke ! art thou dead ? hold vp thy^ head ! I will litter thee & water thee, & feed thee with my neet, & better, if thou wilt lye besyd me. but all in vaine I did complaine, his lacke was tyrd, heed not be hyred for all my prayers & all my teares." iSins. ' One stroke of a word, pared off by the binder, follows. — F. MS. my.— 55 tpe: alone:' [Page 200 of MS.] Can any one tell what I ayle ^ ? ^ that I '* looke soe leane, soe wan, soe pale, if I may be tliere Indge, I tbinke there is none that can any longer lye alone.® Was euer womans ^ case like mine ? att 15 yeeres [I] began to pine ; soe vnto tbis plight now I am growne, I can, nor will, noe longer Lye alone.® What do I ail? Why, I can't lie aloiie, and I won't. 12 16 ® If dreames be true, then Ride I can ; I lacke nothing but a man, for tis onlye bee can ease my moane. I can, nor &c. *o When daye^^ is come, I wish for night ; ^2 When night is come, I wish for light ; 13 thus all my time I sighe & moane. 1* I can, nor &c. I want a man, ^ The Maidens Complaint. To the tune of, / can nor will, &c. The Head- ings in Bed Ink are from The Golden Garland. — ^P. See Chappell's Popular Music, ii. 462, for a different "Maiden's sad Complaint for want of a Husband." — F. 2 maidens ail. — P. ' I am grown so weak, &c. [G.G.] —P. * That they.— P. » If I may judge. — P. ' Unto that plight, alas! I'm grown, That I can, nor will, no longer lye alone. [G.G.]-P. ' Maiden's. [G.G.]— P. * Thus at 15 years to pine ; Were I the judge I'm sure there's none That would any longer, &c. [G.G.] * [This & the 4t'» stanza are transposed in^Ae Gold. Garl<«.] -P. All that I want is but a man ; Only I for one do make this moan. For I can, &c. [G.G.]— P. When it is day, I wish. [G.G.]— P. " There is a tag, as for s, to the e. — F. '2 And when it is dark. [G.G.]— P. All the night long I, &c. [G.G.]— P. Because that I too long have lain, &c. [G.G.]— P. 56 LYE ALONE. and I'll take the first that comes. 20 • To woe the first, ashamed am I ; ^ for & if he aske I will not denye ; 3 for the case is such I must needs haue one. '* I can noe &c. I will not lie alone. 24 ^ Therfore my prayer, itt shalbo still that I may haue one that will worke my will : for itt is only hee can ease me anon, & therfore He noe longer lye alone. > Wooe him first. [G.G.]-P. « But if. [G.G.]— P. ' Such is my case, I must have one. [a.G.]-P. * For that I, &c. [G.G.]— P. ^ For all my wishe^eg's, I'll have none But him I love, & love but one ; And if he love not me, then I'll have none. But ever till I dye I'll lye alone. [G.G.]-P. 57 [Page 201 of MS.] : sate the shepeard swaine soe sober & demure, wishing for his wench againe soe bonny & soe pure, with his head on hillocke lowe, & his armes a Cimbo, And all for the losse of his hinononino ! A swain longed for his wench. and wept The leaves the fell as thin ^ as water from a still ; the heire vpon his head did grow^e as time ^ vpon a hill ; his cherry cheekes as pale as snowe to testifye his mickle woe ; & all was for the loue of his hy &c. because he had lost hei". fi'ayre shee was to loue, as euer liked swaine ; neuer such a dainty one shall none enioy againe ; sett a thousand on a rowe, time forbidds that any sliowe euer the like to her hy &c. She was one in a thou- sand. faire shee was, [of] comly^ hew, her bosome like a swan ; backe shee had of bending yew, her wast was but a span ; Her bosom swan-swell- ing, . MS.— F. 2 thyme.— P. ^ of comelye. — P. 58 DOWNE SATE THE SHEPARD. her hair black all over. She was so tempting, all men were mad for her, and the swain hoped to find her on the grass. 28 32 36 40 her hayre as blacke as any croe, from tlie top to tlie toe, all downe along to her hy &c. with her Mantle tucked vp shee fothered her flocke, soe that they that doe her see may then behold her smocke, soe finely doth shee vse to goe, & neatly dance on tripp on ^ toe, that all men run madd for her hy &c. In a Meadow fayre & greene the shepard layeth him downe, thinking there his loue to find sporting on a round, A round which Maidens vse to go ; Cupid bidds itt shold bee soe, because all men were made for her hy &c. ' tripping. — P. 59 ilni tbat Movtt [Page 201 of MS.] We have not been able to find anything about the origin of this song. Neither Mr. Chappell nor any other song-learned person we have referred to knows it. It seems a notice, on the one hand, to men that a girl's refusal does not always mean a real No, and on the other hand, a warning to girls to beware lest love or waggish inclination tempt them beyond the bounds of prudence. How oft, alas, are they but flies that do play with the candle, and perish, while that burns on its allotted space, with no lessening of its brilliance in the eyes of men ! — F. Men that more to the vard ^ northe church Men some- times pro- are oft enclined, pose to girls, take young mayds now & then att lurch 4 to try their mind ; But younge maids now adayes are soe coy, the will not show when they are in loue, But for feare I ^ oft say noe, when perhapps they wold bnt tiiey'rc : . ' r J so coy they 8 fayne doe if itt wold not prone. say no. If for a time for feare they bee wyllye and seeme coy, there is one that pe?'happs may beguile yee, Yet Cupid will pierce 12 the blmd boy ; their hearts. • ? MS. yord.— F. ^ for they. — F. MEN THAT MORE. heele strike liome wlien lie please ; to the quicke heele shoot his shaft w^thout delay ; then theyle sigh & lament when, alas, their owne kind hart cannott say Nay. The small fly that playeth w^'th the candle oft doth burne ; such young maids as doe lone for to dandle once, may mourne. lett flyes burne, & maids mourne, for in vaine you do perswade them from their folly ; Nature binds all their kinds now & then to play the waggs though the seeme holy, ffins. 61 [Page 23 8 of MS.] It was a Younffe man that dwelt in a towne, Panche is a ° ' great glut- a lollye Imsband^^ was hee, but he wold eate more at one sett dinner ^ the[n] 20 wold att three, soe great a stomacke had hee, his wiffe did him provide wife ^ gives Mm ten meales a day, his hungar^ to lay, ten meals a yet was he not satisfyed. take heed of hott fiirmitree ! His wiffe had a sister neere at hand, decket vp in a gowne of gray ; 12 shee loued a young man, & marryed the weere vpon St. lames his day ; & to the wedding went they, her brothers & sisters each one. 16 shee vowed to bring her to^ capon pyes, With birds the sids vpon. take heed &c. But yet the good wiffe, tho litle shee sayd, 20 in mind & hart was woe because her husband, the glutton, wold vnto the wedding goe. Her sister marries, and she promises her two capon pies for her •wedding- feast. Panche' 8 wife * A Droll old Song, rather vulgar. — P. 2 There is a tag like an s at the end. -F. ' dimer in the MS.— F. * One stroke too few in the first syl- lable.— F. 5 two.— P. 62 PANCHE. tries to per- suade him not to go to the wed- ding, 24 bis 28 good husband," then sayd shee, " at the wedding there will bee my vnckle lohn, & my cozen Gylee, ^ & others of good degree ; then stay yon at home, my dere, [then stay yon at home, my dere,] as he'll shame her and all his kindred by his mon- strous eating. 32 36 "ffor if yo[u] come there, you vtterlye shame [page 239] yor selfe & me besides, & all yo7*r kinred euery one, the Bridgrome & the bryde, you feed soe Monst[r]ouslye aboue all other men, for you deuoure more meate at a meale then 40 will doe at ten." take heede &c. Panche gets angry, says his wife has some plot to cuckold him. To the wed- ding he will go. His wife says, then he must stop eating when she winks at him. When that he heard his wiffe say soe, his anger waxed hotte : 40 Quoth, he, " thou drabb ! thou filthy Queane ! thy councell likes me not ! belike some match is made betwixt some knaue & thee 44 to make me a scorne, my head for to horne ! I smell out thy knauerye ! to the wedding that I will goe ! " " Good husband," q^*oth shee, " Misdoubt not of me ! 48 I speake it for the best ! yet doe as you will, jour mind to fulfill ; but let me this request, that when vnorderlye ^ 52 I see you feeding there, when I doe winke, I wold haue you thinke its time for to forbeare." take heed &c. 1 Giles.— P. - i.e. disorderly. — P. PANCHE. 63 56 GO 64 The man was content ; to tlie wedding lie went ; great cheare was there prepared ; the Bridsgroome father & mother both sate there w^th good regard, furst to the table was broiigh[t] a course of furmitree, & Panche had a dish, a galland ^ I-wiss, thai fitted his appetye ^ ; & quicklye he slapt vp all. Panche agrees ; goes to the wed- ding; Hee learned^ on his wiffe, & drew out his kniffe to a legg of Mutton fell hee ; he slapt it vp breefe, w^th a snrloyne of beefe, 68 & mincte pyes 2 or three : he neuer looked about, but fed With such a courage, he left for his share the bord almost bare, 72 or the rest were out of their porrage. take heede &c. eats, 1. a gallon of furmity, 2. a leg of mutton ; 3. a surloin of beef ; 4. some mince pies, and nearly clears the table. 76 80 Then did he spye his wifie for to winke ; therfore he, to ^ mend the matter, he cast vp againe the Meate he had eaten, before them in a platter : " take heere yoi^r victualls," hee sayd, " & grudg not me my meate ; & where I thinke thai welcome I am, I cannott forbeare to eate." take heede &c. Seeing his wife wink at him, he spews up the food, and says, " here's your victuals!" The time drew on when euerye man 84 vnto his rest did goe ; but Paunch lay grunting by his wiffe, w/^ich made her v/onderous woe. When iu bed, Panche grunts, ' Gallon. — P. - appetee.--P. * Along upright stroke is between leer'd.— P. these words iu the MS.— F. * wink her eye. — P. ^ x,2iUQ. 64 PANCHE. and says he's ready to die for hunger. what ayle you man ? " quoth, shec. 88 Quoth hee, " my hart is dry, I am soe hungry, that for meat I ready e am to dye." take heede &c. His wife says he must wait till break- fast. Tush! says he; jumps out of bed, goes to the kitchen, and slaps up all the f ur- mity except a ladlefull that he means to take to his wife ; but he goes to another man's, 92 " Alas ! " quoth shee, " content you must bee till breakfast time to stay ; for none in the house is risen, you see, to giue you meate any way." 96 " tush ! tell not me of that ! my belly must be fedd ! " & with, that word he Nimbly leapt out of his naked bed, 100 & into the kitchin did goe. To the flfurmitree ^ pott he quicklye gott, & there, without delay, he slapt vp the furmitree euerye whitt 104 or he departed away, saue a ladel-full att the last he kept to carry his wiffe. Then he mistaking the chamber, ho went [page 240] 108 vnto another mans wiffe. take heede [&c.] the bride- groom's mother. Panche takes her buttocks for his wife' face. 112 116 The Bridgroomes ffather & mother both did at that time lye there ; the woman had tumbled the clothes soe that her buttockes all lay bare, which, by a glimering light that was in that same place, Panch soone espyed, & tooke the same to be his wiues sweet face. ' Frumenty or Purmety, a kind of Potage made of prepared Wheat, Milk, Sugar, Spice, &c. Phillipps. " Still a favorite dish in the north, consisting of hulled wheat boiled in milk and sea- soned. It was especially a Christmas dish." Nares, ed. 1859. See the recipe and extracts there. — F PANCHE. 65 120 124 Then softly he sayd, " sweet wiff, I haue brought some farmitree for thee ! " the woman ffisled^ : " nay, blow not," qi^oth hee, *' for cold enough they bee." with that shee puffed againe, & made him angrye bee : " I tell thee, thou need not to blow them att all, but supp them vp presentlye." take heed &c. and offers her the funnity. She breaks ■wind 128 132 The woman was windye, & fisled againe w^thin a litle space, vfhich. made him to sweare, if shee blew any more, to fling all in her face, but shee, being fast asleepe, did ffisle without regard, then flung ho the furmitree in her tayle, saying, " there is for thy reward ! " take heede three times, and Panche swears if she does it again he'll fling the funnity in her face. She does it ; he flings the funnity at her; 136 140 144 With that the woman suddenly waked, & clapt her hand behind ; " alas ! " quoth shee, how am I shamed, being soe full of wind ! " " what ayles thee ? " her husband sayd. " I haue rayed ^ the bedd," quoth, shee. '* that comes with thy craming, thou egar queane ! a Murraine take thee for me ! " take heede &c. she puts her hand be- hind. and thinks she has dirtied the bed. 148 But Panche, perceuing how the matter went, he closly got away, & into the milkehouse hyed with hast, wheras without delay Panche steals oil to the dairy, ' ? MS. ffisted. Fyistyn (fyen, W.) Cacco C. F. lirido ; Fyyst, stynk, Lirida ; Fyystynge, Liridacio. Promptorium. — 2 wrayed.— P. I he-ray, I fyle ones clothes with spottes of myer, properly about the skyrtes ; Je crotte. Palsgrave. Binbrener, to beray or beshite. Cotgrave. 66 PANCHE. clears the milk-basins ; 152 lie clensed the Milke Basons all, tho there were plenty store ; & like a lout, he groped about, to see if hee cold find any more. tak heede &c. pubs his hand in a honey-pot, and it sticks there. 156 160 Vpon a narrowe mouthd hony pott he lighted on at last ; & when he had thrust his hand therin, there stucke it wonderous fast, now hee must breake the same or he cold gett it out ; & for a ffitt place to breake it on, he seeketh round about, take heede &c. Two friars lie on the kitchen floor. Panche cracks the pot on one friar's head 164 168 Tow silly fryers, on the kitchin flore ^ all night asleepe dyd lye ; whose shauen crownes, by the Mooneliglit then, S^^r Panch he did there espye. to one of them he comes, supposing his pate a stone ; & there burst the earthen pott, which, made the fryer to grone. tak heed &c. he thinks his com- panion did it, and thrashes him for it. The noise 172 176 180 The silly firyer, being hurt full sore, did thinke his fellow had vpon some spite abused him soe ; therfore, as he were madd, he laid him soundly e on, & caught him by the eares ; whose rumbled 2 waked the folkes in the house, & fedd^ them full of feares. take heed of hott furmitree ! MS. slore.— r. floor. — P. - rumbling. — P. ' fed, perhaps fill'd.— P. PANCHE. 67 When tliey came downe, the found the fryers ^ [p. 2413 brings aii the people well buffeting one another ; the one did tell how he was senied 184 by his religions brother. but when S^^r Panch they spyed, w^th honnye besmeared soe, & daubed about w^th Milke & creame, 188 the knew how all things did goe. take heede down stairs ; Panche is discovered all over honey and cream : 192 196 for well they did see that it was he that did the old man wronge, & hee that brake the poore fryers head as he did lye alonge, that eate the Milke & creame & the pott of ffurmitree ; yett, for to be reuenged of him, they knew noe remedye. take heede and they sec who the culprit is, but don't know how to punish him. God keepe, I say, such guests away ^200 both from my meate & mee ! if I had 20 weddings to make, neuer bidden shold he bee ! & thus I make an end 204 of this my merry lest, wishing to euerye honest man all happinesse & rest. take heede of hot furmitree ! 208 take heed of hot furmitree ! liins. God keep such guests away from me! Here's the end of my merry tale. ' the fryers they found. —P. 68 Oh the pleasures I've had with lasses ! Oh that Jenny were here again! [Page 287 of MS.] When as I doe record the pleasures I haue had att this side slippery board, my mind^ is merry & glad, w^'th many a lusty lasse my pleasure I haue tane : I wold giue mine 2 old white lade that lynye were here againe ! 16 Shee brewes & bakes to sell for such as doe passe by ; good fellowcs loue her well ; infaith & soe doe I ! ffor euer when I was drye, of drinke I wold haue tane, I wold tread both shooes awrye, that lynye &c. I've often played at traytrippe with her. 20 24 ffuU oft shee & I within the buttery playd att tray trippe of a dye, & sent away the mayd. fibr shee is of the dealing trade, shee will giue you 3 for one ; shee is noe sullen lade ; giff lynnye &c. ' mimd in the MS.— F. - One btroke too few for i?i in the MS. — F. WHEN AS I DOE RECCORD. C9 A man might for a penny haue had a pott of ale, & tasted of a Caney ' 28 of either legg or tayle ; for shee wold neuer fayle if shee were in the vaine alas, all ffiesh^ were frayle 32 giif linnye ^ &c. ffiill oft I haue beene her man, iVe often been her her markett for to make ; man. & after I hane rydden 36 a loTirney for her sake, Her pannell I cold take, [page 288] & gallopp all amaine ; Ida make both bedsides cracke 40 that lynnye &c. She would never fail you. 44 48 You hostises that meane for to Hue by yo^*r trade, if you scome to kisse, then keepe a pretty mayd ! for drinke is not worth a lowse if lasses there be none ! I wold drinke a whole carrouse that lynye were here againe ! ffins. if you won't kiss your- selves, keek a pretty maid. Oh that Jenny were here again. 1 ? Coney.— F. « MS. Afresh.— F. ' An m in tho MS, for nn.—Y. 70 [Page 313 of MS.] Venus went to hunt, and Diana went to show her the sport. But Venus saw no fun in dogs worrying poor stags : she liked better love's game. 12 16 20 When scorching PhcBbus he did mount,- to-Iaur bonne tannce,^ — then Lady Venus went to hunt, par melio shannce ; ^ to whom diana * did resort, w^th [a] 11 the Ladyes ^ of hills & valleys, of springs & ffloodes, to shew where ^ all the princely sport, with hound imbrued, & harts pursued, throughe groues & woodes. This tender harted louers Queene, — to-iour bonne tannce, — such wandring sports had seldome scene, par melio shance. shee tooke noe pleasure in the same, to see hounds merry, & pore harts werrye ffor want of breath. quoth shee, " I like better that game where ladyes bewtyes do pay their dutyes to loues sweete death." She was dry, and went to Bacchus 24 They aire was hott, & shee was drye, — to-iour bonne tannce ; — to Bacchus court shee fast did hye — par melio shance — ' The Birth of Priapus. a little loose. —P. 2 Tous-jours bon temps, or beau temps. Qu.— P. * Par meilleur Chance or Champs. Qu. — P. Evidently parmi les cl W. L. B. * The old English word for Nymphs. —P. * With all the I/.— P. « her.— P. WHEN SCORTCHINa PHCEBUS. 71 her ffaint & weary hart [to^] cheirsh, whic}i was soe fjered, that shee descryed ^ to quench her thirst, to quench her thirst. 28 & cryed, " helpe Bacchus, or else I perish ! " who still did hold her, & plainly told her he wold 3 kisse her ffirst. 32 36 40 Then Bacchus with a power divine, — to-iour bone tance, — himselfe turned* to a butt of wine, — par melio shance, — and bade this Ladye drinke her fiill, & take her pleasure in any measure, & make noe waste ; & gaue her leaue to sucke the quill, which, was ^ spriteffull and delightffull vnto her tast.^ He turned himself into a butt of wine, and bade her suck the quill. 44 48 Att last this butte did run a tilte — to-iour bonne tance. — qi^oth shee, " one drop shall not be spilt, par melio shance, ffor itt doth pleasing tast soe well, my hart doth will me ffor to fill me of this sweete Vine ; I wold that I might alwayes dwell in this ffaire Arbor ! heeres soe good harbor, & pleasant wine." She did, Shee drunke soe long, ere shee had done, — 52 to-iour bonne tance, — her belly swelled like a tunn, par melio shance. and drank ' to.— P. desyred.— he'd.— P. P. * Turn'd himself.— P. * Which was so sp. — P. « taste.— P. 72 WHEN SCORTCHING PHCEBUS. till she came to pieces, and pro- duced God Priapus, 66 60 Att last sliee ffell in peeces twain e ; & being assunder, appeard a wonder, God pryapus ! yett ffaine shee wold haue drunke againe ; & oft did visitt, & much solicite God Diacchus. who she prophesied ■would be the delight of wife and maid, (and be called Bacchus's heir,) His emptye caske wold yeeld noe more, — to-iour bonne tannce,— ffor shee had sucked itt ffull sore, 64 par melio shance. quoth, she ^ " god Bacchus, change thy shape ; fFor now thy rigour, & all thy vigour, Is cleane decayd. [page 68 behold [thou] here this new borne babe, who when he is proued, heele ^ be beloued of wiffe & maide." This bellye god that wold be drunke — 72 to-iour bonne tannce, — and being a goddesse, proued a punke,^ par melyo shance, her lusty bastarde stiffe & stronge, 76 was made & framed, & alsoe named, god Bacchus heyre. he had a nose 3 handfull Long, w^'th one eye bleared, & all besmeard 80 about w^th hayre. the god of rich and poor, 84 He is the god of rich & poore — to-iour bonne tannce ;- he openeth euery womans doore, par melio shance ; * MS. the. — ^F. Quoth she, God. — P. ^ Thus of a Groddess made a punk.- 2 wiU.— P. WHEN SCORTCHING PH(EBUS. 73 88 he ceaseth all debate & strife, & gently peaseth,^ & sweetly pleaseth the hungry wombe. he is the icy twixt man & wifFe ; her pleasure lasteth, & sweeter tasteth then hony combe. the stiller of strife, "Wives ]oy. 92 96 100 Now all you nice & dainty dames, — to-iour bonne tannce, — to vse this god, thinke itt no ^ shame, par melio shance. then let my speeches not offend, tho you be gaudye, & I be baudye & want a rodd ! good deeds shall speeches ffault amend when you are willing ffor to be billing w^th this sweet god. ffins. My dainty dames, don't be offended with me I ' he feuds appeaseth. Qu. — P. ' you think no. — P. 74 I wished a babe in a nurse's arms was mine, 5n a ilap mornmse* [Page 383 of MS.] In a may morning I mett a sweet nursse with a babe in ber armes, sweetly cold busse. I wold to god itt were mine ! I sbold be glad ont ! ffor it was a merry mumping thing, who ere was dad ont. and asked her who was the father of it. She didn't know. I offered to father it. 12 16 I saluted her kindlye, & to her I sayd, " god morrow, sweet honye, and you be a mayd ; or if you wold shew to me, I shold be glad ont ; or if you wold tell me who is the right dad ont." " The dad of my child, Sir, I doe not well know, ffor all that lay with mee refuseth me now from one to the other ; still I wold be rid ont." "but whosoeuer gott the Child, He be the dad ont." " He take itt in mine armes, & wislye He worke, He lay itt in the hye way as men come from kirke, & euerye one that comes by shall haue a glegge ^ ont, vntill I haue ffound out a man, the right dad ont." A Scotch- man also offered to be the child's dad. There came a kind Scot[c]hman whose name is not knowne, sayes hee to this sweet hart, " this babye is mine owne ; come bind it vpon my backe ; lone shall be rid ont ; 20 for whosoeuer gott the child, He be the dad ont." A glance, a sly look — a word still used in Northflw/)tonsliire. — P. J IN A MAY MORNINGE. 75 " Kow, nay! now, nay ! " sliee saves, " soe itt may Thegiri *^ refused not bee ! : lie never got it. jouv looke & his countenance doe not agree ; for had hee beene sike a swayne, I had neere been great ont ; 24 for hee was a blythe young man iliai was the right dad ont. " his lippes like the rubye, his cheekes like the rose, he tempteth all fFayre mayds where-ener he goes : first he did salute mee ; then was I right glad ont ; 28 0 hee was a blythe younge man fha^ was the right dad ont. " lie trauell through England & Scottland soe wyde, & a-ffoote I will fibllow him to be his bryde ; He bind itt vpon my backe, lie not be ryd ont 32 vntill I haue found out the man fhai^ the right dad ont. " He husse^ itt, lie busse itt, He lapp itt in say^ ; He rocke itt. He lull itt, by night & by day ; He bind itt vpon my backe, He not be ridde ont 36 vntill I haue found out the man ihai^ the right dad ont. " And thus to conclude, thoe itt ffall to my Lott to ffind a dad ffor my barne ^ fhat I cannott ; if an englishman gett a child, & wold be ridd ont, 40 let him bring it to Scot[c]hman, & heele be the dad ont." » hush.— F. 2 silk._F. » bairn, child.— P. A rubj-- lipped young man was the true father, and she'd tramp over England and Scotland to find him and marry But if she couldn't find him, why then she'd fall back on the Scotchman. 7(J €i)t Curfe in ^iimu [Page 383 of MS.] This is the eleventh song in Thomas Heywood's Rape ofLucrece, 1st ed. 1608. It was printed by Mr. Fairholt from the fifth edition, 1638, in his Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume, for the Percy Society, 1849, p. 141-2, but he modernised the spelling. " English Mutability in Dress " is the title that Mr. Fairholt gives the song, and he prints the first stanza of it, which our copy in the Folio omits. This stanza in the earliest and titleless copy of the play in the British Museum — which I suppose to be the edition of 1608, and the readings of which in the notes below are signed B.M. — runs thus : The Spaniard loues his ancient slop. The Lumbard, his Venetian,^ And some, like breech-lesse women goe : The Russe, Turke, lew, and G-recian ; TJie threysly"^ Frenchman weaves small wast. The Dutch his belly hoasteth ; The Englishman is for them all, And for each fashion coasteth. In illustration of this Mr. Fairholt aptly quotes the well- known passages from Andrew Borde and Coryat about the Englishman's changeableness in dress. The latter says, " We weare more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun, the French only excepted [see 1. 6 of our poem] ; which hath ^ A kind of hose or breeches described fifth editions both read threysly. ? from by Stubbes. See the word in Nares. — F. A.-S. \>ras, a hem, fringe — Somner. Or 2 thrifty. — Fairholt. The fourth and \>reahs, rottenness — Lye. — F. THE TURK IN LINEN. 77 given occasion to the Venetian, and other Italians, to brand the Englishman with a notable mark of levity, by painting him stark naked, with a pair of shears in his hand, making his fashion of attire according to the vain conception of his brain- sick head, not to comeliness and decorum." Possibly this copy in the Folio is from one of those of which Heywood complains in his To the Reader : — " . . some of my plaies haue (vnknowne to me, and without any of my direc- tion) accidentally come into the Printers hands, and therefore so corrupt and mangled (coppied only by the eare) that I haue bin as vnable to know them as a-shamed to chalenge them. This therefore I was the willinger to furnish out in his natiue habit : first being by consent, next because the rest haue been so wronged in being publisht in such sauadge and ragged garments : accept it courteous Gentlemen, and prooue as fauorable Readers as we haue found you gratious Auditors. Yours T. H." The : turke in Linen ^ wrapps his head, the persian his in ^ lawne tooe, the rushe ^ w*th sables ffurres his cappe, & change will not be drawen tooe. the Spaynyards constant to his blocke, the ffrencli inconstant euer ; but of all ffelts that may be ffelt, giue me the English beuer.^ Above all other felts, Russian, Spanish, French, give me the English beaver I • Linem in the MS.— F. MS. in his ;— his in, B.M.— F. 3 Russe.— B.M. * Fealts.— B.M. ^ Fairholt says that beaver hats ap- pear to have been first imported from Flanders. Cost, in England, p. 490. Stubbes, 1583, that they " were fetched from beyond the seas, from whence a great sort of other vanities do come be- sides." In a satiric ballad on the knights of £40 per annum made by James I. (in V/it and Wisdom^ Shaksp. Soc. 1846, p. 146-7) the shepherds are jestingly told to Cast of for ever your twoe shillinge * bonnetts. Cover your coxcombs with three-pound beavers. — ib. p. 498. " Beaver hats were expensive articles of dress, as already noted. Dugdale, in his Biari/ (under April 13, 1661), notes : ' Payd for a bever hatte, £4 105.'; the fashion of it may be seen in Hollar's print of that distinguished antiquary. Pepys records (under June 27 in the same year) : — ' This day Mr. Holden sent me a bever, which cost me £4 5s.'" — ib. p. 503. * Mr. Hunter's copy reads fewpenMy.— Halli- well. 78 THE TURK IN LINEN. Some like rough things ; some like smooth ; the English lecher loves all sorts. With all drinks too he makes merry ; The German loues his connye well,^ the Irishman his shagg tooe ^; the welch his Monmouth^ loues to weare, 12 & of the same will bragg tooe. some loue the rough, & some the smooth, some great, & other small thinge ^ ; but oh, jouv English Licorish man,^ 16 he loues to deale in all thinges ! The Rush drinkes Quash 6; Duche, lubickes beere,^ & that is strong ^ and mightye ; the Brittaine, he Metheglin Quaffes, 20 the Irish, Aqua vitae^ ; the ffrench affects his orleance grape, the spanyard tasts his sherrye ; the English none of these escapes, 24 but with them* 2 all makes merrye. ' conny-wool. — B.M. In another poem in the same volume, at p. 162, we read — Here is an English conny furr! Rushia hath no such stuffe, Which, for to keep your fingers warms, Excells your sable muffe. The Burse of Reformation. ? For the double entendre of the black beaver, compare 1. 32 of Off alle the seaes below. — F. 2 Shagge-too.— B.M. 3 Munmouth.— B.M. A cut of the Monmouth cap is given on p. 502 of Fairholt's Costume in England, 1860, and on p. 115 of the Percy Society's Sa- tirical Songs and .Poems on Costume, and it is mentioned twice in the " Ballad of the Caps," which Mr. Fairholt places at the end of the reign of Elizabeth, and which is found in Sportive Wit, 1656; D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, 1719-20, «&c. The Monmouth-cap, the say lors thrum . . . The souldiers that the Monmouth wear. From Cleveland's Square-Cap for me, the cap seems to have been made of plush — And first, for the plush-sake, the Mon- mouth-cap comes. {Sat. Songs, 134.) It was worn by sailors, as Mr. Fairholt shows by quoting A Satyreon SeaOfficers, by Sir H. S. published with the Duke of Buckingham's Miscellanies (Costume, p. 533). * A second g appears to be crossed out in the MS.— F. ^ your lecherish Englishman. — B.M, « quatfes, B.M. ; quaffes, 4th ed. 1630 ; quasses, 5th ed. 1638. " Quasse, men- tioned as a humble kind of liquor, used by rustics. As meade obarne, and meade cherunk, And the base quasse by pesants drunk." Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cap, 1609, in Nares. — F. Luheck. The beer of Lubeck was celebrated, and appears to have been very strong. I think you're drunk With Luheck heer or Brunswick mum. Alhertus Wallenstein, 1639. Modern editors of Nares. — F. ^ stromg in the MS.— F. ^ " Aqua Vita, (i. e. Water of Life), a sort of Cordial Water made of brew'd Beer strongly hopp'd and well ferment- ed." Phillips. the Orleane.— B.M. can scape. — B.M. '2 But he with.— B.M. THE TUEK IN LINEN. The Italyan, in her hye shapines,^ and there's no woman Scot[c]h lasse, & louely ffroe^ tooe; that he the Spanish don-a,^ ffrench Madam,'* ^^^^ * 28 he will not ffeare to goe too : nothing soe ffull of hazards^ dread,'* nought lines aboue the center, noe health, noe ffashyon, wine, nor wench, 32 jour English dare not venter." ^ ffins. • Chapeene, — B.M. Choppines. — P. "A high sooled Shoe, v. Chapin. Sp. Ckapin de mvger, a woman's shooes, such as they vse in Spaine, mules, or high cork shooes." PLrcivale, hy Minsheu. Chopines, says Mr. Fairholt, were shoes elevated " as high as a man's leg." Baymoncts Voyage through Italy, 1648. They are mentioned by Shakspere {Hamlet, act ii. scene 2), and were occasionally worn in England, but not of so great an altitude. See Lowe's Illus- trations of Shakspere. — F. 2 Froa-too.— B.M. frow.— P. ' Bonna, B.M. Bonna, 4th edition. Donna, 5th ed. — F. * ? Eef erring to "Lues Venerea, or Mor- bus Gallicus, the French Pox, a malig- nant and infectious Distemper." Phillips. — F. * hazard.— B.M. * No Fashion, Health, no Wiue, nor Wench, On which hee dare not venter. — B.M. 80 €omt toanton toeiufeesf* An old courtezan's advice to younger ones to grant their favours coyly ; not to be forward, except at first, and so whet their hirers' desire. [Page 404 of MS.] Wenches, I'll tell you how to manage. Husband your ware. Be freer of ppeech than 12 Come : all you wanton wenches that longs to be in tradinge, come learne of me, loues Mistris, to keepe yo-z^r selues ffrom ladeinge ! when you expose jour ffaces, all baytes ffor to entrapp men, then haue a care to husband jour ware, that you proue not bankrout chapmen, be not att ffirst to nice nor coye when gamsters you are courtinge, nor fforward to be sportinge ; in speeches ffree, not in action bee, for feare of lesse resortinge. Conceal your passion ; spare your favours when men are eager. 16 20 Let not yo2*r outward iesture b[e]rawy yo^^r inward passyon ; but seeme to neglect, when most you doe affect, in a cunning scornefuU ffashyon. be sparing of jour ffavors when mens loue grow most Eagare ; yett keepe good guard, or else all is mared. when they jour ffort beleaugar ; grant but a touch or a kisse ffor a tast. COME WANTON WENCHES. 81 & seeme not to bee willinge 24 ^ allwayes ffor to be billinge. with, a tuch or a pincb, or a nipp or a wrenche, disapont tbeir hopes ffallfiUinge. Don't be always bill- ing. 28 32 36 If once you growe to lauisb, and all jouy wealtb discouer, you cast of hope ; for then with too much scope you doe dull yo^tr Egar louer. then order soe yo^^r treasure, & soe dispend jout store, that tho men do tast, their loues may neuer wast, but they still may hope for more. & if by chance, beinge wrapt in a trance, you yeeld them full ffruityon won by strong opposityon, yett nipp & teare, & with poutinge sweare 'twas against yo?tr disposityon. Let men taste and hope for more. If you yield, straggle and say you didn't mean it, 40 44 48 52 Thus seeminge much displeased with that^ did most content, you whett desire, & daylye add fire to a spiritt almost spent, be sure att the next encounter you put JOUY loue to striue ; yett be not rude, if need he will intrude, soe shall jour trading thriue, soe shall you still be flfreshlye woed, like to a perfect mayd. & doe as I haue sayd, your fiaininge seemes true, & like venus euer new, and jour trading is not betrayd. ffinis. and next time, make more fuss over it : but don't be too rude. Thus you'll always be wooed like a maiden. * A note of Percy's here, of five lines, rubbed or scratched out. — F. 2 that which, what. — F. 82 as? It htMl on a fiap t [Page 443 of MS.] As : itt beffell on a sumers day, when Phebns in his glorye, he was suited in his best array, — as heere records my storye, — 2 London damsells fforth they wold ryde, they were decked in their pompe & their pryde, they said they wold goe ffarr & wyde but they wold goe gather Codlyngs. Sisters they were, exceeding ffine, & macheless in their bewtye ; happy was the wight cold giue them wine to expresse his loue and dutye. soe fine, so fieate, so sweet, soe neate, so delicate ; 0, itt wold doe you good ffor to heare them prate ! but yett intruth they haue a ffault, to fill their belly fiull of Codlings. Then to an orchard straight they went, intending fibr to enter, the younger w^th a bold attempt ffirst did intend to enter : " nay, softly ! " quoth the Elder wench, *' I pray thee lett vs goe Srom hence ; fibr heare I am in some suspence that heare I shall not gett no Codlings." AS IT BEFFELL ON A DAY. 83 28 32 Art tliou soe ffond ? canst thou not see [page 444] what good Lucke doth abode vs ? yonder lyes a youngman vnder a tree that with, his ffruite can loade vs. then to the Orchard straight wee will stray ; weele devise w^th him to sport & to play ; & then He warrant you w^ithout delay heele fiill our belly ffull of codlings." " Can't you see a young man there who'll load us ? " 36 40 Then shoe did leape ouer the ditch as light as any ffether ; her sister after her did Leape, now begins to ffeare no whether, with a merry hart & a ioyffuU cheere, setting aside all care & ffeare, seeing her sister scape soe cleere, shee wold not Loose her share o Codlings ; The young one then leaps the ditch, the elder follows, Then shee did leape ouer the dich as light as any arrow ; & in her leape, " ah ! ah ! " shee cryes, 44 ffeeling her smocke was narrowe, as maydens doe thai newly wedd being taken ffrom her true louers bedd ; & with a sigh her mayden-head 48 were worne away with eating Codlings. Her sister, on the Other side where shee attended, bidd her haue a care, her smocke was too wyde. with what shee was offended ; 52 with thai a nettle stonge her by the knee ; " a pox of all strait smockes ! " qttoth shee. seeing itt wold no better bee, shee Layd her downe to gether Codlings. ffinis. cries Ah, and gets her codlings. Then the young one lies down and gets hers too. 84 35Iame : not a toomaii* [Page 446 of MS.] Blame : not a woman althougli shee bee Lewd, & that her ffaults they hane been knowne. although shee doe offend, yett in time shee may amend ; then blame her not ffor vsing of her owne, But rather giue them praise, as they deserue, when vice is banisht quite, & virtue in them grown e, ffor thats their only tresure, & ffor to ffly vaine pleasure. then blame them not ffor vsing of their owne. There is many now a dayes that women will dispraise : out of a dru[n]ken humor when as their witts arc fflowne, out of an Idle braine, w^^th speeches Lewd ^ & vaine theile blame them still ffor vsinge of her owne. But if woman shold not trade, how shold the world increase ? if women all were nise, what seede shold then be sowne ? if women all were coy, they wold breede mens annoye ; then blame them not ffor vsing of their owne. If any take offence att this my songe, I thinke that no good maners he hath knowne. wee all ffrom women came : why shold wee women blame, & ffor a litle vsing of their owne ? ffinis. ' MS. has a tag liko .s to the d. — F. 85 [Page 455 of MS.] OfF: all the seas thats cominge, of all the woods thats risinge, of all the ffishes in the sea, 4 giue me a womans swiuinge. ffor shee hath pretty ffancyes to passe away the night ; & shee hath pretty pleasures 8 to coniure downe a spritt. My ffather gane me Land, my mother gaue me mony, & I haue spent itt enery whitt in hunting of a Coney. I hunted vp a hill, a Coney did espye ; my fferrett seeing thatj 16 into her hole did hye ; 12 Before all fish give me a woman 1 I've spent all my money on one. chasing her my fferrett seeing that, into her hole did runn ; but when he came into her hoi 20 noe Coney cold be ffound. I put itt in againe ; itt ffound her out att Last ; the Coney then betwixt her Icggs 24 did hold my fferrett ffast, till I ran her to ground. 86 OFF ALLE THE SEAES. Till that itt was soe weake, alacke, itt cold not stand ! my fferrett then out of her hole 28 did come vnto my hand. All you that be good ffellowes, giue hearing vnto me ; Choose dark & if you wold a Conev hunt, ones; . 32 a blacke ore lett itt bee ; they're the ffor blacke ones are they best, best. ' their Sckins will yeeld most money. I wold to god that hee were hanged 36 that does not loue a Coney ! ffinis. 87 3Couersi f)ea[r]&e alarum* [Page 459 of MS.] LOUERS : harke ! an alaram is soundincr : now loue Lovers, cryes ; who-soe feares, or in ffaintnesse abounding,^ will surprise. 0 then, on ! charge them home ! if you delay jo^iv charge your girls home ; time, 4 jour hopes will flPaile ; these ffair ffoes yeelding lookes doe bewray their their hearts are more harts yours than as yowrs, more then their owne. If they striue, itts a tricke ffor a triuU who is most bold. 8 No braue man iGfor a silly denyall will grow cold ; Take no None but ffooles fflinch ffor noe when ^ a I by nois ^ ment in louing seance ; On then, & charge them home ! perchance you may charge soe put them ■J 2 ffrom their ffence. Downe, Downe with, them ! o, how the tremble for the Down with them I crye ! what, for feare ? no ! no ! no ! they dissemble * ; they know why. ' Only half the u in the MS. — F. ' ?uois. I can make no sense of it. — F. 2 ? MS. whema. — F. * There's a tag at the end like an s. — F. 88 LOUEES hea[r]ke alarum. [page 460] Quickly woone, Quickly lost, the delight of life is lost, 16 procured with, paines. Ttey'u fight Thcse rcspccts makes them bold to fight, to Cry, to again. dye, to Hue againe. ffiiiis. 89 g[ ffremiie o( \mm. [Page 459 of MS.] A : ffreind of mine not long agoe desired att my hands some pretty toy to moue delight to those thai hearers stand, the wJdch I meane to gratiffye by all the meanes I may, & moue delight in euery wight that with affection stay. Some thought to proue wherin I shold these seuerall humors please, the which to doe, reason fforbidds, lest I shold some displease ; but sith my muse doth plesure Chuso, & theron bends her skill, wherby I may driue time away, tiiat win drive away & sorrowes quite beguile. au Borrow. It was my Chance, not long agoc, by a pleasant wood to walke, wheere I vnseene of any one did heare tow louers talke ; & as these louers forth did passe, hard by a pleasant shade, hard by a mighty Pine tree there, their resting place they made. A fi-ifud liaa as]<:ed nic for a story to delight all hearers. I'll tell you one I walked in a wood and saw two lovers rest under a pine. 90 A FREINDE OF MINE. The man said the place was made only for lovers to embrace, and took his girl by the middle. She caught hold of him, for Bhe was a merry lass. He delayed, Bo she offered to arrange herself *' Insooth," then did this youngman say, " I thinke this ffragrant place was only made for loners trne 28 eche others to inbrace." hee tooke her by the middle small, — good sooth I doe not mocke, — not meaning to doe any thing 32 but to pull vpp her : smo : ^ blocke "wheron shee sate, poore silly soule, to rest her weary bones, this maid shee was noe whitt affraiyd, 36 but shee canght him ffast by the : stones : thumbes ; wheratt he vext & greiued was, soe that his fflesh did wrinkle ; this maid shee was noe whitt affrayd, 40 but caught him fast hold by the : pintle : pimple which hee had on his chin likwise ; — but lett the pimple passe ; — there is no man heare but he may supposse 44 shee weere a merry lasse. he boldly ventured, being tall, yet in his speech bu[t] blunt, hee neuer ceast, but tooke vpp all, 48 & cacht her by the Cun : plumpe. And red rose lipps he kisst full sweete : quoth, shee, " I craue no sucour." which made him to haue a mighty mind 52 to clipp, kisse, & to : ffuck : plucke her into his armes. " nay! soft ! " quoth shee, " what needeth all this doing ? fFor if you wilbe ruled by me, 56 you shall vse small time in wooinge. [page 460] ^ These and the similar colons following are those of the MS. — F. A FREINDE OF MINE. 91 " ffor I will lay me downe," q^oth shee, " vpon the slippery seggs, & all my clothes He tmsse vp round, 60 & spread abroad my : leggs : eggs, w^^'ch I haue in my aperne heare vnder my girdle tuckt ; soe shall I be most ffine & braue, and get ready. 64 most ready to be : fnckt : ducket " vnto some pleasant springing well ; jSbr now itts time of the yeere to decke, & bath, & trim ourselues 68 both head, hands, ffeet & geere." ffinis. 92 (B m^i (B nap : not : ^ttt [Page 460 of MS.] A: yong man walking alone, abroad to take the ayre, itt was his chance ffor him to meete 4 a maiden pasing fiaire. desiring her of curtesiye awhile with him downe sitt ; shee answered him most modestlye, 8 " O nay ! O nay ! not yett !" " Forty crownes I will giue thee, sweete hart, in good red gold, if that I may thy ffanonr haue, 12 thy bewtye to behold." & then she spoke now readilye & with, a ready witt, *' I will not sell my honestye ! 16 O nay ! O nay ! not yett ! " Gold & mony is but drosse, & worldly vanittye * ; I doe esteeme more of the losse 20 of my virginitye ! but dost thou thinke I am soe madd, or of soe litle witt as ffor to sell my honestye ? 24 0 nay ! 0 nay ! not yett ! " ^ vanit}'. — P. O NAY, 0 NAY, NOT YETT. 93 They way to win a wonians hart, is quicklye to be breiffe, & giue her that wtth-in ffew words that will soone ease her greiffe. " 0 fFye ! 0 ffye ! away ! " sheele crye, that loues a dainty bitt, " I will not yeelde to Cupids lawes ! 0 nay ! 0 nay ! not yett ! " ffinis. But if you'd win a woman, be quick, and don't mind her refusal. 94 I can't give up my love, and wish I could find her. I'd give her some nectar. Some tell me I shall be burnt if I touch her. But I'm not afraid of that. [Page 460 of MS.] I : Cannot be contented ffrom lone to be absented. altbongh I were presented,^ 4 He haue another bout ; I know shee is vnwilling to heare of all the skillinge ^ ; shee rather had bee lilling,^ 8 if I I could ffind her out. but if that time & lesure serue, infaith shee shall not neede to sterue ; ffor well I know shee doth deserue 12 to tast vpon sweet Nectair, the ffoode wheron the gods do ffeede, & all they gods they haue decreede. but shee shall haue itt att her neede ! 16 hey hoe ! my harte is wearye ! Some say, ' if I come nye her, my liffe must pay the hyer ; ' but if I scape ffrom ffyer, 20 then let them doe their worst ; for water, I am sure, while grinding doth endure, will come like hawke to lure, 24 or else the Miller is curst. [page 4G1] ' To present, to bring an Information against. Phillips. — P. ? Reasoning. — P. ' Lill. ( I) To pant ; to loll out the tongue. Wilts. " I lylle out the tongo as a beest dothe that is chafed [heated]." Palsgrave. " To pant and be out of breath, or lill out the tongue, as a dog that is weary." Florio, p. 16; in Halli- well's Gloss.— P. I CANNOTT BEE CONTENTED. 95 looke in the dam, & you may spye heere is soe much that some runs by ; there neuer came a yeere soe drye Her mill has plenty of 28 cold keepe this Mill ffrom grindinge. water. yett shee no common Miller is ; shee does not grind eche plowmans gris ^ ; she needs not, vnless shee list, 32 but ffor sweet recreation. ffinis. ^ Grist, Corn ground, or fit for grinding ; Meal, Flower. Phillips. — F. 96 2.niumh)})am* [Page 461 of MS.] With this poem may be compared another "Burlesque Receipt" for the same purpose in Reliquice Antiquce, i. 250, "A good medesyn, yff a mayd have lost her madened, to make her a mayd ageyn," which is taken, says Mr. Halliwell, " from a copy of Caxton's Mirrour of the World, or ih^ ymage of the same, fol. Lond. 1481, in the King's Library in the British Museum, fol. ult. v"., written by some owner of the book in the year 1520." A. aid. The : maid, shee went to the well to washe, went to the ' ' well to wash, Lillumwham, Lillumwham ! the mayd shee went to the well to washe, 4 whatt then ? what then ? the maid shee went to the well to washe ; dew ffell of her lilly white fleshe ; Grandam boy, Grandam boy, heye ! 8 Leg a derry. Leg a merry, mett, mer, whoope, whir ! driuance, larumben, Grandam boy, heye ! and as she White ^ shee washee, & white ^ shee ronge, washed her clothes, LiUumwham &C : 12 white* shee hangd o the hazlc wand, Grandam boy, heye &c. 1 Is this white for while? There is no MS. The white of line 6, and of linos loop to the letter, and that makes the 10 and 12, is exactly the same— F. difference between the I and t in this LILLUMWHAM. 97 16 There came an old Palmer by the way, Lillumwham &c. sais, " god speed thee well thou faire maid ! " Grandam boy, hey &c. a palmer asked her 20 "Hast either Cupp or can— Lillumwham &c. — to giue an old palmer drinke therin ? " Grandam boy, heye &c. for a cup to drink out of. 24 sayes, " I haue neither cupp nor Cann — Lillumwham &c. — to giue an old Palmer drinke therin." Grandam boy, heye &c. She said she hadn't one. 28 " But an thy Lemwan came from Roome, Lillumwham &c., Cupps & canns thou wold ffind soone." Grandam boy, heye &c. " If your lover, came you'd soon find some." 32 Shoe sware by god & good St. lohn, Lillumwham &c. Lemman had shee neuer none ; Grandam boy, heye &c. " I never had a lover." 3C Saies, " peace, ffaire mayd ! you arc fforsworne ! Lillumwham &c. Nine Children you haue borne ; Grandam boy, heye &c. — "That's a story 1 You've had 9 children. 40 " They * were buryed vnder thy beds head; Lillumwham &c : — other three vnder thy brewing leade^; Grandam boy, hey &c. and mur- dered them all ! " ' Three.— P. ^ Lead, a vat for dyeing, &c., Northern kitchen copper is sometimes so called. IlalliweU's Gloss. "A forneys of a lecd." Chaucer, Cant. T. Prol. 1. 202.— F. 98 LILLUMWHAM. " Well, I hope you're Christ, and will set me pen- ance." "I will: be 7 years stepping stone, Other tkree on won play greene, Lillmnwliam &c. 44 Count, maids, & there be 9." Grandam boy, hey &c. But I hope you are the good old man — Lillumwham &c. — 48 That all the world beleeues vpon ; Grandam boy, hey &c. " Old Palmer, I pray thee, — Lillumwham &c. — 52 Pennaunce thai thou wilt giue to me." Grandam boy, hey &c. " Penance I can giue thee none, — Lillumwham &c. — 56 but 7 yeere to be a stepping stone ; Grandam boy, hey &c. [page 462] 7 a clapper in a bell. for 7 lead an ape in hell. 60 " Other seauen a clapper in a bell, — Lillumwham &c. — Other 7 to lead an ape in hell.^ Grandam boy, hey &c. And when your penance is done. you'll come home a maid." 64 68 " When thou hast thy penance done, Lillumwham, Lillumwham, when thou hast thy penance done, whatt then ? what then ? when thou hast thy penance done, then thoust come a mayden home." Grandam boy, Grandam boy, hey ! Leg a derry, Leg a merry, met, mer, whoop, whirr ! driuance, Larumben, Grandam boy, heye ! ffinis. ' See Mr. Dyce's note in the Ballads and Eomances of the Folio, ii. 46. — F. 99 [Page 462 of MS.] A CORRESPONDENT says, " This was a very common old story, and I think it occurs in one of the early fabliaux, but the only re- ference I can think of at present is the celebrated Moyen de ParveniVf by Beroalle de Verville, where it is introduced in Chapter 49." : was a man of Affrica had a ffaire wiffe, a wife who was ffairest that euer I saw the dayes of my liffe : with a ging, boyes, ginge ! ginge, boyes, ginge I 4 tarradidle, ffarradidle, ging, boyes, ging ! This goodwiffe was bigbellyed, & with a lad, pregnant & euer shee longed ffor a sea crabbe. crab, ginge &c. 8 The goodman rise in the morning, & put on his hose, Her good- rnan he went to the sea syde, & ffollowed his nose, ginge &c. Sais, " god speed, ffisherman,' sayling on the sea, 12 hast thou any crabbs in thy bote for to sell mee ?" ging &c. " I haue Crabbs in my bote, one, tow, or three; bought one I haue Crabbs in my bote for to sell thee." 16 ginge &c. > MS. ffishernan.— F. 100 THE SEA CRABB. and put it in the jordan. It caught hold of his wife. The good man went home, & ere he wist, & put the Crabb in the Chamber pot where his wiffe pist. ging &c. 20 The good wiffe, she went to doe as shee was wont ; vp start the Crabfish, & catcht her by the Cunt, ging &c. " Alas ! " q^^oth the goodwiffe, " thai euer I was borne, 24 the devill is in the pispott, & has me on his horne." ging &c. " If thou be a crabb or crabfish by kind, thoule let thy hold goe w^th a blast of cold wind." 28 ging He blew on it to make it let go, and it pinned his nose to his wife. So he called the neigh- bours in to part them. The good man laid to his mouth, & began to blowe, thinkeing therby that they Crab wold lett goe. ging &c. 32 " Alas ! " quoth the good man, " that euer I came hither, he has ioyned my wiffes tayle & my nose together ! " ging &c. They good man called his neigbors in with great wonder, 36 to part his wiues tayle & his nose assunder. ging &c. ffinis. 101 [Page 463 of MS.] LaST: night I thought my true loue I caught; when I waket, in my armes I mist her ; my sleepe I renued, & my dreame I pursued ; till I ffound out my loue, & I kist her. but if such delights belong to the nights, when the head* hath Phebus in keepinge, how is he blest wtth content in his rest that can ffind but his Mistress sleepinge ? I dreamt last night that I kist my love. 12 16 If shadowes can make the braines for to ake, when the spirritts haue their reposes, the substance hath power to proue & procure all the pleasures that loues incloses. Nights sable shroud, w*th her bonny cloude, will defend thee from Tytanus peepinge, & helpe thee to shade all the shiffts thou hast made ffor to find out thy Mistress sleepinge. If I enjoyed that, what must the real thing be ? 20 24 Then since the aid of the Cynthian mayd doth assist vs with her endeauour ; light to the moone till the suffering be done ; shoes a ffreind to the ffaithfful euer. though shee denyes, shee pishes & shee cryes, leaue not thou of ffor her weepinge ; ffor if shee ffind that affectyon be kinde, shees thine owne, boy, awake or sleepinge! ffinis. I since found her sleeping. and didn't leave her for her weeping. She was my own. > Thetis, q.— P. 102 5 lammelj mj? ^om. I dreamt that I saw my love in bed: [Page 480 of MS.] I dreamed my loue lay in her bedd : itt was my Chance to ta.ke her : her leggs & armes abroad were spredd ; shee slept ; I durst not awake her. O pitty itt were, that one soe faire shold Crowne her loue with, willowe ^ ; the tresses of her golden haire ^ did kisse he[r] louely pillowe. that her belly was a hill where my two beagles 12 16 Methought her belly was a hill much like a mount of pleasure, vnder whose height there growes a well ; the depth no man Can measure, about the pie [s] ant mountaines topp there growes a louely thickett, wherin 2 beagles trambled, & raised a liuely prickett.^ hunted, 20 They hunted there w?;th pleasant noyce about the pleasant mountaine, till hee by heat was fforct to ffly, & skipp into the fFountaine. » " The following ' To the Willow-Tree,' is in Herrick's Hesperides, p. 120: — Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distrest, And left of love, are crown'd. When with neglect (the lover's bane) Poor maids rewarded be. For their love lost, their onely gaine Is but a wreathe from thee." Brandos Pop. Antiq. i. 72, ed. 1861.— F. 2 The MS. has two strokes for the i, but only one dotted. — F. 3 Pryket, beest (prik, S.) Capriolus. Promptorium. Pricket, the buck in his second year. Halliwell. — F. I DREAMED MY LOUE. 103 they beagles ffollowed to the brinke, & there att him they barked ; he plunged about, but wold not shrinke ; his Coming fforth they wayted. Then fforth he Came as one halfe lame, weere weary, ffaint, & tyred ; & layd him downe betwixt her leggs, as helpe he had required, the beagles being reffresht againe, my Loue ffrom sleepe beyeued ; shee dreamed shee had me in her armes, & shee was not deceiued. and barked. She woke, andfoiandme ill her arms. ffinis. 104 [Page 486 of MS.] Panders, Pajstders, come away ! bring your i • rY> t t whores to bring fiortn jour whores by Clusters alongst the Lane, by Gray,* Cnpid'3 4 wheere Cupid keepes his musters muster. ^ ^ now to-day ! He'll cashier 2-^jienches, doo vou hearo ? I tell you not a ffable : all that can't ' ^ J » ranted^' ^^^^^ appeare, & be not warrantable, 8 heele Casheere ! Pr°s«tutes As for Nan: wright, though her dealings may com- if£ pareh[er;] yett, for her parts below, theres not a woman fFairer to the showe. JjLittie 12 Litle Ales is found 7 yeeres to haue been a trader ; Todd)^°°^ yett Tom Todd wilbe bound, whom as they say did spade h[er,] that shees sound. 3. Garden. Gardens neere the worss, though shee hath made her Co[ney] 16 as common as the Bursse; yett still shee hath they money in her pursse. » ? MS. Pray.— F. * The MS. has 4 lines in 2 henceforth.— F. PANDERS COME AWAYE. 105 Boulton is put by, & Luce, among the infected ; 4. Bouiton. 5. Luce & fFrankc Todd goeth a- wry, being before ' detected (with Frank 20 to be drye. Pitts is to forbeare the trade, & soe is likwise 6, Pitts. 7 7. Peanut. Pearnit^ ; for Cupid in his eare^ is told that they haue had itt to a haire. True itt is that Babe for yeeres may be a virgin ; a. Babe. 24 yett Cupid ffinds the drabb^ al ready ^ for a surgyon for the scabb. Southewells ! beare in mind^ althoug they are ffalse 9. soutii- doers, they say that you are blind^ & soe perhapps more ffauors 28 you doe ffind. winlowe is to young to know the firuits of wooinge lo.winiowc till nott haue made her strong to know the firuits ^ as doei[nge] to to Longe. 32 Gallants, come not neare to braue Venetja Stanley ^ ! ii. veuetia Stanley. her liord hath placed her there^ that will maintaine her ma[nly] without fieare. Hayseys, stoupe soe long^ to Cupid for aquittance, 12. Hayseys. 36 till euidence soe strong^ will speake for jour indit- men[t.] ' MS. be before.— F. Stanley, was the Wife of Sir Kenelm ^ ? Pearint. — F. Digby : Her reputation was not very ^ MS. already. — F. clear, as appears from Mr. Walpole's * MS. ffiruits.— F. Anecdotes of Painting.— P. * Veuetia, Daughter of Sir EdvV^. 106 PANDERS COME AWAYE. [page 487] ^ . . . . ce & lames^ Cupid will hane you armed ; for with, his hottest fflames he hath them soundlye warmed ; marke their names ! 14. Nan 40 Nan: lames is ffrowne soe Coy, that no man can James ° 7 (with her endure her ; barber's ^oy)- yett I haue heard some say^ a barbers boy did cure her of a toye. 15. Besse But wtth the wicked sire, that yett was neuer thought Broughton. 7 ° on, 44 by quenching of loues ffire^ hath tane away Besse Broughton one desire. 16. Jane Its^ ill that simix rydes, lane selbe doth oppresse her ; Sclbe. 7 48 of their hyds. w^th other more besides^ vnlesse there were a dresser 17. Bcun- Beunkards/ how yee speed tis shrewdly to be ffeared ; kards. ' yee cannott aske to reade^ soe oft you haue beene seared ffor the deede. 18. Fouigam 52 ffoulgam will appeale^ from Cupid, as men gather, holy father) for in her wandring taile^ hath beene her holy father ; hees her bayle. 19. Dodson. Dodson is not illj yeett hath shee beene a deale-her ; 56 the fait was in his skilly who knew not how to appease her w^th his quill. ' Part of the line has been cut away ^ ? jvig. Itt.— F. from the MS. by the binder. — F. ? MS. : the e is oddly made ; it may * One stroke too few in the MS. — F. be Birmkards, the » not dotted. — F. PANDERS COME AWAYE. 107 her husband sales shee[s] nought^ I thinks an honest woman by Lewdnesse may be brought^ to be like others, common, 60 being sought. Ales Bradshaw is fforgott^ the Cittye that ingrost her; 20. Aies but happy is his lott^ that neuer did arrest her, (of the city), for shee is hott. 64 Cittye wiues, they say^ doe occupye by Charter ; StTn^^^' but Cupid grant they may^ that ware for-ware the barter without pay. Ladyes name wee none^ nor yett no Ladyes women Lad-^^' 68 yo'wr honors may begone ; ffor Coesars loue will women, ./ o ' I don't name summon you* you alone. But because that some will not allow the order, to morefeelds see you Come, yoitr Maiowr & your recorder 72 With a drum. Thus farwell, yee whores, yee hackneys & yee harlotts! ^"^^1018" come neare my walkes no more^ but get you to jour varletts as before ! 76 My hart shall ay disdaine^ to thinke of such pore blisses ; Jo more to*' my lipps shall eke the same^ to touch w^'th breathing ^° kisses yours againe. Thus here ends my song, made only to be merry e : don't oflend" 80 If I offend in toung, in hart I shalbe sorry ffor the wrong. ffinis. 108 91 Bamtp: Surite* [Page 487 of MS.] A: dainty ducke I Chanced to meete ; I met a ' dainty duck, shee wondered what I wold doe, & curteouslye shee did mee greete 4 as an honest woman shold doe. and asked I asked her if shee wold drinke ; her to drink. shee wondred &c. She gave me shoo answered me with sober winke, a wink. 8 as an honest &c. I tooke ^ \_A leaf is gone here in the MS., containing, among other things perhaps^ the beginning of " The Sjpanlsh Lady.^^~\ ' "Written at the lower corner : the first words of the next page. — F. 109 12 16 [Page 499 of MS.] Now fifye on dreames ^ & ffond delights that occupye the minde ^ ! tis worser flfor to dreame by nights then occupye by kind ! ffor if Cupid thy hart doth stryke w^th lead or golden fflight, 0 then, 0 then, 0 then, in dreames thy thoughts strange ^ things doe write ! Methought itt was my Chance to Clipp thee Creature I loued best, & all alonge the ffeilds to tripp, to moue some sport or lest, & then & then, my [suite] I gan to pleade vnto that flfairest mayd ; But shee, but shee, would nought beleeue, which, made me sore affrayd. Fie on dreams ! For when you're in love you dream strange tilings. I lately thought I was trip- ping along with my love, 20 24 But yett by prayer & ernest suite I moued her att the Last ; yett cold I not inioye the ffruite that hath soo pleasing tast. but when, but when, that motyon I bewrayd shee still this answer said, " 0 no ! 0 no ! 0 no ! I will dye ere I loose my maiden-head ! " and prajing her to grant me her favors. • drcaucs in the MS.— F. ninde in the MS. — F. ' Only half an n in the MS. — F. 110 NOW PYE ON DREAMES. She let me toucli her, Yett did shee giue me leaue to tuch her ffoote, her legg, her knee ; a litle ffurther was not much, 28 they way I went was ffree. 0 ffye ! O ffye ! yowr are to blame ! " shee sayd, " thus to vndoe a maid ; but yett, but yett, the time is so meete, [line cut away here by the hinder.'] and neither Jove nor Hercules had more deUght than I when I scaled her fort. But alas I when I woke, it was all a dream I 32 36 40 44 Not loue himselfe more louyall was [page 5oo] when he bright dyana wonn ; Nor Hercules, that all men did passe, when hee with distaffe spunn, then I, then I, all ffeares when I had past, & scalled the ffort att Last, & on, & on, & on the same my signes of victory placet. But when Aurora, goddesse bright, appeared fFrom the east, & Morpheus, that drowsye wight, withdrawen him to his rest ; 0 then, 0 then, my ioyes were altered cleane ! wMch makes me still Complaine ; fibr I awaked, for I awaked, ffor I awaked ; and I ffo[und] all this was but a dreame ! ffmis. Ill 12 16 20 24 [Page 508 of MS.] Come, sitt thee downe by these Coole ^ streames neuer yet warmed by Tytans beames ! my tender youth thy wast shall clippe, & ffix vpon thy Cherry Kpp ; & lay thee downe on this greene bed, where thon shaK loose thy mayden-head. See how the htle Phillipp Sparrow, whose ioynts doe ouer-fflow with marrow, on yonder bough how he doth proue with his make ^ the ioyes of loue, & doth instruct thee, as hee doth tread, how thou shalt loose thy maidenhead. O you younglings, be not nice ! coines ^ in mayds is such a vice, that if in youth you doe not marry, in age young men will lett you tarrye. by my perswasyon then be led, & loose in time thy maidenhead. Clothes that imbrothered be with gold, if neuer worne, will quicklye molde ; if in time you doe not plucke the damisine or the Apricocke, in pinching Autume theyle be dead ; then loose in time thy maidenhead ! Sit down, and lose thy maidenhead, as the sparrow teaches thee to do. Young maids. many in youth, or you'll be left in age. colde.— P. ^ A.-S. mace, a wife. — F. ffinis. * coyness. — F, Then lose your maidenheads soon. 112 Com ^onst. [Page 508 of MS.] In Mr. Payne Collier's Extracts from the Registers of the Sta- tioners' Company, 1557-70 (Shaksp. Soc. 1848) are two entries, on pages 46, 58, under the year 1561-2, which may relate to this song, but probably don't. " Rd. of William Shepparde, for his lycense for pryntinge of a ballad in- tituled, Tom Longe, Caryer iiijc?. Rd. of Thomas Hackett, for his fyne, for that he prynted a ballett of Tom longe the Carry er ijs. vjc?. [" Tom Long, the Carrier" had been licensed to William Shepparde (see p. 46), and Thomas Haekett must have invaded Shepparde's right. The fine was consider- able for the time, comparing it with other impositions of the same kind.]" Come all you CoME in, Tom lone^tayle, come short hose & round, men of every > o ^ ^ > Come ffatt gutts & slender, & all to be ffound, Come fflatt Capp and ffether, & all to be found, 4 Strike home thy pipe, Tom Longe. Come lowcy, come laced shirt, come damm me, come [ruffe ! 1] Come holy geneua, a thing w^th-out Cuffe, Come dughtye dom diego, with Linens enough, 8 Strike &c. and bring Briuff a ffacc out of Eno^land, a backe out of franrce,! each a bit of ° to ' L 'J a gii^i A belly ffrom fflanders, come all in a dance ! pinn buttockes of Spayne, aduance ! aduance ! 12 Strike &c. » ru£fe.-P. TOM LONGE. 113 Come brino: in a wench shall ffitt euery natvon, to make oue ° ./ J ' to fit every Ifor shape & ffor makeing, a Taylors creatyon, nation, & new made againe to ffitt euery natyon. 16 Strike &c. Come tricke itt, and tire itt, in anticke array ! and then cliTcss her Come trim itt, and trosse ^ itt, and make vp the day, for Tom & nell, nicke & Gill, make vp the hay ! 20 Strike &c. A health to all Captaines that neuer was in warres, Here's a tliats, knowne by their Scarletts, & not by their scarres ! cowards a health to all Ladyes that neuer used Merkin,^ 24 yett their stuffe ruffles like Buff lether ierkin ! Str[ike &c.] A health to all Courtiers that neuer bend knees ! and honest courtiers, & a health to all schoUers that scornes their degrees ! and idlers! a health to all Lawyers that neuer tooke ffees ! 28 & a health to all welchemen that loues tested Cheese! Strike home the pipe, Tom Long ! ffinis. » ?MS.— F. ^ Merkin, counterfeit hair for a woman's privy parts. Phillips. — F. 114 [Page 518 of MS.] : in a greene meadow, a riuer running by, I hard a proper maiden both waile, weepe, and crye, the teares ffrom her eyes as cleare as any pearle ; much did I lament the mourning of the girle : shee sighed and sobbed, & to her selle sayd, " alas ! what hap had I to Hue soe long a maid ? " ITow in this world no Curtesy e is knowen, & young men are hard harted, wA^ch makes me line alone ; the day & time hath beene, if I had still beene wise, I might haue enioyed my true loue had I not beene so n[ise^] ; but Coyishness, & toyishness, & peeuishness such store hath brought me to this pensiueness, and many mai- dens [more 2], "Some dames that are precise, & heare me thus Com- plaine, theyle thinke me fond & Idle, my Creditt much wold sta[ine.] but lett me ansewre them; the Case might be their owne ; the wisest on the earth, by loue may be orethrowen ; ffor Cupid is blinded, & cometh in a Cloud, & aimeth att a ragg as soone as att a robe. » nice.— P. ^ more. — P. ALL IN A GREENE MEADOWE. 115 " Sith goddesses come downe to iest with such a boy, 20 then hapily poore maidens may tread their shoes awrye.^ Hellen of greece for bewty was the rarest, Helen a wonder of the world, & certainly e the ffairest ; yett wold shee, nor Cold shee, Hue a maiden still. . . . . . . few or none can carrye [page5i9] others all did marry oftime that they haue vsed before [Whoever it be] that come, I will deny no more, she resolves ^ [be itt light o]r be itt darke, doe he looke or winke, more,'^^^ i [He let him hit] the marke, if he haue witt but for to g thinke. S g [Tho silly m]aidens nicely deny itt when its offered, aii^^i^to^ [yet I wi]sh them wisely to take itt when itts proffered ; ^^g^®" 32 [If they be li]ke to Cressus to scome soe true a freind, [Theyle be] glad to receiue poore Charitye in the end. . [ti]me gone & time past is not recalld againe ; [t]herfore I wish all mayds make hast, lest with me the Complaine. ' Compare the French Charier droit, vprightly ; or discreetly, warily, ad- to tread straight, to take a right course ; uisedly. — Cot. to behaue himself honestly, sincerely, 116 Cfiomasi pou rannott [Page 521 of MS.] The very attractive air to which the following ballad was sung is to be found in Popular Music of the Olden Time, i. 337, but the words seem to exist only in this Manuscript. Their date can- not be much later than the commencement of James the First's reign, since one of the ballads against the Roman Catholics, written after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, was to be sung "to the tune of Thomas, you cannot also because the air bears the same name in several collections of music for the virginaJs of corresponding, if not earlier, date. — W. C. Thomas ThOMAS : vntyed his points ^ apace, & kindly hee beseeches that shee wold gine him time & space 4 ffor to vntye ^ his breeches. " Content, Content, Content ! " shee cryes. he downe w^th his breeches imedyatlye, lay on a girl, & OTier her belly he Cast his thye. 8 But then shee Cryes " Thomas ! you Cannott, you 3 Cannott ! O Thomas J 0 Thomas, you Canott ! " Thomas, like a liuely ladd, lay close downe by her side : servrher" *^ 12 he had the worst Courage that euer had man * ; in conscience, the pore ffoole Cryed. * Point, a tagged lace, used in tying any part of the dress. Nares. — F. ^ The c has a tag as if for s. — F. 3 MS. camot.— F. * ? man had.— W. C. THOMAS YOU CANNOTT. 117 20 24 But tlieii he gott some Courage againe, & he crept vpon her belly amaine, 1 6 & thought to haue hitt her in the right vaine ; But then shee &c. This maid was discontented in mind, & angry was w^th Thomas, that he the time soe long had space, ^ & cold nott performe his promise, he promised her a thing, 2 handfiiU att least, which, made this maid glad of such a ffeast ; but shee Cold not gett an Inch for a tast, which made her cry &c. Thomas went to Venus, the goddesse of loue, & hartily he did pray, that this ffaire maid might constant proue tiU he performed what he did say. in hart & mind they both wee[r]e content ; but ere he came att her, his courage was spent, which made this maid grow discontent, & angry was with Thomas, with Thomas, & angry was with Thomas. Vulcan & venus, with Mars & Apollo, 36 they all 4 swore they wold ayd him ; Mars lent him his buckler & vulcan h[is ham??ier,2] & downe by her side he laid him.^ l^Page 622, afmgment apart from the MS."] 28 32 She got angry. He prayed to Venus for help. She and 3 Gods promised to aid him, 40 then .... but all her body qu (?) he tickled her, laid (?) & then shee Cryes 44 & then shee Cryes f . . Tho[mas] * so long had time and space. — W. C. » MS. torn away. — F. and did so effectually, » End of MS. page 521.— F. 118 THOMAS YOU CANNOTT. to the girl's This mavd wa . content. that ffortune had lent hi fFull oft he had beene 4S yett neuer cold stop . he tickeled her tnch . he made her to tr & Thomas was glad he 52 & then shee cryes "toot & then shee cryes " toot 119 INDEX TO FIRST LINES. A creature, for feature I neuer saw a fairer . PAGE . 53 A dainty ducke I chanced to meete .... . 108 , 89 92 All in a greene meadow, a riuer running by . . 114 32 , 29 As itt beffell on a sumers day . 82 Bee not affrayd thou fayrest, thou rarest . 47 Blame not a woman although shee bee Lewd . 84 55 , 80 Come in, Tom longtayle, come short hose & round . 112 Come, sitt thee downe by these Coole streames . Ill Cooke Laui'ell wold needs haue the devill his guest . 40 Downe sate the shepeard swaine . 57 94 I dreamed my loue lay in her bedd .... . 1C2 In a May morning I mett a sweet nursse . 74 . 35 It was a younge man that dwelt in a towno . . 61 Itt was a man of Affrica had a fFaire wiffe . 99 120 INDEX TO FIEST LINES. PAGB Last niglit I thought my true loue I caught .... 101 Louers : harke ! an alarum is sounding ; nou loue cryes . 87 Men that more to the yard northe church . . . .59 Now ffye on dreames & ffond delights 1C9 0 lolly Robin, hold thy hande 6 Off all the seas thats cominge 85 Panders, come away . . ^ 104 See the building which whilest my Mistress lined in . .2 That god that dyed for vs all (Fryar and Boye) ... 9 The maid, shee went to the well to washe . . . .96 The man that hath a hansome wiffe 31 The turke in Linen wrapps his head 77 Thomas vntyed his points apace 116 Walking in a meadowe greene ...... 3 When as I doe record 68 When Phebus addrest himselfe to the west .... 7 When scorching Phoebus he did mount . . . .70 Will you heare the Mode of france 45 THE END. 121 [These two songs, haying unsuspicious titles, were not examined in time for the former part of this volume. On preparing the third volume of the Ballads and Romances for press, it became clear that this couple could not go into it, and they are there- fore added as a Supplement to the Loose and Humorous Songs, # «att tofiere art tfeo/ Iff : moume I may in tyme soe glad, or mingle ioyes with dytty sadd, lend me jour eares, lend watt jour eyes, 4 & see you where shee tombed lyyes. too simple ffoote,^ alas, containes the Lasse thai Late on downes & plaines made horsse & hound & horne to blowe. 8 O watt ! where art thow ? who, ho, ho ! Come cmd see where the hare lies buried who lately gave us a burst. O where is now thy fflight so ffleete,^ thy iealous brow & ffearffuU ffeete, thy suttle traine & courses stronge, 12 thy capers hye & dances Longe ? who sees thee now in couert creepe, to stand & harke, or sitt & weepe, to Coole thy ffeet, to ffoyle thy ffoe ? 16 O watt ! where art thou ? who, ho, ho ! where is thy vew* & sweating sent* that soe much blood & breath hath spent ? thy magicke ffriske & cirkelles^ round, 20 thy iugling ffeates to mocke the hound ? [page 448] Where are now his turns and runs ? Oh where ? Where are his frisks and tricks to cheat the hounds ? * A hunting song on The death of the Hare. — P. See the curious burlesque "Oreisoun in the worshipe of the hare," containing his 78 names, in Beliq.Antiq. i. 133.— F. 2 Two simple foot. — P. 3 MS. ffleete so fflight.— F. flight so fleet.— P. * view. 1. The footing of a beast. 2. The discovery of an animal. Hall'. — F. * view, scent. — P. • circles. — P, 122 O WATT WHERE ART TKO. Oil where ? why didst thou not, this doome to scape, vpon thee take some witches shape, & shrowd thy selfe in cottage Lowe ? 24 0 watt ! where &c. Though one hare could not escape so many dogs, yet I'll praise the royal sport he gave us. 28 32 But why shold wee thinke watt soe wise as loulers noyse,i or lumbells cryes,^ or Ladyes Lipps^ ? on"* watt alone must needs by many * be ore-throwen. but as I moane thy liffe soe short, soe will I sing thy royall sport, & guiltelesse gaine^ of all I know. O watt &c. Why didn't he turn his wife out and let her die instead of him? 36 40 why didst thou not then ffly this ffate ? ffrom fforth her ^ fforme put fforth thy make ® ? as some good wiffe, when deathes att doore, will put her goodman fforth before. thy enuious leaues,^ & thy muse,^° as perffect once as maidens sense ; thy tracke in snow, like widowes woe. 0 watt &c. Though he could once see behind, he is blind now. Once cold thou strangly see behind ; now art thou round about thee blyind. both Male & ffemale once wert thou ; 44 O neither Male nor ffemall now ! ' nose. qu. — P. ^ eyes. qu. — P. ' poor. qu. — P. * Percy puts two red brackets round on, for omission; but it means one. — F. * many. — P. One stroke too few in the MS.— F.^ *• most guiltless game, sic leger"^ — P. ' And from her. — P. ^ mate. — P. A.-S. maca, a husband ; mace, a wife. — F. » One stroke too few in the MS.— F. mewse, — P. Muse. A hole in a hedge through which game passes. " But the good and aproved hounds on the contrary, when they have found the hare, make shew therof to the hunter, by running more speedily, and with gesture of head, eyes, ears, and taile, winding to the hares muse, never give over prosecution with a gallant noise, no not returning to their leaders, least they loose advantage." TopseU's Four- footed Beasts, 1607, p. 152. Halli- well's Grloss. — F. " ? pudendum. — F. Read s/wse, sluice. Dyce. •2 Colds't.— P. " Now wylle we begynne atte hare, and why she is most merveylous be^t of 0 WATT WHERE ART THO. 123 thy hermitts liffe, thy dreadffull crosse, thy sweating striffe & clickett close,' when once thou wert both Bucks & doe. 48 O watt &c. 62 56 O, had the ffaire young sonne of Mirrh ^ fforsooke the bore, & ffollow[ed] her ; or had Acteon hunted watt when he saw Cynthias you know whatt ; or that young man knowne that liffe that slew ffor deere^ his deares[t] wiffe, they all had knowne no other woe, but watt &c. 60 64 Shrill sounding homes & siluer bells shall sound thy mortts,'* & ring thy knell : young shepards shall thy storry tell, & bonny Nimphes sing thy ffarwell, & hunters alltogether loyne to drowned both woe & watt in wine, whiles I conclude my song euen soe : 0 watt ! where art thou ? who, ho, ho ! fEnis. Silver bells shall ring his knell, and hnnters forget him in their wine. the -world . . at one tyme he [is] male and another tyme female, and therefore may alle men blow at hyr as at other bestis, that is to say, at herte, at boor, and at wolf. Twety in Itel. Ant. i. 150-1. Niphus also affirmeth . . he saw a Hare which had stones and a yard, and yet was great with young, and also another which wanted stones and the males geni- tal, and also had young in her belly. Eondelms saith, that they are not stones, but certain little bladders filled with matter, which men finde in female Hares with young, such as are upon the belly of a Beaver, wherein also the vulgar sort are deceived, taking those bunches for stones, as they do these bladders. And the use of these parts both in Beavers and hares is this ; that against rain both one and other sex suck thereout a cer- tain himior, and anoint their bodies all over therewith, and so are defended in time of rain. Topse^s Four-footed Beasts, ed. Eowland, 1658, p. 209.— F. ' Clicket close. — -P. ClicJcet, a term applied to a fox when maris appetens. G-ent. Eec. ii. 76, Halliwell.— F. ^ myrrh {viz. Adonis). — P. 3 instead of Deer (alluding to y° story of Cephalus & Procris). — P. * Morte, sc. the Death of the Hare. — P. and whan the hare is take, and your houndes have ronne well to hym, ye shul blowe aftirward, and ye shul yif to your houndes the halow, and that is the syde, the shuldres, the nekke, and the hed ; and the loyne shal to kechonne. —Twety in Eel. Ant. i. 153.— F. 124 [Page 519 of MS.] This is, in some respects, the best extant version of an old ballad of great and long-extended popularity. The burden is, for the first time, complete. The " Hey ding a ding" at the end identifies it as one of the " ancient" ballads mentioned in Lane- ham's Letter from Kenilworth, 1575. In Haris Beer^ot his invisible Coraedie, 1618, Cornelius says that he has heard "an old fantastique rime : These lines are a paraphrase of the following in the ballad : Again, in The famous Historie of Fryer Bacon, which, ac- cording to Mr. Payne Collier, was printed soon after 1 580, we Both the ballad and its tune retained popularity till the end of the last century. — W. C. Gentlemen are sicke and Parsons ill at ease, But serving men are drunke And all have one disease." Mine ostes -vras sicke of the mumpes, her mayd was ill att ease, Mine host lay drunke in his dumpes ; They all had one disease. find: Lawyers they are sicke. And Fryers are ill at ease, But poor men they are drunke, And all is one disease. Seeking merry com* pany, : an humor I was of late,^ as many good fellowes bee thai^ thinke of no matter of state, 4 but the keepe^ merry Company e : * was late.— P.M. {Pills to Purge Mel- ancholy, 1719, vol. iii. p. 143.) 2 to.— P.M. » seek for.— P.M. OLD SIMON THE KINGE. 125 12 tJiat best naiglit please my mind,* soe I walket vp & downe tlie towne,^ but company none cold ffind till I came to tbe signe ^ of tbe crowne. mine ostes ^ was sicke of the mumpes, ber mayd was ffisle^ att ease, mine host lay ^ drunke in bis dumpes ; " tbey all bad but® one disease," sayes old simon tbe K-ing,^ sayes old Simon tbe w^tb bis ale-dropt bose, & bis malmesy nose, w^tb a bey ding, ding a ding, ding, w^^tb a bey &c. w^tb a bey ding [ding,] quoih. Simon tbe king. ... 10 I walked about, and found it at the Crown, where hostess, maid and host were all drunk. 16 11 [Wben I bebeld tbis sigbt,] I straight began [to say,] " if a man be ffull [o'ernigbt] be cannott get d[runk to-day ;] 20 & if bis drinke w[ill not downe] be may bang bims[elf for sbame ;] soe may be mine b[ost of tbe i^ Crowne.] tberforei^ tbis reason I [frame :] 24 ffor drinke will ma[ke a man drunke,] & drunke will make [a man dry,] & dry will make a man [sicke,] & sicke will make a man dye,'* 28 sayes old Simon &c.i^ [page 520] On this I philoso- phized : drink makes men drunk. and drunken- ness makes men die. * best contented me. — ^P.M. ^ I travell'd up and down. — P.M. ^ No company I could. — P.M. * sight— P.M. » My Hostess.— P.M. * fizzling, breaking wind, see p. 65, 1. 120, 127, 132.— F. The maid was ill.— P.M. ' The Tapster was.— P.M. 8 were all of.— P.M. » P.M. ends here.— F. " The line is nearly all pared away. — ^F. " Supplied from Percy. See note be- low. P.M. has : Considering in my mind, And thus I began to think ; If a man be full to the Throat And cannot take off his drink. >2 may the Tapster at.— P.M. '3 Whereupon.— PJVI. '* Drink.— P.M. " St. 2 (before some of the words 126 OLD SIMON THE KINGS. Yet, if a man's clrunk one day and dead the next, ■vvho dare say he died for sorrow ? No such thing. Drink makes a man sing and laugh, and brings him long life. " But when a man is drunke to-day,^ & laid in his graue to-morrow ; will any man dare to ^ say 32 that hee dyed ffor^ Care or sorrowe ? but hang vp all^ sorrow & care ! itts^ able to kill a catt; & he that wiU drinke till he stare,^ 36 is neuer a-feard ^ of that ; ffor drinking will make a man qnaffe, & ^ quaffing will make a man sing, &^ singinge will make a man laffe, 40 & laug[h]ing long liffe will^ bringe," sais old Simon &c. If a Puritan says it's a sin to drink unless you're dry, I tell him how a Puri- tan took to drinking, 44 48 lif a puritane skinker crye, " deere brother, itt is a sinne to drinke vnlesse you be drye ;" this tale I straight begin : " a puritan left his cann, & tookee him to his iugge,^^ & there he playde the man so long as he cold tugg ; were lost & supplied by conjecture) I transcribed what is not in brackets. — P. [When I beheld this sight,] I straight began to say, " If a Man be fdl [o'er night,] He cannott get drunk to-day ; And if his drink [will not downe,] He may hang himself [for shame ;] So may he mine host [of the Crowne] Therefore thus reason I [frame,] For* drink will make a man drunk ; And drunk will make a Man dry, And dry will make a Man sick, And sick wiU make a Man dye, Says old Simon the King, &c N.B. — The defective Stanza may bo * that.-P. supplied from Durfey's Pills to purge Melancholy, 1719, vol. 3d. p. 143.— P. A volume from which many of the songs here printed may be more than matched. I had never seen it till looking out the Bishop's reference. — F. * If a Man should be drunk to night. —P.M. 2 you or any man. — ^P.M. ' of.— P.M. * Then hang up.— P.M. * 'Tis.— P.M. « all right.— P.M. ' afraid.— P.M. 8 There is no ' «&' in P.M.— F. 9 doth.— P.M. Then straight this Tale I.— P.M. " took him to his Jugg. — P.M. OLD SIMON THE KINGE. 127 but when that hee was spyed he wls^^^ when hee did ^ sweare or rayle,^ ^^^^^ out, 52 ' my only deere brother,' hee sayd,^ ^^^^ " * truly 4 all fflesh is ffrayle,' " sais old Simon &c. flesh is fraU." 56 60 64 Soe fellowes, if you be drunke,® of ffrailtye itt is a sinne, as itt is^ to keepe a puncke, or play att in and in*^ ; ffor drinke, & dice, & drabbs, are ^ all of this condityon, they ^ will breed want & scabbs in spite of they Phisityan. but who feare[s] euery grasse, must neuer pisse in a meadow, & who ^ ^ loues a pott & a lasse must not cry " oh my head, oh ! sais old Simon the King &c. So drunken- ness is frailty, and so are wenching and gam- bling : they all breed want and scabs. But for ex- citement yon must run risks. ffinis. ' dhould. — P. 2 He did not swear, or He did neither swear nor raile. — P. What did he swear or rail. — P.M. ^ cryed. — P. No, no truly, dear Brother, he cry'd. — P. 4 Indeed.— P.M. 5 you'll.— P.M. « Or for.— P.M. ' A common diversion at ordinaries, with 4 dice. — ^Percy. 8 MS. ase.— F. » And.— P.M. '« the.— P.M. " he that.— P.M. NOTE to Panche, p. 61. Mr. CrTi^5brandp Vigfasson says : "Sir Panche is an old acquaintance, and is a Btory told in Icelandic ; but there it is one of the tales that are Uieant to ridicule clownish and unhappy wooers. It is his mother that is to tread on his toe under the table if he eats too much, and the bald head is that of the father of the bride- to-be. Our story is in prose ; it is funny, but not dirty ; the English is rather worse. When the Icelandic Popular Tales were published in Leipzig some years ago, the MSS. went through my hands, and, among others, this story. But it was badly told, without sense and humour, and not as I had heard it when a boy. I therefore suppressed it. So it waits still for publication.'* NOTE to p. 78, 1. 17. Quash is a genuine Russian word and drink : in Russian KfiaCB, i. e. Kvas or Kwae, called in Pavlovsky's Dictionary " ein sauerliches Gretrank aus Roggenmehl und Malz." It is the universal drink of Russia, like a sour beer, and is I believe pronounced execrable by all foreigners. Meyer's " Grosses Convorsationslexicon " gives the following elaborate recipe : " Upon 85 — 37 pounds of barley-malt, with 3 handsfull of rye-malt, and the same of unsifted rye-meal, in earthen pots, poUr boiling water till the water is one hand high above it ; then stir till it becomes like a thin broth. Then shake over it oat-husks, about the height of a thumb. Then put the pots for twenty-four hours in the oven ; and then fill them again with boiling water up to the brim. Then put it in wooden vessels with straw at the bottom and a tap below, pour tepid water over it, let it stand, and finally draw it off into barrels. Put in each barrel a piece of coarse rye-bread, to make it sour ; and put the barrels for 24 hours in the cellar, after which it is ready for use." The same article says there are better kinds, made of apples, raspberries, &c., which are used by the higher classes, and are more palatable. The " Duche " in the same line, I presume, means German (Deutsch), or at least Low (i. e. North) German, in general, and not what we now call Butch ; this is very common in our old writers. Mr. "W. B. Rye, in " England as seen by Foreigners " (1865), gives abundant instances of this usage; of which the following, from Sir Robert Dallington's " Method for Travell " (prefixed to his " View of France," 1598), is most to the point: For the attaining of language it is convenient that he make choice of the best places — Orleans for the French, Florence for the Italian, and Lipsick for the Dutch \i. e. German] tongues, for in these places is the best language spoken." — ^Russell MAExiNEAtJ. NOTE to p. 87, 1. 9. For nois read no is. — None but ffooles flBinch ffor Noe, when a I (that is, an Aye) by No is ment. — Dr. Robson. [ GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 3 3125 01429 8158 folio JHanuscnpt This long^ hidden lUDS., the foundation of the celebrated PEROTS BELIQITES, is printed in 4 Volnmes (BALLADS and ROIIANCES, 3 Vols. ; LOOSE and HUDCOEOXTS SOITOS, 1 V