Part ii

. Canto 3. “He lived to the year 1681, being then near eighty years of age, and published predicting almanacks to his death.” He was one of the close committee to consult about the King’s execution (_Echard_). He lost much of his repute in 1652; in 1655 he was indicted at Hickes Hall, but acquitted. He dwelt at Hersham, Walton-on-Thames, and elsewhere. Henry Coley followed him in almanack-making, and John Partridge next. In the Honble. Robt. Howard’s Comedy, “The Committee,” 1665, we find poor Teague has been consulting Lilly:—

“_I will get a good Master, if any good Master wou’d_ _Get me; I cannot tell what to do else, by my soul, that_ _I cannot; for I have went and gone to one LILLY’S;_ _He lives at that house, at the end of another house,_ _By the ~May-pole~ house; and tells every body by one_ _Star, and t’other Star, what good luck they shall have._ _But he cou’d not tell nothing for poor ~Teg~._”

(_The Committee_, Act i.)

Verse 12. The Master of the Rolls. This was Sir Dudley Digges, builder of Chilham Castle, near Canterbury, Kent, who had in 1627 moved the impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham, and been rewarded with this Mastership.

Verse 18. Alludes to the rigorous suppression of the Play-houses (_vide ante_ p. 285, for a descriptive Song); and as we see from verse 17, the Bear-garden, like Rope-dancers and Tumblers, met more tolerance than actors (except from Colonel Pride). Not heels were feared, but heads and hands. Bears, moreover, could not stir up men to loyalty, but tragedy-speeches might. One Joshua Gisling, a Roundhead, kept bears at Paris Garden, Southwark.

23. “Goodman _Lenthall_,” “neither wise nor witty,” (“that creeps to the house by a backdoor,” _Rump_, ii. 185,) the Speaker of the Commons from 1640 to 1653; Alderman _Allen_, the dishonest and bankrupt goldsmith, both rebuked by _Cromwell_, when he forcibly expelled the Rump. (See the ballad on pp. 62-5 of _M. D., C._, verses 9 and 10, telling how “_Allen_ the coppersmith was in great fear. He had done as [i.e. _us_] much hurt,” &c.; also 2, 15, for the dumb-foundered “Speaker without his Mace.”) This Downfall of the Rump had been on April 20th, 1653, not quite three months before the funeral of _Dean_. Whoever may have been the writer of this spirited ballad, we believe, wrote the other one also: judging solely by internal evidence.

24. _Henry Ireton_, who married Bridget Cromwell in January, 1646-7, and escaped from the Royalists after having been captured at Naseby, proved the worst foe of Charles, insatiably demanding his death, died in Ireland of the plague, 15th November, 1651. His body was brought to Bristol in December, and lay in state at Somerset House. Over the gate hung the “hatchment” with “_Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori_”—which one of the Cavaliers delightedly translated, “Good it is for his country that he is dead.” Like Dean’s, two years later, Ireton’s body was buried with ostentatious pomp in Henry VII.’s Chapel, (Feb. 6 or 7;) to be ignominiously treated at Tyburn after the Restoration. The choice of so royal a resting-place brought late insult on many another corpse. His widow was speedily married to Charles Fleetwood, before June, 1652.

In verse 26, we cannot with absolute certainty fill the blank. Yet, in the absence of disproof, we can scarcely doubt that the name suppressed was neither _Sexby_, “an active agitator,” who, in 1658, employed against Cromwell “all that restless industry which had formerly been exerted in his favour” (Hume’s _Hist. Engd._, cap. lxi.); nor “Doomsday Sedgwick;” not _Sidney_, staunch Republican, Algernon Sidney, whose condemnation was in 1687 secured most iniquitously, and whose death more disgracefully stains the time than the slaughter of Russell, although sentimentalism chooses the latter, on account of his wife. Sidney was “but a young member” at the Dissolution of 20th April, 1653. Probably the word was _Say_, the notorious “Say and Seale,” “Crafty Say,” of whom we read:—

_There’s half-witted ~Will Say~ too,_ _A right Fool in the Play too,_ _That would make a perfect Ass,_ _If he could learn to Bray too._

(“Chips of the Old Block,” 1659; _Rump_, ii. 17.)

Page 64 [213]. _I went from ~England~, &c._

A MS. assertion gives the date of this _Cantilena de Gallico itinere_ as 1623. There seems to us no good reason for doubting that the author was DR. RICHARD CORBET (1582-1635), Bishop of Oxford, afterwards of Norwich. It is signed Rich. Corbett in Harl. MS. No. 6931, fol. 32, _reverso_, and appears among his printed poems, 3rd edit. 1672, p. 129. In _Wit and Mirth_, 1684, p. 76, it is entitled “Dr. Corbet’s Journey,” &c. But it is fair to mention that we have found it assigned to R. GOODWIN, by the epistolary gossip of inaccurate old Aubrey (see Col. Franc. Cunningham’s _“Mermaid edit.” of Ben Jonson_, i. Memoirs, p. lvii. first note). In a recent edition of Sir John Suckling’s Works, 1874, it is printed as if by him (“There is little doubt that it is his”), i. 102, without any satisfactory external evidence being adduced in favour of Suckling. In fact, the external evidence goes wholly against the theory. The very MS. Harl. 367, which is used as authority, is both imperfect and corrupt throughout, as well as anonymous (_ex. gratiæ_, misreading the _Bastern_, for Bastile), and the date on it, 1623, will not suit Suckling at all: though Sir Hy. Ellis is guessed (by his supposed handwriting,) to have attributed it to him. Could it be possible that he was otherwise unacquainted with the poem?

At earlier date than our own copy we find it, by Aug. 30th, 1656, in _Musarum Deliciæ_, p. 17, and in _Parnassus Biceps_, also 1656, p. 24. From this (as well as Harl. MS. 367) we gain corrections printed as our _marginalia_, pp. 214-6: _deserv’d_, for received; _statue_ stairs, At _Nôtre Dame_; prate, _doth_ please, &c. Harl. MS. 367 reads “The Indian _Roc_” [probably it is correct]; and “As great and wise as Luisuè” [Luines, who died 1622]. _Parnassus Biceps_ has an extra verse, preceding the one beginning “His Queen,” (and Harl. 367 has it, but inferior):—

_The people don’t dislike the youth,_ _Alleging reasons. For in truth_ _Mothers should honoured be._ _Yet others say, he loves her rather_ _As well as ere she loved his father,_ _And that’s notoriously._

(A similar scandal meets us in other early French reigns: Diana de Poictiers had relations with Henry II., as well as with his father, Francis I., &c.) Compare _West. Droll._, i. 87, and its Appendix, pp. xxv-vi.

It may be a matter of personal taste, but we cannot recognize the genial Bishop in the “R. C., Gent.,” who wrote “The Times Whistle.” A reperusal of the E. E. T., 1871, almost _convinces_ us that they were not the same person. We must look elsewhere for the author.

In MS., on fly leaf, prefixed to 1672 edition of Dr. Corbet’s poems, in the Brit. Mus. (press mark, 238, b. 56), we read:—

_If flowing wit, if Verses wrote with ease,_ _If learning void of pedantry can please,_ _If much good humour, join’d to solid sense,_ _And mirth accompanied by Innocence,_ _Can give a Poet a just right to fame,_ _Then CORBET may immortal honour claim._ _For he these virtues had, & in his lines_ _Poetick and Heroick spirit shines._ _Tho’ bright yet solid, pleasant but not rude,_ _With wit and wisdom equally endued._ _Be silent Muse, thy praises are too faint,_ _Thou want’st a power this prodigy to paint,_ _At once a Poet, Prelate, and a Saint._

Signed, John Campbell.

Page 85 [218]. _I mean to speak of ~England’s~_, &c.

In the 1662 _Rump_, i. 39; and in _Loyal Songs_, 1731, i. 12. It is also in _Parnassus Biceps_ so early as 1656, p. 159, where we obtain a few peculiar readings; even in the first line, which has “of England’s fate;” “Prin _and_ Burton;” “_wear ~Italian~ locks for their abuse_ (instead of “Stallion locks for a bush”); They’ll only have private _keyes_ for their use,” &c. We are inclined to accept these as correct readings, although our text (agreeing with the _Rump_) holds an intelligible meaning. But those who have inspected the curiosities preserved in the Hôtel de Cluny, at Paris, can scarcely have forgotten “the Italian [pad-] Locks” which jealous husbands imposed upon their wives, as a preservative of chastity, whenever they themselves were obliged to leave their fair helpmates at home; and the insinuation that Prynne and Burton intended to introduce such rigorous precautions, nevertheless retaining “private keyes” for their own use, has a covert satire not improbable to have been intentional. Still, remembering the persistent war waged by these intolerant Puritans against “the unloveliness of love-locks,” there are sufficient claims for the text-reading: in their denunciation of curled ringlets “as Stallion locks” hung out “for a bush,” or sign of attraction, such as then dangled over the wine-shop door (and may still be seen throughout Italy), although “good wine needs no bush” to advertise it. Instead of “The brownings,” (i.e. _The Brownists_, a sect that arose in the reign of Elizabeth, founded by Robt. Browne), in final verse, _Parnassus Biceps_ reads “The Roundheads.” The poem was evidently written between 1632 and 1642. Strengthening the probability of “Italian locks” being the correct reading, we may mention in one of the _Rump_ ballads, dated 26 January, 1660-1, we find “The Honest Mens Resolution” is to adopt this very expedient:—

“_But what shall we do with our Wives_ _That frisk up and down the Town, ..._ _For such a Bell-dam,_ _Sayes ~Sylas~ and ~Sam~,_ _Let’s have an ~Italian~ Lock!_”

(_Rump_ Coll., 1662, ii. 199.)

Page 88 [220]. _Hang Chastity, &c._

Probably refers to the New Exchange, at Durham House stables (see Additional Note to page 134 of _M. D., C._). Certainly written before 1656. Lines 15 and 32 lend some countenance, by similarity, to the received version in the previous song’s sixth verse.

Page 95 [222]. _It was a man, and a jolly, &c._

With some trifling variations, this re-appears as “The Old Man and Young Wife,” beginning “_There was an old man, and a jolly old man, come love me_,” &c., in _Wit and Mirth_, 1684, p. 17. The tune and burden of “The Clean Contrary Way” held public favour for many years. See _Pop. Mus. O. T._, pp. 425, 426, 781. In the 1658 and 1661 editions of _Choyce Poems_ [by John Eliot, and others], pp. 81, are a few lines of verse upon “The Fidler’s” that were committed for singing a song called, “_The Clean Contrary Way_”:—

_The Fidlers must be whipt the people say,_ _Because they sung ~the clean contrary way~;_ _Which if they be, a Crown I dare to lay_ _They then will sing ~the clean contrary way~._ _And he that did these merry Knaves betray,_ _Wise men will praise, ~the clean contrary way~:_ _For whipping them no envy can allay,_ [p. 82.] _Unlesse it be ~the clean contrary way~._ _Then if they went the Peoples tongues to stay,_ _Doubtless they went ~the clean contrary way~._

Page 134 [223]. _There was a Lady in this Land._

Re-appears in _Wit and Drollery_, 1682, p. 291 (not in the 1656 and 1661 editions), as “The Jovial Tinker,” but with variations throughout, so numerous as to amount to absolute re-casting, not by any means an improvement: generally the contrary. Here are the second and following verses, of _Wit and Drollery_ version:—

_But she writ a letter to him,_ _And seal’d it with her hand,_ _And bid him become a Tinker_ _To clout both pot and pan._

_And when he had the Letter,_ _Full well he could it read;_ _His Brass and eke his Budget,_ [p. 292.] _He streight way did provide,_

_His Hammer and his Pincers_ _And well they did agree_ _With a long Club on his Back_ _And orderly came he._

_And when he came to the Lady’s Gates_ _He knock’d most lustily,_ _Then who is there the Porter said,_ _That knock’st thus ruggedly?_

_I am a Jovial Tinker, &c._

The words of a later Scottish version of “Clout the Cauldron,” beginning “Hae ye ony pots or pans, Or ony broken Chandlers?” (attributed by Allan Cunningham to one Gordon) retouched by Allan Ramsay, are in his _Tea-Table Miscellany_, 1724, Pt. i. (p. 96 of 17th edit., 1788.) Burns mentions a tradition that the song “was composed on one of the Kenmure family in the Cavalier time.” But the disguised wooer of the later version is repulsed by the lady. Ours is undoubtedly the earlier.

Page 148 [230]. _Upon a Summer’s day._

The music to this is given in Chappell’s _Pop. Music of Olden Time_ [1855], p. 255, from the _Dancing Master_, 1650-65, and _Musick’s Delight on the Cithern_, 1666, where the tune bears the title “Upon a Summer’s day.” In Pepy’s Collection, vol. i. are two other songs to the same tune.

Page 153 [Suppl. 3]. _Mine own sweet honey, &c._

Evidently a parody, or “Mock” of “Come hither, my own,” &c., for which, and note, see pp. 247, 367.

Second Part of _Merry Drollery_, 1661.

Page 22 [235]. _You that in love, &c._

A different version of this same song, only half its length, in four-line stanzas, had appeared in J. Cotgrave’s _Wit’s Interpreter_, 1655, p. 124. It is also in the 1671 edition, p. 229; and in _Wit and Drollery_, 1682 edit., 287, entitled “The Tobacconist.” We prefer the briefer version, although bound to print the longer one; bad enough, but not nearly so gross as another On Tobacco, in _Jovial Drollery_, 1656, beginning “When I do smoak my nose with a pipe of Tobacco.”

In the Collection of Songs by the Wits of the Age, appended to _Le Prince d’Amour_, 1660, (but on broadsheet, 1641) we find the following far-superior lyric on

TOBACCO.

_To feed on Flesh is Gluttony,_ _It maketh men fat like swine._ _But is not he a frugal Man_ _That on a leaf can dine!_

_He needs no linnen for to foul,_ _His fingers ends to wipe,_ _That hath his Kitchin in a Box,_ _And roast meat in a Pipe._

_The cause wherefore few rich mens sons_ _Prove disputants in Schools,_ _Is that their fathers fed on flesh,_ _And they begat fat fools._

_This fulsome feeding cloggs the brain,_ _And doth the stomack cloak;_ _But he’s a brave spark that can dine_ _With one light dish of smoak._

_Audi alterem partem!_ Five years earlier (May 28th, 1655), William Winstanley had published “A Farewell to Tobacco,” beginning:—

_Farewell thou Indian smoake, Barbarian vapour,_ _Enemy unto life, foe to waste paper,_ _Thou dost diseases in thy body breed,_ _And like a Vultur on the purse doth feed._ _Changing sweet breaths into a stinking loathing,_ _And with 3 pipes turnes two pence into nothing;_ _Grim ~Pluto~ first invented it, I think,_ _To poison all the world with hellish stink_, &c.

(18 lines more. _The Muses’ Cabinet_, 1655, p. 13.)

The three pipes for two-pence was a cheapening of Tobacco since the days, not a century before, when for price it was weighed equally against gold. Our early friend Arthur Tennyson wrote in one of our (extant) Florentine sketch-books the following _impromptu_ of his own:—

_I walk’d by myself on the highest of hills,_ _And ’twas sweet, I with rapture did own;_ _As fish-like I opened unto it my gills_ _And gulp’d it in ecstasy down;_ _To feel it breathe over my bacca-boiled tongue,_ _That so much of its fragrance did need,_ _And brace up completely a system unstrung_ _For months with this ~Devil’s own Weed~._

But even so early as 1639, Thomas Bancroft had printed, (written thirteen years before) in his _First Booke of Epigrammes_, the following,

ON TOBACCO TAKING.

_The Old Germans, that their Divinations made_ _From Asses heads upon hot embers laid,_ _Saw they but now what frequent fumes arise_ _From such dull heads, what could they prophetize_ _But speedy firing of this worldly frame,_ _That seemes to stinke for feare of such a flame._

(_Two Bookes of Epigrammes_, No. 183, sign. E 3.)

We need merely refer to other Epigrams On Tobacco, as “Time’s great consumer, cause of idlenesse,” and “Nature’s Idea,” &c., in _Wit’s Recreations_, 1640-5, because they are accessible in the recent Reprint (would that it, _Wit Restored_ and _Musarum Deliciæ_ had been carefully edited, as they deserved and needed to be; but even the literal reprint of different issues jumbled together pell-mell is of temporary service): see vol. ii., pp. 45, 38; and 96, 97, 139, 161, 227, 271. Also p. 430, for the “Tryumph of Tobacco over Sack and Ale,” attributed to F. Beaumont, (if so, then before 1616) telling

_Of the Gods and their symposia;_ _But Tobacco alone,_ _Had they known it, had gone_ _For their Nectar and Ambrosia;_

and vol. i. p. 195, on “A Scholler that sold his Cussion” to buy tobacco. It is but an imperfect version on ii. 96, headed “A Tobacconist” (eight lines), of what we gave from _Le Prince d’Amour_: it begins “All dainty meats I doe defie, || Which feed men fat as swine.” Answered by No. 317, “On the Tobacconist,” p. 97. By the way: “Verrinus” in _M. D., C._, pp. 10, 364, consult _History of Signboards_, p. 354—“_Puyk van Verinas en Virginia Tabac_;” Englished, “Tip-Top Varinas,” &c.

Page 27 [237]. _Come Drawer, some Wine._

Probably written by THOMAS WEAVER, and about 1646-8. It is in his collection entitled _Love and Drollery_, 1654, p. 13. Also in the 1662 _Rump_, i. 235; and the _Loyal Garland_, 1686 (Percy Soc. Reprint, xxix. 31). Compare a similar Song (probably founded on this one) by Sir Robt. Howard, in his Comedy, “The Committee,” Act iv., “Come, Drawer, some Wine, Let it sparkle and shine,”—or, the true beginning, “Now the Veil is thrown off,” &c. The Committee of Sequestration of Estates belonging to the Cavaliers sat at Goldsmith’s Hall, while Charles was imprisoned at Carisbrook, in 1647. A ballad of that year, entitled “Prattle your pleasure under the Rose,” has this verse:—

_Under the rose be it spoken, there’s a damn’d ~Committee~,_ _Sits in hell (~Goldsmith’s Hall~) in the midst of the City,_ _Only to sequester the poor Cavaliers,—_ _The Devil take their souls, and the hangmen their ears._

(As Hamlet says, “You pray not well!”—but such provocation transfers the blame to those who caused the anger.)

Again, in another Ballad, “I thank you twice,” dated 21st August, same year, 1647:—

_The gentry are sequestered all;_ _Our wives we find at ~Goldsmith’s Hall~,_ _For there they meet with the devil and all,_ _Still, God a-mercy, Parliament!_

On our p. 239, it is amusing to find reference to “the Cannibals of Pym,” remembering how Lilburn and others of that party indulged in similar accusations of cannibalism, with specific details against “Bloody Bones, or Lunsford” (_Hudibras_, Pt. iii. canto 2), who was killed in 1644. Thus, “From _Lunsford_ eke deliver us, || That eateth up children” (Rump i. 65); and Cleveland writes, “He swore he saw, when _Lunsford_ fell, || A child’s arm in his pocket” (J. C. _Revived, Poems_, 1662, p. 110).

Page 32 [240]. _Listen, Lordings, to my story._

With the music, this reappears in _Pills to p. Mel_., 1719, iv. 84, entitled “The Glory of all Cuckolds.” Variations few, and unimportant: “The Man in Heaven’s” being a very doubtful reading. In the Douce Collection, iv. 41, 42, are two broadsides, A New Summons to Horn Fair, beginning “You horned fumbling Cuckolds, In City, court, or Town,” and (To the women) “Come, all you merry jades, who love to play the game,” with capital wood-cuts: Jn Pitts, printer. They recal Butler’s description of the Skrimmington. The joke was much relished. Thus, in _Lusty Drollery_, 1656, p. 106, is a Pastorall Song, beginning:—

_A silly poor sheepherd was folding his sheep,_ _He walked so long he got cold in his feet,_ _He laid on his coales by two and by three,_ _The more he laid on_ _The Cu-colder was he._

Three verses more, with the recurring witticism; repeated finally by his wife.

Page 33 [Supp. 6]. _Discourses of late, &c._

Also, earlier in _Musarum Deliciæ_, 1656, (Reprint, p. 48) as “The Louse’s Peregrinations,” but without the sixth verse. _Breda_, in the Netherlands, was beseiged by Spinola for ten months, and taken in 1625. _Bergen_, in our text, is a corrupt reading.

Page 38 [241]. _From ~Essex~-Anabaptist Lawes._

We do not understand whence it cometh that the most bitter non-conformity and un-Christian crazes of enthusiasm seem always to have thriven in Essex and the adjacent Eastern coast-counties, so far as Lincolnshire, but the fact is undeniable. Whether (before draining the fens, see “The Upland people are full of thoughts,” in _A Crew of kind London Gossips_, 1663, p. 65) this proceeded from their being low-lying, damp, dreary, and dismal, with agues prevalent, and hypochondria welcome as an amusement, we leave others to determine. Cabanis declared that Calvinism is a product of the small intestines; and persons with weak circulation and slow digestion are seldom orthodox, but incline towards fanaticism and uncompromising dissent. Your lean Cassius is a pre-ordained conspirator. Plain people, whether of features or dwelling-place, think too much of themselves. Mountaineers may often hold superstitions, but of the elemental forces and higher worship. They possess moreover a patriotic love of their native hills, which makes them loth to quit, and eager to revisit them, with all their guardian powers: the _nostalgia_ and _amor patriæ_ are strongest in Highlanders, Switzers, Spanish muleteers, and even Welsh milkmaids. It was from flat-coasted Essex that most of the “peevish Puritans” emigrated to Holland, and thence to America, when discontented with every thing at home.

The form of a Le’tanty or Litany, for such mock-petitions as those in our text (not found elsewhere), and in _M. D., C._, p. 174, continued in favour from the uprise of the Independents (simply because they hated Liturgies), for more than a century. In the King’s Pamphlets, in the various collections of _Loyal Songs_, _Songs on affairs of State_, the _Mughouse Diversions_, _Pills to purge State Melancholly_, _Tory Pills_, &c., we possess them beyond counting, a few being attributed to Cleveland and to Butler. One, so early as 1600, “Good Mercury, defend us!” is the work of Ben Johnson.

Verse 1.—The “Brownist’s Veal” refers to Essex calves, and the scandal of one Green, who is said to have been a Brownist. 4.—“From her that creeps up Holbourne hill:” the cart journey from Newgate to the “tree with three corners” at Tyburn. _Sic itur ad astra._ When, Oct. 1654, Cromwell was thrown from the coach-box in driving through Hyde park, a ballad on “The Jolt on Michaelmas Day, 1654,” took care to point the moral:—

_Not a day nor an hour_ _But we felt his power,_ _And now he would show us his art;_ _His first reproach_ _Is a fall from a coach,_ And his last will be from a cart.

(_Rump_ Coll. i. 362.)

Thus also in _M. D., C._ p. 255:

Then _Oliver, Oliver_, get up and ride, ... Till thou plod’st along to the _Paddington tree_.

5.—“Duke Humphrey’s hungry dinner” refers to the tomb popularly supposed to be of “the good Duke” Humphrey of Gloucester (murdered 1447), but probably of Sir John Beauchamp (Guy of Warwick’s son), in Paul’s Walk, where loungers whiled away the dinner-hour if lacking money for an Ordinary, and “dined with Duke Humphrey.” See Dekker’s _Gulls Horn Book_, 1609, cap. iv. And Robt. Hayman writes:—

_Though a little coin thy purseless pockets line,_ _Yet with great company thou’rt taken up;_ _For often with Duke ~Humfray~ thou dost dine,_ _And often with Sir ~Thomas Gresham~ sup._

(R. H.’s _Quodlibets_, 1628.)

“An old Aunt”—this term used by Autolycus, had temporary significance apart from kinship, implying loose behaviour; even as “nunkle” or uncle, hails a mirthful companion. In Roxb. Coll., i. 384, by L[aur.] P[rice], printed 1641-83, is a description of three Aunts, “seldom cleanly,” but they were genuine relations, though “the best of all the three” seems well fitted by the _Letany_ description: which _may_ refer to her.

Page 46 [Supp. p. 7]. _If you will give ear._

A version of this, slightly differing, is given with the music in _Pills to p. Mell._, iv. 191. It has the final couplet; which we borrow and add in square brackets.

Page 61 [Supp. 9]. _Full forty times over._

Earlier by six years, but without the Answer, this had appeared in _Wit and Drollery_, 1656, p. 58; 1661, p. 60. It is also, as “written at Oxford,” in second part of _Oxford Drollery_, 1671, p. 97.

Page 62 [Supp. 11]. _He is a fond Lover_, &c.

This, and the preceding, being superior to the other reserved songs might have been retained in the text but for the need to fill a separate sheet. This Answer is in _Love and Mirth_ (i.e. _Sportive Wit_) 1650, p. 51.

Page 64 [Supp. 12]. _If any one do want a House._

Virtually the same (from the second verse onward) as “A Tenement to Let,” beginning “I have a Tenement,” &c., in _Pills to p. Mel._, 1720, vi. 355; and _The Merry Musician_ (n. d. but about 1716), i. 43. Music in both.

Page 81 [Supp. 13]. _Fair Lady, for your New, &c._

Resembling this is “_Ladies, here I do present you, With a dainty dish of fruit_,” in _Wit and Drollery_, 1656, p. 103.

Page 103 [244]. _Among the Purifidian Sect._

In Harl. MS. No. 6057, fol. 47. There it is entitled “The Puritans of New England.”

Page 106 [248]. _Come hither, my own sweet Duck._

We come delightedly, as a relief, upon this racy and jovial Love-song, which redeems the close of the volume. It has the gaiety and _abandon_ of John Fletcher’s and Richard Brome’s. We have never yet met it elsewhere. It was probably written about 1642. The reserved song in