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OF OUR ANCIENT NOBILITY,

EMPLOYED THE PRINCELY FORTUNE,

AND SUSTAINED THE ILLUSTRIOUS HONOURS, WHICH SHE DERIVED FROM THEM, THROUGH HER WHOLE LIFE

WITH THE GREATEST DIGNITY,

GENEROSITY, AND SPIRIT;

AND WHO FOR HER MANY PUBLIC

AND, AS IT SOMETIMES

AFFORDED HER AMUSEMENT,

AND WAS HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED

BY HER INDULGENT APPROBATION, IT IS NOW,

WITH THE UTMOST REGARD,

RESPECT, AND GRATITUDE,

CONSECRATED

TO HER BELOVED AND HONOURED

MEMORY.

1. The ancient Ballad of Chevy-Chase

2. The Battle of Otterbourne..

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Illustration of the Names in the foregoing Ballads 35

3. The Jew's Daughter. A Scottish Ballad

4. Sir Cauline.

5. Edward, Edward. A Scottish Ballad

6. King Estmere.

On the Word Termagant.

7. Sir Patrick Spence. A Scottish Ballad

8. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne .

9. An Elegy on Henry, fourth Earl of Northumber-

land, by Skelton..

10. The Tower of Doctrine, by Stephen Hawes
11. The Child of Elle.

12. Edom [Adam] o' Gordon. A Scottish Ballad

BOOK THE SECOND.

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Essay on the Origin of the English Stage .

1. Adam Bell, Clym o' the Clough, and William

of Cloudesly.

2. The aged Lover renounceth Love

3. Jephthah Judge of Israel.

4. A Robyn Jolly Robyn.

6. King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid

7. Take thy old Cloak about thee.

8. Willow, Willow, Willow.

9. Sir Lancelot du Lake

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10. Corydon's Farewell to Phillis.

The Ballad of constant Susannah

11. Gernutus, the Jew of Venice

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224

ibid.

226

12. The passionate Shepherd to his Love, by Marlow 237

The Nymph's Reply, by Sir W. Raleigh

13. Titus Andronicus's Complaint.

14. Take those Lips away.

15. King Leir and his Three Daughters

16. Youth and Age, by Shakespeare

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248.

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17. The Frolicksome Duke, or the Tinker's good For-

1. The more modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase

Illustration of the Northern Names

2. Death's final Conquest, by James Shirley
3. The Rising in the North

4. Northumberland betrayed by Douglas.

5. My Mind to me a Kingdome is

6. The Patient Countess, by W. Warner
7. Dowsabell, by Drayton...

8. The Farewell to Love, from Beaumont and Fletcher 332

9. Ulysses and the Syren, by S. Daniel

10. Cupid's Pastime, by Davison

11. The Character of a happy Life, by Sir H. Wotton 340

12. Gilderoy. A Scottish Ballad.

15. Bryan and Pereene. A West India Ballad, by