is preserved in the "Specimen of a Book called 'Ane Compendious Boke of Godlie Songs,""&c. Edinb. 1765, 12mo. "These Godlie Songs," says Pinkerton, "Ancient Scotish Poems," p. 495, "are written to the tunes of profane ballads, common in 1597, when the publication appeared. From it we therefore learn the stanza of the several songs imitated:" for specimens, see Pinkerton as above, and p. li. of the Historical Essay prefixed to vol. i. of Ritson's Scotish Songs.

p. 252.

From the ballad of " Lord Thomas and fair Annet," in Percy's Reliques, vol. iii. p. 296, edit. 1812.

p. 258.

In the fifth verse of "The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter," which has been just mentioned, as printed in Percy's Reliques, iii. p. 115.

"Some do call mee Jacke, sweet heart,

And some do call mee Jille;

But when I come to the kings faire courte
They calle me Wilfulle Wille."

Motto to iii. chap. ix. p. 260,

is, perhaps, the fifth verse from the end of the ballad last quoted, which consists altogether, as given in the Reliques, of twenty-five stanzas.

"He sett her on a milk-white steede,

And himself upon a graye;

He hung a bugle about his necke,

And soe they rode awaye."

Some other ballad will very probably supply a stanza more completely similar.

THE PIRATE. Motto to vol. i. chap. iii. p. 282.

"O Bessy Bell and Mary Gray,

They war twa bonny lasses,

They bigg'd a bower on yon burn brae,

And theeked o'er wi rashes.

Fair Bessy Bell I loo'ed yestreen,
And thought I ne'er could alter,
But Mary Gray's twa pawky een,
They gar my fancy falter;"

is the first of four stanzas, vol. i. 270, of " Antient and Modern Scotish Songs, Edinb. 1791."

Pawky, means witty, sly.

Motto to iii. chap. x. p. 344.

is the first stanza of an excellent old song printed in the "Reliques," iii. p. 294.

"Over the mountains,

And over the waves;
Under the fountains,

And under the graves;
Under floods that are deepest,
Which Neptune obey;
Over rocks that are steepest,
Love will find out the way."

With four other stanzas.

Motto to iii. chap. xiii. p. 345.

The first four lines of the thirteenth stanza of "The Notbrowne Maid," first published in Arnolde's Chronicle, and which afforded the groundwork of Prior's "Henry and Emma." A corrected copy is given in the "Reliques," vol. ii. p. 28, and in Capel's" Prolusions."

"For an outlawe this is the lawe,
That men hym take and bynde;
Without pytè, hanged to be,

And waver with the wynde.
If I had nede, (as God forbede!)
What rescous coude ye fynde?
Forsoth, I trowe, ye and your bowe
For fere wolde drawe behynde:
And no mervayle; for lytell avayle
Were in your counceyle than:
Wherefore I wyll to the grene wode go,
Alone, a banyshed man."

KENILWORTH, vol. iii. chap. v. p. 85.

The original of the incident here given to Michael Lambourne is published from one of the Harleian MSS. in Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes," p. xxxi. and in the notes to the reprint of Gascoigne's "Princely Pleasures," in Nichols' "Progresses of Queen Elizabeth."

PEVERIL OF THE PEAK, vol. iv. chap. ii. p. 42.

"Now," thought Jerningham within himself, "if Christian knew the Duke as well as I do, he would sooner stand the leap of a lion, like the London 'prentice bold, than venture on my master at this moment, who is even now in a humour nearly as dangerous as the animal."

In the third volume of Evans's " Old Ballads," Lond. 1810, p. 178, is printed "The honour of a London 'Prentice. Being an account of his matchless manhood and brave adventures done in Turkey, and by what means he married the king's daughter."From a black letter copy by Coles, Vere, and Wright.

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This fortunate youth was born in Cheshire; and having given satisfaction to his master, a merchant on the Bridge," he was In less than a year

sent for three years to Turkey as factor. after his arrival in that country, at a tournament he brought to the ground

"One score of knights most hardy,"

who had ventured to deny Queen

The "

"Elizabeth to be the pearl
Of princely majesty."

"The king of that same country
Thereat began to frown,
And will'd his son, there present,
To pull this youngster down."

English boy," nothing daunted by the rank of his opponent, returned with interest the " boasting speeches" of the heir apparent:

"And therewithal he gave him
A box upon the ear,

Which broke his neck asunder,
As plainly doth appear.

Now know, proud Turk, said he,

I am no English boy

That can with one small box o' th' ear

The prince of Turks destroy."

The monarch's trouble was by no means diminished by the loss of his son; and, as a fitting punishment for him who had caused it,

"He swore that he should die The cruell'st death that ever man Beheld with mortal eye."

Two lions, which had not eaten a morsel of food for ten days, were prepared at the appointed time there was a strong muster of " all the noble ladies and barons of the land,"

:

"To see this 'prentice slain, And buried in the hungry maws Of those fierce lions twain."

* A Mr. Smith, whose "Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America," between the years 1593 and 1629, are noticed in Dibdin's" Library Companion," p. 384, note, appears to have much distinguished himself in this manner, since he" vanquishes several great champions at tournaments." See the note referred to.

"For when the hungry lions
Had cast on him their eyes,
The elements did thunder

With the echo of their cries:
And running all amain

His body to devour,

Into their throats he thrust his arms,
With all his might and power:
"From thence by manly valour
Their hearts he tore in sunder,
And at the king he threw them,
To all the people's wonder."

At this unexpected issue of the exhibition, his majesty's terror fully equalled his hate: he suddenly changed his tone, "And said it was some angel

Sent down from heaven above."

The courteous young man entirely disclaimed the slightest pretension to angelic nature, in a manner which greatly edified the Turkish monarch, who makes a very penitent speech:

"So taking up this young man,

He pardon'd him his life,
And gave his daughter to him,

To be his wedded wife:
Where then they did remain,
And live in quiet peace,
In spending of their happy days
In joy and love's increase."

That in times of yore it was by no means unexampled, for a London apprentice to wed with the blood royal, is abundantly shown in T. Heywood's "Foure Prentises of London, with the Conquest of Jerusalem," in which Eustace, the grocer's 'prentice, is introduced wooing the daughter of the King of France. Warton's opinion, that Beaumont and Fletcher's comedy of the " Knight of the Burning Pestle" was expressly intended to cast ridicule upon Heywood's play, is controverted by the editor of the new edition of Dodsley's "Old Plays," vol. vi. p. 401, where the play is to be found.

Heywood's drama is mentioned by name in Act IV. of that comedy.

Boy. Besides, it will shew ill-favouredly to have a grocer's prentice to court a king's daughter.

"Cit. Will it so, sir? You are well read in histories! I pray you, what was Sir Dagonet? Was he not prentice to a grocer in London? Read the play of The Four Prentices of London, where they toss their pikes so...."

Old

The phrase of " tossing their pikes" will be best explained by a reference to the fac-simile of the original title-page, Plays," ut supra, p. 395.

An able letter, upon the violations of the regular chronology of the times represented in Peveril of the Peak, appeared in the "Kaleidoscope," a kind of literary newspaper published at Liverpool. The same work contains the narrative of the Siege of Lathom-house, with valuable notes: these two articles might be printed in a small volume with advantage. We wish also to point out, to such of our readers as may not hitherto have noticed it, an excellent "Letter from Posterity to the Author of Waverley," in an early number of the Metropolitan Quarterly Magazine.

QUENTIN DURWARD. Motto to vol. ii. chap. i.
"Painters shew Cupid blind-hath Hymen eyes?
Or is his sight warp'd by those spectacles

Which parents, guardians, and advisers, lend him,
That he may look through them on lands and mansions,
On jewels, gold, and all such rich dotations,

And see their value ten times magnified—

Methinks 'twill brook a question.'

The Miseries of Enforced Marriage.

If our memory do not greatly deceive us, no such lines occur in the only " Old Play" bearing that title, with which we are acquainted. "The Miseries of Inforst Marriage," by George Wilkins, is reprinted in vol. v. of the recent edition of Dodsley's "Old Plays.'

ii. ix.

p. 195.

"It was a squyer of lowe degrè,

That loved the king's doughter of Hungrè,"

occurs in p. 145, vol. iii. of Ritson's" Ancient English Metrical Romances," Lond. 1802.

x. p.
230.

"Welcome, she sayd, my love so dere,
Myne own dere heart, and my squyer;

I shall you geve kisses thre,

A thousande pounde unto your fe."-Ibid. 1. 571-4.

many a page

Have become men by marriage."—Ibid. 1. 373-4.

It is believed that no MS. of this poem exists; the only known copy is in the British Museum (Garrick's Plays, K. vol. 9), printed by Copland, 4to. without date; but between the years 1560 and 1569,-" and from the apparent modernization of the printed copy, [the poem] seems of much greater antiquity."