Catalogue of a collection of English ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries

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199—Calm was the Evening and clear was the Sky |
when the new budding flowers do spring, |
Amintas and Claudia : | Or, The Merry Shepherdess, |
Shewing whatever he from Vertue did not draw.
She circumvented with a ha, ha, ha.
To the Tune, called, Calm was the Evening, and Clear was the Skie. |
[Burden] He was dasht with a ha, ha, ha, &c.
London, Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and W. Whitwood. |
[1671.]
3 woodcuts, 4 cols. B.L.
The first 3 stanzas are by John Dryden, and first appeared in his comedy " An Evening's
Love," Act 4, Scene 1.
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Bagford -—. p. 499. Huth-. Euing 2.
200—Calvin lament, thy Conquer'd Champions Mourn, |
And weep thy Sons Successless and Forlorn, |
The I Restauration ; | Or, | A Change for the Better. | Being | A
Paper of Verses in Memory of the Citizens of London's | Gratitude,
in Chusing [ Sir William Pritchard, Sir John Fleet, | Sir Francis Child,
and Gilbert Heathcot, Esq ; | For their Members to Serve in Parlia¬
ment. I
London, Printed for B. D. in Fleet-street, 1702. |
2 cols. Roman Letter.
201—Can Life be a Blessing, |
That's worth our possessing? |
Loves Power and Greatness, | Or, The Charming Lovers Praise. |
Loves Mighty Accents founded Natures frame,
All that have being from Loves Fountain came ;
That Universal good, Eternal joy.
Which yields the world such Sacred harmony :
Whose charming power, no power has to stay,
Through Earth, through Air, through Sea it finds away.
(these 6 lines in 2 cols, three and three.)