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

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1095—Such commands ore my fate has your love or your hate |
That nothing can make me more wretched or great, |
An Excellent new Playhouse Song, Call'd, | The Faithful Lovers, | Or,
The Young Man's Earnest Request | To His Mistress. | With her
kind Answer to her Lover. |
To the Tune of, Fond Boy.
With Allowance. |
[2 lines of music.]
Printed for Charles Barnet, 1694. |
2 cols., 6 verses. Roman Letter.
1096—The Summers [sun] o're heating, |
Within an Arbour sitting, |
A Posie of Rare Flowers : | Gathered by a Young-man for his
Mistris. |
To a pleasant new Tune. |
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright. | [1658-60.]
3 woodcuts, 4 cols, B.L.
No. 238 of Thackeray's List.
Interesting as giving the popular names used in the time of James L for many different
flowers. Mr. Chappell gives the identifications in " The Roxburghe Ballads," vol. ii., p. 275.
B.S. —. Rox. ^ . Pepys —. Pepys-i. Rawlinson 202. Huth. —.
275 304-5 155 39 58
1097—Surely now I'm out of danger |
I'l defie blind Cupids Dart i
The Redeemed Captive. |
The Free Unchain'd Lover boasts
That he is now at Large.
That other men should keep so too
He gives this friendly charge.
(these 4 lines in 2 cols, two and two.)
Tune, When Auralia first was. |