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

1406—You Loyal Lovers attend to my Ditty, |
which with a sorrowful heart 1 raise, j
The Damosels Tragedy : | Or, True Love in Distress. | Being an
account of a young Man, who Slighting a young | Maiden who had
fix'd her love upon him, did thereby cause her to end her days in |
Dispair by a dreadful Dose of Poyson. |
To the Tune of, Charon, &c.
[Burden] No body knows what I undergo, &c.
This may be Printed, R. P. |
Finis. I '
Printed for J. Back, at the Black Boy on London- j Bridge, near the Draw-
Bridge. I [1685-88.]
3 woodcuts, 3 cols. B.L.
1407—You loyall Lovers that are distant, ]
from your Sweet-hearts many a mile, |
The Constant Lover. |
Who his affection will not move.
Though he live not where he love.
To a Northerne tune called, Shall the absence of my Mistresse. \
[Burden] Though I live not where I love, &c.
Finis. P. L. |
London Printed for Henry Gosson. | [Circa 1630.]
Probably written by Peter Lowberry.
The Roxburghe copy till now has been considered to be unique.
B.S. —. Rox. -I-.
213 68-9
1408—You loyal Subjects of this Isle, |
Be pleased to attend a while, |
The Westminster Wonder: | Giving an Account of a Robin
Red-breast, who, ever since the Queen's | Funeral, continues on the top
Pinacle of the Queen's Mausoleum, or Pyramid, | in the Abby of