The first vile thing that ever I did I will to you unfolde; Earl marshall had my maidenhed, Thats a vile finne, then fayd the king; May God forgive it thee! Amen, amen, quoth earl marshall 49 Thats a vile finne, then fayd the king, May God forgive it thee! Amen, amen, quoth earl marshall; And I wish it fo may bee. Thats a vile finne, then fayd the king; May God forgive it thee! Amen, amen, quoth earl marshall 50 55 60 Do Do you fee yonders little boye, A toffing of the balle? That is earl marshalls eldest sonne, And I love him the best of all. Do you fee yonders little boye, A catching of the balle? That is king Henryes youngest fonne, 65 She fhrieked, and cryd, and wrung her hands, 73 The king lookt over his left shoulder, And a grimme lock looked hee, Earl marshall, he fayd, but for my oathe, Or hanged thou shouldt bee. 80 V. 63, 67. She means that the eldest of these two was by the earl marfball, the youngest by the king. IX. THE IX. THE STURDY ROCK. This poem, fubfcribed. M. T. [perhaps invertedly for T. Marfball is preferved in The Paradife of daintie devifes, quoted above in page 136-The two first stanzas may be found accompanied with mufical notes in "An bowres recreation in muficke, &c. by Richard Alifon, Lond. 1606. 4to.." ufually bound up with 3 or 4 fets of " Madrigals fet to mufic by Tho. Weelkes, Lond. 1597. 16co. 1608, 4to." One of these madrigals is fo compleat an example of the Bathos, that I cannot forbear prefenting it to the reader. Thule, the period of cofmographie, Doth vaunt of Hecla, whofe fulphurious fire Doth melt the frozen clime, and thaw the fkie, Trinacrian Etna's flames afcend not hier : Thefe things feeme wondrous, yet more wondrous I, Whofe heart with feare doth freeze, with love doth fry. The Andelufian merchant, that returnes Laden with cutchinele and china dishes, Reports in Spaine, how ftrangely Fogo burnes Amidft an ocean full of flying fishes: These things feeme wondrous, yet more wondrous I, Whofe heart with feare doth freeze, with love doth fry. Mr. Weelkes feems to have been of opinion with many of his brethren of later times, that nonjenje was beft adapted to difplay the powers of mufical compofure. *Vid. Athen. Oxon. p. 152. 316. THE HE sturdy rock for all his ftrength TH By raging feas is rent in twaine : The marble ftone is pearft at length, With little drops of drizling rain : The oxe doth yeeld unto the yoke, The fteele obeyeth the hammer ftroke. The stately ftagge, that feemes fo ftout, Is caught at length in fowlers net: Yea man himselfe, unto whose will But vertue fits triumphing ftill Upon the throne of glorious fame: X. THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALLGREEN. This popular old ballad was written in the reign of Elizabeth, as appears not only from ver. 23. where the arms of England are called the "Queenes armes ;" but from its tune's being quoted in other old pieces, written in her time. See the ballad on MARY AMBREE in this volume.-An ingenious gentleman has affured the Editor, that he has formerly feen another old fong on the fame fubject, composed in a different measure from this; which was truly beautiful, if we may judge from the only ftanza he remembered: in this it was faid of the old beggar, that “down his neck his reverend lockes In comelye curles did wave; The following ballad is chiefly given from the Editor's folio MS. compared with two ancient printed copies: the concluding ftanzas, which contain the old Beggar's difcovery of himself, are not however given from any of thefe, being very different from thofe of the vulgar ballad. They were communicated to the Editor in manuscript; but he will not anfwer for their being genuine : he rather thinks them the modern production of fome perfon, who was offended at the abfurdities, and inconfiftencies, which fo remarkably prevailed in this part of the fong, as it flood before: whereas by the alteration of a few lines, the ftory is rendered much more affecting, and is reconciled to probability and true hif tery. For this informs us, that at the decifive battle of Evebam, |