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Ballad, which was written foon after
Mary's escape in 1568.

SONNET BY Q. ELIZABETH

This Sonnet ftrongly characterifes its great and spirited Authorefs, and is preferved in Puttenham's Arte of Eng. Poefie.

THE STURDY ROCK

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This Poem is preserved in “The Paradife of Daintie Devifes," page 150.

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YOUNG WATERS

A very ancient Scottish Ballad, for the publication of which the world is indebted to the Lady Jean Hume, fister to the Earl of Hume.

THE EWE BUGHTS MARION

The antiquity of this Sonnet is faid to be
great; that, and its fimplicity of fen-
timent, have recommended it to a place
here.

THE AGED LOVER RENOUNCETH LOVE
The Grave-digger's Song in Hamlet, Act. -

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5. is taken from three ftanzas of this
poem. The original is preferved
among Surrey's poems, 1559, and is
fuppofed to be written by Lord Vaux
on his death-bed.

A SONG TO THE LUTE IN MUSICKE Printed from the old M. S. in the Cotton Library.-Shakespeare has made this Sonnet the fubject of pleasant ridicule in his Romeo and Juliet, Act. IV. Scene 5.

GENTLE HERDSMAN TELL TO ME

The scene of this beautiful old Ballad is laid near Walfingham in Norfolk, where was anciently an image of the Virgin Mary, famous all over Europe for the numerous pilgrimages made to it.

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Q. ELIZABETH'S VERSES WHILE PRISONER AT WOODSTOCK

Writ with Charcoal on a Shutter, and preserved by Hentzner, in that part of his Travels, which has lately been reprinted at Strawberry Hill.

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LADY BOTHWELL'S LAMENT

This affecting ftory refers to Lady Jean Gordon, fifter to the E. of Huntley, who married James Hepburn, E. of Bothwell. To cover his ambition for marrying Mary Q of Scots, he fued out a divorce from his lawful bride, in May 1567.

ARABELLA STUART

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SONNET ON ELIZABETH MARKHAM
From a M. S. of John Harrington,

dated 1564.

HENRY AND CATHERINE

Mr. Bishop has published an excellent
Latin Tranflation of this ballad.

THE MAD SHEPHERDESS

This Ballad was fung on the Stage, by
Mrs. Davis, which King Charles the
Second hearing, was fo pleafed, that
he took her off the stage, and had a

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daughter by her, who was named
Mary Tudor, and was married to
Francis Lord Radcliffe, afterwards
Earl of Derwentwater.

HUME AND MURRAY

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LOVE AND GRIEF, OR DEATH OF THE
SUTHERLANDS

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Being the very affecting Story of William Earl of Sutherland, and his Countess, which is founded on fact.

THE FIELD OF BATTLE

THE CAROUSAL OF ODIN

SELDOME COMES THE BETTER

An admonition to Hufbands, Wives, Masters, and Servants, to auoid mutability, and to fix their mindes on what they poffefs.

AURA AND ALEXIS

THE TRAGEDY OF PHILLIS

Complaining of the difloyall love of

Amyntas.

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THE DEBTOR

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PRINCE EDWARD AND ADAM GORDON The fubject of this Ballad is taken from the History of England, the latter part of the reign of Henry III.

CUMNOR HALL

Cumnor is near Abingdon in Berks. This ftory is founded on the unhappy Countefs of Leicester being murdered there in Q. Elizabeth's time.

THE BITTER FRUITES OF JEALOUSIE

THE OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER

TIMES ALTERATION

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