Old Ballads, from Early Printed Copies of the Utmost Rarity; Now for the First Time Collected

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840. Excerpt: ... That God be chiefely served so, As dooth to him belong; That right may have his course againe, And vanquish wicked wrong; That we may live in feare and awe, And truly so intend, And have the justice of the lawe Our causes to defend. That truth may take his wonted place, And faith be fast againe, And then repent and cail for grace That wrought our care and paine; That God send us a short redresse With wealth and great increase, And to our Queene to reigne and rule In honour, health and peace. Finis. W. E. Imprinted at London by Edward Allde. AGAINST FILTHY WRITING. Thomas Brice, the author of the following invective, was a preacher, who died before 1570, in which year John AUde had a license to print an epitaph upon him. Three years earlier, H. Bynneman had a license to print Songes and Sonnettes by Thos. Bryce, (Ritson, Bibl. Poet. 144) but they were probably not like the Songs and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey, &c, but pious poems, and in 1567 Hugh Singleton was authorized to publish E The Court of Veuus moralized by Thos. Bryce. One work by him has survived, viz. A Register in meter, containing the names and patient sufferings of the martyrs in the time of Queen Mary, which was twice printed, --in 1559, by John Kingston, and again by the same printer without date. The subsequent effusion should seem to have been part of a literary contest, for the author refers to what he had formerly written against some unnamed antagonists, and in the last line notices the challenges which he had received. It is no where enumerated among the productions of the press of John Allde, and appears to have been unknown to all our literary antiquaries. AGAINST FILTHY WRITING, AND SUCH LIKE DELIGHTING. What meane the rimes that run thus large in every shop to sell, Wit...