AND

Ballads,

FROM

THE REIGN OF KING HENRY THE SECOND
TO THE REVOLUTION.

COLLECTED BY

JOSEPH RITSON, ESQ.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

I love a ballad but even too well.

SHAKSPEARE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR PAYNE AND FOSS, PALL-MALL;

BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

1829.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME THE SECOND.

CLASS THE THIRD.

1. Balet, by Anthony Woodvyle earl Rivers

2. Gramercy myn own purse

3. The praise of serving-men, or Troly loly

4. Upon the inconstancy of his mistress

5. Invocation to Death

6. A carol on bringing up a boars head to the table on

Christmas-day

7. In die nativitatis. [a Christmas carol.]

8. In die nativitatis. [Another Christmas carol.]

9. Dialogue between two lovers

10. The kind lady reproaches her defamatory deserter

11. In praise of the joyful life of a bachelor

12. My swete swetyng

13. Mutual affection

14. The proffered services of affection

CLASS THE FOURTH.

1. The dying maidens complaint

2. Tye the mare, Tom boy

3. In dispraise of women

4. The discontented husband

5. Captain Car