Ye Worshipfull Ballad Society. De

TO THE TUNE OF, Would you send Kate to Portugal? (see p. 616.)

WOULD you enjoy unequall'd store of ballads,
Some of them peppery, some cool as salads?
Follow your Leader, like a flight of malla'ds,-
Now is the time!

Would you see clearly how Intriguers reckon'd;

How Noncons fidgetted, and Wantons beckon'd,

While rul'd our Merry Monarch, Charles the Second?—
Now is the time!

Would you see Titus Oates, unblushing varlet !

Swear lives away, and curse the Dame in Scarlet,

While Scroggs and Jeffereys loudly storm and snarl it ?—

Now is the time!

Would you escape awhile all quid nunc gapers

Of these our own days, with sham-Liberal capers,
And see James, Romish Convert, hold wax-tapers ?—
Now is the time!

Would you get free from all the ills that bore us,
By marking what was done and felt before us,
Or joining the two-hundred-years' old chorus—

"Now is the time ?"

Here, while you've "Barkis willing," chance is offer'd;
Come, take these ballads rare, so freely proffer'd;

Down with your dust! let Dalziel get it coffer'd:

Now is the time!

J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH.

MOLASH VICARAGE, BY ASHford, Kent.

Prefatory Note.-This list includes first lines, burdens, titles, sub-titles
(i.e. second titles), and tunes; distinguishing the ballads that are merely alluded
to in passing, as "mentioned"; and those from which the opening verse or other
portion is given, as "quoted": while the absence of such distinctive signs marks
those which are given complete. Tunes are expressly indicated. Burdens, choruses,
or refrains, are shown clearly in italic type. With undated ballads every clue of
tune, printer, or burden becomes valuable for identification.-J. W. EBSWORTH.

"A gallant Lady gay, as she was walking'
"A lustie country Lad, that lately came to town
"A North-country Lass up to London did pass
"A Nymph and a Swain to Apollo once pray'd
"A pox of the fooling and plotting of late!"
"A pox of the Statesman that's witty!"
"A pox on Whigs! we'll now grow wise" (bis)
"A Protestant Muse," etc. (See, Sing hey! brave Popery!)
"A rich Merchant Man"

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405

burden, 361

tune, 95, 228, 229

mentioned, 436

13

mentioned, 471
mentioned, 355

262, 268

290, 296, 304
mentioned, 12

2 x

sub-title, 438

sub-title, 530

sub-title, 173

mentioned, 401

Account of nine or ten fair Maidens, etc.
Account of Young Jemmy's great Victory, An
Acquittal of Lord Chief Justice Scroggs
Address to his Lady, The Sorrowful Young Man's
"Adieu my dear! whom I adore'

"After the fiercest pangs of hot desire"

"After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory"
"After two sittings, now our Lady State"

Against all the strength and the power of France
Ah! ah! my Love's dead, etc.

"Ah! Cloris, awake! it is all abroad day
"Ah! cruel bloody Fate!"

"Ah! cruel Maid, give o'er"

393, 398
mentioned, 492
also tune, 33, 34, 38, 380, 503

"Ah! how pleasant are the charms of Love!" (bis)

Ah! how pleasant are the charms of Love

"Ah! how pleasant 'tis to love!"

"Ah! how powerful is her charming eye!'

"Ah! how sweet it is to love!"

"Ah Jenny! gin your eyes do kill"
"Ah me! if our heart e'er grow chilly"
"Aim not too high!"

"Alas! poor female sex!"

34
448, 451
tune, 448, 451, 454, 457

447, 461

454

quoted, 447

mentioned, 656

Editorial, 415

mentioned, 157

164

mentioned, 662

mentioned, 361

mentioned, 282

mentioned, 263

Alice and Beatrice, Dialogue of (Bagford Ballad)
"All in a misty morning, cloudy, was the weather'
"All in a pleasant shady grove

"All joy to Fair Psyche

All Trades (=Old Sir Simon the King)
"All trades are not alike in show"
"All you that desirous are to behold"
"All you that do desire to know"

"All you that do desire to play, at Cards," etc.
"All you that fear the Lord on high
"All you that have now a desire to bear "
"All you that list to look and see," etc......
"All you that pass along, give ear unto my song
"All
you that standeth near me
"All you that strange prophecies love for to hear "
"All you that to begin the world intend"
"All you that to feasting and mirth are inclin'd"
"Amintas was walking one evening alone"
Amintas's Farewell ....

Amintor's Well-a-day

"Among the race of England's modern Peers"
Amorous Damsel of Bristol City, The.............
"An old man would be wooing

An Orange

357

74

mentioned, 135
mentioned, 313

mentioned, 43
mentioned, 461

tune, 461, 462
mentioned, 120
quoted, 566, 633
tune, 342
quoted, 411

burden and tune, 408

. 260, 299

147

382

end of burden, 240

260

397

mentioned, 547

tune, 65

And hey then up go we! (See Hey Boys up go we)
And I never, no never, shall see my love more
"And must the Hero that redeem'd our land"
And ne'er be drunk again (=Old Simon the King)
And pray for the King and the Nation's long peace
And 'Tony will never be himself again......
And Tory shall ne'er be my love again
"And will this wicked world never prove good?"
Answer of King Charles II. to the Commons' Petition
Answer of King Charles II. to the Duke of Monmouth's Letter
Answer to a Tory Satyr, Whig

251

81

Answer to Downright Dick of the West, The Londoner's......

Answer to Innocence Unveiled

quoted, 566
492

Arrival in London of William Prince of Orange.....

429, 431

sub-title, mentioned, 471

"Art come, sweet Prince? wilt once more deign to cheer".

quoted, 114

33, 40

493

188

sub-title, 267, 305

mentioned, 632

"Avoid, Satanic tipple, hence!"

66

397

517

quoted, 301

mentioned, 476

.....end of burden, 229

mentioned, 12

mentioned, 588

mentioned, 342

mentioned, 342

mentioned, 289

mentioned, 561

sub-title, 409

burden varies, 618, 619

"Awake! awake, O England!" (Bellman for England)
"Awake! awake, O England! sweet England now awake!
"Away with the causes of riches and care

mentioned, 411

mentioned, 350

mentioned, 466

467

mentioned, 52

mentioned, 445

quoted, 445
mentioned, 3
sub-title, 329

mentioned, 104, 112
sub-title, 96, 100, 105

248, 253, 254, 597, 604, 605

quoted, 87, 520
quoted, 364, 381, 658
.....104, 110, 112, 117

quoted. 94, 104
mentioned, 104, 112

quoted, 561

437

mentioned, 424

quoted, 566, 58, 589

given complete, 436, 440, 441

quoted, 562

quoted, 254

quoted, 484
sub-title, 242

"Beau Nez! dont les rubis ont cousté mainte pipe
Beauty's Charms, The powerful Force of
Beauty's Cruelty; or, The Passionate Lover
Bedfordshire Widow, The

Bedloe, Elegy upon Captain William
Bedloe, Epitaphs on William

Bedloe, Epithalamium on the Marriage of Capt. William
Bedloe, Funeral Tears upon the death of Capt. William
Beggar-Wench turned into a Devil, The
Beginners, A Guide for New.....

"Behold from the Infernal Lake I come