"What is the cruel Cause of our dissention?"

What is the cruel Cause of our undoing? (=dissention)
"What monstrous blessings would a change create
"What still, ye Whigs, uneasy!"
"What the Devil ails the Parliament ? "

PAGE

quoted, 293

tune, 211
quoted, 597
quoted, 158, 242

"What will become of this mad world, quoth I"
Wheel-Band, The Twineing of a

When Aurelia first I courted

"When busy Fame o'er all the plain"

When covetousness out of England will run

"When England, half ruined, had cause to be sad”
When Flying Fame

"When great men fall, great griefs arise"

When heaven says Nay

"When Nature's God for our offences died"

"When on my sick bed I languish " (Given complete)
"When out of England we did go

"When Phoebus had run " (Pepysian ballad)
When Popery out of this nation shall run
When Popery will Return into England again

84

quoted, 577, 619

sub-title, and burden, 101
tune, 342

. and tune, 640, 642
burden and tune, 290

316

tune, 361
590

burden varies, 127, 129

315

360

650

mentioned, 492

burden, 290, 291, 292

sub-title, mentioned, 312

"When Portsmouth did from England fly, to follow her Vandôme
"When Rome by Godfrey's death had proudly shown "”
"When Shakespeare, Johnson, Fletcher rul'd the stage"
"When she heard how he died" (To be given in next volume)
"When the bold Carthaginian" (Two versions)
"When the joy of all hearts, and desire of all eyes
"When valiant Buckcleugh charg'd his foes"
"When you, great Sir, begin to disappear"
"Where gott'st thou the haver-meal bannock?
Where have you been, my lovely Sailor bold?
"Where is there faith or justice to be found?
Where's my Shepherd, my Love? Heigh ho!
Which no body can deny!

180

537

mentioned, 334

tune, 511

quoted, 294

tune, 437, 438

burden and tune, 125, 140, 154, 156, 179, 181

Whig and Tory, The Condemnation of
Whig Answer to a Tory Satire

Whig Rampant, The

Whig Triumphant; or, The Doctor Rampant, The

Whig's Coat, A Tory in a

Whig's Exaltation, Answer to the

Whig's Exaltation, The

"While Duns were knocking at the door"

"While lazy Prelates lean'd their Mitred heads

"While the pious grave sot does amuse half the nation"

Whips which the Spaniards prepared, Strange and cruel
Whistle, The Carman's

Whitehall, Titus Oates's Retreat from.....

"Why talk of Garnet Wolesley, or Beauchamp Seymour's name" Edit., 716

Widow, The Bedfordshire

Wife, A Cure for a Scolding

Wife, The Country Farmer and his Buxom

Wife, The Dumb (modern Version of the Dumb Maid)
Wife, The Merchant-man and the Fidler's
Wife's Vindication, The Scolding

William and his Pretty Peggy, Downright Wooing of Country, mentioned, 371
William, Kind (="Constant Betty, that sweet creature")" mentioned, 343
William Prince of Orange, Arrival in London of
William's Patience Rewarded

Willoughby, Brave Lord

Willoughby's March, Lord

Willoughby's Welcome Home, Lord

"Wilt thou be wilful still ?"

Wilt thou be wilful still? my Jo!

... sub-title, 267, 305
sub-title, mentioned, 343, 346
title and burden, 1, 3, 8

tune, 263

tune mentioned, 332, 384

Wiltshire Wedding, The (=“All in a misty morning")
Winchester Wedding, The (="At Winchester ")
Wine-Cooper's Delight, The......

42, 52, 53, 158

Wise Fortune-Teller, The Young Man's Approbation against the
"Wise Solomon has said, 'Tis sometimes fit
Wish, Jack Presbyter's
Wish, The Old Man's

(to be given hereafter) mentioned, 104, 109, 313
mentioned, 104; given, 313

Wish, The Pope's (given nearly complete)
Wishes of a Loyal Subject, The Humble
With a fa la la la, fa la la
With a fadding (or with a fading)
With a hey ding, ding a ding, ding
With a hey, trony nony nony no!

With a hey, with a hey! . . . with a ho!

With a O hone! hononoreera tarrareera, tarrareero!

With a Pudding!

With an Orange

Wolf Justice, The

quoted, 177

177, 181
mentioned, 355
title mentioned, 343

Women and Wine, The Town Gallant's Declaration for
Womenkind, Answer to the false Character lately writ against:
Wonder of Wonders, The (the Kentish Miracle)
Wonder of Wonders, The (=The Tetworth Drummer)

Wooing betwixt Country Wm. and his pretty Peggy, Downright
Wooing betwixt Robin and Nancy, The Downright
Work is never done, Woman's

"Would you be a Man in Fashion?" (= Pack's original song)
Would you be a Man of Fashion?

"Would you be a Man of Favour?" (in Favour)
"Would you be famous, and renown'd in story ?"
"Would you but banish all your friends!'"'

"Would you enjoy unequall'd store of Ballads?"
"Would you have at your Devotion "
"Would you send Kate to Portugal ? "

YE merry hearts that will, the Cooper is the Fox!

"Yet once more Peace turns back her head to smile'
Yielding Lass, The Bonny Scot and the

York, Farewell to H.R.H. James Duke of

York's Return from Scotland, H.R.H. the Duke of
"You are welcome all to Fumblers' Hall"

“You brave loyal Churchmen, that ever stood by the Crown
"You Gallants that delight to play
"You horned fumbling spoon, in city, Court, or town"
"You London lads, be merry

"You maidens all of London City" (imperfect, at present)
"You men that are married, I pray now attend"
"You mortal men, who vainly spend your youth"

"You rambled once, and seem'd to say "

"You rural God, that guards the plains"
"You that are of the merry throng'
"You that are with jests delighted"

"You that have spent your time in wickedness
"You Tories round the nation"

"Young Jemmy is a lad that's royally descended"

66

Young Jemmy, the blade of royal stamp"

"Young Jemmy was a lad of royal birth and breeding"

Young Maidens, A Sorrowful Assembly of

Young Man, A Remedy for a Ranting

Young Man and Maid's Constancy, The

Young man Returned from his Rambles, The

Young man's Address to his Lady, The Sorrowful

burden, mentioned, 494

77
sub-title, 341, 357
tune, 503, 658, 667

503, 665
656

656, 658, 665, 668
sub-title, 409

sub-title, mentioned, 342

mentioned, 338
sub-title, 48, 49
mentioned, 401
79, 493

Young man's Approbation against the Wise Fortune-Teller, The
Young man's Counsellor; or, A Guide for New Beginners
Young man's Counsellor; or, The most deserved Praise, etc.

29, 65, 73, 74

65, 66

Young man's Counsellor, The Maiden's Advice in Answer to the, sub-title, 70
Young man's Repentance, The

"Young Women and Damsels they love to go

fine

mentioned, 365

sub-title, 382

mentioned, 343, 346
mentioned, 343, 346

mentioned, i13
tune, 61, 640, 642
mentioned, 61, 640, 642
mentioned, 61, 640, 642

"You're welcome, Whigs, from Bothwell-Brigs
Youth, youth! thou had'st better been starv'd at nurse,'
Youth's Unkindness to his beloved Mistress, The False

ZEAL of Both Boiling over, The

quoted, 83, 563
mentioned, 411
quoted, 532

quoted, 87, 520

sub-title, 23

sub-title, 596

The General Index to the Roxburghe Ballads is necessarily delayed until the completion of the entire series; there being such frequent intermingling of tunes, and subjects, especially in these Volumes IV., V., and VI., all of which contain historical ballads in profusion. But the present Editor, J. W. Ebsworth, is hopeful of furnishing as thorough an Index of subject-matters, in addition to one combined Index of all first lines, burdens, titles, sub-titles, and tunes (similar to the single volume Index here ended), as those given by him to The Bagford Ballads and The Amanda Group, previously edited for the Ballad Society.

A few spare pages being here temptingly awaiting completion of the final sheet, he furnishes thereon a convenient hand-list of the Ballad Society's publications; more especially necessary since the seriatim lists on the Society's coloured Wrappers are seldom boundin at the end of each volume-as they ought to be. Vacant space remaining, and our valiant troops of Typographers at Hertford (under command of the experienced W[orthy] M[ajor-General] Wood, mentioned on p. xx of Introduction), having achieved a victory against time, after an exceptionally trying forced march, it is found impossible to resist the almost universal demand of enlightened Christendom (excluding the Earlswood Hewlette and uncircumscribed Jewry,) to give The Austinian Epos as a Finale. Whether Professor Karl von Nirgends or the irrepressible M. Eugène Dervaux be the author, or it arose spontaneously into a cosmos by the fortuitous congregation of type-metal atoms, is left to Shaxbeerian Pundits, with their usual infallibility of arriving at erroneous conclusions. But this Finale, being entirely impromptu and supplementary, need not afflict the righteous souls of any Philistine outsiders; to whom the nomenclature of the printingchapel will be as unintelligible as the Poems of Cowley and the beauties of Crashaw were found to be with Anser. They may "take it as read" without exhausting their mind in perusal. It was earlier declared by Hamlet (whom we have seen recently consigned to Colney-Hatch, mad as a hatter or a March hare, and by no means only "mad north-north west," as he chose to avow himself, when it suited his purpose to mystify foes or commentators): For if the King like not the Comedy, Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy!

A Song of Triumph to the Hertford Chapel, from a Sound Churchman.

[A "TWELFTH NIGHT" CARD, 1883.]

WHY talk of Garnet Wolseley, or Beauchamp Seymour's name,
Who blazed away in Egypt, and spoilt Arabi's game?
"Of all the world's brave heroes" we've some who laugh at fear,
In the compos. and the pressmen of famous Hertfordshire.

While others lark in holidays, they gather to their work,
For Ebsworth had entrench'd himself (that unrelenting Turk!)
Amid huge piles of manuscript, that stretch'd out far and near:
To storm that Tel-el-Kebir throng'd our men of Hertfordshire.