A Little Book of Songs and Ballads: Gathered from Ancient Musick Books, Ms. and Printed

J. R. Smith, 1851 - 227 pages

INTRODUCTION	1

Song in Praise of Arthur Prince of Wales A D 1501 21	21

This gentill Day dawes written in compliment to Elizabeth daughter of Edward IV	24

Ballad on the Marriage of Margaret Tudor	27

Margaret Meke	29

Satirical Song on the Flemings	31

Satirical Song on Friar Gastkyn 336	35

The Kynges Ballade	37

Song from the Interlude of the iiij Elements 39	39

Jhoone is sike and ill at ease	40

had both Monie and a Frende 12	42

A Caveat against Idle Rumours	44

The Complaynte of a Lover	47

Kytt hath lost hur Key	49

Another Version of the same	51

By a Banke as I lay 333	53

Another Version of the same	55

The lytyll prety Nyghtyngale	57

have been a Foster long	59

cannot come every day to woo	60

A Wooing Song of a Yeoman of Kents Son	62

O Death rocke me asleepe	65

The Hunt is up 49	67

Come over the Burne Bessy to me	71

Ancient Lullaby Song	77

A Christmas Caroll	79

Who liveth so merry in all this Land	83

We be Souldiers three	86

The Marriage of the Frogge and the Mouse	87

The Frogs Wedding	89

There was a Froggie 22	92

The Wedding of the Flye 35	95

Like Hermit poor	98

With my Flockes as walked I	101

The Rose of England	103

Sir Eglamore	106

Trole the Cannikin	109

The Cuckoos Song	111

Tosse the Pot	128

Methinkes one Tooth is dry	130

The Morris Dancers	132

The Manner of the World now a days	134

The Ape the Monkey and Baboone	135

Kemps Journey into France	136

Love will find out the Way	137

A MayDay Ballad	144

The Rural Daunce about the Maypole	146

The NorthCountrymans Song on his View of Lon don Sights	151

A Song for Autolycus	156

Ballad on Symon Wadloe	158

The Humours of Bartholomew Fair	160

The New Humours of Bartholomew Fair	162

A Song on Bartholomew Fair	163

The Countrymans Ramble through Bartholomew Fair	166

Tobacco is an Indian Weed	170

The Praise of Trinidado	173

Tobaccos a Musician	175

Ale and Tobacco	178

The Triumph of Tobacco	179

Old England turnd New	183

The Lamentation of a Bad Market	187

Londons Ordinary or Every Man in his Humour	193

A TomaBedlam Song	200

The PlainDealing Mau	206

The PlainDealing Woman or Come Shepherds Deck your Heads	212

The Praise of Christmas	215

LENVOY	221

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS	223

Title	A Little Book of Songs and Ballads: Gathered from Ancient Musick Books, Ms. and Printed
Author	Edward Francis Rimbault
Publisher	J. R. Smith, 1851
Original from	the Bavarian State Library
Digitized	15 Sep 2011
Length	227 pages

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