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Old English Homilies, Series II., from the unique 13th-century MS. in Trinity Coll. Cambridge, with a photolithograph; three Hymns to the Virgin and God, from a unique 13thcentury MS. at Oxford, a photolithograph of the music to two of them, and transcriptions of it in modern notation by Dr. RIMBAULT, and A. J. ELLIS, Esq., F.R.S.; the whole edited by the Rev. RICHARD MORRIS, LL.D. 88. 54. The Vision of Piers Plowman, Text C (completing the 3 versions of this great poem), with an Autotype; and two unique alliterative poems: Richard the Redeles (by William, the author of the Vision; and The Crowned King; edited by the Rev. W. W. SKEAT, M.A. 188. 55. Generydes, a Romance, edited from the unique MS., ab. 1440 A.D., in Trin. Coll. Cambridge, by W. ALDIS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., Trin. Coll. Cambr. Part 1. 38. EXTRA SERIES (One guinea a year). The Publications for 1867 are (for one guinea) :— I. William of Palerne; or, William and the Werwolf. Re-edited from the unique MS. in King's College, Cambridge, by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 13s. II Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. Part I. 10s. The Publications for 1868 are (for one guinea): III. Caxton's Book of Curtesye, in 3 Versions: 1, from the unique print in the Camb. Univ. V. Chaucer's Boethius. Edited from the two best MSS. by R. Morris, LL.D. 12s. The Publications for 1869 are (for one guinea) :— 38. VII. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. Part II. 108. VIII. Queene Elizabethes Achademy, a Book of Precedence. &c. Edited by F. J. Furnival, Esq., with Essays on carly Italian and German Books of Courtesy, by W. M. Rossetti, Esq., and E. Oswald, Esq. 138. IX. Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vagabondes, Harman's Caveat, &c. Edited by E. Viles, Esq., and F. J. Furnivall, Esq. 78. 6d. The Publications for 1870 are (for one guinea) : X. Andrew Boorde's Introduction of Knowledge, 1547, and Dyetary of Helth, 1542; with Barnes in the Defence of the Berde, 1542-3. Edited, with a Life of BOORDE, and an account of his Works, by F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 188. XI. Barbour's Bruce, Part I. Edited from the MSS. and early printed editions, by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 12s. The Publications for 1871 are (for one guinea): XII. England in Henry VIII.'s Time: a Dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Lupset, mainly on the Condition of England, written by Thomas Starkey, Chaplain to Henry VIII. Edited by J. M. Cowper, Esq. Part II. 128. (Part 1.. Starkey's Life and Letters, is in preparation.) XIII. A Supplycacyon of the Beggers, by Simon Fish, 1528-9 A.D., edited by F. J. Furnivall, M.A.; with A Supplication to our Moste Soueraigne Lorde; A Supplication of the Poore Commons; and The Decaye of England by the Great Multitude of Sheep, edited by J. M. Cowper, Esq. 68. XIV. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by A. J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part III. 108. The Publications for 1872 are (for one guinea) : XV. Robert Crowley's Thirty-one Epigrams, Voyce of The Last Trumpet, Way to Wealth, &c., 1550-1 A.D., edited by J. M. Cowper, Esq. 128. XVI. Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe, 1331 A.D. Ed. from MSS. by Rev. W. Skeat, M.A. 10s. XVII. The Complaynt of Scotlande, 1519 A.D., with an Appendix of four Contemporary English Tracts, edited by J. A. H. Murray, Esq. Part I. 10s. The Publications for 1873 are (for one guinea) : XVIII. The Complaynt of Scotlande, 1549 A D., with an Appendix of four contemporary English Tracts (1542-48), edited by J. A. H. MURRAY, Esq. Part II. Ss. XIX. Oure Ladyes Myroure, A.D. 1530, edited by the Rev. J. H. BLUNT, M.A., with four full-page photolithographic facsimiles by Cooke and Fotheringham. 2k. The Subscription for 1873 became due on January 1, and should be paid at once to the Hon. Sec. ARTHUR G. SNELGROVE, Esq., London Hospital, London, E., by Cheque or Post-Office Order payable at the Chief Office, or to the Society's account at the Alliance Bank, Bartholomew Lane, E.C. No publication will be sent to any Member till his Subscription for 1873 is paid. The Ballad Society. Fourth Report. (BY MR. FURNIVALL.) OCTOBER, 1 8 7 3. THOUGH this Report is sadly late in its appearance,* yet it brings with it the first Part of this year's issue, as well as the last Part of last year's. Part IV. of the Roxburghe Ballads for 1872 starts the second volume of our reprint of this well-known collection, while Part V. continues that volume. I had hoped that Part VI. would have been our second issue for 1873, thus completing Volume II.; but Mr. Chappell's work at his History of Music compels him to shorten the time he can give to Ballads; and Part VI. of the 'Roxburghe' is therefore put off till 1874. Its place for 1873 will be filled, I hope, by the second Part of the second volume of Ballads from Manuscripts, the appearance of which has been so long deferred from want of funds, and which Mr. Morfill of Oriel has kindly undertaken to edit. It will contain an Introduction, etc., to Richard Williams's Poore Man's Pittance issued by the Society as its No. 3, in 1868, together with Ballads on Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Campion, Drake, etc. That any of these Ballads possess high poetic A severe dispute as to large charges for 'corrections' led to a change of printers early in the year. It was a long time before we could get the woodcuts set free from the old forms of type; then our new printers, Messrs. Austin & Sons, of Hertford, could give us only three sheets of proof at once; occasional delays for new cuts, for settling some doubtful point, or collating another copy of a Ballad, have occurred; so that we have not been able to get the two Parts out before the present time. 66 ![[ocr errors]](https://books.google.ae/books/content?id=UFOjzgEACAAJ&hl=ar&output=html_text&pg=PA288-IA10&img=1&zoom=3&q=Antenor&cds=1&sig=ACfU3U3SrDWeH0z_D8xXUVQR5ZasqvP8qA&edge=0&edge=stretch&ci=872,824,9,10){kind=small} merit, none of us can hope. Experience has taught us that, when Ballad-writing became a trade, and ceast to be the spontaneous expression of high emotion, geniuses didn't write ballads, nor did imagination and poetic fervour inform their lines. None the less, however, do the more prosaic utterances of the Deloneys and Martin Parkers-or their representatives-of the Elizabethan and Stuart times, reflect the feelings of the common folk they were written for, and sung to; none the less valuable, therefore, are they to us, students of the history of the social and political life of former times. Look at our first Part for last year, the completion of my Ballads from Manuscripts on the social condition of Tudor England: see in it the fierce invectives (in 1528) against Wolsey by one of those commoners of England whom he had gnawen as a Dogge dothe a Catte"; see the Northern Papist's call to rebellion (in 1536) against Henry VIII.'s Reformation, and his minister Cromwell's exactions; see the glad procession on Anne Boleyn's coronation, the hopes that such men as Leland and Udal had of the results to spring from it; then read the Ballad of her Fortune, and witness her end; see the guiltless student of Plato at the scaffold, read her Lamentation' and 'Lament' before she 'mekely took her death; turn to the earlier denunciation of the 'Galaunt's' silly vicious ways, imported from France into England;-in all you have witness of the feelings, the life, of the times, and are helpt in your judgment of what those times were. Nor does the case alter, save in aspect, when you turn to the Roxburghe Ballads. There you have seldom the fierceness of political dispute; but you find pictures of home life. You see on one hand the 'Lover Forsaken' lamenting his lost Love; on the other, 'The Maiden's Complaint of her Love's inconstancie'; you see 'The merry-conceited Lasse, Whose heart's desire was set on fire, A husband for to have'; 'A Messe of Good Fellowes,' who will have 'the other odd quart'; 'John Tomson and Jakaman his Wife' discussing whether husbands or wives are most in fault; Mock-beggar Hall,' with its satire on the show, the pretentiousness, and stinginess, of upstarts striving to ape nobles; you hear the praise of 'The Milkmaid's Life,' the Blacksmith's trade; you hear the old old story of Grisild's constancy re-told, the Lord of Lorn's sorrows re-sung, the love of Maudlin, the Merchant's Daughter,' re-celebrated; and you can enter into the feelings and mind of those to |