Old Ballads Historical And Narrative With Some of Modern Date volume 1
Old Ballads Historical And Narrative With Some of Modern Date volume 1
Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868
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And all good people for me pray. The man of death his part did play, Which made the tears blind many an eye He is with Christ, as I dare say. The Lord grant us that so we may. OLD BALLADS. 107 XXIL JOCKIE IS GROWNE A GENTLEMAN. " This ^tire was most probably levelled against the nume- rous train of Scotch adventurers who wisely emigrated to B^ngland in the time of James the First, in the full ex- pectation of being distinguished by the particular favour and patronage of their native sovereign. ...The realization of these hopes, and perhaps some disappointment of his own, excited the gall of the unknown Satirist, and pro- duced this effusion. Its extreme rarity cannot be better exemplified than by simply stating, that no other copy of it was ever seen by Mr. Chalmers, whose knowledge respecting every subject of Scottish history and Utera- ture is proverbial: and the late Mr. Ritsoii absolutely questioned it's existence till he was convinced of his error by the production of the original. The ensuing tran- script is made from a verycuriousnianuscri.
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