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129. A NEW SONG, CALLED THE FARMER'S RANT, OR JOCKEY'S DREAM, shewing the pride and ambition of the farmers and factors, and the distressed and deplorable condition of the poor at this day. 12mo. Licensed and entered according to order, n.d. Perhaps the following lines will establish the date of this poem:

Our wives they shall wear their long ruffles,

Our daughters their negligees:

Our sons, with the keys of their watches
Hang dangling down to their knees.

130. ROBIN HOOD'S GARLAND, being a compleat history of all the notable and merry exploits perform'd by him and his men on divers occasions. To which is added three original songs, which has not been printed in any edition for upwards of an hundred years. 12mo. Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-glass, over against St. Magnus Church, London-bridge, n.d.

This edition is mentioned, because it contains the earliest copy yet known of the song of "Robin Hood and the Ranger," which was found by Ritson and Gutch only in modern York editions. See Mr. Gutch's elegant edition of Robin Hood, ii, 272. Contains ninety-six pages, and a woodcut frontispiece, with verses underneath.

"As for the rest of Robin Hood's career, as well as the tale of his treacherous death, they are to be found in those black-letter garlands, once sold at the low and easy rate of one half-penny, now cheaply purchased at their weight in gold."-Ivanhoe, ii, 330.

131. A MERRY SONG, CALLED "Love in a Barn, or RIGHT COUNTRY COURTSHIP," shewing how a London lord was tricked by a farmer's daughter. 12mo.

But still reply'd the country girl,
"I've something more to say,
Amongst the ladies I can't dance,

Except it were the hay." (P. 4.)

132 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF SARAH MASON, a young woman of twenty-three years of age, who is now in Hide-park Hospital for a most strange and uncommon disorder, who was on the 20th of last month opened before a great number of the most eminent physicians and surgeons in London, and had a surprizing monster taken from her, which had been growing within her three years. 12mo. Licensed and entered according to order, n.d. A revolting account of an animal said to have been taken from this woman. The tract says, "It was, in form, much like a lizard, and of a nasty greenish colour. It had four legs, and had feet like eagle's talons, having three claws on each foot; its mouth was very wide, but had four teeth, and those very small. Its length, from head to tail, measured full twenty-three inches, and was sixteen inches round. When it was put into the machine, which was prepared to hold it in, it flew about, and beat itself with such violence that it died in about an hour after it was taken out."

133. THE CHARMER, OR THE LADY'S GARLAND, containing two hundred and thirty-five favourite new songs. 8vo. Lond, 1764. Front.

This volume contains, "Hymen, a new occasional

interlude, as it is perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury-lane," and which is erroneously said, in the Biographia Dramatica, p. 316, to have been never published. It was written by a person of the name of Allen, in honour of the marriage of the Princess Royal of England to the Prince of Brunswick.

134. AN ACCOUNT OF THE LAST WORDS OF CHRISTIAN KER, who died at Edinburgh on the 4th of February, 1702, in the eleventh year of her age. 12mo. Edinb., 1759.

135. ACCOUNT OF THE CRUEL MASSACRE COMMITTED BY JOHN PORTEUS, Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, at the execution of Andrew Wilson, merchant, upon the 14th of April, 1736; together with the terrible execution of Captain John Porteus on the 7th of September, 1736, in the Grass-market of Edinburgh, on a sign-post, about twelve o'clock at night. 12mo. Printed in the year 1789.

This tract shows how long the feeling against Porteus continued in Edinburgh for the proceedings which took place at the execution of Wilson and Robertson. The transaction is well known to all readers of the Waverly Novels.

136. RARE AND GOOD NEWS FOR WIVES IN CITY AND COUNTRY, or a pleasant vindication of the marry'd women from the many failings laid to their charge by their ill-humour'd husbands, and the ways and means by which they may put a stop to their several clamours: with an excellent secret to prevent the most chollerick of husbands from ever

laying hands on his wife. Also, how a wife may get the upper-hand of her husband, and so far rule the roast, that she may easily reclaim a bad husband to be very good and obedient to her in all things she can desire. 8vo. London. Printed for E. Sawyer, in Gracious-street, 1706.

137. THE FIFTEEN COMFORTS of Matrimony, or a looking-glass for all those who have enter'd in that holy and comfortable state, wherein are sum'd up all those blessings that attend a married life. Sm. 8vo. London. Printed in the year 1706. The above are two out of five similar tracts, all dated the same year, the titles of the others being scarcely capable of transcription. They are curious illustrations of the manners of the times. The following, which occurs in the same volume, contains a notice of the old custom of flinging the stocking.

138. THE FREnch King's Wedding, or the ROYAL FROLICK: being a pleasant account of the intrigues, comical courtship, catterwauling, and surprizing marriage ceremonies of Lewis the XIVth with Madam Maintenon, his late hackney of state. With a list of the names of those that threw the stocking on the wedding-night, and Madam Maintenon's speech to the king. As also, a comical wedding-song sung to his majesty by the famous Monsieur la Grice, to the tune of "The Dame of Honour." Sm. 8vo. London. Printed by J. Smith, near Fleet-street, 1708.

139. THE HISTORY AND COMICAL ADVENTURES OF HARLEQUIN, AND HIS PLEASING COMPANION, COLUMBINE. 12mo. London, c. 1770.

This tract is illustrated with cuts, representing the

tricks of their antics, and the text explains them. At the end is "A song in praise of a single life," to the tune of "The Ghost's Hearse."

140. SONGSTER'S MAGAZINE, being a choice collection of the newest songs sung at Ranelaugh and Vauxhall Gardens, the Theatres Royal, and all other places of public entertainment. 8vo. pp. 8., n.d.

Although this tract is of a comparatively recent date, it is worthy of notice as containing a copy of the puppet-play of The Broken Bridge. A gentleman is at one end of the bridge, and an impertinent carpenter at the other. The following is a specimen of the dialogue which passes between them:

Traveller. Pray can you inform me the road to town? Carpenter. Don't you see it in the river? Tol le lol de rata!

Trav. How can I cross the river?

Carp. Ducks and geese with ease get over.

lol de rata!

Trav. Quite a natural!

Tol le

He thinks I can swim

like a duck, or fly like a goose; I've a good mind to

pull off my boots and wade it over.

But let me see:

the water looks deep. Harkee, friend!

Carp. Ho!

Trav. Is the river deep?

Carp. A stone thrown in will find the bottom. Tol le lol de rata !

Trav. This answer might please his companions. I know very well a stone won't reach the sky. Ha,

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