made by both friends at the grave, wherein she was first decently laid, and then him; being a fit pattern for all young men and women to prove constant in love; with a word of advice to all hard-hearted parents not to cross their children in love." The narrative further informs us, "he was observed to say three times just before he died, Martha, Martha, come away." In prose and verse.

149. PIETY DISPLAY'D IN THE HOLY LIFE AND DEATH OF ST. ROBERT, THE HERMIT At Knaresborough: also the abstemious life of Henry Jenkins. 12mo. Knaresborough, 1787.

With a portrait of Henry Jenkins, who, according to this account, "lived to the amazing age of one hundred and sixty-nine: the battle of Flowden-field was fought Sept. 9, 1513, and he was about twelve years old when that battle was fought, so that H. Jenkins lived one hundred and sixty-nine years, viz., sixteen years longer than old Parr, and was the oldest man born since the Deluge."

150. DUN'S GARLAND, containing three new songs: "The devil of Dun, or the wolf worsted"; "A new song of Hatfield's Chace"; "Trading will mend when the wars are all over". Printed May 1742.

12mo.

151. THE KING and Tinker's GARLAND, containing three excellent songs: 66 King James the First and the fortunate tinker"; "The tailor outwitted by the sailor"; "The lawyer and the farmer's

daughter. 12mo. Sheffield. Printed by John Garnet, at the Castle-green-head, near the IrishCross, Sept. 1745.

"Come, now to be brief, let's pass over the rest,

Who seldom, or never, was given to jest,

And come to King James, the first of the throne,

A pleasanter medley sure never was known."

This is the earliest edition of the ballad I have met with. A traditional version is printed in Mr. Dixon's Ancient Poems, p. 109.

152. A HORN-BOOK, in black-letter, of the time of Queen Elizabeth.

Horn-books are now so completely out of use that few persons are acquainted with their precise nature. The present one, which appears to be at least as ancient as 1570, is mounted on wood, and protected with transparent horn. There is first a large cross, the criss-cross, and then the alphabet, in large and small letters. The vowels follow next, and their combinations with the consonants; the whole is concluded with the Lord's Prayer, and the Roman numerals. The Arabic numerals are not given. The horn-book is mentioned by Shakespeare in Love's Labour's Lost, v. 1; and we have here the ba, the a, e, i, o, u, and the horn, everything in fact alluded to by Moth. It is also described by Ben Jonson,

The letters may be read, thorough the horn,

That make the story perfect.

Cotgrave has, "La Croix de par Dieu, the Christ's

crosse-rowe, or horne-booke wherein a child learnes

it;" and Florio, ed. 1611, p. 93, "Centuruóla, a childes horne-booke hanging at his girdle."

"Commether, Billy Chubb, an breng tha hornen

book.

Gee me tha vester in tha windor, you Pal Came!-what! be a sleepid-I'll wake ye. Now, Billy, there's a good bway! Ston still there, an mine what I da zâ to ye, an whaur I da pwint.-Now; criscross, girt â, little â-b-c-d.-That's right Billy; you'll zoon lorn tha criss-cross-lain-you'll zoon auvergit Bobby Jiffry-you'll zoon be a scholard.-A's a pirty chubby bway-Lord love'n !"— Specimens of the West Country Dialect.

Horn-books are now of great rarity, and even modern ones are very seldom seen. I have been told, on good authority, that an advertisement, many times repeated, offering a considerable sum for a specimen, failed in producing an answer. A tale, illustrative of Lord Erskine's readiness, relates that when asked by a judge if a single sheet could be called a book, he replied, "The common horn-book, my Lord."

153. THE BATTLEdore, or FIRST BOOK FOR CHILREN. 12mo. n. d.

This battledore is printed on cardboard, and contains the alphabet and simple combinations of letters. It is, in fact, a substitute for the horn-book. The phrase, "to know A. B. from a battledore," refers to this kind of book.

154. THE TRADESMAN'S LOOKING-GLASS, OR A HUE AND CRY AFTER MRS. MONEY AND HER SISTER TRADE. 8vo. n. d.

A satirical tract, with woodcuts. Some of the trades

speak in verse, e. g.—

The shoemaker stands, and hath nothing to do,
But drinks all the ale that dame Betty doth brew;
Had he but the gold which the miser lays up,
He'd feast on St. Monday as friend of the cup.

12mo.

155. CELIA'S NEW GARLAND; "Celia's Complaint;" "the Young Men's Warning-Piece;" "the Cruel Woman, or the Monster of a Wife," &c. London, printed for Edw. Midwinter at the Looking-glass on London-bridge, n. d.

The eighth song is entitled, "The Cruel Woman, or the Monster of a Wife, being the prison groans of Margaret Hayes, with a dialogue between Thomas Billings and Thomas Wood, her two bloody companions now in Newgate, for the inhuman murder of her husband by cutting off his head." This garland contains nineteen pages, and two woodcuts.

156. THE BLOODY GARDENER'S GARLAND, composed with several excellent new Songs. 12mo. Entered according to Order, 1779.

157. THE NEW FORTUNE-BOOK FOR BACHELORS, HUSBANDS, WIDOWERS, WIVES, MAIDS, AND WIDOWS, shewing the good or bad luck that may attend them in their lives. 12mo. n. d.

The following extract will serve as a specimen of this tract:-" In what hour to find the true female fern-seed, which is of excellent use in love affairs. Particular critical is the time when this fern must be

gathered, it being only in five minutes on Midsummer eve. By a good watch you must observe the true hour of eleven o'clock at night, being in a field where fern grows, from fourteen minutes after the said hour to nineteen minutes; strike the leaves thereof over a clean piece of white paper, on which must be written the characters of the seven planets, and the twelve signs, and the female seed of that vegetable, which is red, will drop out on the paper; put this into sack or Rhenish wine, and drink it: 'twill cause the person you court to have strong desires to marry you without delay."

158. THE WHOLE Art of LegERDEMAIN, OR HOCUS POCUS IN PERFECTION, by which any person of the meanest capacity may perform the whole art without a teacher; as performed by the best artist in the world: to which are added several tricks of cups and balls, &c., as performed by the little man without hands or feet: the wonderful art of fireeating. 12mo. Bow Churchyard, n. d.

Strange arts are herein taught by slight of hand,
With which you may divert yourself or friend :
The like in print was never seen before,

So you must say now you have read it o’er.

With numerous cuts, one of which, at p. 8, the man eating fire, is a curious specimen of the rough embellishments with which this class of books are adorned.

159. GOD'S JUST JUDGMENT ON BLASPHEMERS, being a terrible warning-piece to repining murmurers, set forth in a dreadful example of the Almighty's wrath on one Mr. Thomas Freeburn, a farmer near

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