A Little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, MS. and printed

The Manner of the World now a dayes. (FROM THE SAME.)

Ha ha ha ha! this world doth passe
Most merily Ile bee sworne;

For many an honest Indian asse

Goes for a unicorne.

Fara diddle deyno ;

This is idle fyno.

Tygh hygh, tygh hygh, O sweet delight!

He tickles this age that can Call Tullies ape a Marmasyte, And Ledæs goose a swan.

Fara diddle deyno;

This is idle fyno.

So so so so! fine English dayes,

For false play is no reproach;

For he that doth the coachman prayse,

May safely use the coach.

Fara diddle deyno;

This is idle fyno.

LI.

The Ape, the Monkey, and Baboone.

(FROM THE SAME).

THE ape, the monkey, and baboone did meete,
And breaking of their fast in Friday Street,
Two of them sware together solemnly
In their three natures was a simpathie ;
Nay, quoth baboon, I do deny that straine;
I have more knavery in me than you twaine.

Why, quoth the ape, I have a horse at will,
In Paris Garden for to ride on still,
And there shew trickes. Tush! quoth the
monkey, I

For better trickes in great men's houses lie.
Tush! quoth baboone, when men do know I

come,

For sport, from city, country, they will runne.

LII.

Kemp's Journey into France.

(FROM THE SAME.)

FOR an account of William Kemp, who was a comic actor of high reputation, see the Rev. A Dyce's reprint of Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder, printed for the Camden Society, 1840; and Collier's Memoirs of the Principal Actors in Shakespeare's Plays.

SINCE Roben Hood, Maid Marian,
And Little John are gone a;
The hobby-horse was quite forgot,
When Kempe did daunce alone a.

He did labour after the tabor

For to dance; then into France

He tooke pains

To skip it.

In hopes of gaines

He will trip it,

On the toe

Diddle diddle doe.

LIII.

Love will find out the Way.

"THIS excellent Song," says Percy (Reliques, vol. iii, p. 294, ed. 1812), "is ancient; but we could only give it from a modern copy." The version now printed is taken from a rare musical volume, entitled Cantus, Songs and Fancies, printed by John Forbes, at Aberdeen, in 1662; again in 1666; and, lastly, in 1682. It is, perhaps, less elegant than the learned prelate's version, but it has two additional stanzas. We have also added a “Second Part" to the Ballad, which is taken from a broadside, "Printed at London, for F. Coules, dwelling in the Old Baily." (See the curious Appendix to The Sad Shepherd, edited by Waldron, 8vo, 1783.)

We need only remark, that Percy's version consists of five stanzas; that which stands sixth in our copy being second in his. The variations at the bottom of the page are from the Reliques.