The fairest ladye that shee cold find, 125 And tooke her up in her armes twayne, I praye you nowe, good Childe Waters, 130 For there is noe place about this house, "He gave her leave, and faire Ellèn 'Down at his beds feet laye;' This done the nighte drove on apace, 135 Hee fayd, Rife up, my litle foot-page, And that beheard his mother deere, Shee heard her there monand *. 150 Shee fayd, Rife up, thou Childe Watèrs, And when he came to the ftable dore, Full still there hee did stand, That hee mighte heare his fayre Ellen, Howe fhee made her monànd *. She fayd, Lullabye, mine owne deere child, 165 Lullabye, dere child, dere: I wold thy father were a king, Thy mother layd on a biere. Peace now, hee faid, good faire Ellèn, Be of good cheere, I praye; *fic in MS. i. e, moaning, bemoaning, &c. 170 X. PHIL X. PHILLIDA AND CORYDON. This Sonnet is given from a fmall quarto MS. in the Editor's poffeffion, written in the time of 2. Elizabeth. Another Copy of it, containing fome variations, is reprinted in the Mufes Library, p. 295, from an ancient mifcellany, intitled England's Helicon, 1600, ato. The author was NICHOLAS BRETON, a writer of fome fame in the reign of Elizabeth; who alfo published an interlude intitled "An old man's lefon and a young man's love," 4to. and many other little pieces in profe and verfe, the titles of which may be feen in Winftanley, Ames' Typog. and Ofborne's Harl. Catalog &c.-He is mentioned with great refpect by MERES, in his ad pt. of Wit's Common-wealth, 590, f. 283, and is alluded to in Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady, At 2. and again in Wit without Money, Act 3.-See Whalley's Ben Jonson, vol. III p. 103. The prefent Edition is improved by a copy in " England's 66 Helicon," Edit. 1614, 8vo. I N the merrie moneth of Maye, In a morne by break of daye, With a troope of damfelles playing When anon by a wood fide, Where as Maye was in his pride, I efpied all alone Phillida and Corydon. Ver. 4. the wode. MS. Much Much adoe there was, god wot; He fayde, hee had lovde her longe : She fayes, maydes must kisse no men, Tyll they doe for good and all. Then with manie a prettie othe, 10 · ន When they will not love abuse; Love, that had bene long deluded, 25 +++ The foregoing little Paftoral of PHILLIDA AND CORYDON is one of the Songs in "The Honourable En"tertainment gieven to the Queenes Majeftie in Progreffe 66 at Elvetham in Hampshire, by the R. H. the Earle of "Hertford, 1591," 4to. [Printed by Wolfe. No name of author.] See in that pamphlet, "The thirde daies Entertainment. " On "On Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock, as her Ma"jeftie opened a cafement of her gallerie window, ther << were 3 excellent mufitians, who being difguifed in aun"cient country attire, did greet her with a pleasant fong of "CORYDON AND PHILLIDA, made in 3 parts of pur"pofe. The fong, as well for the worth of the dittie, as "the aptneffe of the note thereto applied, it pleafed her Highnefe after it had been once fung to command it againe, "and highly to grace it with her cheerefuil acceptance and 66 "commendation. "THE PLOWMAN'S SONG. "In the merrie month of May, &c." The Splendour and Magnificence of Elizabeth's reign is no where more strongly painted than in thefe little Diaries of fome of her fummer excurfions to the houses of her nobility; nor could a more acceptable prefent be given to the world, than a republication of a felect number of fuch details as this of the entertainment at ELVETHAM, that at KILLINGWORTH, &c. &c. which fo ftrongly mark the spirit of the times, and prefent us with fcenes fo very remote from modern manners. Since the above was written, the Public hath been gratified with a most compleat work on the foregoing fubject, intitled, THE PROGRESSES AND PUBLIC PROCESSIONS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, &c. BY JOHN NICHOLS, F. A. S. EDINB. AND PERTH, 1738, 2 Vols. 4to. XI. LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD. This ballad is ancient, ard has been popular; ve find it quoted in many old plays. See Beaum, and Fletcher's Knight of |