Descriptive notices of popular English histories / by James Orchard Halliwell.

  • James Halliwell-Phillipps
Date:
1848
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive notices of popular English histories / by James Orchard Halliwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A curious wood-cut on the title, representing a Welchman, with leeks in his hat, in a barrow. The tract is a severe satire on the Welch. In answer to the question, why they wear leeks on St. David’s day, Taffy says,—“ Cuds flesh, her fery plood boils at hur now ; hur cou’d eat hur now with corn of salt: what! find fault with that which hur countrymen wears to the honour of Saint Tavy ? By te great Calwalladar, hur cou’d fain in hur heart to lay hur countryman’s towel about hur for hur sarciness.” 13. The New Wife of Beath much better re- formed, enlarged, and corrected, than it was for- merly in the old uncorrect copy. With the addi- tion of many other things. 12mo. Glasgow, 1700. In black-letter. According to the address to the reader, this is the second edition of this very popular poem, of which so many copies were circulated. This impression is very rare, the present copy, and one in Mr. Bright’s collection, 6041, which sold for £1. 12s., being the only ones that appear in the sale-catalogues. The original of this curious piece is a fable of the thir- teenth century, Du Vilain qui conquist Paradis par plait, printed in Barbazan, iv, 114. It maybe neces- sary to mention that this is altogether different from the ballad on the same subject printed by Evans, although one was probably formed from the other. 14. The Pleasant and Delightful IIistoPvY of Dorastus, Prince of Sicily, and Fawnia, only Daughter and Heir to Pandosto, King of
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