Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
July 1864
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/11
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Howe and which way together they agree, And what their talke and conference might be. Each to their cause, for guard of their degree, And yet death is the conquerour you see. { Woodcut, coloured, representing the Bishop, the King, the Harlot, the Lawyer, the Country Clown, and Death. ] LIV. ® marbelous typdynges both Gonders Old and Mew The Mebyll ts endited pf many men’s wordes be tru. Printed by Cornells Woltrop dwellyng at Saynt Antonies. | Woodeut at the top. | LV. Other thus tt is: or thus it shoulde bee. Imprinted at London without Aldersgate, in little Brittaine by Alexander Lacy. Congratulating England that “The Golden World is now come agayne,” and that ‘“‘Kynges and Princes, doe Gods laws advaunce ;” that “ Maijestrates and officers ; Bishops and Ministers; Judges, Justices, and Gentlemen ; Mayours and Bayliffes ; Lawyers, &c.,” do their duty, “each one in his degree.” That the ‘Commons feare God, and obey the Queene (!!!);” that ‘“ Parents doe bryng up their children godly, and that subjects faithfully pray for their Queene.” [Plain border all round. Device at the beginning. | LVI. Sapartons Alarum, to all such as do Heare The name of the true Souldters, in England, or els wheare. Finis. John Saparton. Imprinted at London in Fleete Streete, by William How for Richard Johnes, and are to be solde at his Shoppe under the Lotterie House. (Saparton is a new name in ballad literature.) LVII. Of Trust and Triall. Finis. B.C: (‘ B. C.” was probably Bartholomew Chappell, celebrated for his controversy with Thomas Camell.) ed LVIII. @ Ballad, The first verse runs thus :— Loe here the pearle, Whom God and man doth love, Loe here on earth, The onely starre of light: Loe here the Queene, Whom no mishap can move To chaunge her mynde, From vertues chief delight. [With a coloured Woodcut Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, with Crown, Sceptre, and Ball.] (Gifford says, “In Jonson’s time, scarcely any ballad was printed without a woodcut illustrative of its subject. If it was a ballad of ‘pure love,’ or of ‘good life,’
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