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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    wer: LXIV. A prettie netw Wallad, intptuled: The Crowe sits upon the wall, jslease one and please all. To the tune of, Please one and please all. Finis... T. Imprinted at London, for Henry Kyrkham, dwelling at the little North doore of Paule’s, at the Signe of the blacke Boye. [Woodcut of a lady with a fan of feathers at the top, plain border all round. ] (This interesting Shakespearian ballad has been reprinted, by the permission of Mr. Daniel, in the first number of ‘ Memorabilia.” It is written by Tarleton, and quoted by Malvolio in ‘‘ Twelfth Night.” ate LXV. A Ditty delightiull of mother Wwatking ale A twarning well waped, though counted a tale. The existence of this ballad has been questioned. ‘‘ Mother Watkins ale” was sup- posed to have been the Title to a “ Round,” or Country dance; the music, without the words, having been discovered among the papers of Dr. Pepusch, who set the songs in the “ Beggar’s Opera.”? Before this copy appeared it was unknown. [ Woodcut border top and bottom. | (This ballad s mentioned in a letter with the signature of T. N. to his good friend A.M. [Anthony Munday], prefixed to the latter’s translation of ‘‘ Gerileon of England,” 1592. ‘I should hardly be perswaded that anie professor of so excel- lent a science (as printing) would be so impudent to print such ribauldrie as Watki’s Ale, The Carman’s Whistle, and sundrtie such other.”” The tune is preserved in Queen Elizabeth’s Virginal Book, in the Fitwilliam Museum, Cambridge. LXVI. A new balade entituled as folotueth, To such ag write in Metres, L write © small matters an exhortation, By readpng of Which men map delite In such as be worthy commendation. {Mp berge algo tt Hath relation To such ag print, that they doe tt twell, The better they shall theiv (Metres sell. And when Wwe habe doen al that eber wwe can, Let us neber seck prapse at the mouth of man. Finis by R. B. Imprinted at S. Katherims besyde the Towre of London, by Alexander Lacie. [ Plain border all round. | ( R. B.” was the author of ‘‘ The Plowman’s Complaint,” and of several other broad- sides printed about 1580.) ee
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