England to support his ambitious wars of Protestantism against the French on the Continent. It begins:

God prosper long our noble King,

Our hopes and wishes all;

A fatal landing late there did
In Devonshire befal.

To drive our Monarch from his throne,
Prince Naso took his way;

The babe may rue, that's newly born,
The landing at Torbay.

(Referring, of course, to November, 1688. See p. 360). Fortyone verses in all: Ritson's Ancient Songs, p. 308. Other parodies are in a Pill to Purge State Melancholy, one beginning, "God prosper long this Free-born Isle," before 1714. Another, in same collection, commences :

God bless our Gracious Sovereign Ann;

I mean for to rehearse

The noble Actions if I can,

Of her Great Men in Verse.

Later than these is "The Luck of Eden Hall," attributed to Philip, Duke of Wharton, beginning "God prosper long, from being broke, The Luck of Eden-Hall." More might easily be described. The Chevy Chase ballad was mentioned so early as 1548, in the Complaint of Scotland, and had become considerably modernized by the time it was copied into the Percy Folio MS. p. 188 (printed text, ii. 7). The older version is preserved in Richard Sheale's' Ashmolean MS. No. 48, 4to.

The Battle of Otterbourne (Cotton MS. Cleopatra, c. iv. fol. 64; and a Harleian MS. 293. fol. 52) begins: "Yt felle abowght the Lamasse tyde, whan husbonds wynn ther haye." A modernized "Scottish edition" of this appears in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, first ed., 1802, i. 31 (p. 34, 1803). It was given as from Herd's Scottish Songs [i. 153; 1776, not "1774"], beginning "It fell, and about the Lammas time, When husbandmen do win their hay," but by Walter Scott avowedly "corrected from that publication by a manuscript copy." It is thus stated in the 1802 earliest issue, p. 20; in second edition, 1803, p. 32, we read: "but two recited copies have fortunately been obtained from the recitation of old persons residing at the head of Ettrick Forest, by which the story is brought out, and completed in a manner much more correspondent to the true history." The differences

1 Printed in Hearne's Preface to the History of Gu. Neubrigensis, 1719, p. lxxxii. It begins "The Persè owt off Northombarlande, and a vowe to God mayd he."

between the versions in these editions are enormous, amounting to a re-casting of the ballad. But compare our previous page 346.

The "genuine and beautiful old air" of "the more modern ballad of Chevy Chase" was given "now for the first time, from an ancient virginal book (temp. Eliz.)," by the late Dr. Rimbault in his Musical Illustrations of Bishop Percy's Reliques, &c., 1850, p. 58, and of the Battle of Otterbourne on p. 45. He accepted Richard Sheale as the author, and not merely transcriber of the Ashmolean"Hunting of the Chyviat." Other writings by Sheale are in the same collection, one proving that he was certainly alive and writing an Elegy or "Epithe" in 1558. On this question we are not called to enter further. In Mr. Wm. Chappell's Popular Music are given the tunes of "In Peascod time," The Children in the Wood (to both of which early copies of Chevy-Chase direct it to be sung), as well as "God prosper long." on pp. 198, 199, and 201. We suspect from the pointed allusion to the two French Princes as being temporarily "Children in the Wood," in verse 16th of our ballad, that it was intended to be sung to the tune of "Now ponder well, you parents dear," instead of to the special tune belonging to "God prosper long."

The incidents described are touched on in the Introduction and notes to our previous ballad, on the same battle of July 11th, 1708. The two ballads here in sequence similarly follow one another in the Pills to P. Mel., where the present (with variations, inferior readings) is on vi. 4.

[Bagford Collection, II. 104.]

A Happy Memorable Ballad,

On the Fight near Audenarde between the Duke of Marlborough, of Great-Britain, and the Duke of Vendome of France.

As also the strange and wonderful Manner how the Princes of the Blood-Royal of France were found in a Wood. In allusion to the Unhappy Memorable Song, commonly call'd Chevy-Chace.

[The above cut is reduced to fit our page. The alphabetical letters in the original have no corresponding key or index. The chief horseman, unhurt, above an exploding bombshell, is marked A, probably for Marlborough. B to right hand, is Audenarde church-tower (see engraving at head of ii. 103, ante), where the "children in the wood" had been. C (below, almost indiscernible in copy) is the river Scheldt, wherein many were drowned. D (left-hand, margin) is the Duke of Vendôme escaping, in his carriage. E caret. F the Church-tower of Weldene (?). Nine smaller cuts (here printed on pp. 394, 395), are some on a side, some turned upside-down, but all in a string, vertically, between the two columns of verses. We suppose their subjects to be the following::

1. Adam delving.

2. Cain slaying Abel. 3. Jacob and Angel wrestling. 4. Potiphar's Wife tempting Joseph; or, Eli and Samuel.

5. "Though hand join in hand," &c., Proverbs xi. 21.

6. ? King David enthroned.

8. ? Judgment of Solomon.

7. Elijah in fiery chariot.

9. Goliath of Gath.]

GOD prosper long our Gracious Queen,

Our Lives and Safeties all:

A woful Fight of late there did

Near Audenarde befal.

To drive the French with Sword and Gun,
Brave Marlborough took his Way,
Ah! wo the Time that France beheld
The Fighting of that Day.

The Valiant Duke to Heaven had swore,
Vendome shou'd pay full dear,
For Ghent and Bruges, e'er his Fame
Should reach his Master's Ear.

And now with Eighty Thousand bold,
And chosen Men of Might,

He with the French began to wage
A sharp and bloody Fight.

The Gallant Britains swiftly ran,
The French away to chase;
On Wednesday they began to fight,
When Day-light did decrease.

And long before high-Night, they had
Ten thousand Frenchmen slain,
And all the Rivers Crimson flow'd,

As they were dy'd in grain.

The Britains thro' the Woods pursu'd,

The nimble French to take,

1

8

12

And with their Cries the Hills and Dales,
And every Tree did shake.

The Duke then to the Wood did come,

In hopes Vendome to meet,

When lo! the Prince of Carignan

Fell at his Grac[e]'s Feet:

Oh! Gentle Duke, forbear, forbear,
Into that Wood to shoot;

If ever Pity mov'd your Grace,
But turn your Eyes and look:

23

4

5

32

36

See where the Royal Line of France,

Great Lewis's Heirs do lie;

And sure a Sight more piteous was
Ne'er seen by Mortal Eye.

What Heart of Flint but must relent,

Like Wax before the Sun,

To see their Glory at an end;

E're yet it was begun.

40

44

When as our General found your Grace,
Wou'd needs begin to fight,

As thinking it wou'd please the Boys,
To see so fine a Sight.

48

8

He straitway sent them to the Top
Of yonder Church's Spire,
Where they might see, and yet be safe
From Swords, and Guns, and Fire. 52

But first he took them by the Hand,
And kiss'd them e're they went,
While Tears stood in their little Eyes,
As if they knew th' Event.

Then said, he would with Speed return,
Soon as the Fight was done;

But when he saw his Men give Ground,
Away he basely run,

56

60

And left these Children all alone,

As Babes wanting Relief,

And long they wandred up and down,
No Hopes to chear their Grief.

Thus Hand [in Hand] they walked, till

At last this Wood they spy'd,

64

And when they saw the Night grow dark,
They here lay down and cry'd.

68

1 Misprinted Aeart: a common blunder. The box containing II is immediately under that containing A.