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1.He was one of Queen Elizabeth's gent. pensioners, at a time when the whole band consisted of men of distinguished birth and fo ...

XI. Fancy and Desire. BY THE EARL OF OXFORD. ............................................. Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford, was in h ...

Whom dost thou thinke to be thy foe? "Disdayn of my good wille." Doth company displease? "Yes, surelye, many one." Where doth De ...

XII. Sir Andrew Barton.............................................................................................. I cannot gi ...

properly speaking the first ship in the English navy. Before this period, when the prince wanted a fleet, he had no other expedi ...

Besides good mariners, and shipp-boyes, To guide the great shipp on the sea." The first man, that Lord Howard chose, Was the abl ...

With a grieved mind, and well away, "But over-well I knowe that wight, I was his prisoner yesterday." "As I was sayling uppon th ...

A glasse Ile sett, that may be seene Whether you sail by day or night; And to-morrowe, I sweare, by nine of the clocke You shall ...

"Nowe cutt my ropes, itt is time to be gon; Ile fetch yond pedlars backe mysell." When my lord sawe Sir Andrewe loose, Within hi ...

And downe he fell upon the deck, That with his blood did streame amaine: Then every Scott cryed, "Well-away! Alas! a comelye you ...

Lord Howard tooke a sword in hand, And off he smote Sir Andrewes head, "I must have left England many a daye, If thou wert alive ...

But when they see his deadlye face, And eyes soe hollow in his head, "I wold give," quoth the king, "a thousand markes, This man ...

XIII. Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament A SCOTTISH SONG...................................... [1]The subject of this pathetic ballad t ...

For womens banning's wonderous sair. Balow, &c. Bairne, sin thy cruel father is gave, Thy winsome smiles maun eise my paine; ...

XIV. The Murder of the King of Scots. ..................................................................... The catastrophe of H ...

I shall you tell how it befell, Twelve daggers were in him att once. When the queene saw her chamberlaine was slaine, For him he ...

And through the Queene of Englands grace, In England now shee doth remaine. NOTES Pronounced after the northern mannerdee. ...

XV. A Sonnet by Q. Elizabeth................................................................................... The following li ...

But clowdes of joyes untried Do cloake aspiring minds; Which turn to raine of late repent, By course of changed windes. The topp ...

XVI. The King of Scots and Andrew Browne. ......................................................... This ballad is a proof of th ...