Studies in Philology Edited by EDWIN GREENLAW ADVISORY EDITORS WILLIAM MORTON DEY GEORGE HOWE HENRY DEXTER LEARNED WALTER DALLAM TOY VOLUME TWENTY-ONE CHAPEL HILL THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS CONTENTS PAGR Hyder E. Rollins. An Analytical Index to the Ballad-En- tries (1557-1709) in the Registers of the Company of Edwin S. Lindsey. The Music of the Songs in Fletcher's Robert Adger Law. The Shoemaker's Holiday and Romeo Thornton S. Graves. Ralph Crane and the King's Players, 362 Frederick M. Padelford. The Allegory of Chastity in The Margaret Erskine Nicolson. Realistic Elements in Spen- Louis I. Bredyold. Milton and Bodin's Heptaplomeres.... 399 Thornton S. Graves. Recent Literature of the English Re- Frances Theresa Russell. Gold and Alloy. Theodore 0. Wedel. Benedetto Croce's Theory of Aesthetic M. P. Tilley. Pun and Proverb as Aids to Unexplained Harris Fletcher. Milton and Yosippon.. E. C. Metzenthin. The Heliand: A New Approach.. 502 G. A. Harrer. The Site of Cicero's Villa at Arpinum... 541 Cornelia C. Coulter. Latin Hymns of the Middle Ages.... 571 W. J. Lawrence. John Kirke, the Caroline Actor-Dramatist, 586 Joseph T. Shipley. Spenserian Prosody: The Couplet Forms, 594 Alice D. Snyder. Coleridge's Cosmogony: A Note on the R. P. McCutcheon. The Journal des Scavans and the Philo. sophical Transactions of the Royal Society.. G. McG. Vogt. Richard Robinson's Eupolemia (1603)... 629 Volume XXI January, 1924 Number 1 AN ANALYTICAL INDEX TO THE BALLAD-ENTRIES IN THE REGISTERS OF THE COMPANY OF STATIONERS OF LONDON By HYDER E. ROLLINS INTRODUCTION to see Hardly anything is more fascinating than to pick up a volume of the printed Transcripts of the Stationers' Registers and to skim through the pages what our forefathers read. Here in a nutshell, as it were, the intellectual life of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Englishman is revealed. And if the great names of English literature, like those of Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare, are not completely represented, this defect is partially atoned for by the very large number of entries of popular literature, especially of ballads and chap-books. During the first twenty or thirty years in which the Registers were kept, ballads indeed made up the bulk of the entries; until 1640 they occupied perhaps greater space than books or plays. But from 1640 to 1655, thanks to civil war and restrictive laws, almost no ballads were registered at Stationers' Hall. A similar gap appears from 1656 (when some 165 ballads were entered) to 1675 (when some 175 were entered); and from 1676 to 1708/9—the date at which the Registers were discontinued —ballad-entries were rarely made. It has long amused me to skim through these entries and to attempt to identify them. The results of this amusement (which, Something of the sort was attempted for the years 1557-95 by J. P. Collier in his Extracts and in Notes and Queries (2nd S., XII; 3rd S., I-III); but his work is so honeycombed with misstatements, forgery, and vague references as to be of little help. In my indexes, however, I have given full credit to Collier wherever such credit is deserved. A considerable number of the ballad-entries are listed in Hazlitt's various bibliographical works |