classes neither of them entitled to respect. One holds the shallow and indolent concoctors of "amusing" magazine articles, for which the material is gathered or stolen from any book that offers a thought or a fancy to be pilfered. The bulk of the offenders claim to be considered as women, although some doubt may generally be felt regarding their position as ladies. They are, however, companioned by men who are incapable of labour. The other class seems to be composed of persons who are being crammed themselves, or are paid for cramming others, in order to secure a certain number of "marks" for storing the memory with cut-and-dry answers to formal questions. All literature, to this lack-lustre multitude of place-hunters (examiners, "coaches" and "cubs"), is weighed in the scale of profit for "Cram.” They prepare special editions of the poets, vulgarized and degraded to suit the meanest capacity; with such annotations as are warranted "to fit the candidate for passing a competitive examination in the Civil Service," the Army, or the Navy. The dry bones of Poetry, History, and Science, without flesh and blood, warmth or colour, they offer for study. It makes one shudder to think of any book, or any author, that is entitled to our love, falling into the hands of such resurrection-men. We need not name them individually. The one class slaughter, for the sake of cooking, the victim, and make profit of the ragoût; the other, incapable of even this much enjoyment from the juicy flesh, destroys everything except the skeleton. May the gods of Olympus preserve from such ghouls and bodysnatchers our Bagford Ballads!
John Bagford was the fisher who brought to land these Tyrian shells, that enclose the purple dye. The neutral-world may despise them, while they are in their primitive state: but our Ballad Society sees in them not alone the "live whelks, each lip's beard dripping fresh,"-" mere conchs! not fit for warp or woof," but good material for intelligent study, when the liquor is scientifically drawn out:
"And here's the extract, flask'd and fine,
And priced and saleable at last!
And Hobbs, Nobbs, Stokes and Nokes combine
To paint the Future from the Past,
Put blue into their line.
Hobbs hints blue,-straight he turtle eats:
Nobbs prints blue,-claret crowns his cup:
Nokes out-dares Stokes in azure feats,-
Both gorge.
Who fished the murex up?"
Who thanks John Bagford's sheets?
"I tell you for good will, look you; you are wise, and full of gibes and vlouting-stogs; and 'tis not convenient you should be cozened. Fare you well!"
Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 5.
HO chooses, may dip in our Lucky-bag;
Take either Index in preference:
Nail up this Union- Jack, plucky rag!
Here is your chief list for reference.
If you're gen'rous, we'll give you some inches:
(An you quarrel, we wear not a coward sword :)
Let's own, we felt flutter'd with Finches,
And once mix'd a Tom with Will Howard, Lord.
Danes, Picts, and Scots got entangled;
Webster changed places with Decker, too;
(T. D. alive often wrangled :)
Our pen slipt: these feathers, you'll peck, are few.
Convulsions oft dislocate strata;
Accidents happen in families :
But one hates a long list of Errata,
With as many grim corpses as Ramillies.
Works that are thorough, precise, live:
Ballad-men seek such, not finical.
Still, we one word of Advice give:
Be kind to our dogg'rel, not cynical!
(Chiefly to the Editorial Notes, and to a few of the subjects touched in the Introductions. We also use it for some corrections and additions.)
"A Fig for the Bishop of Cork!" | Achitophel = Ahithophel, nickname
added to toasts, 414.
Abelard (1079-1142), his injuries paralleled, 735, 994.
Abhorrers (Loyal) of the factious Petitioners, 749, 751, 769, and 2nd Division, xiii.
Abigail a waiting woman, (not from Nabal's wife, cp. Ist Samuel, xxv. 41, but) alluding to Abigail Hill, afterwards Mrs. Masham, favourite of Queen Anne, and rival of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 617.
Absalom, name applied to James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, by Dryden, and by others before his poem (from 2nd Sam. xv. 5), 95, 780, 784, 791, 794
Academy of Compliments (various editions, 1670 to 1715, cited), 86, 91, 179, 189, 255, etc.
applied to the Earl of Shaftesbury, by Dryden (from 2nd Sam. xv. 31, xvi. 23), and others, 95, 780, 783,784, 788, 789, 791, 794, 2nd Div. xiii. Actresses, after the Restoration, Introduction, XLI, 496.
Addison, Joseph, on Tom D'Urfey's Benefit, 78, 86, 87; in the Spectator, on Chevy Chase, 390.
Adolphe, Duke of Gueldres (picture of him, by Rembrandt, at Berlin), unnatural son, 441. Aghrim, battle of, 419. Agincourt, battle of 61, 850. Agrippa, H. Cornelius (wrong), 738. See Burgess, and Cornelius. Ainsworth, William Harrison, his Newgate-Stone song, 12; his Jack Sheppard romance, 192; his revival of the Dunmow Flitch of Bacon festival, 895.
Akeroyd, Samuel, composer of Wully
and Georgy (before 1701), 94; of
Russell's Triumph, 117.
Albumazar, by John Tomkins (1614),
804. See Trincalo.
Alderney, The Race of, 281.
Ale, Nottingham, songs in praise of
it, 389; of Newcastle, ibid.; of
Weobley, 857; of Hull, various
kinds enumerated, 970.
Allen, Thomas, his History of London,
cited, 235, 243, 488-9, 2nd Div. xiii,
Almanacks, 61, 62, 183; Partridge's,
61; song on the maker of them, 184.
Almanza, battle of, 388.
Aloysius St. Aloy (1568–1591), 800.
Alsatia Whitefriars, q. vide, 235.
Amanda, by Thomas Cranley, 400;
promised for speedy reprint, 920.
America, Puritan settlers in, 725.
Ancient, in military affairs = ensign,
ensign-bearer (Othello, i. 1), 313.
Anderton, William, a printer, judici-
ally murdered, 417.
Andever = Andover, in Hampshire, the
Chamberlain's Tragedy at, 174, 948.
Angot, La Fille de Madame, 462.
Annabel (Dryden's) = Anne Scott, of
Buccleugh, Duchess of Monmouth,
682, 781, 795.
Annalia Dubrensia, Robt. Dover's, 159.
Anne, Princess, afterwards Queen, re-
lationship to the Georges of Han-
over, 388; unfilial conduct, 349, 362;
staunch to the Church of England,
825; defamed by Macaulay, ibid.
Anjou, Duke of, his unwillingness to
fight in 1704, 58, 62.
Annesley, Arthur, M.P. for Camb.
Univ., 834; Earl of Anglesea, 836.
Answer to the London Lasse's Folly,
449. Original in Pepys C., iii. 236.
Anthology of the Stuart times, half-
promised, 898.
Anthony, King of Poland, 684. See
Shaftesbury.
Anti-Court party, their bitterness and
scurrility, beyond what came from
the other side, 605, etc.
Antidote against Melancholy (1661),
249, 266, 369, 370, etc.
Anti-Romanists, 652, and throughout
Vol. III.
Antrim, Lord, at Londonderry, 423.
Apophthegmes of Erasmus (ably an-
notated, and reprinted by Robert
Roberts, of Boston), 802, 908.
Apprentices of London, and Bona
Robas, group of poems, 920.
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, his bitter epitaph
on Colonel Francis Chartres, 618.
Arcadia, the Countess of Pembroke's,
809.
Archiepiscopal blunders, Introduction,
XXXIV; Letters to enforce total
abstinence among the clergy, 464.
Armada (Spanish), horses saved from
shipwreck of the, 79.
Armies fighting in the skies, 98, 925.
Armstrong, Johnnie, of Gilnockie
Tower, his death, 213; ballad on,
321.
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, accused of
a dishonourable intrigue with the
wife of Ford, Lord Grey, 785, 799;
encourager of Monmouth's ambition,
772, 794, 799; mockingly alluded
to as Tom Dory, 804; as the Bully
Knight, 1004; as the Bully Whig,
542; beheaded and quartered, ibid.,
1005. Compare Tom.
Arne, Dr. Thomas A., composer,
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Arnold, Matthew, Introduction, L; his
Scholar-Gipsy, quoted, 210; his New
Poems, 429; apostrophe to Oxford,
"Beautiful City" (from Essays in
Criticism, end of Preface), 822.
Arthur, King, 849; Morte d'Arthur,
ibid., 859; Dryden's projected epic,
interrupted, 498, 807.
Arundel, Lord Henry, of Wardour,
674; his poems (printed in 1679),
675, 987.
Ashbie (or Ashley), Rector of the
Jesuit-seminary at St. Omers, 701.
Ashby (Matthew) and White (William),
the Aylesbury Case, 833, 835.
Assizes, The Bloody, in the Jeffreys
Western Circuit, after Monmouth's
rebellion, 356, 361, 806.
Association, Shaftesbury's, 758, 784.
At, provincial usage of, instead of that,
513, 984.
Aunt, used contemptuously for a dis-
solute female companion (e.g. by
Shakespeare), in ballads, 802.
Authors of Bagford Ballads, where
known: List of, 1024.
Awdeley, John, his Fraternitie of
Vacabondes, quoted, 190, 943.
Aylesbury farmers, 760; the protracted
trial of Ashby versus White, called
the Aylesbury Case, 833, 835, 836.
Aytoun, Sir Robert, accredited author
of songs, Introduction, LXXIV, 13.
Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, his
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,
quoted, 477; Bon Gualtier, 621.
Azoth, or Pug, the devil's-bird, or
familiar spirit of Paracelsus, sup-
posed to dwell in the pummel of
his sword (i.e. opium), 802.
B., Tins Brewers not Thomas
T. (perhaps Tobias Browne, or
Byll), a ballad-writer, 469.
Bachelor's Choice, The, 985.
Badger in a fox's trap (i.e. Shaftesbury),
quoted, 98, 785.
Bagford Ballads, what are omitted from
the present reproduction, and where-
fore, Introduction, VIII, 1, 247, 330,
475, 477, 631, 632, 638, 658, 814,
816, 844, 886, 917 to 920.
Bagford Collection, its miscellaneous
character of ballads, broadsides,
fragments, and poems, Introd. II,
not to be emasculated or mutilated,
but not arranged originally in chrono-
logical order, ibid., III, XXXVII, 247
to 249, 300, etc.
Bagford, John, the collector, his posi-
tion and character, Introd. V, IX;
his Latin epitaph, never before
printed, x; his letters, and proposals
for the History of Printing, XI; his
alleged mis-spelling and bad writing,
XI, XII (also see Ist table of Contents,
p. xv); his portrait, by Howard
(feebly copied into T. F. Dibdin's
Decameron), XII; a reviver of the
Society of Antiquaries, ibid.
Bagford Poems (group of), on London
Apprentices and women of the
Millwood type, to be added, with
special introduction and notes, be-
fore long, 920.
Bagnall (=properly, Bagwell), Will.,
his Ballet, and Counter-Scuffle, 429;
his Ghost, by Edmund Gaiton, 633.
Baillie, Grizel, daughter of B. of Jervis-
wood, her Scotch song, "There was
ance a May," 617; her daughter and
namesake, wife of Gay's "Sweet-
tongued Murray," ibid. [According
to Leigh Hunt, in The Old Court
Suburb, ed. 1860, p. 224, the phrase
alluded to her husband Alexander,
afterwards Sir Alexander Murray,
of Stanhope, Lord Chief-Justice.
But we cannot agree with this: Gay
is enumerating the ladies only.]
Baker of Edmonton, and fraudulent
bakers in general, 33.
Baldwin, Richard, publisher of libel-
lous pamphlets, 711, 787. See also
Prefatory Notice to 2nd Div. xiv.
Balfour, James, his Practicks, quoted,
403.
Ballad-broadsides, their authors,
Introd. XIV, L, 1024; their de-
struction, Introd. XXI to XXIII;
their publishers (List given in the
Ballad Society's Roxburghe Ballads,
vol. i. p. xvii of its introduction).
Ballad-singers, General Introd. passim.
Ballad Society, work needed on the
genuine Scottish ballads, 346 [the
allusion is to Muir Wood, Esq., of
Glasgow]; on the remains of early
songs, Introd. XXI; on the Civil
War ballads (promised by the
present Editor, and in active pre-
paration), ibid. 11, and pp. 330,
477, 480, 632; on the London
Apprentices and Bona Robas, also
nearly ready, from same Editor, 920.
Ballads and songs, incidentally men-
tioned, and partly given (generally
the first verse), indicated in alpha-
betical order by first lines.
group is given as a Third Index.
Ballads (Collection of Old), printed
for J. Roberts in 1723 (vols. i. and ii.)
and 1725 (vol. iii.), with illustra-
tions, London, 133, and passim; by
whom edited?, 135, 138 to 140.
Ballads (Thackeray's List of three
hundred and one), kept in stock, 146;
reproduced, with notes throughout,
for identification of each, and date
ascertained to be early in 1685,
Introduction, LIII, LIV, LX, et seq.
Ballads to tune of London Ladies, 933.
Ballet. See Bagnall and Ballads.
Ballymore, in Ireland, surrendered,
419.
Bangor, the cathedral bell, 858; Harry
Hotspur at, 10IO.
Barham, Rev. R. H., his Ingoldsby
Legends quoted, 947.
Barleycorn, Arraignment of Sir John,
226; and No. 88 of Thackeray List.
Barnardiston Juries, and Sir Samuel B.,
their foreman, the civic chamberlain,
2nd Div. xiv, 648.
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