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Imprynted at London in Fletestrete: at the Sygne of the Faucon, by Wylliam Gryffith, and are to be solde at his Shop in Saint Dunston's Churchyarde, in the west of London, the 8. day of November.

(The entry of this ballad in the Stationers' Books is curious:—"Rd. of William Gryffith, for his lycense for pryntinge of a pycture of a chylde borne in the Ile of Wyghte with a cluster of grapes about y$e$ navell, iiij."

(The original ballad of "The Bride's Good-morrow," which furnished the tune for the present ballad, is reprinted in Mr. J. P. Collier's volume of "Roxburghe Ballads." Owen Rogers had a license in 1565–6, to print "the sounge of Pacyente Gressell," which may probably be the one in our list; but the subject was a common one.)

(Alexander Lacy had a license to print this ballad in 1565–6. Its author was probably Thomas Churchyard.)

(William Griffith had a license to print "A ballad of A ppelles and Pygmalyne, to the tune of the fyrst Apelles," in 1565–6. This was undoubtedly the one in our Catalogue. A song "to the tune of Apelles, is in Barnaby Googe's "Poems," printed in 1563. It was therefore an established favourite.)

Almighty God I pray, his holy spirite to send: The just mannes hart steadfast to stay, and wicked lives to mend

Imprinted at London, without Aldersgate, in little Britain: by Alex. Lacy, the 16. of August, 1566.