Page:An Elizabethan garland; being a descriptive catalogue of seventy black-letter ballads, printed between the years 1559 and 1597.djvu/23

 in the year of our Lord 1565. They were booth women chyldren, and were chrystened and lyved half a daye. The one departed before the other almoste an howre." It is entirely prose, with a woodcut of the two children, united at the stomach.)

Imprinted at London in Fletestreate beneath the Conduit, at the Signe of S. John Evangelist, by Thomas Colwell.

(This ballad was licensed by the Stationers' Company in 1566–7. The story of Gehazi is in what we now call the Second Book of Kings. "A Ballett of Kyng Salomon," probably the original of the tune here referred to, was licensed in 1559–60.)

Imprinted at London by John Awdeley, dwellyng in little Britain Streete without Aldersgate. The 23. of December.

(John Sampson (alias Awdely), the printer, was probably the author of this production. It is not named in Smith's "Bibliotheca Cantiana.")

Imprinted at London, in Fletstrete at the signe of the Faucon by Wylliam Gryffith. 1568.

A very passionate and beautiful ballad; the burden of which is, "Or els for love I die."

(This ballad was licensed to Thomas Colwell in 1562–3. The tune is unknown.)