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 Lloyd’s assertion of the author being unrewarded, &c., be held to apply to this already pampered official? It still remains in great part a question of dates: Lloyd wrote thus after the Restoration.

— 42. As we went wandering. This is a variation of “When I do travel in the night,” Merry Drollery, Complete, p. 255 (p. 73, edit. 1661); see p. 393.

— 46. Note on. We find Samuel Pepys recording in his Diary, Sept. 25, 1663, “Pleased to see Captn. Hickes come to me with a list of all the officers of Deptford Yard, wherein he, being a high old Cavalier, do give me an account of every one of them to their reproach in all respects, and discovers many of their knaverys,” &c. An important bit, in its way, and not making much in favour of the adventurer.

— 55. Line 29. Delete "&," (W. D. being for Westm. Drollery,) and add this:—In J.P. Collier’s Extracts, Registers of Stationer’s Company, i. 230, we find under date 1569–70, a licence to Wyllm. Greffeth for printing a ballad entitled Taken Napping, as Mosse took his Meare. J. P. C. notes that the proverb is not yet forgotten, and is in the collection by John Heywood.

— 63. Line 33. Delete “It appears to be still older, as” and read “It is as early as 1632; and in,” &c.

— 68. The Ballad, on a similar theme, entitled “The Devonshire Damsels’ Frollick,” begins thus:—

See our next volume, and Rox. Col., iii. 137.

— 72. Bottom line but five, read

— 74. Line sixth. Read 1618, not 1614.

Introduction to W. D., p. 19, line 11, (note), read 1673: uncertainty about 1672. The frontispiece referred to on this page, and on p. 74 of Appendix, is now being engraved for our Readers. It gives a valuable record of a Stage-interior at the exact date of the Westminster Drolleries; or, more probably, immediately before the Restoration.