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Rh the tune indicates that No. 19 had been printed early enough for inclusion in the 1566 Pleasant Sonnets.

20. "A proper sonet, Intituled: I smile to see how you deuise. To anie pleasant tune."

I can find nothing that assists in dating No. 20. Bond, "with some doubts," attributes this ballad to Lyly (Works, III, 440, 468) but he is not convincing (cf. No. 17, above). For example, he also credits Lyly (ibid., 463) with the authorship of a ballad "In lingeringe Loue mislikinge growes, " which he prints from Rawlinson MS. Poet. 148; but there is, I observe, another copy of this ballad in MS. Cotton. Vesp. A. XXV (ed. Boeddeker, loc. cit., II, 211), and the ballad itself was licensed for publication by William Griffith in 1564 (Trans., I, 238).

21. "A Sonet of two faithfull Louers, exhorting one another to be constant. To the tune of Kypascie."

I can find nothing that assists in dating this ballad.

22. "A proper new Dity: Intituled. Fie vpon Loue and al his lawes. To the tune of lumber me."

No. 22 appears on the leaf, sign. D 2, which Ebsworth found; and therefore one may well believe that it was in the first edition.

23. "The Louer being wounded with his Ladis beutie, requireth mercy. To the tune of Apelles."

"The Louer wounded with his Ladies beauty craueth mercy, To the Tune of where is the life that late I led," a ballad in the Gorgious Gallery, 1578 (Collier's reprint, p. 51), borrows its title and a number of lines from No. 23. Although the priority of the Handfull ballad is hardly questionable, it may be further noted that this ballad imitates a poem by Wyatt (Tottel's Miscellany, ed. Arber, p. 34) beginning, "The liuely sparkes, that issue from those eyes," while there is no such imitation in the Gallery ballad. Furthermore, a ballad "to ye tune of Appelles" was licensed by Colwell in 1565–66; and shortly afterwards, in the same year, Griffith licensed a ballad "to the tune of ye fyrst Appelles" (Trans., I, 298, 312, noted by Arber, p. viii), either of which may have been No. 23. A song "to the tune of Appelles" is in Googe's Epitaphes, which was printed in 1562–63 (cf. Collier's Extracts, I, 120). The title of the Gallery ballad shows that the tune of "Appelles" was the same as "Where is the life that late I led," for the date of