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Saith Rich's ballad: And to the adventurers* thus he writes, "Be not dismayed at all, For scandall cannot doe us wrong, God will not let us fall. Let England knowe our willingnesse, For that our worke is good, WE HOPE TO PLANT A NATION WHERE NONE BEFORE HATH STOOD." * The Virginia Company.
He is foolish who supposes Dogs are ill that have hot noses. Mrs. Fields tells how, after some classical or fashionable music had been played, Landor would come closer to the piano and ask for an old English ballad, and when "Auld Robin Gray," his favourite of all, was sung, the tears would stream down his face. "Ah, you don't know what thoughts you are recalling to the troublesome old man."
The Cheap was then still in great part an open space, where boys were playing, and a tumbler was attracting many spectators; while the ballad- singer of yesterday had again a large audience, who laughed loudly at every coarse jest broken upon mass-priests and friars. Ambrose was horrified at the stave that met his ears, and asked how such profanity could be allowed.
3rdly, The Lyrical, containing the Hymn, the Ode, the Elegy, the Song, and the Ballad; in all which, for the production of their full effect, an accompaniment of music is indispensable.
Talbot was ushered into the Queen's closet without any witnesses to their interview save Sir Andrew Melville and Marie de Courcelles. The Queen was seated in a large chair, leaning against cushions, and evidently in a good deal of pain, but, as Richard made his obeisance, her eyes shone as she quoted two lines from an old Scotch ballad "'Madame, how does my gay goss hawk? Madame, how does my doo?
By chilling him to the bone they may get what they cry for. But that is a method deadening to their point of appeal. I the evening, Miss Middleton and the colonel sang a duet. She had of late declined to sing. Her voice was noticeably firm. Sir Willoughby said to her, "You have recovered your richness of tone, Clara." She smiled and appeared happy in pleasing him. He named a French ballad.
Finding himself far from his port and no probability of the wind and sea falling immediately, he goes on board again to take a little rest, and descends to his cabin, leaving a sailor as watchman, to see, I suppose, that the vessel does not batter itself to pieces on the cliffs. The watchman sings himself to sleep with a most beautiful ballad.
She was one of the most perfect singers I ever heard, and suggests to my memory the quaint praise of the gypsy vocal performance in the ballad of "Johnny Faa" "They sang so sweet, So very complete,"
The miller he's a warldly man, And maun hae double fee; So draw the sluice in the churl's dam And let the stream gae free!" Brainerd, who truly deserves the name of an American poet, has left behind him a ballad on the Indian legend of the black fox which haunted Salmon River, a tributary of the Connecticut.
I shall have to set it to music, after all, for the Jews of Frankfort and Leipzig; it will just suit them. But stop; my epistle is getting wild and wilder; therefore I must conclude. Adieu, my Franciscus, the first and only one who stands before me like the heart of a giant! You indefatigable one, farewell. When they play the ballad tomorrow, think of me.
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