“ I wait for a young man,
Who did appoint this night to meet me here.
He nothing more did say, but took a knife,
And bade her straight prepare to lose her life:
She on her knees did fall,
And to heaven did call,
O! welcome, welcome death, my fatal stroke! ”

“ Some time after the death of Essex, the queen was informed of the lady who had the ring, when she hastened to her house, where she found her in bed, in a dying state, and dragged her from thence on to the floor by the hair of the head, uttering bitter reflections and imprecations on her for her conduct.—The queen never recovered her wonted cheerfulness after this affair, but was more retired, and less attentive to public business. Her spirits became more and more depressed, till the spring of 1603, when death put a period to her sufferings.
THE BALLAD.
All you that cry O Hone! ”

“ JEMMY AND NANCY OF YARMOUTH.
PART I.
Showing how beautiful Nancy of Yarmouth fell in love with young Jemmy the Sailor.
TUNE- "The Yarmouth Tragedy."
Lovers, I pray, lend an ear to my story,
Take an example by this constant pair;
How love a young virgin did blast in her glory,
Beautiful Nancy of Yarmouth we hear.
She was a merchant’s only daughter,
Heir unto fifteen hundred a-year;
A young man who courted her call’d her his jewel,
The son of a gentleman who lived near. ”

“ No cursed gold should part my dear and me.
Was she as poor as Job, and I of royal line,
And lord of all the globe, she should be mine;
His mother said, in scorn,
My son is noble born,
And with a beggar’s brat shall ne’er be join’d. ”

“ ROBERT DEVERAUX, EARL OF ESSEX,
A GREAT FAVOURITE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH;
With a Lamentable Ballad on his Death. Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, was in every respect qualified for a soldier, but the most unfit man in the world for a courtier. He was very young when his father died ”

“ Essex afterwards made submission, and was again received into favour. At this time the rebellion in Ireland was grown to a great height, and the lord-deputy being dead, several were proposed to be sent thither, when Essex hinted he should be glad of that command, to which the queen consented. He accordingly went with a large army, and an unlimited general commission, and soon appointed the Earl of Southampton as acting general. The intention of the government was, that Tir-Owen, the most formidable of the rebels, should be immediately attacked ”

“ Now for your promise, my dear, I am suing,
Dead or alive, love, you are my own.
PART IV.
How the Ghosts of them two unfortunate Lovers appeared to the Boatswain, and he, having his trial, was hanged at the yard's arm. ”

“ At length he ordered the army to march against Tir-Owen; but instead of coming to a battle, he held a private parley with that rebel, and concluded a truce with him for six weeks, renewable at the end of that time for six weeks more, and so on. ”

“ The weyves com round me in clusters—“What weage due te ax, canny lad?” says yen. “Wey, three pun and a crown; wunnet beate a hair o’ my beard.” “What can to dui?” says anudder. “ Dul—wey I cun plough, sow, mow, shear, thresh, dike, milk, kurn, muck a byer, sing a psalm, mend cargear, dance a whornpype, nick a nag’s tail, hunt a brock, or feight iver a yen o’ my weight in aw Croglin parish.” ”

“ Forby my twee letters frae mudder and Nan,
Where they said Carel lasses wad Watty trapan;
Ay, there were some forgery chaps had me just sign my neame. “Nay,” says I, “you’ve gotten a wrang pig by the lug, for I cannot write!”, Then a fellow like a lobster, aw leac’d and feathered, ax’t me, “Watty, wull te list? thou’s either be a general or gomeral.” Nay, I winnet, that’s plain; I’s content wi’ a cwot a’ mudder’s spinnin ”