A

COLLECTION

OF OLD

BALLADS, &c

Corrected from the best and most

Ancient COPIES Extant.

WITH

INTRODUCTIONS

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL,

or

HUMOROUS.

Illuftrated with COPPER PLATES.

Let ::o nice Sir defpife the hapless Dame,
Because Recording BAILADS chount her Name.
Thofe Venerable Ancient Song Engliters

Soar'd many a Pitch above our modern Writers.
With rough Majestick Force they mov'd the Heart,

And Strength and Nature

make amends for Art.

ROWE.

LONDON:

Printed for 7. Roberts; and fold by J. Brotherton in
Cornhill; A. Bettefworth in Pater-Nofter-Row;
7. Pemberton in Fleetstreet; J. Woodman in Bow-
Street, Covent Garden; and J. Stag in Westminster-
Hall. M DCC XXIII.

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