OLD BALLADS,

HISTORICAL AND NARRATIVE;

FORMING

A SUPPLEMENT TO PERCY'S RELIQUES,

AND

ELLIS'S SPECIMENS OF ANTIENT POETRY.

HISTORICAL AND NARRATIVE,

WITH SOME OF MODERN DATE;

COLLECTED FROM RARE COPIES AND MSS.

BY THOMAS EVANS.

A NEW EDITION,

REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED FROM PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, BY HIS SON,

PRINTED FOR R. H. EVANS, PALL-MALL,

BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW.

CYTILOKNIV

PR 1181
E8

1810

v. 3 MAIN

EVANS'S COLLECTION

OF

OLD BALLADS.

I.

The Lamentable Fall of the Dutchess of Gloucester, Wife to good Duke Humphry, with the manner of her doing penance in London streets, and of her exile in the Isle of Man, where she ended her days.

I ONCE a dutchess was of great renown,
My husband near allied to England's crown ;
The good duke Humphry 'titled was his name,
Till fortune frown'd upon his glorious fame.

Henry the fifth, that king of gallant race,
Of whom my husband claim'd a brother's place ;.
And was protector made of his young son,
When princely Henry's thread of life was spun.