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"Goe, tell the poets that their pedling rimes
Begin apace to grow out of request,
While wanton humours in these idle times
Can make of love but as a laughing jest:
And tell prose-writers, stories are so stale
That penny ballads make a better sale."

Breton's Pasquil's Nightcap.—1600.

"Come, pretty maydens, what is't you buy?
See, what is't you lack?

If you can find a toy to your mind,

Be so kind view the pedlar's pack.

Pedlar's Song from "Catch who catch can."—1652.

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JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQUIRE,

IN THE HAPPY REMEMBRANCE OF A FRIENDSHIP

WHICH HAS ENDURED UNINTERRUPTEDLY

FOR A LONG SERIES OF YEARS,

This Volume

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.