plays within_.

_Gil._ And leave me out! where, brother, where?

_Abr._ Why there, Sister Gillian; there, at our own door almost,--on
the green there, close by the may-pole. Hark! you may hear them
hither." (Sig. D.)

The stage-direction at the entrance of the dancers runs thus:--"Enter
six country wenches, all red petticoats, white stitch'd bodies, in their
smock-sleeves, the fiddler before them, and Gillian with her tippet up
in the midst of them dancing."

_Page_ 73. "It was the purest light of heaven" &c.--I am reminded of a
fine passage in Drayton's "Barons' Wars," canto VI.:--

"Looking upon proud Phaeton wrapped in fire,
The gentle queen did much bewail his fall;
But Mortimer commended his desire
To lose one poor life or to govern all.
'What though,' quoth he, 'he madly did aspire
And his great mind made him proud Fortune's thrall?
Yet, in despight when she her worst had done,
_He perish'd in the chariot of the sun_.'"

_Page_ 74. "The Bellman's Song."--In "Robin Goodfellow; his mad pranks
and merry jests," 1628, we have another specimen of a Bellman's Song:--

"Sometimes would he go like a bellman in the night, and with many pretty
verses delight the ears of those that waked at his bell-ringing: his
verses were these:--

Maids in your smocks,
Look well to your locks,
And your tinder-box,
Your wheels and your rocks,
Your hens and your cocks,
Your cows and your ox,
And beware of the fox.
When the bellman knocks
Put out your fire and candle-light,
So they shall not you affright.
May you dream of your delights,
In your sleeps see pleasing sights!
Good rest to all, both old and young:
The bellman now hath done his song.

Then would he go laughing _Ho ho ho!_ as his use was."

_Page_ 77. "That kisses were the _seals of love_."--Every reader will
recall

"But my kisses bring again, bring again.
_Seals of love_ but sealed in vain, sealed in vain."

(The first stanza is found among the poems of Sir Philip Sidney.)

_Page_ 80. "My prime of youth."--This song is also set to music in
Richard Alison's "Hour's Recreation," 1606, and Michael Este's
"Madrigals of three, four, and five parts," 1604. It is printed in
"Reliquiae: Wottonianae" as "By Chidick Tychborn, being young and then in
the tower, the night before his execution." Chidiock Tychbourne of
Southampton was executed with Ballard and Babin