FROM two ancient copies in black letter, one in the Pepys Collection, the other in the British Museum. To the tune of "The Lady's Fall."

GIVEN from two ancient copies, one in black print, in the Pepys Collection, the other

XIV. THE LADY ISABELLA'S TRAGEDY.

THIS ballad is given from an old black-letter copy in the Pepys Collection, collated with another in the British Museum, H. 263, folio. It is there entitled The Lady Isabella's Tragedy, or the Step-Mother's Cruelty.

XV.-A HUE AND CRY AFTER CUPID.

THIS song is a kind of translation of a pretty poem of Tasso's, called Amore fuggitivo, generally printed with his Aminta, and originally imitated from the first Idyllium of Moschus.

It is extracted from Ben Jonson's masque at the marriage of Lord Viscount Hadington, on Shrove-Tuesday 1608.