King Henry VIII., Act ii. sc. 3.
[IX]
Printed by Percy (Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765). ‘From an old black-letter copy.’
Cailìver (l. 21)=Caliver, a kind of light musket.
[X]
There are broadsides of this ballad in the Roxburghe and Bagford Collections. The version here given is taken from Mr. Henley’s volume, Lyra Heroica (David Nutt, 1891), by permission of editor and publisher. The full title of the Roxburghe broadside is as follows:—‘The Honour of Bristol, shewing how the Angel Gabriel of Bristol fought with three ships, who boarded as many times, wherein we cleared our Decks, and killed five hundred of their Men, and wounded many more, and make them fly into Cales, where we lost but three men, to the Honour of the Angel Gabriel of Bristol. To the tune of Our Noble King in his Progress.’
Calés (l. 13), pronounced as a dissyllable, is, of course, Cadiz.
[XI]—[XII]
The first is entitled: To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652: On the Proposals of certain Ministers at the Committee for Propagation of the Gospel, and was written against the intolerant Fifteen Proposals of John Owen and the majority of the Committee. This sonnet first appeared at the end of Philip’s Life of Milton (1694).