[389] [Ritson has the following note (Ancient Songs, 1829, vol. ii. P. 155): "the voyage, A.D. 1588. See the Catalogue of the Harl. MSS. No. 167 (15). Dr. Percy, not knowing that the text alludes to a particular event, has altered it to a voyage.">[
XIX.
A LOVER OF LATE.
Printed, with a few slight corrections, from the Editor's folio MS.
[This song is printed, Hales and Furnivall's edition of the MS. vol. iii. p. 389.]
A lover of late was I,
For Cupid would have it soe,
The boy that hath never an eye,
As every man doth know:
I sighed and sobbed, and cryed, alas! 5
For her that laught, and called me ass.