Of Patient Grissel and a Noble Marquess. To the tune of “The Bride’s Good-morrow.”
T. Deloney’s Garland of Good-Will. 1678. Part 2. (Percy Society. No. 112. 1851.)
The earliest edition of the Garland must have been published before 1600, as Deloney died in that year.
A most excellent and vertuous Ballad of the Patient Grissell. To the tune of “The Bride’s Good-morrow.” London. Printed by John Wright. [1640?] (Roxburghe Ballads, vol. i. pp. 302–3.)
The first part ends—
“My gracious Lord
Must have his will obeyd.”
And the second begins—
“She tooke the Babies
Even from the nursing ladies.”
There is a copy of the ballad (in one, not two parts) in the Percy Folio Manuscript. See Hales and Furnivall’s edition, 1868, vol. iii. p. 421.