Authority Cited: Children in the Wood
Author name and dates: Collection of Old Ballads Vol.1 p.225 (per Watkins)
BKG Bio-tweet: Collection of Old Ballads attributed to Ambrose Philips pub. 1723-25; SJ quotes Children in the Wood under painfully, redbreast
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Children in the Wood cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2.]
Author name and dates: Collection of Old Ballads Vol.1 p.225 (per Watkins)
BKG Bio-tweet: Collection of Old Ballads attributed to Ambrose Philips pub. 1723-25; SJ quotes Children in the Wood under painfully, redbreast
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Children in the Wood cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2.]
- A collection of old ballads. Corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. With introductions historical, critical, or humorous. Illustrated with copper plates, attributed to Ambrose Philips (q.v), London: printed for J. Roberts; and sold by J. Brotherton in Cornhill; A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Pemberton in Fleetstreet; J. Woodman in Bow-Street, Covent-Garden; and J. Stag in Westminster-Hall, MDCCXXIII. [1723; painfully, adv.; redbreast, n.s. [BKG Note: A 2nd edition of the first volume was published in 1723. V.2 was published in 1723, V.3 was published in 1725. Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (p. 87 et seq.), compares later editions of the Ballads with several SJ works. Watkins: "It is hard to believe that of the few ballads from which Johnson quotes, six should by mere coincidence be included in the first volume of this Collection" The examples from the later editions that Watkins examined are almost all identical to the 1st Ballads edition (see the ebook on 18th Century Collections online). See further discussion under Song of the King and the Miller.]