Authority Cited: Song of the King and the Miller
Author name and dates: Collection of Old Ballads (attributed to Ambrose Philips, ed., per Watkins, 1936, Ballad of King Henry the IId, I.57)
BKG Bio-tweet: SJ quotes from A pleasant Ballad of King Henry 2d and the Miller of Mansfield under lambs-wool
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Song of the King and the Miller cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2.]
Author name and dates: Collection of Old Ballads (attributed to Ambrose Philips, ed., per Watkins, 1936, Ballad of King Henry the IId, I.57)
BKG Bio-tweet: SJ quotes from A pleasant Ballad of King Henry 2d and the Miller of Mansfield under lambs-wool
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Song of the King and the Miller cite 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]; lambs-wool, 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). The extract from the ballad of A pleasant Ballad of King Henry 2d and the Miller of Mansfield I.57 (cited under Song of the King and the Miller in the Dictionary) is different in the 1st edition of V.1, having a hyphen in Lamb's-wool, and in the 2nd edition of V.1 the two words are run together "lambswool." In the 3rd edition of V.1 of the Ballads, which Watkins consulted, the two words are separate: "Lamb's wool." The head word for lambs-wool in the dictionary has a hyphen, as do the 1st and 4th Edition Dictionary quotations, but the Watkins quote of the Dictionary (p.89) is given as two separate words. A large paper copy was also printed, and is consistent with the 1st Ballads edition for "Lamb's-wool." The large paper copy appears to have the same copper plates inserted, but the head and tail pieces for each poem in V.1 are more refined. The large paper copy of V.1 may have been associated with an 1872? reprint, as it does not have a final adversiment leaf in V.2 and V.3. It has one typographical difference of interest from the 1st and subsequent editions of V.1. On p.181 in the 1st and subsequent Ballads editions, the second line of A Prince of England's Courtship of the King of France's Daughter, reads "When fair France did flourish." In the large paper copy the line reads "When fair France flourish." In the Introduction to English Grammar in the Dictionary, three lines of the first stanza are given to illustrate five-syllable verse, but the line just quoted is omitted.]