melodies, and _nonsense_ burthens, as sung by my excellent nurse, Betty
Richens, whose name I hope to see immortalised in your pages.]


"_My Love and I for kisses played, &c._" (No. 19. p. 302.).--The little
_jeu d'esprit_ which "Dr. RIMBAULT" {459} has given from Paget's _Common
Place Book_:--

"My love and I for kisses play'd,"

occurs in the MS. volume from which James Boswell extracted
"Shakspeare's Verses on the King," but with a much better reading of the
last couplet:--

"Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine?
Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe."

They are entitled, "Upon a Lover and his Mistris playing for Kisses,"
and are there without any name or signature. They remind us of Lilly's
very elegant "Cupid and Campaspe."

The ballad, or rather ode, as Drayton himself entitles it:--

"Fair stood the wind for France,"

is to be found in the very rare volume with the following title, _Poemes
Lyrick and Pastorall, Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the Moon, by Michael
Drayton, Esquire_. At London, printed by R.B. for N.L. and J. Flaskett.
12mo. (No date, but circa 1600.)