^a This ballad has been printed by Mr. J. Payne Collier (from a manuscript in his possession) in his Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company, edited by him for the Shakespeare Society. He prints it, he says, “not on account of any merit it possesses, but because it adds one or two circumstances not related elsewhere;” and I reprint it, because it may advantageously be read side by side with the prose tracts in English and in Latin here presented to the reader. In Appendix J. will be found the tune to which the ballad was sung.