Lansdowne MS 807/3

3. Play in five acts, entitled (in a later hand) the 'Buggbears,' apparently translated from the Italian in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. ff. 56-77. Included are the following numbers with music:—

1. 'Lend me, you lovers all'; with 2-part chorus, 'And therfore away care,' the solo being written 'for Iphiginia.' In score. 'Giles Pepprer'(?). f. 76.

2. 'The old folkes care hath end'; with 3-part chorus, 'Sith all our greefe is turnd to blyss.' Described as 'The last song.' f. 76b.

The editor of the Biographia Dramatica is mistaken in stating "John Jeffere" as the translator; for he was only the subsequent owner of the manuscript. The whole is written in a long, irregular, and prosaic metre, intended as lines of twelve syllables. At the end are some songs, partly set to musick, of which the following is a specimen:

"The Song for Piccinino. Cor^s. A sprityng, a sprityng, a sprityng go we, With thys face, and that face, and you goodman good face; Syng, hegh hoe, jolye, heygh hoe, a sprityng go we.

j verce Lyke huggbeares with vysard, to make old soot dyssard, With soweyng, with rowsyn" with bownsyng, with trowns ng; With roomblyng, with joomblyng, with foomblyng, with toombling, With ramplyng, with tramplyng, with rappyng, with trappyng. A sprityng, &c.

2. With fyrye flames flasshyng, with squibes lusty crasshyng, With hyffa, with huffa, with ryp-rap, poff puffa; With clattryng, with battryng, with pattryng, with With tattryng, With wranglyng, with janglyng, with banglyng, with tanglyng. A sprityng, &c."

This play has sustained the loss of more than half a leaf, being part of the second act.