This is another of the songs contained in the _Percy Folio MS_. (p. 460; iv. 92 of print); wrongly supposed to be otherwise lost, but imperfect there, our fourth and fifth verses being absent. We cannot accept “_if that I may thy favour haue, thy bewtye to behold_,” as the true reading; while we find “_If that thy favour I may win With thee for to be bold_:” which is much more in the Lover’s line of advance. Yet we avail ourselves of the “I am so _mad_” in 3rd verse, because it rhymes with “maidenhead,” in _M. D._, though not suiting with the “honestye” of the _P. F. MS._ The final half-verse is different. Page 56 [206]. _~Nick Culpepper~ and ~Wm. Lilly~._ Also in 1662 edition of the _Rump_, i. 308; and _Loyal Songs_, 1731, i. 192. The event referred to happened in June, 1653, the engagement between the English and Dutch fleets commencing on the 2nd, renewed the next day. Six of the Dutch ships were sunk, and twelve taken, with thirteen hundred prisoners. _Blake_, _Monk_, and _Dean_ were the English commanders, until _Dean_ was killed, the first day. Monk took the sole command on the next. Clarendon gives an account of the battle, and says: “_Dean_, one of the _English_ Admirals, was killed by a cannon-shot from the Rear-Admiral of the _Dutch_,” before night parted them. “The loss of the _English_ was greatest in their General _Dean_. There was, beside him, but one Captain, and about two hundred Common Sea-men killed: the number of the wounded was greater; nor did they lose one Ship, nor were they so disabled but that they followed with the whole fleet to the coast of _Holland_, whither the other fled; and being got into the _Flie_ and the _Texel_, the English for some time blocked them up in their own Harbors, taking all such Ships as came bound for those parts.” (_His. Reb._, B. iii. p. 487, ed. 1720.) Verse 1. Nicholas Culpeper, of Spittle Fields, near London, published his _New Method of Physick_, and Alchemy, in 1654. As to William Lilly, “the famous astrologer of those times, who in his yearly almanacks foretold victories for the Parliament with so much certainty as the preachers did in their sermons,” consult his letter written to Elias Ashmole, and the notes of Dr. Zachary Gray to Butler’s _Hudibras_, Part ii. Canto 3. “He lived to the year 1681, being then near eighty years of age, and published predicting almanacks to his death.” He was one of the close committee to consult about the King’s execution (_Echard_). He lost much of his repute in 1652; in 1655 he was indicted at Hickes Hall, but acquitted. He dwelt at Hersham, Walton-on-Thames, and elsewhere. Henry Coley followed him in almanack-making, and John Partridge next. In the Honble. Robt. Howard’s Comedy, “The Committee,” 1665, we find poor Teague has been consulting Lilly:—