HARRY LEROY TEMPLE.

_Ballad on Shakspeare._--About fifty years ago there was an old ballad

in praise of Shakspeare which used to be very popular in Warwickshire.

All I remember is the following stanza, which, I remember, was the

concluding one:--

"The pride of all nature is sweet Willy, O;

The pride of our land was sweet Willy, O;

And when Willy died, it was Nature that sighed

At the loss of her all--her sweet Willy, O."

Where can the rest of the ballad be obtained? and who was the author?

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