The Butterflie's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

"Said to have been written by William Roscoe, Esq. M.P. for Liverpool, for the Use of his Children; and set to Music by the Order of their Majesties, for the Princess Mary" p. 1052. The Butterfly's Ball became a popular chapbook. William Roscoe's quatrains may owe something to Spenser's Muiopotmos and Drayton's fairy poetry; they were certainly popular with nineteenth-century readers"