Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Ballad

A ballad to the wandering moon.
Tennyson.—In Memoriam, Canto 86, Verse 8.

Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.
Dryden.—Prologue to Sophonisba.