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  _Chap-Books_
  _and_
  _Folk-Lore Tracts._


  _Edited by_
  _G. L. Gomme, F.S.A._
  _and_
  _H. B. Wheatley, F.S.A._


  _First Series._
  =III.=




  MOTHER BUNCH'S CLOSET
  NEWLY BROKE OPEN,

  AND THE

  HISTORY OF MOTHER BUNCH OF
  THE WEST.


  PRINTED FROM
  THE EARLIEST EXTANT COPIES,

  AND EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION,

  BY

  GEORGE LAURENCE GOMME, F.S.A.


  LONDON:
  PRINTED FOR THE VILLON SOCIETY.

  1885.




Introduction.


This chap-book is not a story. It is a collection of charms and dreams
supposed to have been communicated by a personage bearing the name of
Mother Bunch, a name unhistorical and, so far as I have been able to
ascertain, unknown to any other department of 