ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the temptation of Cymochles. Very few complete bound collections of the original Broadsheets are known to be still in existence, though a good deal of evidence has been forthcoming since the first anthology was published that many people preserved isolated sheets. The chapter, together with A Book of Broadsheets, makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H. M. Forces serving in the trenches of World War I. The chapter describes a wide variety of rich literature from before the war and was designed to give soldiers entertainment.