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NATIONAL BALLAD AND SONG
Merry Songs and Ballads
PRIOR, TO THE YEAR A.D. 1800
EDITED BY
VOLUME I
PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
MDCCCXCVII
INDEX
TO VOL. I
AUTHORS, TITLES, FIRST LINES, REFRAINS, AND SOURCES
| Akeroyde (S.) | 188 |
| “All Christians and Lay-Elders too” (Sir John Birkenhead, Bagford Ballads, iii. 57) | 118 |
| “All in a greene meadowe” (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 82 |
| “All you that are disposed now to hear a merry jest” (Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 166) | 89 |
| “Aminta one Night had occasion to Piss” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 202 |
| And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys (Refrain) | 5 |
| Ane Pleasant Garland of Sweet Scented Flowers, (1835) | 37, 275, 277, 279 |
| “As Damon late with Chloe sat” (S. Bolton, 1720) | 228 |
| “As honest Jacob on a night” (b. 1796)>0) | 257 |
| “As I lay musing all alone” (c. 1707) | 189 |
| “As I lay on my lovely bead” (Laurence Price, c. 1654, Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 226) | 105 |
| “As I sat at my Spinning Wheel” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 180 |
| “As I was riding by the way” (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 71 |
| “As I was walking I cannot tell where” (Rawlinson MS., c. 1610–50) | 37 |
| “As I went o’er yon misty moor” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 188 |
| “As I went to Tottnam” (Choyce Drollery, 1666) | 109 |
| “As Lady Jane devoutly wise” (1766, Durfey the Younger) | 251 |
| As Oyster Nan stood by her tub (c. 1705) | 177 |
| As she lay sleeping in her bed (Tune) | 105 |
| As the fryer he went along (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 197 |
| Auld cripple Dow, The (Tune) | 257 |
| Ayres by Alfonso Ferrabosco (1609) | 29 |
| Ayres by W. Corkine (1610) | 34 |
| Bagford Ballads | 85, 118 |
| Bathing Girles, The (Westminster Drollery, 1672) | 148 |
| Bathing Girles, The (Westminster Drollery, 1672) (Tune) | 163 |
| Beehive, The (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 206 |
| Beggar-wench turn’d into a devil (Debauchery Scared, Roxburgh Ballads, 1685–8, ii. 101) | 160 |
| Behn (Mrs.) | 168 |
| Behold the man (Tune) | 41 |
| “Beneath a cool shade” (Mrs. Behn, 1697) | 168 |
| Birkenhead (Sir John) | 118 |
| Bob-Tail’d Lass, The (b. 1800) | 275 |
| Bolton (Sol.) | 228 |
| Bonnie Dundee (Tune) | 263 |
| “Bonny Lass o’ Liviston, The” (b. 1796) | 254 |
| Boye, Friar and, The | 51 |
| Broze and Batter (b. 1796) | 264 |
| Burns (R.) | 253, 254, 256, 257, 259, 261, 263, 264, 265, 267, 269, 272, 274 |
| “By the mole on your bubbies” (Musical Miscellany, 1731) | 238 |
| “Canst thou loue and lie alone” (Melismata, c. 1611) | 40 |
| Carey, H. | 228 |
| “Certain Presbyterian Pair, A,” (Musical Miscellany, 1729) | 230 |
| Chappell, William | 89, 113, 159, 189 |
| Choyce Ayres (Playford J.) | 157 |
| Choyce Drollery | 109, 113 |
| Clout the Couldron (Tune) | 267 |
| “Come hither, good people” (Musical Miscellany, 1729) | 230 |
| ‘Come off of my mother, Sirrah’ (Refrain) | 35 |
| Complements, Marrow of | 159 |
| Corkine (W.) | 31 |
| “Country Gentleman came up to town, A” (1685–8, Roxburgh Ballads, ii. 101) | 31 |
| Courteous Knight, The (1609, Roxburgh Ballads, ii. 281) | 31 |
| Courtiers Good morrow to his Mistris, The (c. 1611) | 40 |
| Crimsall, Richard | 89 |
| Cuddie the Cooper (b. 1796) | 263 |
| Cumberland Lass, The (1674–80) | 152 |
| Cupid’s Visions (or Dainty Damsels Dream, Laurence Price, c. 1654, Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 226) | 105 |
| Dainty Damsels Dream, The (Laurence Price, c. 1654, Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 226) | 105 |
| Dainty ducke I chanced to meet, A (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 84 |
| Debauchery Scared (1685–8, Roxburgh Ballads, ii. 101) | 160 |
| Devonshire Damsels Frollick, The (1685–8, Roxburgh Ballads, ii. 136–7) | 163 |
| Deuteromelia (1609) | 31 |
| Dildo, Nashes | 14 |
| Disaster, The sad | 251 |
| Dorset, The Earl of | 157 |
| Dub’d Knight of the Forked Order, The (1660–77, Roxburgh Ballads, ii. 114) | 125 |
| “Duncan Macleerie and Janet his wife” (b. 1796) | 267 |
| Dunstable, Riding to | 135 |
| Durfey (T.) | 169, 208, 210 |
| Durfey the Younger | 251 |
| Fair Kitty, beautiful and young (Tune) | 251 |
| Ferrabosco (Alfonso) | 29 |
| Forked Order, The Dub’d Knight of the | 125 |
| “Four and twentieth day of May, The” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 183 |
| Four-Legg’d Elder, The (Sir John Birkenhead, Bagford Ballads, iii. 57) | 118 |
| Fryar and Boye, The (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50 | 51 |
| Fryer and the Maid, The | 187 |
| Fumbler, The Old | 167 |
| Gaberlunzie Man, The (James V. Scotland, b. 1542) | 1 |
| Gallant Schemers Petition, The (Musical Miscellany, 1731) | 238 |
| Gather your rosebuds (Tune) | 118 |
| Green Grow the Rashes, O (b. 1796) | 261 |
| Gramachree (Tune) | 274 |
| “Gudewife when your gude man’s frae hame” (b. 1796) | 256 |
| Haddington, Earl of | 242 |
| Harleian MS | 103 |
| Harlot, The high priz’d (or The Penurious Quaker) | 216 |
| “Hee that hath no mistresse” (1610) | 34 |
| Help House of Commons, House of Peers (Refrain) | 118 |
| “Her dainty palm I gently prest” (Marrow of Complements, 1685) | 159 |
| Horrible relation of a dog (or Four legg'd elder) | 118 |
| “I a tender young maid have been courted by many” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 194 |
| “I am a young Lass of Lynn” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 199 |
| I am fallen away (Tune) | 125 |
| I cannot tell what to do (Refrain) | 199 |
| I cannot, winnot, monnot buckle too (Refrain) | 169 |
| “I dreamed my Loue lay in her bed” (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 80 |
| I ha’e laid a herrin’ in sa’t (Tune) | 259 |
| “I have a tenement to let” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719) | 218 |
| I’ll tell you . . . how this knave serv’d me (Refrain) | 179 |
| “I owed my hostess thirty pounds” (c. 1720) | 224 |
| I pr'ythee now hear me, dear Molly (Refrain) | 238 |
| “I Rede you beware o' the Ripples young man” (R. Burns, b. 1796) | 253 |
| “I went to the Alehouse as an honest woman should” (1707) | 179 |
| “I will fly into your arms” (c. 1720) | 225 |
| “In a May morninge I mett sweet nursse” (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 77 |
| “It was a Lady of the North she lov'd a Gentleman” (1616, Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 230) | 41 |
| “It was a puritanicall ladd” (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 73 |
| “It was in June” (Westminster Drollery, 1672) | 148 |
| James V. of Scotland | 1, 5 |
| Jenny beguil'd the Webster (Tune) | 240 |
| “Jenny sits up i' the laft” (b. 1796) | 265 |
| Jocky Mac Gill (Tune) | 267 |
| John Anderson my Jo (Tune) | 256 |
| Jolly Beggar, The (James V. of Scotland, b. 1542) | 5 |
| Jovial Companions, The (Bagford Ballads, i. 88) | 85 |
| Joviall Pedler, The (1637–9, Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 184) | 96 |
| Kind-hearted Creature, The (1630, Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 166–7) | 89 |
| Ladies of London (Tune) | 160 |
| Lass o' Liviston (b. 1796) | 254 |
| Lass of Lynn’s Sorrowful Lamentation, The (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 199 |
| Lass with the velvet a—se, The (c. 1710) | 214 |
| Late Dialogue between Captain Low and his friend Dick (Robertson of Struan, b. 1749). | 244 |
| “Let the world run its course of capricious delight” (Earl of Haddington, b. 1735) | 242 |
| Leveridge (R.) | 175 |
| Little o’ th’one with t’other (Refrain) | 137 |
| “Lusty Young Smith at his vice stood a filing, A” (1705, Pills to Purge Melancholy [1707], ii. 198) | 175 |
| Lynn, The Lass of | 199 |
| Maid and a younge man, A (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 75 |
| “Maid, I dare not tell her name, A” (b. 1800) | 279 |
| Maid of Tottenham, The (Choyce Drollery, 1666) | 109 |
| Maids have you any Cony, Cony skins (Refrain) | 96 |
| Maid’s Lesson, The (c. 1710) | 212 |
| Maiden’s Delight (1661, Merry Drollery) | 137 |
| “Man and a younge maid that loued, A” (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 75 |
| Man he lay whopping, The (Refrain) | 75 |
| Man’s Yard, A (Rawlinson MS., 1600–20) | 10 |
| Marrow of Complements | 159 |
| May morninge, In a | 77 |
| Melismata (1611) | 40 |
| Merry Drollery (1661) | 41, 80, 116, 133, 135, 137, 140, 142 |
| Merry Muses of Caledonia | 253, 254, 256, 257, 259, 261, 263, 264, 266, 267, 269, 272, 274 |
| “Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long” (Earl of Dorset, c. 1676) | 157 |
| Miles (A.) | 125 |
| Modern Prophets, The | 208 |
| Modiewark has done me ill, The (b. 1796) | 272 |
| Mother beguil'd the daughter, The (Tune) | 89 |
| Musical Miscellany | 228, 230, 236, 238 |
| “My friend thy beauty seemeth good” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719) | 216 |
| “My Mistress is a hive of bees in yonder flow'ry garden” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 206 |
| “My pretty maid fain would I know” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 204 |
| My thing is my own (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 194 |
| Nameless Maiden, The (b. 1800) | 279 |
| Narcissus, come kiss us (Rawlinson MS., c. 1610–50) | 37 |
| Nash his Dildo (Thomas Nash, Rawlinson and Petyt MSS., b. 1601) | 13 |
| Nash (Thomas) | 13 |
| O for ane and twenty, Tam (Tune) | 272 |
| O gie my love brose, lasses (Refrain) | 264 |
| “O jolly Robin hold thy hande” (Percy Folio MS., 1620–50) | 47 |
| “O Mither dear I gin to fear” (Orpheus Caledonius, 1753) | 240 |
| O never went Wimble in Timber more nimble (Refrain) | 140 |
| “O wat ye ought of Fisher Meg” (b. 1796) | 261 |
| Off a Puritane (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 73 |
| “Oh mother, Roger with his kisses” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 186 |
| Oh! to Bed to me, to Bed to me (Refrain) | 152 |
| Old Fumbler, The (b. 1695) | 167 |
| Old Wanton Lady, The (Dub'd Knight of the forked order, 1660–77, Roxburgh Ballads, ii. 114) | 125 |
| “On Wednesday in the afternoon” (b. 1800) | 276 |
| Orpheus Caledonius, see Thomson (W.) | 240 |
| Our John’s Brak Yestreen (b. 1796) | 274 |
| Oyster Nan, As | 177 |
| Pack, Mr. | 208 |
| “Pardon, sweete flower of machles poesye” (Nash, b. 1601) | 15 |
| Patriarch, The (b. 1796) | 257 |
| “Pauky auld carle cam ovir the lee, The” (Gaberlunzie Man, James V. of Scotland, b. 1542) | 1 |
| Pedler, Joviall, The | 96 |
| Pedlar Proud, The (c. 1750, Roxburgh Ballad, ii. 656) | 247 |
| “Peggy in devotion, bred from tender years” (T. Durfey, c. 1710) | 210 |
| Penurious Quaker, The (c. 1719, Pills to Purge Melancholy) | 216 |
| Percy Folio MS. (c. 1620–50) | 26, 47, 49, 51, 71, 73, 75, 77, 80, 82, 84 |
| Petyt MS. (b. 1601) | 13 |
| Pills to Purge Melancholy (1707) | 175, 179, 183, 186, 188, 192, 194, 197, 199, 202, 204, 206 |
| Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719) | 85, 109, 118, 152, 157, 169, 171, 177, 180, 208, 210, 216, 218, 220 |
| Playford (J.) (Choyce Ayres) | 157 |
| Pleasant Garland, Ane (b. 1800) | 275, 277, 279 |
| “Ploughman he's a bonnie lad, The” (b. 1796) | 269 |
| Popular Music of the Olden Time (Chappell) | 26, 89, 113, 189 |
| Presbyterian Wedding, The (Musical Miscellany, 1729) | 236 |
| Price (Laurence) | 105 |
| Purcell (Henry) | 167, 169 |
| Puritan, A (Merry Drollery, 1661) | 133 |
| Puritane, Off a (Percy Folio MS., 1620–50) | 73 |
| Quaker, The Penurious | 216 |
| Rattle, The (1766) | 251 |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | 40 |
| Rawlinson MS. (1600–50) | 10, 13, 35, 37 |
| Reed me a ridle: what is this (Rawlinson MS., c. 1600-20) | 10 |
| “Riding by the way, As I was” | 71 |
| Riding to London on Dunstable way (Merry Drollery, 1661) | 135 |
| Robertson of Struan | 244 |
| Room for a Jovial Tinker: Old Brass to Mend (c. 1616, Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 230) | 41 |
| “Rosebery to his lady says” (b. 1796) | 266 |
| Roxburgh Ballads | 31, 41, 89, 96, 105, 125, 160, 163, 247 |
| Sad Disaster, The, (Durfey the Younger, 1766) | 251 |
| Sally in our Alley (Tune) | 228 |
| School Master's Lesson, The (c. 1720) | 225 |
| Scotch Parson's Daughter, The (T. Durfey, c. 1710) | 210 |
| Sharpe (C. Kirkpatrick) | 275 |
| “She lay up to the navel bare” (Tune 116) | 131 |
| “She lay all naked in her bed” (Wit & Drollery, 1656) | 116 |
| Sheeles (J.) | 238 |
| Silent Flute, The (S. Bolton, 1720) | 228 |
| Sing Boyes, Drink Boyes (Refrain) | 89 |
| Sing trolly lolly (Refrain) | 192 |
| Sing, Stow the Fryer (Refrain) | 197 |
| “Smug rich and fantastic old Fumbler was known” (b. 1695) | 167 |
| “So merrily singeth the nightengale” (c. 1750, Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 656) | 247 |
| So old, so old, so wondrous old | 125 |
| “Spinning Wheel, As I sat at my” | 180 |
| “Story, strange I will you tell, A” (Choyce Drollery, 1656) | 113 |
| “Supper is na Ready” (b. 1796) | 267 |
| Surprised Nymph, The (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 183 |
| Taylor’s faun thro’ the bed (Tune) | 253 |
| Tell me mother, pray, now do (Refrain) | 186 |
| “Tell me, thou source of scandal, Dick” (b. 1740 Robertson of Struan) | 244 |
| Tenement to let, A (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719) | 218 |
| “That God that dyed for vs all and drank both vinegar etc.” (Percy Folio MS., 1620–50) | 51 |
| Then she sang down a down (Refrain) | 31 |
| “There dwelt a man in Lanrickshire” (b. 1800) | 277 |
| “There liv’d a Wife in Whistle-cock-pen” (b. 1796) | 259 |
| “There was a buxom lass” (c. 1710) | 214 |
| “There was a cooper they ca’d him Cuddy” (b. 1796) | 263 |
| “There wasa jolly beggar, and a begging he was born” (James V. of Scotland, b. 1542) | 5 |
| “There was a joviall pedler” (1637–9, Roxburgh Ballads, iii. 184) | 96 |
| “There was a Lady in this land” (Merry Drollery, 1661) | 142 |
| “There was a lass in Cumberland” (c. 1674–80) | 152 |
| “There was an old woman liv’d under a hill” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 192 |
| “There was three Birds that built very low” (Merry Drollery, 1661) | 140 |
| “There was three Travellers, Travellers three” (c. 1630, Bagford Ballads, i. 88) | 85 |
| This way, that way, which way you will (Refrain) | 171 |
| “Thomas vntyed his points apace” (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 26 |
| “Thomas you cannott” (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 26 |
| Thomson (W.) [Orpheus Caledonius] | 240 |
| Three Merry Travellers (c. 1630, Bagford Ballads, i. 88) | 85 |
| Tinker, The (Merry Drollery, 1661) | 142 |
| To fall down, down, derry down (Refrain) | 109 |
| “Tom and William with Ned and Ben” (Roxburgh Ballads, ii. 136–7) | 163 |
| “Tom Tinker’s my true love, and I am his dear” (c. 1698) | 171 |
| “To play upon a viol if a virgin will begin” (c. 1710) | 212 |
| Trooper Watering his Nagg, The (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) | 192 |
| Turnep Ground, The (c. 1720) | 224 |
| “Twa neebour wives sat in the sun” (b. 1796, Burns) | 274 |
| “’Twas a Lady born of high degree” (1660–77, Roxburgh Ballads, ii. 114–5) | 125 |
| “’Twas within a Furlong of Edinborough town” (Durfey, 1697, Pills to Purge Melancholy) | 169 |
| “Upon a certain day when Mars and Venus met together” (Rawlinson MS., 1610–20) | 35 |
| “Venus, Mars, and Cupid” (Rawlinson MS., 1610–20) | 35 |
| Wanton Virgins Frighted, The (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719) | 220 |
| Westminster Drollery | 148 |
| When first Amyntas su'd for a kiss (Tune) | 202 |
| When Phœbus address't himselfe to the West (Percy Folio MS., c. 1620–50) | 49 |
| White Thighs (b. 1735) | 242 |
| Who is to marry me (b. 1609) | 29 |
| Willie Steenson (b. 1800) | 277 |
| “Will ye na, can ye na let me be?” (b. 1796) | 259 |
| Willing Lover, The (Wit & Drollery, 1661) | 131 |
| Wit and Drollery | 96, 103, 116, 131 |
| With a dildo (Refrain) | 113 |
| With a down … up and down (Refrain) | 230 |
| With a hey ho, hey, derry derry down (Refrain) | 41 |
| With a Humbledum, Grumbledum (Refrain) | 204 |
| With a rub … in and out, in and out ho (Refrain) | 175 |
| Without ever a stiver of money (Refrain) | 85 |
| “Would you have a young Virgin of fifteen years” (T. Durfey, I709) | 208 |
| “Yonder comes a courteous Knight” (Roxburgh Ballads, ii. 281) | 31 |
| Yorkshire Tale, A (Musical Miscellany, 1729) | 230 |
| “You that delight in a jocular song” (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719) | 220 |
| Young Man of late, A (Merry Drollery, 1661) | 137 |
| “Younge and simple though I am” (b. 1609) | 29 |