Instead of hay carts, in coaches shall ride.’
This is Mr. Chappell’s version. (English Songs, i. 327.) In Hunter’s ‘Hallamshire,’ it runs—
‘Jugg, Cis, and Nell, shall all be ladified.’
A ballad of Queen Anne’s reign represents John, the swain, as singing—
‘My heart and all’s at thy command,
And tho’ I’ve never a foot of land,
Yet six fat ewes and one milch cow,
I think, my Jug, is wealth enow.’
(Pills to Purge Melancholy, i. 293.)
[35]. In the Athenæ Oxoniensis the account of Martin Marprelate begins ‘John Penry, or Ap-Henry, that is, the son of Henry, better known by the name of Martin Marprelate, or Marpriest, &c.’ (Edit. 1813, vol. i. p. 591.)