(St. George gets wounded in the combat, and falls.)
| Doctor, Doctor, come here and see, St. George is wounded in the knee; Doctor, Doctor, play well your part. St. George is wounded in the heart! |
(The Doctor enters.)
| I am a Doctor, and a Doctor good, And with my hand I'll stop the blood. | |
| The Knight. | What can you cure, Doctor? |
| The Doctor. | I can cure coughs, colds, fevers, gout, Both pains within and aches without; I will bleed him in the thumb. |
| St. George. | O! will you so? then I'll get up and run! |
Some more Mummers or Minstrels come in, and they sing the following stanza, accompanied by the Hurdy Gourdy:—
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My father, he killed a fine fat hog, And that you may plainly see; My mother gave me the guts of the hog, To make a hurdy gourdy. |
Then they repeat the song in full chorus, and dance.
The other example is far more elaborate, and was read by J.S. Udal, Esquire, in a paper on Christmas Mummers in Dorsetshire before the Folk-lore Society, 13th April 1880. He said: "I will now proceed to give the entire rendering of the first version as it was obtained for me, some few years ago, by an old Dorsetshire lady, who is now dead, and in this the dramatis personæ are as follow:—
| "Old Father Christmas. Room. Anthony, the Egyptian King. St. George. | St. Patrick. Captain Bluster. Gracious King. General Valentine. | Colonel Spring. Old Betty. Doctor. Servant-man." |