“I see a goose ring a hog,
And a snayle that did bite a dog.
“I see a mouse catch a cat,
And the cheese to eat a rat.”
1591, 27th August. Robert Bourne obtained license to print a ballad on “A combat between a man and his wife for the breeches.” This has been often re-written.
1592, 5th Jan. Richard Jones, “The Valliant Acts of Guy of Warwick,” to the tune of “Was ever man soe tost (lost) in love?” The ballad of Guy is lost. The tune we have.
1592, 18th Jan. H. Kyrkham, “The crowe she sitteth upon a wall:” “Please one and please all.” The former is, perhaps, the original of “The crow sat in a pear-tree.” “Please one and please all” has been preserved.
1592, 21st July. John Danter, “The soules good morrowe.”
1592, 28th July. H Kyrkham, “The Nightingale’s Good-night.”
1593, 1st Oct. Stephen Peel, “Betwixt life and death,” to the tune of “Have with you into the country.”