—You can not say that of your velvett and silke.”
So the mad jailor’s daughter in Fletcher’s and Shakespeare’s “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”
She says: “Is not this a fine song?”
Brother: “Oh, a very fine one!”
Daughter: “I can say twenty more, I can sing The Broom and Bonny Robin.”
And she begins to troll “Oh fair! oh sweet!” etc.
Unhappily the authors of this play did not write out the song, as it was too well known to require transcription, and now it is lost. So also are those she sings in another scene.
“The George alow came from the South,
From the Coast of Barbary-a!