Then here’s a health to thee, to thee and me,
To me and thee, to thee and me, &c.
[Page 151.] There was an Old Man at Walton Cross.
This should read “Waltham Cross.” By Richard Brome, in his comedy of “The Jovial Crew,” Act ii., 1641, wherein it is sung by Hearty, as “t’other old song for that” [the uselessness of sighing for a lass]; to the tune of “Taunton Dean,” (see Dodsley’s Old Plays, 1st edit., 1744, vi. 333). With music by John Hilton, it is given in J. H.’s Catch that Catch Can, 1652, p. 31. It is also in Walsh’s Catch Club (about 1705) ii. 17, No. 43.
[Page 151.] Come, let us cast dice, who shall drink.
In J. Hilton’s Catch that Catch Can, 1652, p. 55, with music by William Lawes; and in John Playford’s Musical Companion, 1673, p. 24.
[Page 151.] Never let a man take heavily, &c.
With music by William Lawes, in Hilton’s Catch that Catch Can, 1652, p. 38.
[Page 152.] Let’s cast away care, and merrily sing.
With music by William Lawes, in Hilton’s Catch that Catch Can, 1652, p. 37. Wm. Chappell gives the words of four lines, omitting fifth and sixth, to accompany the music of Ben Jonson’s “Cock Lorrell,” in Pop. Mus. of O. T., 161 (where date of the Antidote is accidentally misprinted 1651, for 1661).