I have plowed in her field, who will may take her.
Part I., p. 105. Hic jacet, John Shorthose.
The music to this is in Jn. Playford’s Musical Companion, 1673, p. 34 (as also to “Here lyes a woman,” &c. See Appendix to Westm. Droll., p. lviii).
Part I., p. 106. There is not half so warm, &c.
See Choyce Drollery, 1656, [p. 61, ante]; and [p. 293], for note correcting “daily” to “dully” in ninth line.
Part II., p. 74 (App. p. lv.) As Moss caught his Mare.
Not having had space at command, when giving a short Addit. Note on p. 408 of M. D. C., we now add a nursery rhyme (we should gladly have given another, which mentions catching the mare “Napping up a tree”). Perhaps the following may be the song reported as being sung in South Devon:—
Moss was a little man, and a little mare did buy,
For kicking and for sprawling none her could come nigh;