And when he came to the Lady’s Gates
He knock’d most lustily,
Then who is there the Porter said,
That knock’st thus ruggedly?
I am a Jovial Tinker, &c.
The words of a later Scottish version of “Clout the Cauldron,” beginning “Hae ye ony pots or pans, Or ony broken Chandlers?” (attributed by Allan Cunningham to one Gordon) retouched by Allan Ramsay, are in his Tea-Table Miscellany, 1724, Pt. i. (p. 96 of 17th edit., 1788.) Burns mentions a tradition that the song “was composed on one of the Kenmure family in the Cavalier time.” But the disguised wooer of the later version is repulsed by the lady. Ours is undoubtedly the earlier.
[Page 148 [230].] Upon a Summer’s day.
The music to this is given in Chappell’s Pop. Music of Olden Time [1855], p. 255, from the Dancing Master, 1650-65, and Musick’s Delight on the Cithern, 1666, where the tune bears the title “Upon a Summer’s day.” In Pepy’s Collection, vol. i. are two other songs to the same tune.
[Page 153 [Suppl. 3].] Mine own sweet honey, &c.
Evidently a parody, or “Mock” of “Come hither, my own,” &c., for which, and note, see pp. [247], [367].