Rhymes of Northern Bards / Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham

by Unknown

BY THOMAS WHITTLE.

Ye muses nine, if you think fit,

Instruct my pen to write.

Apollo, thou great god of wit,

Come help me to indite.

Let poets, pipers, fidlers come,

In priols,[47] or in pairs,

And echo forth, as with a drum,

The praise of Will Carstairs.[48]

Imprimus, then I will proceed