Mr Macmath notes for me that Swift, in The Tale of a Tub (written about 1696), having associated Dryden's Hind and Panther with Tom Thumb, Whittington and his Cat, and other "prime productions of our society," adduces Tommy Potts as "another piece, supposed by the same hand, by way of supplement to the former:" Scott's edition, XI, 72.
The message to Strawberry Castle occurs also in No 65, D, E, F, and No 87 C.
B is translated by Bothe, p. 315.
A
Percy MS., p. 409; Hales and Furnivall, III, 135.
1 All you lords of Scottland ffaire,
And ladyes alsoe, bright of blee,
There is a ladye amongst them all,
Of her report you shall heare of me.
2 Of her bewtye shee is soe bright,
And of her colour soe bright of blee;
Shee is daughter to the Lord Arrndell,
His heyre apparrant ffor to bee.
3 'I'le see that bryde,' Lord Phenix sayes,
'That is a ladye of hye degree,
And iff I like her countenance well,
The heyre of all my land shee'st bee.'