a. A broadside in the Roxburghe Ballads, III, 685, entered in the catalogue, doubtfully, as of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1720. b. A recent stall-copy, Catnach, 2 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials.

1

There was seven gypsies all in a gang,

They were brisk and bonny; O

They rode till they came to the Earl of Castle’s house,

And there they sang most sweetly. O

2

The Earl of Castle’s lady came down,

With the waiting-maid beside her;

As soon as her fair face they saw,