c. Roxburghe, III, 204, in Ebsworth, Roxburghe Ballads, VI, 408.
March 19, 1611, there were entered to Richard Jones, “Captayne Jenninges his songe, whiche he made in the Marshalsey,” etc., and “the second parte of the George Aloo and the Swiftestake, beinge both ballades:” Arber, III, 456. The second part of the George Aloo must needs mean a second ballad, not the printers’ second half (which begins in c at the stanza here numbered 14). In ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen,’ printed in 1634, and perhaps earlier, the Jailer’s Daughter sings the two following stanzas (Dyce, XI, 386):
The George Alow came from the south,
From the coast of Barbary-a,
And there he met with brave gallants of war,
By one, by two, by three-a.
Well haild, well haild, you jolly gallants,
And whither now are you bound-a?
Oh, let me have your company