ughter of a rich London
merchant, loves Felix contrary to her father's wishes. Going into the
garden she drinks poison. Felix arrives and drains the rest of the
potion. Both are buried in one grave.

BENEATH THE ARCH OF LONDON BRIDGE, 4a3b4c3b and 4aaaa, 5ca: Here a man,
whose son has recently died, finds a waif. Struck by his resemblance to
his own heir, he adopts the orphan boy.

JACK WILSON, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 9: The confession of Jack Wilson, a Thames
boatman, awaiting execution in Newgate prison for robbery done in
Katherine Street, and his denunciation of the "false deluding girl" for
whose sake he had done the wrong.

THE OLD WOMAN OF LONDON, 3abcb, 6: She causes her husband to suck two
magic marrowbones, which blind him; then leading him to the river, she
essays to push him in to drown. But he steps aside, and she dies in his
stead. The refrain is:

Sing tidri-i-odre-erdri-um,
Sing fol-de-ri-o-day!

THE GOLDEN GLOVE, ii, 4aabb, 9: A mariner's daughter, about to be
married to a young squire of London, feigns illness, goes a-hunting on
the estate of her favored lover, a farmer, intentionally drops her
glove, and vows she will marry only the man who can return it. Of
course, the farmer is the lucky finder.

SHEARFIELD, 3abcb, 15: An apprentice in Sheffield recites his running
away to London, where he enters the service of an Irish Lady, who falls
in love with him. He, however, cares only for Polly Girl, her maid. His
jealous mistress, by a stratagem, causes him to be hanged for theft.

FAIR NOTAMON [NOTTINGHAM] TOWN, 4aabb, 7: An absurd recital, full of
obvious contradictions, of a countryman's visit to the city, where he
sees the royal progress:

I called for a quart to drive gladness away
To stifle the dust--it had rained the whole day.

LOVELY CAROLINE OF OLD EDINBORO (EDDINGSBURG TOWN), ii, 3abcb, 9: She
weds young Henry, "a Highland man," and goes with him to London.
Deserted by him, she wanders forlorn to a sea-cliff and plunges in, to
drown.

WHO'LL BE KING BUT CHARLIE?, metre as below, 3: A rally-song upon the
landing of Charles Stuart, The Young Pretender, at Mordart, in
Inverness-shire, July, 1745, beginning:

There's news from Mordart came yestreen,
Will soon yastremony (sic) ferly,
For ships o'er all have just come in
And landed royal Charlie.

(Published by Shearin, Sewanee Review, July, 1911, p. 323.)

CUBECK'S [CUPID'S] GARDEN, 3abcb, 16: The