poet overhears a lady and her
father's apprentice a-courting in "Cubeck's Garden." The angry parent
banishes the lad, who goes to sea, is promoted, draws forty thousand
pounds in a lottery, returns and marries his fair love.

WILLIAM HALL, ii, 4abcb, 11ca: He is a young farmer of "Domesse-town"
and loves a "gay young lady" of "Pershelvy-town" against her parents'
wishes. Banished by them to sea, he returns, finds by a ruse that the
lady is yet faithful, and marries her.

ROSANNA, 4aabb, 6ca (fragmentary): Silimentary, the lover, bids Rosanna
farewell, and is later lost at sea; at the news she stabs herself with a
silver dagger.

MARY OF THE WILD MOOR, 3ab4c3b, 8: She, with her babe, returns one
winter night to her father's door to seek forgiveness and protection, is
rebuffed by him, and perishes in the snow.

BETSY BROWN, 4aabb, 8: John loves Betsy, the waiting-maid; his old
mother objects and packs her off across the sea. He dies of grief.

THE ROMISH LADY, 6aabb (or 3abcb), 12 (or 24): "Brought up in popery,"
she obtains a Bible and turns Protestant, is tried before the Pope, is
condemned, bids farewell to mother, father, and tormentors, and is
burned at the stake.

III.

_The songs of this group are connected more or less closely with
American colonial times. For most of them it is fair to infer a British
origin._

[TO AMERICA], ii, 4aabb, 8ca: An [English] sailor, bound for America to
serve his King, is forgotten by his sweetheart. Returning to her
father's hall, he finds her married, and vows to return to Charlestown,
where cannon-balls are flying.

THE SILK MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER, 2aa, 17: A London lad and his sweetheart
set sail for America. The ship springs a leak, the passengers drift in a
long-boat. Lot falls to the girl to be slain, her lover takes her place.
A passing ship carries them back to London, and they are married.

THE PRETTY MOHEE (MAUMEE), iii, 4aabb, 7: An Indian maid falls in love
with a young adventurer and wooes him. He tells her he must return to
his love across the sea. This he does, but dissatisfied returns to the
"pretty Mohee."

SWEET JANE. 4a3b4c3b, 12: Her lover sails for America "to dig the golden
ore," "loads up" his trunk with it, and after many trials reaches home,
across the main, and reclaims his bride.

IV.

_The songs of this group find their common bond in their reference to
Ireland, where some of them undoubtedly had their origin._

IRISH MOLLY O, 6aabb and