T. R. Planché wrote a parody to the same tune, in his “Golden Fleece,” on the “Fine Young Grecian Gentleman,” Iason, as described by his deserted wife Medea: it begins, “I’ll tell you a sad tale of the life I’ve been led of late.” In Dinny Blake’s “_Sprig of Shillelah_,” p. 3, is found “The Rale Ould Irish Gintleman,” (5 verses) beginning, “I’ll sing you a dacent song, that was made by a Paddy’s pate,” and ending thus:— _Each Irish boy then took a pride to prove himself a man,_ _To serve a friend, and beat a foe it always was the plan_ _Of a rale ould Irish Gintleman, the boy of the olden time._ (Or, as Wm. Hy. Murray, of Edinburgh, used to say, in his unequalled “Old Country Squire,” “A smile for a friend, a frown for a foe, and a full front for every one!”) At the beginning of the Crimean War appeared another parody, ridiculing the Emperor Nicholas, as “The Fine Old Russian Gentleman” (it is in Berger’s _Red, White, and Blue_, 467); and clever Robert B. Brough, in one of his more bitter moods against “The Governing Classes,” misrepresented the “Fine Old English Gentleman” (_Ibid._, p. 733), as splenetically as Charles Dickens did in _Barnaby Rudge_, chapter 47. Page 20 (original). Pan _leave piping, &c._ Given already, in our Appendix to the _Westminster Drollery_, p. liv., with note of tune and locality. See Additional Note in Part 3 of present Appendix. Page 129 (orig. 26). _Why should we boast of ~Arthur~, &c._ There are so many differences in the version printed in the _Antidote agt. Melancholy_ from that already given in _Merry Drollery, Compleat_, p. 309, (cp. Note, p. 399), that we give the former uncurtailed. Along with the music in _Pills to p. Mel._, iii. 116, 1719, are the extra verses (also in _Wit and Mirth_, 1684, p. 29?) agreeing with the _Antidote_; as does the version in _Old Bds._, i. 24, 1723. Another old ballad, in the last-named collection, p. 153, is upon “King Edward and Jane Shore; in Imitation, and to the Tune of, St. _George_ and the _Dragon_.” It begins (in better version):— _Why should we boast of ~Lais~ and her knights,_ _Knowing such Champions entrapt by Whorish Lights?_ _Or why should we speak of ~Thais~ curled Locks,_ _Or ~Rhodope~, &c._ Roxb. Coll., iii. 258, printed in 1671. Also in _Pills_, with music, iv. 272. The authorship of it is ascribed to SAMUEL BUTLER, in the volume assuming to be his “Posthumous Works” (p. iii., 3rd edition, 1730); but this ascription is of no weight in general. In Edm. Gayton’s _Festivous Notes upon Don Quixot_, 1654, p. 231, we read:—“’Twas very proper for these Saints to alight at the sign of St. _George_, who slew the Dragon which was to prey upon the Virgin: The truth of which story hath been abus’d by his own country-men, who almost deny all the particulars of it, as I have read in a scurrilous Epigram, very much impairing the credit and Legend of St. _George_; As followeth,