In the Netherland Mariner’s Speech we find for the fifth line of verse, “_Isk_ will make thee,” _said_ he, “sole Lady,” &c. Another verse follows it, before the conclusion:— _These sundry Sutors, of seuerall Lands,_ [4] _did daily solicite this Lasse for her fauour;_ _And euery one of them alike vnderstands_ _that to win the prize they in vaine did endeauour:_ _For she had resolued_ _(as I before said)_ _To haue bonny Blew-cap,_ _or else bee a maid._ _Vnto all her suppliants_ _still replyde she,_ “Gif ever I have a man, Blew-cap for me.” _At last came a Scottish-man (with a blew-cap),_ _and he was the party for whom she had tarry’d;_ _To get this blithe bonny Lasse ’twas his gude hap,—_ _they gang’d to the Kirk, & were presently marry’d._ _I ken not weele whether_ _it were Lord or Leard;_ [Laird] _They caude him some sike_ _a like name as I heard;_ _To chuse him from au_ _She did gladly agree,—_ _And still she cride_, “Blew-cap, th’art welcome to mee.” The song is also reprinted for the Percy Society, (Fairholt’s _Costume_), xxvii. 130, as well as in Evans’ _O. Bds._, iii. 245. Compare John Cleavland’s “Square Cap,”—“Come hither, _Apollo’s_ bouncing girl.” Page 135 (orig. 30). _The Wit hath long beholden been._ In Harleian MS. No. 6931, where it is signed as by DR. W. STRODE. The tune of this is “The Shaking of the Sheets,” according to a broadside printed for John Trundle (1605-24, before 1628, as by that date we believe his widow’s name would have been substituted). We find it reprinted by J. P. Collier in his _Book of Roxburghe Ballads_, p. 172, 1847, as “The Song of the Caps.” In an introductory note, we gather that “This spirited and humorous song seems to have been founded, in some of its points, upon the ‘Pleasant Dialogue or Disputation between the Cap and the Head,’ which prose satire went through two editions, in 1564 and 1565: (see the Bridgewater Catalogue, p. 46.) It is, however, more modern, and certainly cannot be placed earlier than the end of the reign of Elizabeth. It may be suspected that it underwent some changes, to adapt it to the times, when it was afterwards reprinted; and we finally meet with it, but in a rather corrupted state, in a work published in 1656, called ‘Sportive Wit: the Muses Merriment, a new Spring of Lusty Drollery,’ &c.” [p. 23.] It appears, with the music, in _Pills_, iv. 157; in Percy Society’s “Costume,” 1849, 115, with woodcuts of several of the caps mentioned. In _Sportive Wit_, 1656, p. 23, is a second verse (coming before “The Monmouth Cap,” &c.):—