This was written by WILLM. BROWNE, author of “Britannia’s Pastorals,” and therefore dates before 1645. See Additional Note, late in Part IV., on p. 296 of _M. D. C._ Page 149. _You Merry Poets, old boys._ Given, with music by John Hilton, in his _Catch that Catch Can_, 1652, p. 7. Also in Walsh’s _Catch-Club_, ii. 13, No. 24. Page 150. _Come, come away, to the Tavern, I say._ By Sir JOHN SUCKLING, in his unfinished tragedy “The Sad One,” Act iv. sc. 4, where it is sung by Signior Multecarni the Poet, and two of the actors; but without the final couplet, which recalls to memory Francis’s rejoinder in Henry IV., pt. i. Suckling was accustomed to introduce Shakesperian phrases into his plays, and we believe these two lines are genuine. We find the Catch, with music by John Hilton in that composer’s _Catch that Catch Can_, 1652, p. 15. (Also in Playford’s _Musical Companion_, 1673, p. 24.) Captain William Hicks has a dialogue of Two Parliamentary Troopers, beginning with the same first line, in _Oxford Drollery_, i. 21, 1671. Written before 1659, thus: _Come, come away, to the Tavern, I say,_ _Whilst we have time and leisure for to think;_ _I find our State lyes tottering of late,_ _And that e’re long we sha’n’t have time to drink._ Then here’s a health to thee, to thee and me, To me and thee, to thee and me, _&c._ Page 151. _There was an Old Man at ~Walton~ Cross._ This should read “_Waltham_ Cross.” By RICHARD BROME, in his comedy of “The Jovial Crew,” Act ii., 1641, wherein it is sung by Hearty, as “t’other old song for that” [the uselessness of sighing for a lass]; to the tune of “Taunton Dean,” (see Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, 1st edit., 1744, vi. 333). With music by John Hilton, it is given in J. H.’s _Catch that Catch Can_, 1652, p. 31. It is also in Walsh’s _Catch Club_ (about 1705) ii. 17, No. 43. Page 151. _Come, let us cast dice, who shall drink._ In J. Hilton’s _Catch that Catch Can_, 1652, p. 55, with music by William Lawes; and in John Playford’s _Musical Companion_, 1673, p. 24. Page 151. _Never let a man take heavily, &c._ With music by William Lawes, in Hilton’s _Catch that Catch Can_, 1652, p. 38. Page 152. _Let’s cast away care, and merrily sing._ With music by William Lawes, in Hilton’s _Catch that Catch Can_, 1652, p. 37. Wm. Chappell gives the words of four lines, omitting fifth and sixth, to accompany the music of Ben Jonson’s “Cock Lorrell,” in _Pop. Mus. of O. T._, 161 (where date of the _Antidote_ is accidentally misprinted 1651, for 1661). Page 152. _Hang sorrow, and cast away care._ With music by William Lawes, in Hilton’s _Catch that Catch Can_, 1652, p. 39. The words alone in _Windsor Drollery_, 140, 1672. Richard Climsall, or Climsell, has a long ballad, entitled “Joy and Sorrow Mixt Together,” which begins,