_The Fidlers must be whipt the people say,_ _Because they sung ~the clean contrary way~;_ _Which if they be, a Crown I dare to lay_ _They then will sing ~the clean contrary way~._ _And he that did these merry Knaves betray,_ _Wise men will praise, ~the clean contrary way~:_ _For whipping them no envy can allay,_ [p. 82.] _Unlesse it be ~the clean contrary way~._ _Then if they went the Peoples tongues to stay,_ _Doubtless they went ~the clean contrary way~._ Page 134 [223]. _There was a Lady in this Land._ Re-appears in _Wit and Drollery_, 1682, p. 291 (not in the 1656 and 1661 editions), as “The Jovial Tinker,” but with variations throughout, so numerous as to amount to absolute re-casting, not by any means an improvement: generally the contrary. Here are the second and following verses, of _Wit and Drollery_ version:— _But she writ a letter to him,_ _And seal’d it with her hand,_ _And bid him become a Tinker_ _To clout both pot and pan._ _And when he had the Letter,_ _Full well he could it read;_ _His Brass and eke his Budget,_ [p. 292.] _He streight way did provide,_ _His Hammer and his Pincers_ _And well they did agree_ _With a long Club on his Back_ _And orderly came he._ _And when he came to the Lady’s Gates_ _He knock’d most lustily,_ _Then who is there the Porter said,_ _That knock’st thus ruggedly?_ _I am a Jovial Tinker, &c._ The words of a later Scottish version of “Clout the Cauldron,” beginning “Hae ye ony pots or pans, Or ony broken Chandlers?” (attributed by Allan Cunningham to one Gordon) retouched by Allan Ramsay, are in his _Tea-Table Miscellany_, 1724, Pt. i. (p. 96 of 17th edit., 1788.) Burns mentions a tradition that the song “was composed on one of the Kenmure family in the Cavalier time.” But the disguised wooer of the later version is repulsed by the lady. Ours is undoubtedly the earlier. Page 148 [230]. _Upon a Summer’s day._ The music to this is given in Chappell’s _Pop. Music of Olden Time_ [1855], p. 255, from the _Dancing Master_, 1650-65, and _Musick’s Delight on the Cithern_, 1666, where the tune bears the title “Upon a Summer’s day.” In Pepy’s Collection, vol. i. are two other songs to the same tune. Page 153 [Suppl. 3]. _Mine own sweet honey, &c._ Evidently a parody, or “Mock” of “Come hither, my own,” &c., for which, and note, see pp. 247, 367. Second Part of _Merry Drollery_, 1661. Page 22 [235]. _You that in love, &c._ A different version of this same song, only half its length, in four-line stanzas, had appeared in J. Cotgrave’s _Wit’s Interpreter_, 1655, p. 124. It is also in the 1671 edition, p. 229; and in _Wit and Drollery_, 1682 edit., 287, entitled “The Tobacconist.” We prefer the briefer version, although bound to print the longer one; bad enough, but not nearly so gross as another On Tobacco, in _Jovial Drollery_, 1656, beginning “When I do smoak my nose with a pipe of Tobacco.”