I cut their throates, my daughter held the pan 105 Betwixt her stumpes, wherein the bloud it ran: And then I ground their bones to powder small, And made a paste for pyes streight therewithall. Then with their fleshe I made two mighty pyes, And at a banquet, served in stately wise, 110 Before the empresse set this loathsome meat; So of her sonnes own flesh she well did eat. Myselfe bereav'd my daughter then of life, The empresse then I slewe with bloudy knife, And stabb'd the emperour immediatelie, 115 And then myself: even soe did Titus die. Then this revenge against the Moore was found; Alive they sett him halfe in the ground, Whereas he stood untill such time he starv'd: And soe God send all murderers may be serv'd. 120 101. i. e. encouraged them in their foolish humours, or fancies. P. JOHN DORY. This ballad, formerly a very great favorite, and continually alluded to in works of the 16th and 17th centuries, is found among the "Freemen's Songs of three voices" in _Deuteromelia_, 1609; also in Playford's _Musical Companion_, 1687, and for one voice in _Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy_, vol. i. 1698 and 1707. It is, however, much older than any of these books. Carew, in his _Survey of Cornwall_, 1602, p. 135, writes: "Moreover, the prowess of one Nicholas, son to a widow near Foy, is descanted upon in an old three-man's song, namely, how he fought bravely at sea with John Dory, (a Genowey, as I conjecture,) set forth by John, the French King, and, after much bloodshed on both sides, took, and slew him, in revenge of the great ravine and cruelty which he had fore committed upon the Englishmen's goods and bodies." The only King John that could be meant here is of course John II. the Good, (see v. 10,) who was taken prisoner at Poitiers, and died in 1364. No John Doria is mentioned as being in the service of John the Good.--Ritson's _Ancient Songs_, ii. 57, and Chappell's _Popular Music_, p. 67. As it fell on a holy-day, And upon 'a' holy-tide-a, John Dory bought him an ambling nag, To Paris for to ride-a. And when John Dory to Paris was come, 5 A little before the gate-a, John Dory was fitted, the porter was witted, To let him in thereat-a. The first man that John Dory did meet, Was good king John of France-a; 10 John Dory could well of his courtesie, But fell downe in a trance-a. "A pardon, a pardon, my liege and my king, For my merie men and for me-a; And all the churles in merie England, 15 Ile bring them all bound to thee-a."