_Patrico_ = a hedge-priest. Line 26. _Jarkman_ = "he that can write and reade, and sometime speake latin. He useth to make counterfaite licenses which they call gybes, and sets to seales, in their language called Jarkes. "--(HARMAN). Line 27. _Dommerar_ = a rogue pretending deaf and dumb. _Romany_ = a gipsy. Line 28. _The family_ = the fraternity of vagabonds. _"Come All You Buffers Gay"_ In the Roxburghe Collection (ii. 504) is a ballad upon which the present song is clearly based. It is called _The West Country Nymph, or the little maid of Bristol_ to the time of _Young Jemmy_ (_i.e._ the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's natural son). The first stanza runs-- Come all you maidens fair, And listen to my ditty, In Bristol city fair There liv'd a damsel pretty. _The Potato Man_ Stanza II, line 2. _Cly_ = properly pocket, but here is obviously meant the contents. Stanza IV, line 1. _Blue bird's-eye_ = a blue and silk handkerchief with white spots. _A Slang Pastoral_ Of R. Tomlinson nothing is known. The Dr. Byrom whose poem is here parodied is perhaps best remembered as the author of a once famous system of shorthand. He was born in 1691, went to the Merchant Taylor's School, and at the age of 16 was admitted a pensioner of Trinity College Cambridge. It was here that he wrote _My time, O ye muses_. He died in 1763, and his poems, no inconsiderable collection, were published in 1773. _"Ye Scamps, Ye Pads, Ye Divers"_ Stanza I, line 1. _The lay_ = a pursuit, a scheme: here = thievery and roguery in general. Stanza IV, line 4. _Like Blackamore Othello &c._--the reference is to _Othello_, v. 2. "Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then--put out the light." _The Sandman's Wedding_