OLD SONGS [Illustration] OLD SONGS WITH DRAWINGS BY EDWIN A · ABBEY & ALFRED PARSONS NEW YORK · HARPER & BROTHERS · PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS · FRANKLIN SQUARE · M DCCC LXXXIX _COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY_ _HARPER & BROTHERS_. _All Rights Reserved._ [Illustration: Contents] _PAGE_ _A Love Song_ _1_ “_Why canst Thou not, as Others do_” _15_ “_With Jockey to the Fair_” _19_ “_Sweet Nelly, my Heart’s Delight_” _27_ “_What hap had I to Marry a Shrow_” _33_ _The Leather Bottèl_ _37_ _Never Love Thee More_ _49_ “_Here’s to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen_” _53_ _Barbara Allen_ _57_ _Perigot and Cuddy’s Roundelay_ _67_ _Sally in Our Alley_ _73_ “_Early One Morning_” _85_ _Kitty of Coleraine_ _89_ _Old King Cole_ _97_ _Harvest Home_ _101_ _Down in Cupid’s Garden_ _107_ _Phillada Flouts Me_ _111_ [Illustration] [Illustration: A LOVE SONG] [Illustration] [Illustration] _A LOVE SONG._ BY GEORGE WITHER. I lov’d a lasse, a faire one, As faire as e’er was seene; She was, indeed, a rare one, Another Sheba queen; But, foole, as then I was, I thought she lov’d me too; But, now, alasse! sh’as left me, _Falero, lero, loo_. Her haire, like gold, did glister; Each eye was like a starre; She did surpasse her sister, Which past all others farre: [Illustration] She would me hony call: She’d, oh, she’d kisse me too! But, now, alasse! sh’as left me, _Falero, lero, loo_. [Illustration] In summer-time, to Medley My love and I would goe-- The boatmen there stood readie My love and I to rowe; For creame there would we call, For cakes, and for prunes too; But, now, alasse! sh’as left me, _Falero, lero, loo_. [Illustration]