62. AT THE SETTING OF THE SUN. This very curious ballad has been taken down twice, from Samuel Fone by Mr. Sheppard, and again by Mr. Cecil Sharp from the singing of Louie Hooper and Lucy White at Hambridge, Somerset, to a different air. Fone had forgotten portions of the song. The man who mistakes his true love for a swan because she had thrown her apron over her head as a protection from the rain is tried at the assizes for the murder-- "In six weeks' time when the 'sizes came on, Young Polly appeared in the form of a swan, Crying Jimmy, young Jimmy, young Jimmy is clear, He never shall be hung for the shooting of his dear." And he is, of course, acquitted. In Fone's version she appears in dream to her lover as a swan, and comforts him, but the sequel of the story he could not recall. The ballad is found in a fragmentary condition in Kent-- "O cursed be my uncle for lendin' of a gun. For I've bin' and shot my true love in the room of a swan." And the apparition of the girl says-- "With my apron tied over me, I 'peared like unto a swan, And underneath the green tree while the showers did come on." This was heard in 1884, sung by a very old man at a harvest supper at Haverstall Doddington, near Faversham. The transformation of the damsel into a swan stalking into the Court is an early feature, and possibly the ballad may be a degraded form of a very ancient piece. This ballad, arranged as a song with accompaniment by Mr. Ferris Tozer, has been published by Messrs. Weeks. Mr. Sharp has given the song to a different air in his "Folk-Songs from Somerset," No. 16. 63. ALL JOLLY FELLOWS THAT FOLLOW THE PLOUGH. This song is very generally known. We have picked up four variants of the tune. Miss Broadwood gives one from Oxfordshire and one from Hampshire, but hers lack the chorus. Mr. C. Sharp has also gathered three. He says: "I find that almost every singer knows it, the bad singers often know but little else. Perhaps it is for this reason that the tune is very corrupt, the words are almost always the same." In the second verse we have the breakfast described as consisting of bread and cheese and stingo. In Miss Broadwood's version the breakfast consists of cold beef and pork; the drink is not specified. 64. THE GOLDEN VANITY. Taken down, words and air, from James Oliver. The ballad was printed as "Sir Walter Raleigh sailing in the Lowlands, showing how the famous ship called the _Sweet Trinity_ was taken by a false galley; and how it was recovered by the craft of a little sea-boy, who sunk the galley," by Coles, Wright, Vere, and Conyers (1648-80). In this it is said that the ballad is to be sung "to the tune of The Lowlands of Holland," and in it there is ingratitude shown to the poor sea-boy of a severe character. In this version there are fourteen verses. It begins--