2 And when John Dory to Paris was come, A little before the gate-a, John Dory was fitted, the porter was witted To let him in thereat-a. 3 The first man that John Dory did meet Was good king John of France-a; John Dory could well of his courtesie, But fell downe in a trance-a. 4 ‘A pardon, a pardon, my liege and my king, For my merie men and for me-a, And all the churles in merie England, I’le bring them all bound to thee-a.’ 5 And Nicholl was then a Cornish man, A little beside Bohide-a, And he mande forth a good blacke barke, With fiftie good oares on a side-a. 6 ‘Run vp, my boy, vnto the maine top, And looke what thou canst spie-a:’ ‘Who ho! who ho! a goodly ship I do see, I trow it be John Dory[-a.’] 7 They hoist their sailes, both top and top, The meisseine and all was tride-a, And euery man stood to his lot, What euer should betide-a. 8 The roring cannons then were plide, And dub-a-dub went the drumme-a; The braying trumpets lowde they cride To courage both all and some-a. 9 The grappling-hooks were brought at length, The browne bill and the sword-a, John Dory at length, for all his strength, Was clapt fast vnder board-a. FOOTNOTES: [100] The song “I cannot eat but little meat,” introduced into Gammer Gurton’s Needle, which was acted in 1566, was sung to ‘John Dory,’ says Mr Chappell, as above; but there is nothing to show that this was the original tune. 285 THE GEORGE ALOE AND THE SWEEPSTAKE =a.= Percy Papers, “from an ancient black-letter copy in Ballard’s collection.” =b.= Rawlinson, 566, fol. 183, 4^o. =c.= Roxburghe, III, 204, in Ebsworth, Roxburghe Ballads, VI, 408. March 19, 1611, there were entered to Richard Jones, “Captayne Jenninges his songe, whiche he made in the Marshalsey,” etc., and “the second parte of the George Aloo and the Swiftestake, beinge both ballades:” Arber, III, 456. The second part of the George Aloo must needs mean a second ballad, not the printers’ second half (which begins in =c= at the stanza here numbered 14). In ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen,’ printed in 1634, and perhaps earlier, the Jailer’s Daughter sings the two following stanzas (Dyce, XI, 386): The George Alow came from the south, From the coast of Barbary-a, And there he met with brave gallants of war, By one, by two, by three-a. Well haild, well haild, you jolly gallants, And whither now are you bound-a? Oh, let me have your company Till [I] come to the sound-a.