11^1. our lee. 11^2. under her obey. 13^2. Frenchman. 14^2. is it. 15^2. I, and we are Frenchmen and war. 16^2. strike down. 17^2. He made: heart. 18^2. strook. 19^1. brave Englishmen. 19^2. brethen on shore. _Burden^2._ As they sayled into Barbary. 23^1. greives. 23^2. swim along. =c.= 4^2. or whither. 7^1. Englishman. 7^2. sayle. 14^2. whither are you. 16^2. rogue. 17^2. hearts. 18^2. struck their. 19^2. brethren on shore. _Burden^2._ sayled in. 21^2. Then the. _Variations otherwise as in_ =b=. FOOTNOTES: [101] There is an entry, July 31, 1590, of A Ditty of the fight upon the seas the fourth of June last in the Straits of Gibraltar between the George and the Thomas Bonaventure and eight galleys with three frigates (Arber, II, 557), but it is likely that there were Georges many, and only one George Aloe. Mr Ebsworth has pointed out that a ballad called The Sailor’s Joy, the name of the tune to which ‘The George Aloe and the Sweepstake’ was to be sung, was entered in the Stationers’ Registers, January 14, 1595: Arber, II, 669. 286 THE SWEET TRINITY (THE GOLDEN VANITY) =A.= ‘Sir Walter Raleigh sailing in the Low-lands,’ etc., Pepys Ballads, IV, 196, No 189 (1682-85). =B. a.= ‘The Goulden Vanitie,’ Logan’s Pedlar’s Pack, p. 42; Mrs Gordon’s Memoir of John Wilson, II, 317. =b.= As sung by Mr G. Du Maurier, sent me by J. R. Lowell, =c.= ‘The French Galley,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 420. =d.= Communicated by Mrs Moncrieff, of London, Ontario. =e.= ‘The Lowlands Low,’ Findlay MSS, I, 161. =f.= Sharpe’s Ballad Book, 1880, p. 160, notes of Sir Walter Scott. =C. a.= ‘Golden Vanity, or, The Low Lands Low,’ Pitts, Seven Dials, in Logan’s Pedlar’s Pack, p. 45; Ebsworth, Roxburghe Ballads, VI, 419. =b.= ‘The Lowlands Low,’ Long, Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, p. 145. =c.= ‘Low in the Lowlands Low,’ Christie, I, 238. =d.= ‘The Golden Vanity,’ Baring-Gould and Sheppard,’Songs of the West,’ No 64. =e.= ‘The French Gallio,’ ‘The French Gallolee,’ Buchan MSS, II, 390, 414. =f.= ‘The Turkish Galley,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 392, and Note-Book, p. 50. =g.= ‘The Lowlands Low,’ Macmath MS., p. 80. =A= also in Euing, No 334, Crawford, No 1073, Huth, II, No 134; all by the same printer, 1682-85. Motherwell enters the first stanza of another copy of ‘The Turkish Galley’ in his Note-Book, p. 10, and refers to three copies more, besides =B d=, at p. 51. There is a retouched copy of =C= in English County Songs, Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland, p. 182. =B=, =C=, are probably traditional variations of the broadside =A=. The conclusion of the broadside is sufficiently inadequate to impel almost any singer to attempt an improvement, and a rather more effective catastrophe is the only signal difference besides names. It is, however, not quite impossible that the ultimate source of the traditional copies may be as old as the broadside.