SONGS. 119

 

CXCVII.

[The music to the following song, with different words, is given in “ Melismata,”
4to, Lond. 1611. See also the ‘¢ Pills to Purge Melancholy,” 1719, voli., p.14. The
well-known song, ‘A Frog he would a-woving go,” appears to have been borrowed
from this. See Dauney’s “Ancient Scottish Melodies,” 1838, p. 53. The story is of
old date, and in 1580 there was licensed ‘‘ A most strange weddinge of the frogge and
the mouse,” as appears from the books of the Stationers’ Company quoted in Warton’s
Hist. Engl. Poet., ed. 1840, vol. iii., p. 360.]

THERE was a frog lived in a well,
Kitty alone, Kitty alone;
There was a frog lived in a well;

Kitty alone and I!

There was a frog lived in a well,

And a farce* mouse in a mill,

Cock me cary, Kitty alone,
Kitty alone and If.

This frog he would a-wooing ride,
Kitty alone, &c.

This frog he would a-wooing ride,

And ona snail he got astride,
Cock me cary, &c.

He rode till he came to my Lady Mouse Hiaii,
Kitty alone, &c.
He rode till he came to my Lady Mouse Hall,
And there he did both knock and call,
Cock me cary, &c.

* Merry.