Content Description | Text conists of eleven 9-line verses; refrain omitted.
The song is ascribed to Thomsa D'Urfey in the 1699 edition of 'Wit and Mirth', pp 7-10.
Instruction that it should be sung 'To the tune of, From Hunger & cold, Or Packington's Pound'; tune 'From Hunger and Cold' is distinct from 'Packington's Pound', though the two are interchangeable and are listed together as alternate tunes for a few ballads (Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and its Music, pp 244-25, 564-70). |