Note 155 — Chapter XLVIII · CLARENDON AND TYRCONNEL, 1685-1686

The air of ‘Lillibullero,’ originally composed by Purcell for another song, is still whistled in Ulster under the name of ‘Protestant Boys.’ The words have been often reprinted, see Wilkin’s Political Ballads, i. 275, and (with variants) the third part of Revolution Politicks, 1733. Purcell’s music is given in the 1873 edition of Sterne’s Works, i. 93, at the end of Tristram Shandy, 2nd part, chap. iii. See also Croker’s Historical Songs of Ireland, pp. 1-11.