Rhymes of Northern BardsTHE COCKLE PARK EWES’ RAMBLE.Reading editionChapter navigation190 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…RHYMES OF Northern Bards:LINES SENT TO THE EDITOR AND PRINTER.PREFACE.VERSES ON NORTHUMBERLAND MINSTRELSY.SONGS.WEEL MAY THE KEEL ROW.THE NEW KEEL ROW.BONNY KEEL LADDIE.THE LITTLE P.D.MA’ CANNY HINNY.DOL LI A.THE TYNE.BLACKETT’s FIELD.KIVER AWA’.BRITANNIA’S VOLUNTEERS.JOHN DIGGONS.TRAFALGAR’S BATTLE.CHESTER WELL.NEWCASTLE BEER.MY LORD ’SIZE; Or, Newcastle in an Uproar.BOB CRANKY’s ’SIZE SUNDAY.BOB CRANKY’s COMPLAINT.THE BONNY GEATSIDERS.—1805.BOB CRANKY’s ADIEU.O NO, MY LOVE, NO.DELIA’s ANSWER.THE COLLIERS RANT.WALKER PITS.THE BONNY PIT LADDIE.THE PITMAN’s REVENGE AGAINST BUONAPARTE.THE COLLIERS’ PAY WEEK.THE QUAYSIDE SHAVER.SWALWELL HOPPING.THE SANDGATE GIRL’s LAMENTATION.A curious Description of the City of Sandgate, Wrote some Years ago.THE CROW’S NEST,SONS OF THE TYNE.—1805.JESMOND MILL.PANDON DEAN.NANNY OF THE TYNE.THE BLUE BELL OF GATESHEAD.THE NEWCASTLE SIGNS.THE NEWCASTLE BELLMAN.OXYGEN GAS.THE BARDS OF THE TYNE.AN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING.THE RAREE SHOW MAN.BARBER’s NEWS: OR, Shields in an Uproar!!!SONG,A RARE CURIOSITY: OR, CROW’S NEST IN GATESHEAD. A NEW SONG.THE FRENCH INVASION.BLYTH CAMPS: Or, the Girl I left behind Me.BEAUMONT’s LIGHT HORSE.A Song in Praise of the KEELMEN VOLUNTEERS. On board the Lapwing Frigate.THE SONS OF THE TYNE: OR, British Volunteers.MARY OF THE TYNE.NEWCASTLE FAIR—October, 1811.THE NEWCASTLE BEAUTIES.SONG, On the Address of the Newcastle House of Lords, on turning out Lord North, and Mr Fox.THE ADDRESS OF SIR J. DUNCAN, AND CO.AN ELEGY, TO THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD RAVENSWORTH.LINES ON THE DEATH OF JOHN, LORD DELAVAL;THE WALLSEND RIFLE CORPS.SONG. Written on the King’s Birth-day, 1808.THE TOKEN MONGER. A SONG.The following Dialogue, in bad Prose, was overheard by the Person who now attempts it in bad Verse.FOOTY AGAIN THE WALL.THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN.A FYTTE.THE BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE.THE HUNTING OF THE CHYVIAT.THE HUNTING IN CHEVY CHASE.AN OLD SONG ON THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN.THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST; Or, Flodden Field.VERSES ON JAMES THE IVth, OF SCOTLAND. Who fell at the Battle of Flodden.THE BATTLE OF REID SQUAIR.FAIR ‘MABEL’ OF WALLINGTON.VERSESTHE BATTLE OF HUMBLEDOWN HILL.THE LAIDLEY WORM OF SPINDLESTON-HEUGH.THE FISHER LADDIE.THE KYE’s COME HOME.SONG.EPITAPH ON WILLIAM BELL, LATE A RESIDENT ON GATESHEAD FELL.AN EXCELLENT BALLAD On the Sickness, Death, and Burial, OF ECKY’s MARE;STANZAS, Addressed to Northumbria.THOMAS WHITTLE.THE MIDFORD GALLOWAY’s RAMBLE.THE INSIPIDS: OR, The Mistress with her Multitude of Man Servants.SAWNEY OGILBY’s DUEL WITH HIS WIFE.SONG ON WILLIAM CARSTAIRS, SCHOOLMASTER.THOMAS WHITTLE, HIS HUMOROUS LETTER, TO MASTER MOODY, THE RAZOR-SETTER.THE LITTLE PRIEST OF FELTON.THE FELTON GARLAND.FROM THE SWAINS OF FELTON, TO THE Shepherds of Lanthernside, Northumberland, 1787.ON THE DEPARTURE OF Mr GREY, OF FELTON, Who died on Saturday, August 12th, 1775.CARR OF ETAL.BEDLINGTON TRAGEDY. A FRAGMENT.Hotspur: A BALLAD; In the Manner of the Ancient Minstrels.LEGEND OF SEWEN SHIELDS CASTLE.The following Lines are cut on a Tombstone in Haltwhistle Church Yard, Northumberland.LINES Written at an Inn, in that very retired and romantic Part of Northumberland, the Banks of the ALLAN.LUCY GRAY OF ALLENDALE.HALTWHISTLE FAIR.ANNA OF THE TYNE.THE TYNE.THE SPRING.THE BANKS OF THE TYNE.A SONG,HOBBY ELLIOTT.THE RISING OF THE CLANS IN 1715.ON THE FIRST REBELLION.—1715.A Fragment of a Song, on the Lord of Derwentwater.VERSES On a perspective View of Dilston Hall, the Seat of the unfortunate James, Earl of Derwentwater.HEXHAM WOOD.THE LOYAL HEXHAM VOLUNTEERS.THE JOLLY PARSON.THE COCKLE PARK EWES’ RAMBLE.PART I.PART II.PART III.SONG.THE PLOUGHMAN.THE FLOWER OF ROTHBURY FOREST.THE PIPER AT CAPHEATON.Mary Gamal, the Vicar of Kirk Whelpington’s Daughter, is gone off with Nichol Clark, his Servant Man.SONG.THE WATER OF TYNE.ANDREW CARR.SONG.LINES ON JOHN THOMPSON,THE PITMAN.A SONGLONG FRAMLINGTON FAIR, (OR TRYST)GO ALL TO COQUET AND WOO.THE FRACTIOUS FARMER. A SONG.—1792.SATYR UPON WOMEN.TWEED SIDE.A SONG, Pasted upon the Walls, and scattered about the Town of Rothbury, several Years ago.SONG.LITTLE BILLY.SAIR FAIL’D HINNY.THE HARE SKIN.LIMBO.A NEW SONG, For the Year 1764.STOCKTON’S COMMENDATION.THE NEW WAY OF STOCKTON’S COMMENDATION.HARK TO WINCHESTER: OR, THE Yorkshire Volunteers’ Farewell to the good Folks of Stockton.STOCKTON’s COMMENDATION.THE BARNARDCASTLE TRAGEDY.A SONG IN PRAISE OF THE DURHAM MILITIA.THE LASS OF COCKERTON.ROOKHOPE-RYDE.THE SEDGFIELD FROLIC.BOBBY SHAFTOE.THE PLEASURES OF SUNDERLAND.THE FROLICSOME OLD WOMEN OF SUNDERLAND: Or, The Disappointed Young Maids.SUNDERLAND BRIDGE.ELSIE MARLEY, An Alewife at Picktree, near Chester-le-Street.CHESTER LADS FOR EVER.LUMLEY LEADS TO GLORY.CHESTER VOLUNTEERS.THE DURHAM VOLUNTEERS.DURHAM OLD WOMEN.EPITAPH On John Simpson, of Hamsterly, Woolcomber.ODE To the River Darwent.THE HEXHAMSHIRE LASS.The Northumbrian’s Sigh for his native Country.A YOU A, HINNY BURD.UP THE RAW.BROOM BUSOMS.THE WAGGONER.BRANDLING AND RIDLEY.MY LADDIE.THE SANDGATE LASSIE’s LAMENT.THE INVITATION.A SONG,A SOUTH SHIELDS SONG ON THE SAILORS.A NORTH SHIELDS SONG.MONKSEATON RACES.THE ALARM!!! Or, Lord Fauconberg’s March.THE PATRIOT VOLUNTEERS: OR, Loyally Display’d.CULL, alias SILLY BILLY, Of Newcastle upon Tyne.CANNY NEWCASSEL.CROAKUM REDIVIVUS.THE ANTIGALLICAN PRIVATEER.A NEW SONG, On the Opening of Jarrow Colliery, 1803.THE PEACOCK AND THE HEN.THE TYNE, A FRAGMENT.INDEX.Previous chapter ←THE JOLLY PARSON.Next chapter →PART I.All chapters and sections (190)Other sectionsRHYMES OF Northern Bards:LINES SENT TO THE EDITOR AND PRINTER.PREFACE.VERSES ON NORTHUMBERLAND MINSTRELSY.SONGS.WEEL MAY THE KEEL ROW.THE NEW KEEL ROW.BONNY KEEL LADDIE.THE LITTLE P.D.MA’ CANNY HINNY.DOL LI A.THE TYNE.BLACKETT’s FIELD.KIVER AWA’.BRITANNIA’S VOLUNTEERS.JOHN DIGGONS.TRAFALGAR’S BATTLE.CHESTER WELL.NEWCASTLE BEER.MY LORD ’SIZE; Or, Newcastle in an Uproar.BOB CRANKY’s ’SIZE SUNDAY.BOB CRANKY’s COMPLAINT.THE BONNY GEATSIDERS.—1805.BOB CRANKY’s ADIEU.O NO, MY LOVE, NO.DELIA’s ANSWER.THE COLLIERS RANT.WALKER PITS.THE BONNY PIT LADDIE.THE PITMAN’s REVENGE AGAINST BUONAPARTE.THE COLLIERS’ PAY WEEK.THE QUAYSIDE SHAVER.SWALWELL HOPPING.THE SANDGATE GIRL’s LAMENTATION.A curious Description of the City of Sandgate, Wrote some Years ago.THE CROW’S NEST,SONS OF THE TYNE.—1805.JESMOND MILL.PANDON DEAN.NANNY OF THE TYNE.THE BLUE BELL OF GATESHEAD.THE NEWCASTLE SIGNS.THE NEWCASTLE BELLMAN.OXYGEN GAS.THE BARDS OF THE TYNE.AN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING.THE RAREE SHOW MAN.BARBER’s NEWS: OR, Shields in an Uproar!!!SONG,A RARE CURIOSITY: OR, CROW’S NEST IN GATESHEAD. A NEW SONG.THE FRENCH INVASION.BLYTH CAMPS: Or, the Girl I left behind Me.BEAUMONT’s LIGHT HORSE.A Song in Praise of the KEELMEN VOLUNTEERS. On board the Lapwing Frigate.THE SONS OF THE TYNE: OR, British Volunteers.MARY OF THE TYNE.NEWCASTLE FAIR—October, 1811.THE NEWCASTLE BEAUTIES.SONG, On the Address of the Newcastle House of Lords, on turning out Lord North, and Mr Fox.THE ADDRESS OF SIR J. DUNCAN, AND CO.AN ELEGY, TO THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD RAVENSWORTH.LINES ON THE DEATH OF JOHN, LORD DELAVAL;THE WALLSEND RIFLE CORPS.SONG. Written on the King’s Birth-day, 1808.THE TOKEN MONGER. A SONG.The following Dialogue, in bad Prose, was overheard by the Person who now attempts it in bad Verse.FOOTY AGAIN THE WALL.THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN.A FYTTE.THE BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE.THE HUNTING OF THE CHYVIAT.THE HUNTING IN CHEVY CHASE.AN OLD SONG ON THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN.THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST; Or, Flodden Field.VERSES ON JAMES THE IVth, OF SCOTLAND. Who fell at the Battle of Flodden.THE BATTLE OF REID SQUAIR.FAIR ‘MABEL’ OF WALLINGTON.VERSESTHE BATTLE OF HUMBLEDOWN HILL.THE LAIDLEY WORM OF SPINDLESTON-HEUGH.THE FISHER LADDIE.THE KYE’s COME HOME.SONG.EPITAPH ON WILLIAM BELL, LATE A RESIDENT ON GATESHEAD FELL.AN EXCELLENT BALLAD On the Sickness, Death, and Burial, OF ECKY’s MARE;STANZAS, Addressed to Northumbria.THOMAS WHITTLE.THE MIDFORD GALLOWAY’s RAMBLE.THE INSIPIDS: OR, The Mistress with her Multitude of Man Servants.SAWNEY OGILBY’s DUEL WITH HIS WIFE.SONG ON WILLIAM CARSTAIRS, SCHOOLMASTER.THOMAS WHITTLE, HIS HUMOROUS LETTER, TO MASTER MOODY, THE RAZOR-SETTER.THE LITTLE PRIEST OF FELTON.THE FELTON GARLAND.FROM THE SWAINS OF FELTON, TO THE Shepherds of Lanthernside, Northumberland, 1787.ON THE DEPARTURE OF Mr GREY, OF FELTON, Who died on Saturday, August 12th, 1775.CARR OF ETAL.BEDLINGTON TRAGEDY. A FRAGMENT.Hotspur: A BALLAD; In the Manner of the Ancient Minstrels.LEGEND OF SEWEN SHIELDS CASTLE.The following Lines are cut on a Tombstone in Haltwhistle Church Yard, Northumberland.LINES Written at an Inn, in that very retired and romantic Part of Northumberland, the Banks of the ALLAN.LUCY GRAY OF ALLENDALE.HALTWHISTLE FAIR.ANNA OF THE TYNE.THE TYNE.THE SPRING.THE BANKS OF THE TYNE.A SONG,HOBBY ELLIOTT.THE RISING OF THE CLANS IN 1715.ON THE FIRST REBELLION.—1715.A Fragment of a Song, on the Lord of Derwentwater.VERSES On a perspective View of Dilston Hall, the Seat of the unfortunate James, Earl of Derwentwater.HEXHAM WOOD.THE LOYAL HEXHAM VOLUNTEERS.THE JOLLY PARSON.THE COCKLE PARK EWES’ RAMBLE.Parts123Part 3 · Other sectionsSONG.THE PLOUGHMAN.THE FLOWER OF ROTHBURY FOREST.THE PIPER AT CAPHEATON.Mary Gamal, the Vicar of Kirk Whelpington’s Daughter, is gone off with Nichol Clark, his Servant Man.SONG.THE WATER OF TYNE.ANDREW CARR.SONG.LINES ON JOHN THOMPSON,THE PITMAN.A SONGLONG FRAMLINGTON FAIR, (OR TRYST)GO ALL TO COQUET AND WOO.THE FRACTIOUS FARMER. A SONG.—1792.SATYR UPON WOMEN.TWEED SIDE.A SONG, Pasted upon the Walls, and scattered about the Town of Rothbury, several Years ago.SONG.LITTLE BILLY.SAIR FAIL’D HINNY.THE HARE SKIN.LIMBO.A NEW SONG, For the Year 1764.STOCKTON’S COMMENDATION.THE NEW WAY OF STOCKTON’S COMMENDATION.HARK TO WINCHESTER: OR, THE Yorkshire Volunteers’ Farewell to the good Folks of Stockton.STOCKTON’s COMMENDATION.THE BARNARDCASTLE TRAGEDY.A SONG IN PRAISE OF THE DURHAM MILITIA.THE LASS OF COCKERTON.ROOKHOPE-RYDE.THE SEDGFIELD FROLIC.BOBBY SHAFTOE.THE PLEASURES OF SUNDERLAND.THE FROLICSOME OLD WOMEN OF SUNDERLAND: Or, The Disappointed Young Maids.SUNDERLAND BRIDGE.ELSIE MARLEY, An Alewife at Picktree, near Chester-le-Street.CHESTER LADS FOR EVER.LUMLEY LEADS TO GLORY.CHESTER VOLUNTEERS.THE DURHAM VOLUNTEERS.DURHAM OLD WOMEN.EPITAPH On John Simpson, of Hamsterly, Woolcomber.ODE To the River Darwent.THE HEXHAMSHIRE LASS.The Northumbrian’s Sigh for his native Country.A YOU A, HINNY BURD.UP THE RAW.BROOM BUSOMS.THE WAGGONER.BRANDLING AND RIDLEY.MY LADDIE.THE SANDGATE LASSIE’s LAMENT.THE INVITATION.A SONG,A SOUTH SHIELDS SONG ON THE SAILORS.A NORTH SHIELDS SONG.MONKSEATON RACES.THE ALARM!!! Or, Lord Fauconberg’s March.THE PATRIOT VOLUNTEERS: OR, Loyally Display’d.CULL, alias SILLY BILLY, Of Newcastle upon Tyne.CANNY NEWCASSEL.CROAKUM REDIVIVUS.THE ANTIGALLICAN PRIVATEER.A NEW SONG, On the Opening of Jarrow Colliery, 1803.THE PEACOCK AND THE HEN.THE TYNE, A FRAGMENT.INDEX.Tune.—John of Badenyon.◇← THE JOLLY PARSON.PART I. →