Note 581:B — Chapter III · (continued 2)
Reading edition
Reed's Shakspeare, vol. ix. p. 131. Act iv. sc. 1.—There appears to be allusions to two catches in this scene. Grumio exclaims "fire, fire; cast on no water," which Judge Blackstone traces to the following old catch in three parts:—
"Scotland burneth, Scotland burneth. Fire, fire;——Fire, fire; Cast on some more water."
Grumio a little afterwards calls out, "Why, Jack boy! ho boy!" the beginning, as Sir John Hawkins asserts, of an old round in three parts, of which he has given us the musical notes.