Note 333 — Chapter IV · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF THE POETRY OF ART

Northall, English Folk-Rhymes, prints a number of these; for example, p. 34, in Lancashire, Gorton lads sing:—

The Abbey Hey bulldogs drest i’ rags,

Dar’ no com’ out to the Gorton lads.

One thinks, too, of the Scottish feuds, and a favourite tune like that of Liddesdale:—

O wha dare meddle wi’ me?

O wha dare meddle wi’ me?

My name it is little Jock Elliot,

And wha dare meddle wi’ me?

See Chambers’s Book of Days, I. 200.