Note 69 — DR. CORBET’S JOURNEY INTO FRANCE.
Reading edition
Of this popular song, which is reprinted from “Deuteromelia,” 1609, in Hawkins’s History of Music, and in Ritson’s Antient Songs, the following is the introductory stanza:
“As it fell upon a holyday And upon a holy-tide-a, John Dory brought him an ambling nag To Paris for to ride-a.”