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The cuckow and the nightingale This is not half the happiness 

 Full merrily do sing, The countryman enjoys ; 



Heigh trolollie lollie loe, &c. Heigh trolollie lollie loe, &c. 



And with their pleasant roundelays Though others think they have as much, 

 Bid welcome to the spring : Yet he that says so lies : 



Then care away, &c. Then come away, 



Turn countrymen with me. 



Jo. CHALKHILL.* 



PISCATOR. Well sung, Coridon, this song was sung with 

 mettle ; and it was choicely fitted to the occasion : I shall love 

 you for it as long as I know you. I would you were a brother of 

 the angle ; for a companion that is cheerful, and free from swear- 

 ing and scurrilous discourse, is worth gold. I love such mirth as 

 does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next 

 morning ; nor men, that cannot well bear it, to repent the money 

 they spend when they be warmed with drink. And take this for 

 a rule : you may pick out such times and such companies, that 

 you make yourselves merrier for a little than a great deal of 

 money ; for " 'Tis the company and not the charge that makes 

 the feast ;" and such a companion you prove : I thank you for it. 



But I will not compliment you out of the debt that I owe you, 

 and therefore I will begin my song, and wish it may be so well 

 liked. 



* John Chalkhill, of whom and his family a notice will be found in the Life of 

 Walton, prefixed to this volume. "To this song the merry chorus of ' Hey trolly lo' 

 is attached as a burthen, which was then in much repute. A song, entitled Troly Lo, is 

 printed by Ritson (Antient Songs from Hen. III. to the Revolution, 1790, p. 92) from 

 a MS. in the Sloane Collection, No. 1584, commencing : 



1 So well ys me be gone, troly lole so 

 Well ys me be gone troly loley.' 



"In A ne^v and merry Enterlude called the Triall oj Treasure, 1567, where a drinking 

 chaunt of ' Luste like a gallant' has the following lines : 



Hey rowse, fill all the pottes in the house, 



Tushe man, in good felowship let vs be mery, 

 Looke vp like a man or it is not worth a louse, 



Hey how troly lowe, hey dery, dery. 



In the comedy of The late Lancashire Witches, 1634, the song to the familiars, Mawsy, 

 Puck ling, &c. invites them to 



Suck our blouds freely, and with it be jolly, 

 While merrily we sing, Hey trolly lolly. 



And in Brome's comedy of The Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, 1641, is the follow- 

 ing catch, afterwards inserted in nearly every musical collection of that period : 

 There was an old fellow at Waltham Cross, 

 Who merrily sung when he liv'd by the loss ; 

 He never was heard to sigh with liey-ho^ 

 But sent it out with a haigh trolly lo. 

 He chear'd up his heart, when his goods went to wrack, 

 With a heghm, boy, heghm, and a cup of old sack. 



In the Weekly Journal of soth July 1715, there is mention of a noted female offender, 

 prostitute, and housebreaker, called Trolly Lolly, who had been tried at nine assizes, and 

 always saved herself from the capital part of the offence by pregnancy." Eu. H. 



