l^he Incompleat Angler. 5 7 



itttlfe^iMOmam Well, if you will 

 not be so called by Coridon^ you 

 harkened to your Colin s voice, when 

 he played on his pipe, and called you 



" Maudlin:' 



^^^VCti^ You are wrong, Grand- 

 mother, Colin s called me Magdalen^ 

 not Maudlin^ and brought me out 

 at the Olympic.^ But for his playing 

 on his pipe ! — I never yet saw him 

 with a pipe. 



^3lSiCatOl% Save when he was puft- sing, 

 ing his Cavendish.^ But sing ! my 

 honest, innocent, pretty Maudlin^ 

 sing ! 



*" ^his is J it may be fairly conjectured^ an allusion 

 to an old stage-flay called the New Magdalen, by one 

 Wilkie Collins, These antiquarian researches render 

 the editing of this work highly interesting.- — [Ed.] 



f Reference^ probably^ to Miss Ada Cavendish, who 

 was the heroine of the above-mentioned piece. — [Ed.] 



The 



Maiden 

 Sing. 



