CHAP. IV. THE THIRD DAY. 117 



time will you drink a draught of red cow's milk ? you shall 

 have it freely. 



Pise. No, I thank you ; but, I pray, do us a courtesy 

 that shall stand you and your daughter in nothing, and yet 

 we will think ourselves still something in your debt : it is 

 but to sing us a song that was sung by your daughter when 

 I, last, past over this meadow, about eight or nine days 

 since. 



MilJc-w. What song was it, I pray ? Was it, " Come 

 shepherds, deck your herds ?" or, " As at noon Dulcina 

 rested?" or, " Phillida flouts me ?" or, " Chevy Chace r" 

 or, " Johnny Armstrong ?" or, " Troy Town?" 1 



Pise. No, it is none of those ; it is a song that your 

 daughter sung the first part, and you sung the answer to it. 



Milk-w. O, I know it now. I learned the first part in 

 my golden age, when I was about the age of my poor 

 daughter ; and the latter part, which indeed fits me best 

 now, but two or three years ago, when the cares of the world 

 began to take hold of me : but you shall, God willing, hear 

 them both ; and, sung as well as we can, for we both love 

 anglers. Come, Maudlin! 2 sing the first part to the gen- 

 tlemen, with a merry heart ; and I'll sing the second, when 

 you have done. 



a middle stature, black-eyed, rather lean than fat, having a small tuft of 

 hair; he wore linen slops, a blue waistcoat, and went barefoot, with a 

 mariner's cap ; but he was of a good countenance, stout, and lively as could 

 be. His profession was to angle for little fish with a cane, hook, and line. 

 His name was Tomasso Anello, of Amalfi, but vulgarly called Masaniello." 

 See the " History of the Revolution in Naples," by Sig. Alessandro 

 Giraffi. H. 



1 See the songs "As at Noon," "Chevy Chace," "Johnny Armstrong,'* 

 and "Troy Town," printed, in Percy's "Reliques of Ancient English 

 Poetry." " And at Noon," in Durfey's Collection. " Phillida flouts me," 

 was printed in the " Theatre' of Compliments." Lond. 1689, 12mo., and 

 republished in Ritson's "Ancient Songs." 1792. p. 235. The song of 

 "Come Shepherds" was not known till discovered in a manuscript be- 

 longing to the late Richard Heber, Esq., and recently printed by Mr. 

 Pickering. ED. 



~ Diminutive for Matilda. 



