From 'The Light Guitar.' (See Index of Songs.)

Book I, Ch. 15.

'Thrown on the wide world, doomed to wander and roam.' From 'The Peasant Boy'

_J. Parry_

Thrown on the wide world, doom'd to wander and roam, Bereft of his parents, bereft of his home, A stranger to pleasure, to comfort and joy, Behold little Edmund, the poor Peasant Boy.

Book I, Ch. 15.

'Weep for the hour.' From 'Eveleen's Bower' _T. Moore_

Oh! weep for the hour When to Eveleen's bower The lord of the valley with false vows came.

Book I, Ch 15.

'Then farewell, my trim-built wherry.' From 'The Waterman'

_C. Dibdin_

Book II, Ch. 7.

'Helm a-weather, now lay her close.' From 'The Tar for all Weathers'

_Unknown_

Book III, Ch. 6.

'No malice to dread, sir.' From verse 3 of 'My Ain Fireside.'

Words by _Mrs. E. Hamilton_

Nae falsehood to dread, nae malice to fear, But truth to delight me, and kindness to cheer; O' a' roads to pleasure that ever were tried, There's nane half so sure as one's own fireside.

My ain fireside, my ain fireside, Oh sweet is the blink o' my ain fireside.

Book III, Ch. 6.

And you needn't, Mr. Venus, be your black bottle, For surely I'll be mine, And we'll take a gla.s.s with a slice of lemon in it, to which you're partial, For auld lang syne.

A much altered version of verse 5 of Burns' celebrated song.

Book III, Ch. 6.

Charge, Chester, charge, On Mr. Venus, on.

From Scott's _Marmion_.

Book IV, Ch. 3.

'If you'll come to the bower I've shaded for you.' From 'Will you Come to the Bower'

_T. Moore_

Will you come to the Bower I've shaded for you, Our bed shall be roses, all spangled with dew.

Will you, will you, will you, will you come to the Bower?

Will you, will you, will you, will you come to the Bower?

A LIST OF SONGS AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC MENTIONED BY d.i.c.kENS

WITH HISTORICAL NOTES

_The figures in brackets denote the chapter in the novel referred to_

A COBBLER THERE WAS (_D. & S._ 2)

A cobbler there was, and he lived in a stall, Which serv'd him for parlour, for kitchen and hall, No coin in his pocket, nor care in his pate, No ambition had he, nor no duns at his gate, Derry down, down, down, derry down.

The melody appeared in _Beggar's Opera_, 1728, and _Fashionable Lady_, 1730.

A FROG HE WOULD (_P.P._ 32)

The theme of the ballad belongs to the late sixteenth century.

A frog he would a-wooing go, Heigho! said Rowley, Whether his mother would let him or no, With his rowly powly, Gammon and spinnage, O heigh! said Anthony Rowley.

We are told that Jack Hopkins sang 'The King, G.o.d Bless Him,'

to a novel air, compounded of 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'A Frog He Would.' The latter was evidently the modern setting by C.E. Horn.

ALICE GRAY

See 'Yet Lov'd I.'