Well, children do so with the beauty of innocence. Adults

'Not Pan, the god of the swains, Could e'er produce such strains.' - See ANTE, p. 142.

(37) A correspondent of NOTES AND QUERIES says that, although there is some resemblance between Flora and Furry, the latter word is derived from an old Cornish term, and signifies jubilee or fair.

(38) There is another version of these concluding lines:-

'Down the red lane there lives an old fox, There does he sit a-mumping his chops; Catch him, boys, catch him, catch if you can; 'Tis twenty to one if you catch him or Nan.'

(39) A cant term for a fiddle. In its literal sense, it means trunk, or box-belly.

(40) 'Helicon,' as observed by Sir C. Sharp, is, of course, the true reading.

(41) In the introduction of the 'prodigal son,' we have a relic derived from the old mysteries and moralities. Of late years, the 'prodigal son' has been left out, and his place supplied by a 'sailor.'

(42) Probably the disease here pointed at is the sweating sickness of old times.