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FAMOUS SONGS
Bayly's once popular song, wherein he indi-cates that the game of hide and seek was played. It may be here stated that Collet tells a similar story to Bayly's in his " Relics of Literature;" it also finds a place in the " Causes Celebres." The words of the song at once dis-pose of the claims of Italy as being the scene of the catastrophe, though by some eccentric freak of fancy, when it appeared in a collection called " Songs of the Season," set to music by Sir H. R. Bishop about 1830, these lines from Rogers's " Italy" were used as a motto :
" The happiest of the happy, When a spring-lock that lay in ambush there, Fastened her down for ever.''
But there is no evidence that Bayly was in-fluenced by the " Ginevra" of Rogers. Rogers was the popular poet of the period, and every-body quoted from him.
" T H E MISTLETOE BOUGH." " T h e mistletoe hung m the Castle Hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall; And the baron's retainers blithe and gay Were keeping their Christmas holiday. The baron beheld, with a father's pride, His beautiful child, young Lovell' s bride ; While she with her bright eyes seemed to be The star of the goodly company.
Oh, the mistletoe bough 1 the mistletoe bough!
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