| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | A Scotch Song: ‘Jocky was a dowdy lad’ | | By Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723) |
| | | JOCKY 1 was a dowdy lad, | |
| And Jemmy swarth and tawny; | |
| They, my heart no captive made, | |
| For that was prize to Swaney. | |
| Jocky wooes, and sighs, and sues: | 5 |
| And Jemmy offers money: | |
| Weel, I see, they both love me— | |
| But I love only Swaney. | |
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| Jocky high his voice can raise: | |
| And Jemmy tunes the viol: | 10 |
| But when Swaney pipes sweet lays, | |
| My heart kens no denial. | |
| Yen he sings, and t’ other strings, | |
| Though sweet, yet only teize me; | |
| Swaney’s flute can only do ’t, | 15 |
| And pipe a tune to please me. | |
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