Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).
Original spelling and typography is retained, except that superscripts, long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.
Line identifiers are those used for line types in the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.
This song is one of two on a broadside ballad in the Johnson Ballads (Ref.768), in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The main song on the sheet is "The christening and diversion of Ballyporeen", with "The Old Horse" occupying the bottom right hand corner. An image of the sheet can be found online in Bodleian Library allegro Catalogue of Ballads at http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm, Item No.20472. Search for "old horse" in titles.
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