21 APRIL 1923, Page 13

" PULL DEVIL, PULL BAKER."

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There would seem to have been an Elizabethan ballad on this subject. See Shirley's Hyde Park, Act II., Scene 4 :- " And then to puzzle

Your brain to make an elegy, which shall be sung To the tune of ' The Devil and the Baker.' " Bath.