22 FEBRUARY 1908, Page 15

" THE SONG OF THE PAUPER."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Can you or any of your readers tell me where I can find the rest of the old doggerel song which was common amongst labourers in the eighteenth century, the chorus of which is : " Hang sorrow ! cast away care, the parish is bound to main- tain us" ? It is referred to in Edeu, though I have lost the reference, and also in "Rice's Cyclopaedia " under the article