"_A Frog he would a-wooing go_" (Vol. ii., p. 75.).--I know not whether
this foolish ballad is worth the notice it has already received, but I
can venture to say that the supposed Irish version is but a modern
variance from the old ballad which I remember above sixty years, and
which began--
"There was a frog lived in a well,
Heigho crowdie!
And a merry mouse in a mill,
With a howdie crowdie, &c. &c.
This frog he would a-wooing go,
Heigho crowdie!
Whether his mother would let him or no,
With a howdie crowdie," &c.
Of the rest of the ballad I only remember enough to be able to say that
it had little or no resemblance to the version in your last Number.