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As "Unknown," this air with Moore's stirring song was printed in the seventh number of the Melodies, 1818. I have not
been able to ascertain the original name of the tune, but in 1783 it was used by William Shield in that repository of Irish
Melodies, the opera entitled The Poor Soldier. The following is the first verse of the song to it in that work, the libretto of which
was written by John O'Keefe, the clever Irish dramatist:
(KathleanJ Dermot's welcome as the May, ehearful, handsome and good-natur d,
Foolish Darby, get away, awkward, clumsy, and ill-featur'd ;
Dermot prattles pretty chat, Darby gapes like any oven,
Dermot's neat from shoe to hat, Darby's but a dirty sloven.
Lout, looby, silly booby, come no more to me a-courting,
Was my dearest Dermot here,— all is love and gay sporting.