Wolde to God it wolde please you some daye / A balade boke before me for to laye, / And lerne me to syngeRe my fa sol! / And whan I fayle bobbe me on thenoll.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page59