To clarify the points:

The parody (the word parody was qualifying the text when I read it... therefore there was an original text used to create this "parody") was recorded as thus in 1567, I do not know what the original text was but it seems that the text I had posted above may have been the original text (or a variant with a more modern English) of the text I had posted just above ... and the information I had about this "original" text was that there was a musical tune recorded in 1596. (but this did not necessarly mean that the "original" text was from this date of course - it was the recording date with the English used in 1596)

The connection with the original question :

Here's what we have for a fragment:

O, de Lord tol' Nory

O, de Lord tol' Nory,
O, de Lord tol' Nory,
O, de Lord tol' Nory,
Hist de windo, let the dove come in -
O, de debil's mad
and I am glad -
Hist de windo, let the dove come in!

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and the last verse of the text I had marked as 1596:

Go from my window, love, go;
Go from my window my dear.
The devil's in the man
And he cannot understand
That he cannot be lodged here.


And I agree it is not the same text ... but the text from pre...1596/1567 may have been at the ORIGIN of this type of song... at least it is a possibility. "Window + devil cannot lodge but dove is welcome" it seems to me to be about the same theme.

And the question was .... does anybody know anymore about the original text(s) of that "parody"?

Thank you for the replies so far ... I really like the forum and site :-)

Regards,
Rolland