Back to leaving out our current pseudonym I see, Aon. Or rather, I surmise, since of course it might be a completely different nameless one. What an unsettling thought that is...

As for the song - well I took it from a book published in 1928 called "A Christmas Book - an anthology for Moderns", with Richard Hill's spelling from his Commonplace Book, 1500-1535. Which is no doubt the spelling used in the 1952 work cited by The Nameless One, (who may be the same as Aon, The Faceless One).

Whether Richard Hill's spelling was the original spelling I have of course no way of telling, since he is no longer with us. I assume he wrote it down in the current conventional spelling of his time, and I did the same. It seems a sensible practice.

One thing I left out was the title given to the song in the book I took it from:
"A SONG AGAINST BORES"

Whether that was Richard Hill's title I am not sure. However it is perhaps rather an apt title, in the present context.

And here is another brief passage which has a certain current resonance:

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish to God he'd go away

(Which was, I understand, written by someone called Hughes Mearns, born in 1875. Except he wrote it slightly different from the way I've got it, because the folk process has been at work I'm afraid. As it will. The original version is in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations)