Sorcha;

Nope, I wish but that's the complete information given in the diary.It does sound like something from a musical play, perhaps an old farce. Maybe one that Merriat had played in.

What's the Hamlet ref.? Could be spoof on Hamlet , or a musical version I suppose. One of the challenges of this type of historical material is that they were usually writing for themsleves, so felt no need to amplify the information. A song title or a line was all that was needed. Like us jamming. We don't write in our journal (usually) what tunes we played, just that we jammed or performed. And then of course some journalists used the tune title, some the song title and some a line form a verse or a chorus.

Ah well. Thanks for your help

Richard