In Alan's Midi Page, there's one tune that's given two titles and two authors:"A Cat Catch" attributed to Robert Brown, 1710 and "A Catch on Cats" attributed to Micheal Wise, 1685.
I did a digitrad search for the lyrics, and couldn't find anything... *are* there lyrics? (Since my cats have a vet's appointment next week, and I will have to try to "catch" them, I'm naturally curious as to what the old time thinking was on this subject ;-))