"Cock tail" and Joseph Mather

[Laurence Horn]

>     Literature Online has added some new material, so I looked again for
>"cock tail."
>    Joseph Mather lived from 1737-1804.  Literature Online cites THE SONGS
>(1862??):
>
>SONG XXXV: The Cock-Tail Lady
>SONG XL: The Nether Green Lad ("Bang-beggar, else "Cock-tail reel"...)
>SONG LIL: The Cock-Tail Feast
>
>    Check it out.
>    Any opinions about Joseph Mather and "cock tail"?

My opinion is that he must have been a lot more fun at a party than Cotton
and Increase put together.

larry