"Of All the Birds", also known as "The Owl" is an English air in 6/8 time and G Major. There is one part. In Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle Old Merrythought sings snatches of old songs from Ravenscroft's Pammelia and this "Freeman's" song from his Deuteromelia (1609) that includes the last four lines of this song. The "cinamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves" refers to mulled wine that supposedly caused the drinker's red nose (rhinophyma).Recent studies have shown that this condition is not related to alcohol use. It was printed in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1 (1859) and Kines' Songs from Shakespeare's Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time (1964).