The newest track towards Scotsman named Erin-go-bragh, really should test it, as well

This is exactly a bit of amplification on the Brags, Amazing things, Lays, farcical reports eg Tom Give-Specifics, Gossip Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Libanon kvinnor Ram, Red herring, Wonderful Crocodile, Sow got new measles and you will she died in the spring season, an such like.

A tune out-of 1519 seems to explore lines and you may parodies regarding lines out-of dated songs. It is a great 'ballad' away from Robin Bonnet sung because of the Lack of knowledge when you look at the 'The Interlude of one's Five Elements'. Robin Bonnet when you look at the Barnesdale endured, And you will leant your right until a beneficial maple thistle; Then showed up our very own Woman and nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? A hundred winter months the water try deep, [The water are wide?] I can not tell you just how wide. The guy took a good goose neck in the hands, As well as water the guy went. The guy kick-off so you're able to a beneficial thistle better, And reduce your down a beneficial hollen club. The guy stroke brand new wren below the horns, [Cutty Wren?] That flame jumped from the pig's tail. Jack boy, try thy ribbon i-bankrupt? Otherwise hath any people done brand new wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And place all of them from inside the a great satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ The guy plucked muscles out of good willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin was an archer good, And you can well you can expect to manage a shovel; The guy took his curved ribbon inside the hands, And put him down from the flame. He got having him sixty bows and you will ten, An item of animal meat, another type of from bacon. Of the many birds within the merry The united kingdomt [.. birds one actually We select?] Very merrily pipelines brand new merry bottles. [.. pipelines the fresh jay] [end] O sleepst thou otherwise wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, brand new rost it burnes, turne round on throughout the- 'Pammelia', 1609

Untitled ‘News’ of Bassus , 1530 [I think this is actually an excellent medley out of song outlines

Zero section to the outlines inside the modern. Note Tomlyn appears right here earlier than when you look at the ‘The Complaynt off Scotland’. you that have a club regarding it I’ve longer so you can um.]

Behold & observe how byrds doth flye coke crow mydey pype mery And you may wyll you go to London in order to by an excellent calffes hede thryty herryings to possess a good peny fy yt was dogge chepe phone call the fresh new boy colyn chynke yesterday is owr dame[s] kow broght in order to grase w ith heyffe & just how Rumbleow [Rumbelow, nonetheless step three kilometers away from hell?] cry owt a pace rarely plant life wyll end up being grene which is but reson & they spunk yn seasons w th slake rates myself nawght tomlyn if or not wade y ow now so you can catche byrd was w t byrdlyme & rods. all sparos schall continue theyr cutts full small Sperm in my opinion jizz podyngs wyll become dere thryps and you will chytterlyngs et emergency room blow my personal horne behynde spunk A beneficial torne Agayne robyn & bende for the thy ribbon w t torne Ageyne Robyne & bend into the thy bend. q uod samoht notterts [Thomas Stretton]

John Ashton rates some a later part of the content, “A mystical and you can Wonderful Family of the Dated Lady who had been drowned at Ratcliffe Roadway” within the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p

Due to the fact # 2013 from inside the Analytic List Rollins provides “The outdated Lady out of Ratcliffe road, a layer away from papers entitled”. This is registered in order to a beneficial ballad printer, however, Rollins found zero backup. It had been later provided as the a good chapbook, is actually prose, which will be an absurd facts when you look at the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. Also from inside the Thomson’s Pepys’ Cent Merriments .

No ‘backwards’ in Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Expedition,” U.S. II, p. 215. = “New Irishman’s Go London area,” Paddy Whack’s Package Mate , 1791. Paddy’s Stop by at London – Once i got my departure- The latest Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. Discover an excess away from musical of Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, etcetera, and you may “Ralph and you can Nell’s Ramble so you’re able to Oxford” etc which have comic adventures regarding the big-city in which things are backwards to the ‘country yokels’ (perhaps, extremely, the sole sane ones), c 1780 -1830.