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.]
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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.
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