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A song regarding 1519 seems to explore lines and parodies out-of lines away from old sounds. It is a good 'ballad' of Robin Bonnet sung by Lack of knowledge in 'The Interlude of your Four Elements'. Robin Bonnet into the Barnesdale endured, And you will leant your till a beneficial maple thistle; Up coming showed up the Woman and you will nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred winter season the water are deep, [The water try large?] I cannot reveal just how broad. The guy grabbed a beneficial goose neck in the hand, And over the water the guy ran. He kick-off in order to a beneficial thistle finest, And you can slashed your off an effective hollen club. The guy coronary attack brand new wren underneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] That flame sprang out from the pig's tail. Jack boy, is thy ribbon i-bankrupt? Or hath people people done the wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And put all of them inside the an excellent satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ He plucked system away from a beneficial willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin are an enthusiastic archer a, And you will really you certainly will handle a shovel; He grabbed their curved bend inside the hand, And place him off from the flames. The guy grabbed that have him sixty bows and 10, A piece of meats, a special off bacon. Of all of the wild birds inside merry The united kingdomt [.. birds one actually I look for?] So merrily pipes the fresh new merry bottles. [.. water pipes the newest jay] [end] O sleepst thou otherwise wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the new rost they burnes, turne round on throughout the- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ out-of Bassus , 1530 [I think this is actually a good medley from song traces. Zero division towards the traces for the unique. Note Tomlyn appears here prior to when when you look at the ‘The Complaynt off Scotland’. you that have a pub over it You will find prolonged so you can um.]
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Because the # 2013 within the Analytical Index Rollins features “The existing Lady out of Ratcliffe road, a sheet out-of papers titled”. This was joined to an excellent ballad printer, but Rollins found zero copy. It had been after approved due to the fact good chapbook, is actually prose, which can be an absurd tale within the impossibilities. John Ashton estimates a touch of a later part of the content, “A mystical and you can Wonderful Family of the Dated Lady who was simply drowned on Ratcliffe Street” during the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p. 273, 1882, 1966. As well as in the Thomson’s Pepys’ Penny Merriments .
This will be a bit of amplification to the Brags, Wonders, Lays, farcical development including Tom Tell-Knowledge, Hearsay Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red-herring, Great Crocodile, Sow got the fresh measles and she died from the springtime, etcetera
S. II, p. 215. = “Brand new Irishman’s Visit London,” Paddy Whack’s Container Mate , 1791. Paddy’s Stop by at London – While i grabbed my personal departure- The newest Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. You will find an overabundance out of musical away from Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, an such like, and you may “Ralph and you can Nell’s Ramble so you can Oxford” and stuff like that with comical activities regarding big city where things are backwards for the ‘country yokels’ (perhaps, extremely, the only sane of them), c 1780 -1830.