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A song out-of 1519 seems to use contours and parodies of outlines of old musical. It is an excellent 'ballad' regarding Robin Hood sung by the Lack of knowledge when you look at the 'The Interlude of your Four Elements'. Robin Hood for the Barnesdale endured, And you will leant him right until good maple thistle; After that arrived our very own Lady and you will nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? A hundred cold weather water try strong, [The water try large?] I cannot tell you just how wide. The guy grabbed a beneficial goose-neck in his hands, As well as water the guy ran. The guy kick off so you're able to a beneficial thistle most readily useful, And you can reduce him down a beneficial hollen club. He coronary arrest the new wren below the horns, [Cutty Wren?] One flames jumped out from the pig's end. Jack boy, are thy bend i-bankrupt? Or hath one people complete the new wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And place them into the good satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ The guy plucked system of good willow, hokey-pokey?] Wilkin is a keen archer an excellent, And you can better you can expect to manage a spade; The guy grabbed his bent bend within his give, And set him off of the flame. The guy grabbed which have him 60 bows and you will ten, An article of animal meat, another regarding bacon. Of all birds in the merry The united kingdomt [.. birds one to actually We get a hold of?] Thus merrily water pipes the newest merry package smuk Islandsk brud. [.. pipelines this new jay] [end] O sleepst thou otherwise wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the rost they burnes, turne round in the on the- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ off Bassus , 1530 [I think this is actually an excellent medley out-of song contours. No department into contours from inside the new. Mention Tomlyn looks here prior to when in ‘The Complaynt away from Scotland’. you that have a bar over it I’ve expanded in order to um.]
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Once the # 2013 into the Analytic Directory Rollins have “The outdated Woman of Ratcliffe path, a sheet of papers named”. It was inserted to help you a good ballad printer ink, however, Rollins found zero content. It was later awarded given that an effective chapbook, is actually prose, which will be an absurd story within the impossibilities. John Ashton prices a bit of a later part of the copy, “A mysterious and you may Great Family members of your Old Lady who was sunken during the Ratcliffe Highway” when you look at the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p. 273, 1882, 1966. And for the Thomson’s Pepys’ Penny Merriments .
This is just a bit of amplification towards the Brags, Amazing things, Lays, farcical reports including Tom Tell-Realities, Gossip Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red herring, Great Crocodile, Sow got brand new measles and you will she died about spring season, etcetera
S. II, p. 215. = “The newest Irishman’s Go to London area,” Paddy Whack’s Bottles Lover , 1791. Paddy’s Stop by at London – Once i got my personal departure- The Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There is certainly an excess out of tunes out-of Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, etcetera, and you may “Ralph and you will Nell’s Ramble so you’re able to Oxford” and the like having comical activities in the big city where things are backward toward ‘country yokels’ (maybe, extremely, the only real sane ones), c 1780 -1830.
