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A tune out of 1519 generally seems to explore contours and parodies away from lines out-of old music. It is an excellent 'ballad' out of Robin Hood sung by the Ignorance inside the 'The Interlude of your own Five Elements'. Robin Hood in Barnesdale endured, And you can leant your right up until good maple thistle; Then came our very own Lady and you may sweet Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? A hundred cold weather the water are strong, [Water are wide?] I cannot show exactly how wider. He got a goose-neck in the hands, As well as water the guy ran. The guy start to help you an effective thistle top, And you will clipped your off a good hollen club. He coronary arrest the fresh wren underneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] You to definitely flame jumped outside of the pig's tail. Jack boy, try thy ribbon we-broke? Otherwise hath any man complete brand new wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And put them from inside the a satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ He plucked human anatomy regarding a great willow, hokey-pokey?] Wilkin was an enthusiastic archer a great, And you may really could deal with a shovel; The guy took his bent bow inside the give, And set your off from the flames. He grabbed which have him sixty bows and you can 10, An item of meats, an alternative of bacon. Of all the birds into the merry The united kingdomt [.. wild birds that actually ever I find hot Estisk pige?] Very merrily water pipes brand new merry bottles. [.. water pipes brand new jay] [end] O sleepst thou or wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the fresh rost it burnes, turne round on throughout the- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ from Bassus , 1530 [I believe this is really a beneficial medley out of track lines. Zero office on the traces inside totally new. Note Tomlyn seems here earlier than inside the ‘The Complaynt out-of Scotland’. you that have a club regarding it You will find extended to um.]
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As the # 2013 from inside the Analytic Index Rollins has actually “The existing Woman out-of Ratcliffe highway, a sheet of report named”. This was inserted in order to an excellent ballad printer, but Rollins discovered no content. It actually was after granted because an excellent chapbook, is during prose, that’s an absurd story in impossibilities. John Ashton estimates a bit of a belated copy, “A mysterious and Wonderful Family of your own Dated Woman who was simply sunken at the Ratcliffe Highway” into the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p. 273, 1882, 1966. In addition to in Thomson’s Pepys’ Cent Merriments .
This is exactly a touch of amplification towards Brags, Miracles, Lies, farcical development such as for example Tom Share with-Realities, Rumors Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red-herring, Wonderful Crocodile, Sow took new measles and she died on springtime, an such like
S. II, p. 215. = “This new Irishman’s Go London area,” Paddy Whack’s Bottle Lover , 1791. Paddy’s Stop by at London area – When i took my personal deviation- This new Shamrock or Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There was an overabundance of sounds out-of Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, an such like, and you will “Ralph and you can Nell’s Ramble to Oxford” etc having comic escapades throughout the big city where everything is backwards towards the ‘country yokels’ (maybe, extremely, the only sane of them), c 1780 -1830.
