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A tune from 1519 seems to explore contours and parodies from lines off dated musical. It’s good 'ballad' out of Robin Hood sung from the Ignorance when you look at the 'The Interlude of the Five Elements'. Robin Bonnet within the Barnesdale endured, And leant your till an effective maple thistle; Upcoming showed up all of our Lady and you can sweet Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred cold weather water is actually deep, [Water was wider?] I cannot tell you exactly how broad. He grabbed an effective goose neck inside the hand, As well as over water he went. He kick off to a good thistle finest, And reduce your off a great hollen pub. The guy heart attack the fresh new wren underneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] You to flame jumped out from the pig's end. Jack boy, is thy bow i-broke? Otherwise hath people man complete the fresh new wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And put them in a good satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ The guy plucked human body of a good willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin try an archer a beneficial, And you will really you can expect to manage a shovel; The guy took his curved bend within his give, And set your off by the flames. The guy got having your 60 bows and ten, A piece of animal meat, another type of out-of bacon. Of all birds inside merry England [.. wild birds one previously I pick?] Thus merrily water pipes the newest merry bottles. [.. water pipes this new jay] [end] O sleepst thou otherwise wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the fresh rost they burnes, turne bullet in the in the- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ away from Bassus , 1530 [I believe this is certainly a beneficial medley out-of song lines. No section into the outlines in the completely new. Notice Tomlyn seems here earlier than inside the ‘The Complaynt out of Scotland’. you that have a club over it I have lengthened so you can um.]
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Once the # 2013 in the Analytic List Rollins enjoys “The outdated Lady out of Ratcliffe roadway, a layer away from paper called”. It was inserted to an effective ballad printer ink, but Rollins discovered no copy. It actually was later on issued because the a chapbook, is within prose, which can be a nonsensical story in impossibilities. John Ashton quotes a touch of a late copy, “A mysterious and Great Relation of Old Woman who was simply sunken at the Ratcliffe Road” in Ashton’s Chapbooks , p. 273, 1882, 1966. Together with from inside the Thomson’s Pepys’ Cent Merriments .
This is a touch of amplification to the Brags, Wonders, Lays, farcical news for example Tom Give-Specifics, Rumors Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red herring, Great Crocodile, Sow grabbed the fresh new measles and you may she passed away regarding springtime, etcetera
S. II, p. 215. = “The newest Irishman’s Happen to be London area,” Paddy Whack’s Package Mate ekstraordinГ¦r varm Italiensk pige , 1791. Paddy’s Stop by at London area – When i grabbed my personal departure- The Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. Discover an overabundance from audio out of Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, etcetera, and you can “Ralph and Nell’s Ramble so you’re able to Oxford” and the like which have comical activities throughout the big-city where things are backward towards ‘country yokels’ (maybe, most, really the only sane of them), c 1780 -1830.