This might be just a bit of amplification into Brags, Marvels, Lies, farcical reports like Tom Give-Facts, Gossip Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red-herring, Great Crocodile, Sow took the brand new measles and you will she died regarding spring, etcetera.
A track out-of 1519 appears to fool around with contours and parodies of traces regarding old sounds. It’s an effective 'ballad' regarding Robin asianmelodies terms and conditions Hood sung from the Lack of knowledge in the 'The Interlude of one's Five Elements'. Robin Bonnet in the Barnesdale stood, And you can leant your right up until an effective maple thistle; Upcoming showed up our very own Woman and nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred cold weather water try deep, [Water was wider?] I can not reveal how wider. The guy took a beneficial goose neck within his hands, And over the water the guy ran. The guy kick-off to good thistle ideal, And you can slash him down an excellent hollen pub. He stroke the new wren below the horns, [Cutty Wren?] That flames popped from the pig's end. Jack boy, is thy bend i-broke? Or hath one people complete the latest wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And place them during the an effective satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ The guy plucked body out of a great willow, hokey-pokey?] Wilkin is actually an archer an effective, And you may really you certainly will manage a shovel; The guy grabbed his curved ribbon inside the hand, And put him off by flames. The guy got that have him sixty bows and you will ten, Some animal meat, a different sort of out of bacon. Of all the wild birds within the merry The united kingdomt [.. birds you to actually I come across?] So merrily water pipes the fresh merry bottles. [.. pipes new jay] [end] O sleepst thou or wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the brand new rost it burnes, turne round on regarding- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ from Bassus , 1530 [I do believe this is certainly an effective medley off tune traces
Zero section on the contours within the modern. Note Tomlyn looks right here earlier than in ‘The Complaynt out of Scotland’. you that have a club over it I have extended to um.]
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John Ashton quotes a bit of a late content, “A strange and you can Wonderful Relation of the Dated Woman who was sunken at Ratcliffe Roadway” from inside the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p
Given that # 2013 during the Analytic Index Rollins has actually “The old Woman of Ratcliffe street, a piece from report named”. This was joined so you’re able to an excellent ballad printer, however, Rollins discovered no backup. It absolutely was after granted given that a great chapbook, is within prose, which is an absurd facts within the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. In addition to in the Thomson’s Pepys’ Penny Merriments .
Zero ‘backwards’ in the Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Trip,” U.S. II, p. 215. = “The brand new Irishman’s Journey to London area,” Paddy Whack’s Container Partner , 1791. Paddy’s Stop by at London area – While i took my personal departure- Brand new Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. Discover an overabundance off music regarding Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, an such like, and you can “Ralph and you can Nell’s Ramble so you’re able to Oxford” and stuff like that with comical adventures on the big city in which everything is backwards towards the ‘country yokels’ (possibly, extremely, the actual only real sane of those), c 1780 -1830.
