This is a little bit of amplification for the Brags, Wonders, Lays, farcical information eg Tom Give-Facts, Rumors Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red-herring, Wonderful Crocodile, Sow grabbed the fresh new measles and you will she died regarding spring, etcetera.
A song regarding 1519 generally seems to explore traces and you will parodies off traces away from old tunes. It’s a 'ballad' out of Robin Hood sung of the Ignorance during the 'The Interlude of your Five Elements'. Robin Hood when you look at the Barnesdale endured, And you will leant your till a good maple thistle; Then emerged our very own Lady and you will nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred winter season the water is strong, [Water are large?] I can not inform you exactly how wider. The guy took a good goose neck within his hand, And over water the guy went. He kick off to help you a great thistle best, And you will slashed your down a good hollen bar. The guy heart attack the fresh wren below the horns, [Cutty Wren?] That flame jumped out of the pig's tail. Jack boy, was thy bend we-broke? Otherwise hath one man done the newest wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And place all of them from inside the good satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ The guy plucked looks away from a willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin are an enthusiastic archer good, And you will really could manage a spade; He grabbed their curved bend in his hand, And place your down because of the flame. He grabbed which have him 60 bows and 10, A piece of beef, a special regarding bacon. Of the many birds inside the merry England [.. wild birds that previously I select?] Therefore merrily pipes the brand new merry bottle. [.. pipes the fresh new jay] [end] O sleepst thou or wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the fresh new rost they burnes, turne bullet about throughout the- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ out-of Bassus , 1530 [In my opinion this is actually an effective medley from tune contours
No section to your traces during the modern. Note Tomlyn appears here prior to when in ‘The Complaynt off Scotland’. you which have a club regarding it You will find longer so you can um.]
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John Ashton rates some a later part of the backup, “A mysterious and Great Family members of one’s Old Lady who had been sunken from the Ratcliffe Path” when you look at the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p
Since # 2013 in the Analytic Index Rollins has “The outdated Woman regarding Ratcliffe highway, a sheet away from paper titled”. It was joined so you’re able to an effective ballad printer, however, Rollins located zero duplicate. It actually was later provided as the an effective chapbook, is within prose, that is a nonsensical story from inside the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. And additionally in the Thomson’s Pepys’ Penny Merriments .
Zero ‘backwards’ within the Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Trip,” U.S. II, p. 215. = “New Irishman’s Go to London,” Paddy Whack’s Bottles Spouse , 1791. Paddy’s Trip to London – As i grabbed my departure- This new Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There’s an overabundance out of music from Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, an such like, and you may “Ralph and you can Nell’s Ramble so you can Oxford” etc with comic escapades regarding the big city where things asiacharm datum are backwards toward ‘country yokels’ (perhaps, very, the only real sane of these), c 1780 -1830.
