This might be just a bit of amplification into Brags, Marvels, Lies, farcical information such Tom Share with-Truth, Hearsay Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red-herring, Great Crocodile, Sow got the fresh new measles and she passed away on the spring season, etc.
A song regarding 1519 generally seems to explore traces and you may parodies off traces from old audio. It is good 'ballad' off Robin Hood sung because of the Lack of knowledge in 'The Interlude of one's Four Elements'. Robin Hood in the Barnesdale stood, And you can leant your right up until good maple thistle; Upcoming appeared all of our Lady and you may nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? A hundred wintertime water is strong, [The water is greater?] I can not tell you just how greater. The guy got a good goose neck in his give, As well as over water the guy went. He start up in order to an effective thistle top, And you can clipped your down an effective hollen bar. He coronary arrest the fresh wren below the horns, [Cutty Wren?] You to fire jumped out of the pig's tail. Jack boy, are thy bow we-bankrupt? Or hath people guy done new wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And place all of them from inside the an effective satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ He plucked body out-of a willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin is actually a keen archer good, And better you certainly will manage a spade; He grabbed his curved ribbon in his hands, And place your down by the fire. The guy grabbed which have your 60 bows and you can 10, Some meats, a separate from bacon. Of real women from New York, NY in USA all of the wild birds in the merry England [.. wild birds one previously We select?] Thus merrily pipelines the newest merry bottles. [.. pipes the jay] [end] O sleepst thou otherwise wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, this new rost it burnes, turne bullet in the in the- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ regarding Bassus , 1530 [I believe this is really a medley off song contours
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John Ashton rates a bit of a belated copy, “A strange and you will Wonderful Relatives of one’s Dated Woman who had been sunken during the Ratcliffe Highway” inside Ashton’s Chapbooks , p
Given that # 2013 from inside the Analytical Directory Rollins possess “The old Lady off Ratcliffe road, a layer out-of paper entitled”. It was joined so you’re able to a ballad printer ink, however, Rollins discovered zero duplicate. It absolutely was afterwards granted as the a great chapbook, is in prose, that is a nonsensical story during the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. Plus from inside the Thomson’s Pepys’ Cent Merriments .
No ‘backwards’ inside the Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Trip,” You.S. II, p. 215. = “New Irishman’s Visit London area,” Paddy Whack’s Bottle Lover , 1791. Paddy’s Trip to London – As i got my personal departure- The brand new Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There’s an overabundance off songs from Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, an such like, and you may “Ralph and you may Nell’s Ramble so you’re able to Oxford” and stuff like that with comical escapades regarding the big city in which things are backwards into ‘country yokels’ (perhaps, really, really the only sane of these), c 1780 -1830.