It is some amplification for the Brags, Wonders, Lays, farcical reports such as for example Tom Give-Truth, Rumors Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red-herring, Great Crocodile, Sow took the measles and you may she passed away from the spring season, an such like.
A tune regarding 1519 appears to fool around with traces and you will parodies regarding outlines regarding old music. It’s a great 'ballad' from Robin Bonnet sung by Lack of knowledge within the 'The Interlude of the Four Elements'. Robin Bonnet within the Barnesdale stood, And you may leant your till a great maple thistle; Following arrived our very own Lady and you may nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred winter season water was deep, [Water was large?] I cannot show how broad. The guy grabbed good goose-neck in his hand, As well as water the guy went. He start up so you're able to good thistle better, And you can reduce him off an effective hollen club. The guy coronary arrest this new wren beneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] One flame jumped out from the pig's end. Jack boy, is thy bow i-bankrupt? Or hath people guy complete the wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And set them in an effective satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ The guy plucked body out-of a good willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin is actually an archer an excellent, And you can really you may deal with a shovel; The guy took his bent bend inside the hand, And put your off by flame. The guy got with him 60 bows and you will ten, An article of chicken, an alternative of bacon. Of all wild birds when you look at the merry England [.. wild birds one to actually ever I get a hold of?] Very merrily pipelines brand new merry package. [.. water vruД‡a mladenka Irski pipes the fresh jay] [end] O sleepst thou or wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the latest rost it burnes, turne round on the about- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ away from Bassus , 1530 [I do believe this is certainly an effective medley from tune traces
Zero office towards the outlines during the brand spanking new. Notice Tomlyn seems right here sooner than during the ‘The Complaynt of Scotland’. you having a pub over it We have expanded so you can um.]
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John Ashton estimates a touch of a later part of the duplicate, “A strange and you can Great Relation of the Dated Lady who was sunken from the Ratcliffe Road” inside Ashton’s Chapbooks , p
Once the # 2013 into the Analytic Index Rollins has “The old Lady from Ratcliffe roadway, a piece out-of papers titled”. This was joined so you can a good ballad printer ink, however, Rollins discover no backup. It had been afterwards approved as a great chapbook, is in prose, that’s an absurd story in impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. Along with into the Thomson’s Pepys’ Penny Merriments .
Zero ‘backwards’ in Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Journey,” You.S. II, p. 215. = “The brand new Irishman’s Travel to London area,” Paddy Whack’s Package Spouse , 1791. Paddy’s Visit to London area – When i took my deviation- The brand new Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There’s an excess out-of tunes away from Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, etc, and you can “Ralph and you will Nell’s Ramble so you can Oxford” etc with comic activities from the big-city in which things are backwards into the ‘country yokels’ (perhaps, very, the actual only real sane of them), c 1780 -1830.