It is a little bit of amplification on Brags, Miracles, Lies, farcical information instance Tom Give-Realities, Hearsay Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red herring, Great Crocodile, Sow took the newest measles and you may she died on spring season, an such like.
A tune out-of 1519 appears to have fun with lines and you will parodies of traces away from old audio. It is an excellent 'ballad' of Robin Hood sung of the Lack of knowledge in the 'The Interlude of your own Four Elements'. Robin Hood when you look at the Barnesdale endured, And you can leant him right up until a great maple thistle; Then appeared our Lady and sweet Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? A hundred winter the water is deep, [Water was large?] I can not let you know just how greater. The guy grabbed a good goose neck in the hands, And over water he ran. The guy kick-off to a beneficial thistle most readily useful, And you can cut your off a hollen pub. He coronary attack the fresh new wren beneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] One flames sprang out from the pig's end. Jack boy, was thy ribbon i-bankrupt? Otherwise hath one man done the newest wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And place all of them in the an excellent satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ The guy plucked looks of good willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin are an archer an effective, And you can well you will definitely handle a shovel; He got their curved ribbon inside the hand, And put him down from the fire. He grabbed having your sixty bows and you may 10, An item of chicken, a different out-of bacon. Of the many birds in merry The united kingdomt [.. wild birds you to actually ever We pick?] Therefore merrily pipes brand new merry package. [.. pipes this new jay] [end] O sleepst thou otherwise wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, brand new rost they burnes, gör Argentinian kvinnor som amerikaner turne bullet regarding the regarding- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ out-of Bassus , 1530 [I do believe this is actually a beneficial medley out-of track traces
No department on the outlines inside the totally new. Mention Tomlyn appears here earlier than inside ‘The Complaynt out-of Scotland’. u which have a bar over it You will find stretched to um.]
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John Ashton rates a little bit of a belated copy, «A mysterious and you may Great Family of the Dated Lady who had been drowned within Ratcliffe Road» inside the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p
Due to the fact # 2013 inside the Analytic Index Rollins have «The outdated Lady of Ratcliffe path, a piece from paper titled». This is registered so you’re able to an excellent ballad printer, but Rollins receive no duplicate. It actually was afterwards issued given that a beneficial chapbook, is during prose, that will be a nonsensical story from inside the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. And additionally into the Thomson’s Pepys’ Cent Merriments .
No ‘backwards’ from inside the Collins’ «Paddy Bull’s Expedition,» You.S. II, p. 215. = «New Irishman’s Go to London area,» Paddy Whack’s Bottles Mate , 1791. Paddy’s Visit to London – As i got my deviation- The newest Shamrock or Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There is certainly an excess out of songs from Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, etcetera, and you can «Ralph and you may Nell’s Ramble so you’re able to Oxford» and the like which have comical adventures regarding the big city where things are backwards towards the ‘country yokels’ (maybe, really, the actual only real sane of them), c 1780 -1830.