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A tune away from 1519 seems to explore traces and you may parodies from traces of dated audio. It is an excellent 'ballad' off Robin Hood sung because of the Lack of knowledge for the 'The Interlude of your Four Elements'. Robin Hood when you look at the Barnesdale endured, And you can leant him right until an excellent maple thistle; Following arrived our very own Lady and nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred winter the water are deep, [Water is greater?] I cannot let you know just how wide. The guy took an excellent goose-neck in the give, And over water he went. The guy kick-off so you're able to a thistle top, And you will clipped him down good hollen pub. The guy coronary arrest the latest wren beneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] One fire jumped out of the pig's tail. Jack boy, is actually thy ribbon we-bankrupt? Or hath people man complete brand new wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And put them from inside the a satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ He plucked looks off an effective willow, hokey-pokey?] Wilkin is an archer an effective, And really could handle a shovel; He grabbed his curved bend within his give, And put your down by flames. He grabbed which have him sixty bows and you will ten, An article of beef, a different sort of out-of bacon. Of all the wild birds within the merry England [.. birds you to definitely actually I find?] Very merrily pipes this new merry bottle. [.. pipes the fresh jay] [end] O sleepst thou otherwise wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the rost they burnes, turne bullet about regarding- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ regarding Bassus , 1530 [In my opinion this is certainly a great medley of tune outlines. No division to your traces in modern. Note Tomlyn appears here earlier than in ‘The Complaynt regarding Scotland’. u having a club regarding it I have prolonged so you can um.]
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Given that # 2013 inside the Analytic List Rollins has “The old Lady from Ratcliffe street, a layer regarding paper called”. This was registered so you’re able to an effective ballad printer ink, however, Rollins found zero backup. It actually was after approved as the a good chapbook, is in prose, in fact it is a nonsensical tale when you look at the impossibilities. John Ashton prices a little bit of a belated duplicate, “A mystical and Great Relation of one’s Old Woman who was lige her drowned within Ratcliffe Highway” for the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p. 273, 1882, 1966. Plus inside the Thomson’s Pepys’ Cent Merriments .
That is a touch of amplification towards Brags, Marvels, Lies, farcical information such as for instance Tom Give-Facts, Rumors Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red-herring, Wonderful Crocodile, Sow took the new measles and she died in the springtime, etcetera
S. II, p. 215. = “This new Irishman’s Journey to London,” Paddy Whack’s Bottle Mate , 1791. Paddy’s Visit to London – Whenever i grabbed my personal departure- The latest Shamrock or Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. You will find an overabundance off music of Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, etcetera, and you will “Ralph and you can Nell’s Ramble to help you Oxford” and the like with comic escapades from the big city where things are backwards towards ‘country yokels’ (maybe, really, really the only sane of them), c 1780 -1830.