This is certainly a bit of amplification toward Brags, Wonders, Lays sweet sexy Montgomery, WV girl, farcical reports such Tom Share with-Basic facts, Hearsay Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red herring, Wonderful Crocodile, Sow took the newest measles and she passed away regarding springtime, etc.

A tune regarding 1519 seems to have fun with outlines and you may parodies out-of lines of dated songs. It’s an effective 'ballad' off Robin Bonnet sung of the Lack of knowledge inside 'The Interlude of your Four Elements'. Robin Bonnet when you look at the Barnesdale endured, And you will leant your till a beneficial maple thistle; Next emerged the Woman and you can nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred cold weather the water try strong, [The water is actually greater?] I can not reveal exactly how greater. He grabbed an effective goose-neck in the hand, As well as the water the guy went. The guy kick-off in order to a thistle most readily useful, And clipped him off an effective hollen bar. He coronary attack the wren underneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] You to definitely flames jumped outside of the pig's tail. Jack boy, are thy bow we-broke? Or hath people man done the latest wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And put all of them into the an excellent satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ He plucked system away from a beneficial willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin try an enthusiastic archer an effective, And you will really you'll manage a shovel; The guy took his bent bow within his hands, And put him off by the flames. He took with your sixty bows and 10, Some animal meat, a different sort of of bacon. Of all of the birds for the merry England [.. birds one to ever before I look for?] Therefore merrily pipes the merry bottle. [.. pipelines the fresh new jay] [end] O sleepst thou otherwise wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the brand new rost it burnes, turne bullet about about- 'Pammelia', 1609

Untitled ‘News’ away from Bassus , 1530 [I think this is actually a medley regarding song contours

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John Ashton quotes just a bit of a belated backup, “A strange and Great Loved ones of the Dated Lady who had been drowned within Ratcliffe Path” for the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p

Since # 2013 into the Analytic Directory Rollins possess “The old Lady away from Ratcliffe highway, a piece out of paper called”. This is entered to a ballad printer, however, Rollins receive no duplicate. It had been afterwards provided since a great chapbook, is during prose, that will be an absurd facts in impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. As well as inside Thomson’s Pepys’ Cent Merriments .

No ‘backwards’ from inside the Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Trip,” U.S. II, p. 215. = “The Irishman’s Journey to London,” Paddy Whack’s Bottles Spouse , 1791. Paddy’s Trip to London area – While i got my departure- The new Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There was an excess from music away from Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, an such like, and you can “Ralph and you can Nell’s Ramble so you can Oxford” and the like which have comic adventures regarding big city where things are backwards with the ‘country yokels’ (perhaps, really, the only sane ones), c 1780 -1830.