This will be just a bit of amplification to the Brags, Wonders, Lays, farcical news eg Tom Share with-Insights, Rumors Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red herring, Great Crocodile, Sow grabbed the new measles and you will she passed away regarding the springtime, etc.

A track out-of 1519 generally seems to fool around with contours and you will parodies away from contours of dated tunes. It’s good 'ballad' away from Robin Hood sung by the Lack of knowledge in the 'The Interlude of Five Elements'. Robin Bonnet within the Barnesdale endured, And you can leant your right up until a beneficial maple thistle; Following came our very own Lady and you can nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred winter months water was deep, [The water are wide?] I cannot inform you how wider. He got good goose-neck inside the hands, As well as water he ran. The guy start so you're able to an effective thistle most readily useful, And you may cut him down good hollen bar. The guy heart attack brand new wren below the horns, [Cutty Wren?] You to definitely flame popped out of the pig's tail. Jack boy, was thy bend we-broke? Otherwise hath any man done this new wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And put all of them in an excellent satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ He plucked muscles away from a beneficial willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin is a keen archer a good, And really you may manage a spade; He got their curved bow within his hands, And put him down from the flame. He got which have your sixty bows and you will 10, A bit of meat, another from bacon. Of the many birds within the merry The united kingdomt [.. birds you to ever We come across?] So merrily pipes the brand new merry package. [.. water pipes the new jay] [end] O sleepst thou or wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the newest rost it burnes, turne bullet regarding throughout the- 'Pammelia', 1609

Untitled ‘News’ regarding Bassus , 1530 [I do believe which Salinas, PR girls are most beautiful this is actually an effective medley regarding song lines

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John Ashton quotes just a bit of a belated content, “A mystical and you will Great Family of your Dated Lady who was simply sunken within Ratcliffe Road” within the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p

Because the # 2013 during the Analytical List Rollins keeps “The old Woman off Ratcliffe street, a sheet off report titled”. It was registered in order to good ballad printer, however, Rollins discovered no copy. It had been after granted while the an effective chapbook, is in prose, that will be a nonsensical facts in the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. In addition to within the Thomson’s Pepys’ Penny Merriments .

No ‘backwards’ inside the Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Journey,” U.S. II, p. 215. = “The brand new Irishman’s Happen to be London area,” Paddy Whack’s Container Companion , 1791. Paddy’s Stop by at London – As i got my deviation- The new Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There’s an overabundance regarding musical out of Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, etcetera, and you will “Ralph and you may Nell’s Ramble so you can Oxford” etc with comic activities regarding the big city where things are backwards into the ‘country yokels’ (maybe, extremely, the only real sane of them), c 1780 -1830.