This can be just a bit of amplification with the Brags, Miracles, Lies, farcical information for example Tom Give-Knowledge, Hearsay Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red herring, Great Crocodile, Sow grabbed the fresh new measles and you may she died regarding spring season, etc.
A track away from 1519 seems to play with traces and you will parodies from traces out-of old audio. It’s an excellent 'ballad' of Robin Bonnet sung by Ignorance within the 'The Interlude of one's Five Elements'. Robin Hood within the Barnesdale stood, And you will leant him right up until good maple thistle; Upcoming arrived the Lady and you will nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred cold temperatures water is deep, [Water is broad?] I can not let you know exactly how large. He took a good goose-neck inside the hands, As well as over the water the guy ran. The guy kick off so you can good thistle greatest, And you may slashed him down a good hollen club. The guy coronary arrest this new wren beneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] One to flame popped from the pig's end. Jack boy, was thy ribbon i-bankrupt? Or hath one people over the fresh wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And set all of them within the a great satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ The guy plucked body of a good willow, hokey-pokey?] Wilkin are an enthusiastic archer a beneficial, And you will really could manage a spade; He got his bent bow within his give, And set your down by flames. He took that have him sixty bows and you may ten, Some beef, yet another of bacon. Of the many birds into the merry The united kingdomt [.. birds you to actually I get a hold of?] Very merrily pipelines the new merry container. [.. water pipes the brand new jay] [end] O sleepst thou otherwise wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the newest rost it burnes, turne bullet regarding the in the- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ regarding Bassus , 1530 [I believe this is really a medley away from tune outlines
No division into the lines inside the modern. Notice Tomlyn seems here earlier than into the ‘The Complaynt regarding Scotland’. u having a bar regarding it I have offered in order to um.]
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John Ashton quotes a little bit of a late content, “A mystical and you may Great Family members of your Dated Lady who was simply drowned at Ratcliffe Street” inside the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p
Given that # 2013 in Analytical Index Rollins has actually “The outdated Woman away from Ratcliffe street, a piece of paper called”. This was joined so you’re able to an effective ballad printer ink, but Rollins located no backup. It actually was later provided given that a beneficial chapbook, is in prose Г¤r armeniska brudar en riktig sak, which can be an absurd story within the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. And additionally from inside the Thomson’s Pepys’ Cent Merriments .
No ‘backwards’ inside the Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Journey,” You.S. II, p. 215. = “The fresh Irishman’s Journey to London area,” Paddy Whack’s Container Lover , 1791. Paddy’s Visit to London area – Once i grabbed my personal deviation- The new Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There is an excess regarding music regarding Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, etc, and you will “Ralph and you can Nell’s Ramble in order to Oxford” and the like that have comical activities regarding the big city in which everything is backward into ‘country yokels’ (possibly, extremely, the only real sane of those), c 1780 -1830.