And you may finish which theire maske The foole the lord did hold on their backe into the haste don’t perform they tarry they rode so fast
[And you may Bels? away from all of them fall new bawde & Woman ran Unto the hospitall Byth’ divel thither sent an excellent pox of the many]
The beggar tooke brand new knight who tooke they in the derision This new Servint uncovered with spight The new gentleman to prisin for everyone his might
The new Cuckolde dumb guy for all he was abhorred the guy tooke the fresh Resident & ledde your by forheade & aside it arrived
The demon he likte it well His lotte it had been so you can carrie New Usurer in order to hell quoth he indeed there Shalte thou tarry beside me to stay
When it comes to knave and C— [crossed out For example frends which were true hearted they ran aside to each other & subsequently never parted one on the almost every other
Given first let me reveal an early content of your tune and you will tune “Past Xmas ’twas my chance.” It appears to be to not have started pointed out that this new tune “Last Xmas ’twas my personal possibility,” here, as well as in Tablets so you can Throw up Melancholy , V, 25, 1719, (as well as for the Pills , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) was partly lent and you will partially imitated throughout the Revesby Sword Play .
New song of your track is actually cited of the first line as the that for some broadside ballads, and you will C. The brand new song, yet not, seems from inside the BL MS Incorporate. 23723, f. 21, and you can seems to be off 1622, and you can, more over, brand new manuscript has got the tune, that considering here, that’s not you to definitely for the Pills . It text message and you will track don’t appear to have already been published. An excellent 14 verse form of the fresh song, without heading, is within BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. An incomplete backup, where much are destroyed throughout the 9 verses remaining once the regarding shorn sections of will leave, is during BL MS Harl. 7332, f. 51. Adequate remains to demonstrate your a couple more passages regarding the Sloane MS duplicate just weren’t contained in this text message sometimes.
Simpson are properly a bit cautious for the determining ballad sounds, and don’t associate “Gallants started out” which have “Past Christmas time ’twas my personal possibility,” but we see both the special verse form and you may chronology hop out little doubt which they was in fact a similar song.
Brand new track try undoubtably you to towards tune regarding Percy Folio MS, “Panders already been away” ( Shed and you may Amusing Sounds , p. 104, 1868, 1963) cited because the song having broadside ballads as the “Gallants come aside.” John Wardroper reprints a few of “Panders already been aside” on the Percy folio MS crazy and you can Drollery , #232, and supply beneficial notes to it, that we cannot repeat completely, but often develop onto some degree. The brand new regard to Venetia Stanley inside verse #11 sets the brand new song zero later than early 1725 when their matrimony to help you Sir Kenelm Digby was developed social. She died, far venerated and you will lamented, during the 1733. Select Ben Jonson’s poem on the, along with her epitaph.
A few of the sagging women and prostitutes mentioned in other verses of “Panders/ Gallants become” was infamous along with. From inside the Wardroper’s notes try an epigram for the (Dorothy?) Nott, from which you can find a few alternatives. That manuscript content begins “Here lies she which had been Maybe not born, Not begot,” attributed to ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). It happens:
