This is certainly a little bit of amplification towards the Brags, Amazing things, Lays, farcical development instance Tom Tell-Truth, Hearsay Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red herring, Wonderful Crocodile, Sow took the measles and you may she passed away on the spring, etc.
A track off 1519 appears to have fun with contours and you may parodies out of lines out-of old tunes. It is an effective 'ballad' away from Robin Hood sung because of the Ignorance in 'The Interlude of your Four Elements'. Robin Hood when you look at the Barnesdale stood, And you will leant him right up until a great maple thistle; Next came all of our Lady and you can sweet Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred cold temperatures water is deep, [The water is greater?] I can not reveal exactly how large. The guy got a beneficial goose neck within his hands, As well as over water he ran. The guy start up so you can a good thistle top, And you will cut your off an effective hollen club. He stroke the latest wren below the horns var man hittar Georgian kvinnor, [Cutty Wren?] You to definitely fire sprang out of the pig's tail. Jack boy, is thy bow i-bankrupt? Otherwise hath people guy over brand new wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And set all of them inside the a good satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ He plucked body away from a beneficial willow, hokey-pokey?] Wilkin is actually an archer a, And you will well you will manage a shovel; He got their bent bend in the hands, And put him off because of the flames. The guy took having him sixty bows and you may 10, A piece of meat, another type of away from bacon. Of all birds in the merry England [.. birds one actually ever We come across?] Thus merrily pipes this new merry bottles. [.. pipelines this new jay] [end] O sleepst thou or wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the fresh new rost they burnes, turne bullet about on- 'Pammelia', 1609
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Since # 2013 in the Analytic Directory Rollins have “The old Lady away from Ratcliffe road, a piece of report entitled”. It was inserted to a beneficial ballad printer, however, Rollins discovered no content. It had been after awarded just like the a great chapbook, is actually prose, in fact it is a nonsensical story into the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. Together with inside Thomson’s Pepys’ Cent Merriments .
No ‘backwards’ for the Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Trip,” You.S. II, p. 215. = “The Irishman’s Go London area,” Paddy Whack’s Container Mate , 1791. Paddy’s Trip to London area – While i grabbed my departure- The Shamrock or Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There can be an overabundance off sounds off Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, an such like, and you will “Ralph and you may Nell’s Ramble so you’re able to Oxford” and the like with comical activities throughout the big city where everything is backward toward ‘country yokels’ (maybe, most, the sole sane of them), c 1780 -1830.
