This is exactly just a bit of amplification towards Brags, Amazing things, Lies, farcical news instance Tom Give-Truth, Rumors Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red herring, Wonderful Crocodile, Sow got the latest measles and you will she died on spring, an such like.
A song out-of 1519 appears to use lines and you can parodies out-of lines from dated tunes. It is good 'ballad' of Robin Bonnet sung by Ignorance for the 'The Interlude of your Five Elements'. Robin Bonnet inside Barnesdale stood, And you may leant him right until a great maple thistle; Then emerged our Woman and you may nice Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? One hundred cold weather the water is actually strong, [The water try wider?] I can not inform you exactly how wide. He got a beneficial goose neck inside the give, As well as water the guy ran. The guy start in order to a beneficial thistle greatest, And reduce him off an effective hollen pub. He stroke the wren underneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] One to flames popped out from the pig's end. Jack boy, try thy ribbon we-broke? Otherwise hath one man done the newest wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And put all of them in the an effective satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ The guy plucked body out of a willow, hokey-pokey?] Wilkin is an enthusiastic archer a good, And better you will handle a shovel; He took his bent bow in the give, And put your down of the fire. He grabbed with him sixty bows and 10, A bit of meats, a unique regarding bacon. Of the many wild birds from inside the merry England [.. wild birds one actually I pick?] Therefore merrily water pipes the newest merry bottle. [.. pipelines brand new jay] [end] O sleepst thou or wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the fresh new rost it burnes, turne bullet on the in the- 'Pammelia', 1609
Untitled ‘News’ from Bassus , 1530 [I believe this is certainly a good medley out of track lines
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John Ashton estimates a bit of a later part of the backup, “A strange and you will Great Loved ones of one’s Old Woman who kvinnor Thai was simply sunken in the Ratcliffe Highway” from inside the Ashton’s Chapbooks , p
Because the # 2013 when you look at the Analytical List Rollins provides “The old Woman off Ratcliffe path, a layer out-of papers called”. This was inserted so you can a good ballad printer, but Rollins located zero copy. It had been later on awarded since the an effective chapbook, is during prose, that will be an absurd facts within the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. In addition to within the Thomson’s Pepys’ Penny Merriments .
Zero ‘backwards’ within the Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Journey,” You.S. II, p. 215. = “The newest Irishman’s Happen to be London,” Paddy Whack’s Container Lover , 1791. Paddy’s Visit to London – While i took my departure- New Shamrock otherwise Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There is certainly an excess regarding music off Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, an such like, and you can “Ralph and Nell’s Ramble to Oxford” etc with comic activities throughout the big-city where everything is backwards towards the ‘country yokels’ (possibly, most, really the only sane of them), c 1780 -1830.