This is a touch of amplification with the Brags, Miracles, Lies, farcical news for example Tom Share with-Facts, Hearsay Joan, Teague’s Ramble, Darby Ram, Red-herring, Wonderful Crocodile, Sow grabbed the brand new measles and you will she passed away in the spring, etc.
A song off 1519 appears to fool around with lines and you will parodies regarding traces of old tunes. It is good 'ballad' of Robin Hood sung because of the Ignorance for the 'The Interlude of your own Five Elements'. Robin Hood in Barnesdale endured, And you will leant your right until a maple thistle; After that came all of our Woman and you can sweet Saint Andrew; Sleepest thou, wakest thou, Geoffrey Coke? A hundred winter water try strong, [The water is broad?] I can not reveal how greater. The guy took a beneficial goose-neck inside the hand, And over the water he went. He kick-off to a thistle better, And clipped him down a hollen club. He coronary attack the fresh new wren beneath the horns, [Cutty Wren?] One flames popped out from the pig's end. Jack boy, is thy ribbon we-broke? Or hath people guy done the latest wriguldy wrag? [prinkum prankum/ And place them for the an excellent satchel! hinkum booby/ looby loo/ He plucked looks off a great willow, hokey pokey?] Wilkin is actually a keen archer a, And you will really could handle a spade; He got his bent bow inside the give, And put your down because of the flame. He got which have your sixty bows and you will ten, An article of meat, an alternative regarding bacon. Of the many birds in merry The united kingdomt [.. birds you to definitely actually I look for?] Therefore merrily water pipes the fresh merry bottle. [.. pipes the newest jay] [end] O sleepst thou or wakst thou Ieffery Cooke, the newest rost they burnes, turne bullet on about- 'Pammelia', 1609
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John Ashton prices a touch of a late duplicate, “A strange and Wonderful Family of your own Old Lady who was sunken during the Ratcliffe Street” in Ashton’s Chapbooks , p
Due to the fact # 2013 in Analytical Index Rollins features “The old Woman out-of Ratcliffe path, a piece of paper entitled”. This was inserted so you’re able to a beneficial ballad printer ink, however, Rollins discovered no duplicate. It was later provided because a chapbook, is actually prose, and that’s an absurd facts into the impossibilities. 273, 1882, 1966. And inside the Thomson’s Pepys’ Penny Merriments .
No ‘backwards’ during the Collins’ “Paddy Bull’s Journey,” You.S. II, p. 215. = “New Irishman’s Go London,” Paddy Whack’s Bottle Spouse , 1791. Paddy’s Trip to London area – Once i got my departure- The newest Shamrock or Hibernian Songster , p. 24, c 1808. There is an excess away from songs of Irishmen, Yorkshiremen, etc, and you may “Ralph and Nell’s Ramble in order to Oxford” and so on which have comic adventures on big-city where everything is backward into the ‘country yokels’ (possibly, most, truly the only sane of them), c 1780 -1830.