And end this theire maske The fresh new foole god performed bring abreast of their backe when you look at the rush not any longer perform it tarry it rode so fast
[And you can Bels? out-of them slip new bawde & Woman ran Unto the hospitall Byth’ divel thither sent an excellent pox of all]
New beggar tooke the new knight exactly who tooke it in the derision New Servint bare which have spight New gentleman to help you prisin for all their might
M. Simpson in the BBBM took new Tablets tune given that right one for those, giving it his #272
The new Cuckolde silly people for all he was abhorred he tooke the new Resident & ledde him of the forheade & out they emerged
The extra a couple of passages of one’s Sloane MS text are the ones offered for the brackets in the text message
The brand new devil the guy likte it well Their lotte it had been so you can carrie The newest Usurer to heck quoth the guy around Shalte thou tarry beside me so you can dwell
Are you aware that knave and you will C— [crossed-out For example frends that were genuine hearted they went away to each other & ever since then never parted you to definitely on the most other
Considering earliest we have found an early on content of tune and you can tune “History Christmas time ’twas my possibility.” It appears to not have started pointed out that the brand new tune “Last Christmas ’twas my personal opportunity,” here, plus het mumbaian tjej Tablets so you’re able to Provide Melancholy , V, twenty-five, 1719, (and additionally into the Tablets , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) is actually partially borrowed and you will partly imitated from the Revesby Sword Play .
The fresh new tune of your song is actually quoted by first line given that you to definitely for almost all broadside ballads, and you may C. The song, yet not, appears for the BL MS Include. 23723, f. 21, and is apparently of 1622, and you will, more over, the brand new manuscript has got the song, you to provided here, which is not that inside the Tablets . This text message and you may track don’t appear to have come penned. A great 14 verse style of the new tune, with no going, is during BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. An unfinished duplicate, in which far is actually destroyed about nine passages left once the out of shorn parts of leaves, is actually BL MS Harl. 7332, f. 51. Adequate stays to exhibit your several most verses regarding the Sloane MS backup weren’t within this text message possibly.
Simpson is actually safely some mindful into the pinpointing ballad tunes, and you will don’t associate “Gallants come away” which have “Past Christmas time ’twas my personal options,” but we see both the unique verse mode and you may chronology get off absolutely nothing doubt that they was basically a similar song.
The fresh new song try undoubtably one for the track regarding the Percy Folio MS, “Panders been away” ( Reduce and you may Amusing Sounds , p. 104, 1868, 1963) cited due to the fact track to own broadside ballads just like the “Gallants become out.” John Wardroper reprints a few of “Panders been aside” in the Percy folio MS crazy and you will Drollery , #232, and gives beneficial cards to it, that we doesn’t repeat totally, but commonly expand to some extent. This new mention of the Venetia Stanley for the verse #eleven sets new tune zero later on than very early 1725 whenever their relationship in order to Sir Kenelm Digby was created societal. She died, much venerated and lamented, inside 1733. Get a hold of Ben Jonson’s poem on the, along with her epitaph.
A few of the sagging female and prostitutes said various other verses out of “Panders/ Gallants come” was well known including. In Wardroper’s notes are a keen epigram on (Dorothy?) Nott, of which there are a number of variations. One to manuscript backup commences “Here lies she that was Perhaps not produced, Not begot,” associated with ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). This goes:
