And you can stop this theire maske This new foole the lord did bring upon their backe inside the haste not any longer create it tarry they rode so fast
[And you may Bels? out of them slide the latest bawde & Lady went Unto this new hospitall Byth’ divel thither sent a great pox of all the]
The newest beggar tooke the knight whom tooke they in the derision The fresh new Servint exposed with spight The gentleman in order to prisin for everyone their might
M. Simpson from inside the BBBM took the fresh new Pills song just like the best one to of these, giving it their #272
New Cuckolde stupid people for everyone he was abhorred the guy tooke the brand new Resident & ledde him because of the forheade & out it arrived
The other a couple of verses of your own Sloane MS text are those offered within the mounts about text message
The newest demon he likte it off His lotte it had been in order to carrie This new Usurer so you can hell quoth the guy here Shalte thou tarry beside me so you can live
As for the knave and you will C— [crossed out Like frends which were genuine hearted it went away to each other & subsequently never ever parted one on the most other
Considering basic here’s an earlier content of your track and you may song “History Xmas ’twas my personal opportunity.” It appears not to have already been noticed that the fresh new tune “History Christmas ’twas my personal possibility,” here, and also in Tablets to help you Purge Depression , V, 25, 1719, (including in the Pills , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) are partly lent and you will partly imitated from the Revesby Sword Enjoy .
The track of track was quoted by the first-line given that you to definitely for some broadside ballads, and you can C. The new track, but not, seems into the BL MS Incorporate. 23723, f. 21, and you may is apparently of 1622, and, more over, the fresh new manuscript has got the tune, that given right here, that is not you to definitely within the Pills . So it text message and tune do not seem to have already been blogged. A great fourteen verse style of the tune, no supposed, is actually BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. An incomplete content, where much is actually forgotten in the nine verses remaining since of shorn areas of leaves, is within BL MS Harl. 7332, f. 51. Enough stays to exhibit that one or two additional verses about Sloane MS content weren’t within this text message often.
Simpson try securely some mindful from inside the distinguishing ballad tunes byrГҐ Latin Feels, and you may don’t equate “Gallants become away” having “Past Christmas ’twas my possibility,” but we come across both the distinctive verse setting and you may chronology get-off nothing doubt which they was an equivalent tune.
The latest track is undoubtably you to to your track throughout the Percy Folio MS, “Panders started out” ( Shed and you may Amusing Songs , p. 104, 1868, 1963) cited once the song having broadside ballads while the “Gallants already been aside.” John Wardroper reprints several of “Panders already been out” about Percy folio MS crazy and you can Drollery , #232, and supply rewarding notes in order to they, which i cannot recite completely, but often build to some extent. The fresh mention of the Venetia Stanley inside the verse #eleven leaves the song no after than early 1725 when their marriage to help you Sir Kenelm Digby was created public. She died, much venerated and you can lamented, into the 1733. Select Ben Jonson’s poem on the, along with her epitaph.
A number of the shed women and you can prostitutes mentioned in other verses out-of “Panders/ Gallants become” was indeed infamous along with. In the Wardroper’s cards is actually an enthusiastic epigram towards the (Dorothy?) Nott, from which discover a several variations. One manuscript content commences “Right here lays she which had been Not born, Perhaps not begot,” related to ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). So it happens: