A released type is within the Merry Medley otherwise a christmas-Package to have Gay Gallants and A good Friends , II, 1745

— A released type is within the Merry Medley otherwise a christmas-Package to have Gay Gallants and A good Friends , II, 1745

A released type is within the Merry Medley otherwise a christmas-Package to have Gay Gallants and A good Friends , II, 1745

And you will ending so it theire maske The new foole the lord did carry up on their backe when you look at the haste no longer create it tarry they rode rapidly

[And you will Bels? regarding them fall the bawde & Lady ran Unto this new hospitall Byth’ divel thither delivered a great pox of the many]

This new beggar tooke the fresh knight just who tooke they in the derision This new Servint exposed which have spight The gentleman to prisin for all their Baltican kone might

New Cuckolde stupid people for everyone he was abhorred he tooke the fresh Citizen & ledde your by the forheade & away they showed up

New regard to Venetia Stanley into the verse #11 sets brand new tune zero afterwards than just very early 1725 when their own marriage so you’re able to Sir Kenelm Digby is made public

The new devil he likte it well His lotte it absolutely was in order to carrie The fresh new Usurer to hell quoth he here Shalte thou tarry beside me to stay

When it comes to knave and you will C— [crossed-out Such as frends that were real hearted they went out to each other & since then never ever parted one throughout the other

An unfinished duplicate, where far is forgotten from the 9 passages remaining as the away from shorn sections of leaves, is actually BL MS Harl

Given basic listed here is an earlier content of one’s tune and track “Past Christmas ’twas my options.” It appears not to have come pointed out that this new track “History Christmas ’twas my options,” here, plus Tablets so you’re able to Purge Depression , V, twenty five, 1719, (also in Pills , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) try partially borrowed and partially copied regarding the Revesby Blade Gamble .

The latest track of song try cited by first-line because the one for many broadside ballads, and you will C. Yards. Simpson in the BBBM grabbed this new Pills track because proper one for those, giving it his #272. The newest tune, however, looks during the BL MS Put. 23723, f. 21, and you will seems to be off 1622, and you may, moreover, the fresh new manuscript has got the track, that provided here, which is not you to definitely inside the Tablets . Which text message and you will song do not seem to have been wrote. A beneficial fourteen verse types of the newest track, and no heading, is actually BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. 7332, f. 51. Sufficient remains to demonstrate that the two additional passages about Sloane MS copy were not in this text message possibly. The additional several passages of one’s Sloane MS text are those given during the supports throughout the text.

Simpson is actually safely some mindful during the identifying ballad sounds, and you will did not equate “Gallants started away” which have “Past Christmas ’twas my possibility,” however, we see the special verse form and chronology leave little question that they was basically a comparable song.

The fresh song was undoubtably you to definitely on song regarding the Percy Folio MS, “Panders started out” ( Sagging and you can Amusing Musical , p. 104, 1868, 1963) cited since track to own broadside ballads while the “Gallants started away.” John Wardroper reprints the “Panders been out” about Percy folio MS crazy and you may Drollery , #232, and offer worthwhile notes so you’re able to it, that we cannot recite entirely, but often build on to some extent. She passed away, much venerated and lamented, inside the 1733. Look for Ben Jonson’s poem on her behalf, along with her epitaph.

A few of the loose women and prostitutes mentioned various other passages off “Panders/ Gallants already been” have been well known plus. Inside the Wardroper’s cards try an epigram into (Dorothy?) Nott, of which there are a few alternatives. One to manuscript content begins “Right here lies she that has been Not produced, Not begot,” related to ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). That it goes:

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