A circulated version is within the Merry Medley otherwise a christmas-Field for Gay Gallants and you will An excellent Friends , II, 1745
And end so it theire maske The foole the lord performed carry upon his backe during the haste not any longer create it tarry it rode so fast
[And you will Bels? out-of all of them fall the brand new bawde & Lady ran Unto the brand new hospitall Byth’ divel thither sent an excellent pox of all]
The fresh new beggar tooke the knight exactly who tooke it in derision The latest Servint bare that have spight The newest gentleman so you’re able to prisin for everyone their you will
M. Simpson during the BBBM took the brand new Tablets track as proper one of these, giving it their #272
The fresh Cuckolde dumb people for everyone he was abhorred the guy tooke the brand new Resident Australiska modellerar Г¤ktenskap & ledde him because of the forheade & away they arrived
The excess a couple passages of one’s Sloane MS text message are those considering inside brackets in the text
The new demon the guy likte it well Their lotte it was to carrie Brand new Usurer so you’re able to hell quoth he around Shalte thou tarry with me so you’re able to live
When it comes to knave and you may C— [crossed-out Like frends that were correct hearted they ran away to one another & ever since then never parted you to regarding the almost every other
Given earliest here is an early on copy of one’s song and you can track “History Christmas time ’twas my possibility.” It looks not to have already been realized that the fresh new track “Past Christmas ’twas my personal chance,” here, and in Pills so you’re able to Provide Depression , V, twenty five, 1719, (and additionally inside Tablets , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) was partly lent and partly copied in the Revesby Sword Gamble .
Brand new tune of one’s track are quoted by the first line as the that for most broadside ballads, and you can C. The tune, yet not, seems from inside the BL MS Put. 23723, f. 21, and you may is apparently regarding 1622, and you may, moreover, this new manuscript provides the track, you to definitely provided right here, that isn’t that into the Pills . Which text and track don’t appear to have started authored. A great 14 verse brand of the brand new song, and no going, is in BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. An incomplete backup, in which much are missing from the 9 passages kept as the out-of shorn areas of makes, is actually BL MS Harl. 7332, f. 51. Sufficient stays to exhibit that the several extra verses regarding Sloane MS content just weren’t within text both.
Simpson is actually properly somewhat cautious when you look at the identifying ballad audio, and you will didn’t equate “Gallants been away” which have “Last Christmas ’twas my possibility,” but we see both unique verse mode and chronology get-off little doubt that they was in fact a similar track.
This new song was undoubtably that towards the song regarding the Percy Folio MS, “Panders become aside” ( Shed and Amusing Musical , p. 104, 1868, 1963) quoted since the song to possess broadside ballads once the “Gallants come away.” John Wardroper reprints several of “Panders already been away” on the Percy folio MS in love and you can Drollery , #232, and gives beneficial notes to help you it, that we doesn’t recite totally, but tend to expand to some extent. Brand new regard to Venetia Stanley into the verse #11 sets the latest song zero afterwards than early 1725 whenever their unique marriage in order to Sir Kenelm Digby was made social. She passed away, much venerated and you may lamented, for the 1733. Get a hold of Ben Jonson’s poem on the, and her epitaph.
A few of the sagging female and prostitutes stated in other passages regarding “Panders/ Gallants already been” was in fact notorious also. For the Wardroper’s cards try an epigram for the (Dorothy?) Nott, from which there are a few variations. That manuscript copy kicks off “Here lies she that has been Not born, Maybe not begot,” caused by ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). It happens: