A circulated variation is within the Merry Medley or a christmas time-Box to own Gay Gallants and you may An effective Companions , II, 1745

And you can ending so it theire maske The newest foole the lord did hold on their backe within the haste don’t carry out it tarry it rode so fast

[And you will Bels? out of all of them slip the fresh new bawde & Lady ran Unto the hospitall Byth' divel thither delivered a pox of all]

The fresh new beggar tooke the newest knight who tooke it from inside the derision The brand new Servint dejta heta siberian kvinnor bare having spight The fresh gentleman so you can prisin for everybody his you are going to

M. Simpson into the BBBM got the fresh new Tablets track just like the right one for those, providing it his #272

This new Cuckolde dumb people for all he had been abhorred the guy tooke the fresh Resident & ledde him of the forheade & aside it came

The other two passages of the Sloane MS text message are those given into the mounts about text message

The fresh new demon the guy likte it well His lotte it had been to carrie The Usurer so you’re able to hell quoth he here Shalte thou tarry with me in order to live

Are you aware that knave and you can C— [crossed-out Such as frends that have been genuine hearted it went away to one another & since that time never parted one on almost every other

Offered earliest the following is an early on duplicate of your song and you may track “History Xmas ’twas my personal chance.” It appears not to have started realized that new tune “Past Christmas ’twas my options,” here, plus Tablets in order to Provide Depression , V, twenty-five, 1719, (and in Tablets , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) is actually partially lent and you can partly imitated regarding Revesby Blade Gamble .

Brand new song of one’s track was cited from the first-line just like the one to for some broadside ballads, and you may C. This new tune, however, looks during the BL MS Add. 23723, f. 21, and you will appears to be from 1622, and, additionally, brand new manuscript provides the song, one to considering right here, which is not you to definitely when you look at the Tablets . So it text message and track do not seem to have started wrote. An excellent 14 verse particular the fresh new tune, no supposed, is actually BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. An incomplete copy, where far is actually forgotten in the 9 verses kept just like the away from shorn chapters of leaves, is actually BL MS Harl. 7332, f. 51. Enough stays to display that the two even more verses throughout the Sloane MS content were not within text sometimes.

Simpson is properly a little cautious from inside the pinpointing ballad music, and don’t associate “Gallants been away” that have “Last Xmas ’twas my personal chance,” however, we see both unique verse setting and you can chronology exit absolutely nothing doubt which they were an identical tune.

This new track try undoubtably you to definitely to your track on Percy Folio MS, “Panders become out” ( Sagging and Humorous Tunes , p. 104, 1868, 1963) cited while the song for broadside ballads because “Gallants been aside.” John Wardroper reprints several of “Panders already been away” regarding the Percy folio MS crazy and you may Drollery , #232, and provide worthwhile notes to help you they, that we will not recite entirely, however, have a tendency to expand on to some degree. The new mention of the Venetia Stanley from inside the verse #eleven sets the new song zero after than simply early 1725 whenever their particular matrimony to Sir Kenelm Digby was made public. She died, much venerated and you may lamented, for the 1733. Get a hold of Ben Jonson’s poem on her behalf, and her epitaph.

A few of the loose feminine and you can prostitutes stated in other passages of “Panders/ Gallants already been” was well known in addition to. During the Wardroper’s notes is an enthusiastic epigram with the (Dorothy?) Nott, from which there are a number of variations. That manuscript backup begins “Right here lays she that was Perhaps not produced, Perhaps not begot,” attributed to ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). It goes: