A published type is in the Merry Medley otherwise a christmas-Package to have Gay Gallants and you can A good Friends , II, 1745

And end that it theire maske The foole the father did hold up on his backe when you look at the rush don’t manage it tarry they rode so fast

[And you will Bels? of all of them slip the bawde & Woman ran Unto the newest hospitall Byth' divel thither sent a beneficial pox of all]

The brand new beggar tooke the knight exactly who tooke they inside the derision The brand new Servint uncovered that have spight The newest gentleman so you’re able to prisin for everybody his might

New Cuckolde silly people for everybody he was abhorred he tooke new Citizen & ledde your because of the forheade & out they appeared

New mention of the Venetia Stanley in the verse #11 leaves the tune no later on than just very early 1725 whenever their own matrimony so you can Sir Kenelm Digby was made social

The fresh new devil he likte it well His lotte it had been to carrie New Usurer in order to hell quoth the guy truth be told there Shalte thou tarry with me in order to live

When it comes to knave and you will C— [crossed out For example frends that were real hearted it went aside to one another & since that time never parted one about almost every other

An unfinished backup, in which much are destroyed from the 9 passages leftover given that from shorn sections of departs, is during BL MS Harl

Provided first we have found a young content of your track and song “History Christmas ’twas my possibility.” It looks to not have been realized that the track “Last Christmas ’twas my personal chance,” right here, and also in Tablets to Purge Melancholy , V, 25, 1719, (and within the Tablets , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) was partially borrowed and partially imitated throughout the Revesby Sword Enjoy .

This new track of the tune are cited of the first line because the one to for many broadside ballads, and C. M. Simpson for the BBBM grabbed the latest Pills tune as right that for those, providing it as their #272. New song, yet not, looks inside BL MS Put. 23723, f Italienske singler. 21, and seems to be of 1622, and you will, also, the fresh new manuscript has the track, one to considering right here, that is not one into the Pills . So it text message and you will tune don’t seem to have been wrote. An effective fourteen verse variety of the fresh song, without supposed, is during BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. 7332, f. 51. Sufficient remains showing the a couple of more verses from the Sloane MS copy were not contained in this text message possibly. The extra a couple of passages of one’s Sloane MS text message are the ones offered in the supports about text message.

Simpson are safely somewhat cautious in the identifying ballad music, and failed to equate “Gallants started out” that have “Past Christmas ’twas my opportunity,” however, we see the special verse mode and chronology hop out nothing question which they had been a comparable song.

The fresh new song was undoubtably you to definitely toward tune regarding the Percy Folio MS, “Panders started away” ( Sagging and you may Humorous Sounds , p. 104, 1868, 1963) cited given that song having broadside ballads because the “Gallants been aside.” John Wardroper reprints a few of “Panders come out” on the Percy folio MS crazy and you may Drollery , #232, and provide worthwhile cards to help you it, which i does not recite completely, but have a tendency to expand onto some degree. She passed away, far venerated and lamented, inside 1733. Come across Ben Jonson’s poem on her behalf, and her epitaph.

A number of the shed women and prostitutes mentioned in other passages regarding “Panders/ Gallants become” have been well known including. In the Wardroper’s cards is actually an enthusiastic epigram into (Dorothy?) Nott, from which you will find a few variants. You to manuscript copy begins “Here lays she that was Not born, Not begot,” attributed to ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). Which happens: