And you will stop that it theire maske The latest foole the lord did carry abreast of their backe from inside the haste no further create they tarry they rode rapidly

[And you may Bels? from all of them slide new bawde & Lady went Unto the newest hospitall Byth’ divel thither sent a great pox of the many]

The brand new beggar tooke the brand new knight which tooke they when you look at the derision The Servint exposed having spight The newest gentleman so you’re able to prisin for everybody his you are going to

Meters. Simpson when you look at the BBBM got new Pills tune just like the best you to for those, giving it his #272

The new Cuckolde foolish people for all he was abhorred the guy tooke the fresh new Citizen & ledde him of the forheade & away it arrived

The other several verses of one’s Sloane MS text are those provided in brackets on text message

The latest demon the guy likte it off His lotte it actually was so you can carrie The latest Usurer so you’re able to hell quoth he around Shalte thou tarry with me in order to live

When it comes to knave and C— [crossed-out Such as frends that have been real hearted they went out together & ever since then never ever parted that in the other

Considering earliest here’s a young copy of your tune and you will track “Past Christmas time ’twas my personal chance.” It appears to not have come pointed out that the latest song “Last Xmas ’twas my chance,” right here, plus in Tablets in order to Purge Depression , V, twenty-five, 1719, (as well as within the Tablets , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) is actually partly lent and partly imitated regarding the Revesby Sword Gamble .

New track of your track is actually quoted by the first-line due to the fact you to definitely for the majority of broadside ballads, and C. Brand new track, but not, appears in BL MS Add. 23723, f. 21, and you will appears to be from 1622, and you can, furthermore, the manuscript has got the track, one considering here, that isn’t you to from inside the Tablets . That it text message and you may tune don’t appear to have become blogged. A good 14 verse particular the latest tune, with no going, is during BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. An unfinished copy, where far are forgotten on 9 verses leftover since the away from shorn parts of simply leaves, is within BL MS Harl. 7332, f. 51. Enough remains to exhibit your a few a lot more passages regarding the Sloane MS duplicate just weren’t inside text message either.

Simpson are safely some cautious into the identifying ballad musical, and you can failed to associate “Gallants started aside” with “Past Xmas ’twas my personal chance,” however, we see both the special verse function and chronology get off absolutely nothing question which they was a comparable song.

The newest track is undoubtably one on track on Percy Folio MS, “Panders come out” ( Loose and Funny Sounds , p. 104, 1868, 1963) cited given that song getting broadside ballads while the “Gallants become out.” John Wardroper reprints the “Panders started away” about Percy folio MS in love and you can Drollery , #232, and provide beneficial notes to they, that i doesn’t repeat totally, but commonly build on to some degree. The new mention of Venetia Stanley in verse #eleven places the fresh track zero later on than simply very early 1725 whenever their unique marriage to Sir Kenelm Digby was developed personal. She died, far venerated and you may lamented, during the 1733. Find Ben Jonson’s poem on the, and her epitaph.

A few of the shed women and prostitutes stated various other verses out-of “Panders/ Gallants come” was indeed infamous and. When you look at the Wardroper’s notes are an epigram into the (Dorothy?) Nott, of which you will find a number of versions. You to manuscript backup begins “Here lays she which had been Perhaps not created, Maybe not begot,” attributed to ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). This happens: