February 8th, 2024
Author: Simon Schaffer
Proper song is actually “The latest Upset Widow” regarding the 2nd quantity of New Dancing Grasp and Gay’s Polly
Ile go abreast of Thames And on dry land, Without getting carry’d from inside the barge, motorboat, or boat: Ile goe at a high tide “Twixt London and you can Gravesend; While the swift because good wherry We carefully can be flote: Then in place of chances Ile ticket Yarmouth sand, And you can courageously and properly from the Plimouth Ile home: Ile goe to the an email Unto the favorable Turke, Ith’ morne; as well as night Ile be heere tough at worke.
The naked in the cold temperatures, Ile swimming and that to Green-home, To Russia, Polony, in order to Denmark or Frost [Friesland And you may oft inside a humour In order to Holland you to definitely great Land. I work with, and you will showed up backe, but really no people me observes. You will find into the a-sudden Swum off to Spaine, At midnight, and you can heere, am againe. All this has actually We over In terms of details get appeare, Plus following this, as you immediately following will heare.
I have learned The read vocation, [sic] To see how starres while the planets doe disperse: I’m sure in a minute What is actually sone in all countries, As well as for seven yeeres shortly after, what incidents however shall show. In the event the French, Turke or Spaniard Against you collude, Ile burne their entire armies which have golf balls out-of insane-fire: [Greek flames? The newest decide to try out of a cannon I keep but a beneficial toy: I kill’d 30 thousand when i is however, a boy.
The newest victuals who would Gargantua sustaine The room regarding a great yeere I doe hold however, a bit: To have offer the brand new 10 tens and thousands of Waynes strongly laden, And that i in a day tend to eat all whit. Out of hogsheads the greatest That’s in virtually any house, Ile drink of twice twenty on an effective days Carowse; And you will blow thorow my personal nose Such as for instance a good blusterous gale, ‘Twill make thirty thousand high boats for so you can sayle.
Even in the event I have travel’d Through sword and courtesy flame, And earlier activities once the never did wane, Of the many type sof anybody, I detest a base Lyer, Just what talkes out-of adventures, yet never ever spotted none; For those who meete which have a fellow That prate, boast and lye, Tell him off my personal Excursion, he’l cease by-and-by. Ergo wishing real Souldiers Therefore honors raise, A beneficial fig to have base Lyers, thus i tend to give it up. Finis
The first in the is probable “Of Berwick to help you Dover, tern thousand minutes over” inside the BL MS Sloane 1489, f. twenty-six, and probably of the George Whetstone.
The latest Joviall Broome man:
Otherwise, A rent Street Souldier’s right family Of the many his Trip in Every Country. Their popular serves all are shewne right here, Such as which story doth appeare.
Roome for a lad which is are from waters, Hey jolly Broome-man, One joyfully today do just take their simplicity, Which build myself roome, guy.
Song was plainly that from the brand new play with Rather than Money , not posted up to far later on. It’s one to with the song toward “Widdow Brownish/ Sluggish Men from London” set to a bad pay attention Pills so you can Provide Melancholy .
Curiously the newest song has also been recognized because of the an Irish label because “The brand new Humours regarding Dublin” and you can try oft posted under it label, and as very early while the c 1726 when you look at the Dublin on Neals’ A choice Collection of Country Dances
** ‘Hollanders’ League’ wasn’t ‘Holland’s Leaguer’. The latter are a jargon label to own Mrs. Holland’s brothel, c 1625-32. Having Lawrence Price’s ‘tongue within the cheek’ malfunction from it, discover his “News Sydafrikanska kvinnliga personer regarding Holland’s Leaguer’ into the Vol. I of your own Pepys Ballads (with a great woodcut of the brothel). Age The netherlands was carted when you look at the Feb. 1598, and set inside Newgate until their unique okay out-of forty weight are paid back, for staying a beneficial brothel on Pickthatch.
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