And ending it theire maske The newest foole the father performed carry upon their backe within the haste not would they tarry they rode rapidly
[And you will Bels? out-of them slide the fresh new bawde & Woman ran Unto new hospitall Byth’ divel thither sent a great pox of all]
Brand new beggar tooke the latest knight who tooke they into the derision The new Servint exposed with spight The newest gentleman to prisin for everybody their might
The brand new Cuckolde foolish man for everybody he had been abhorred the guy tooke new Resident & ledde your because of the forheade & out they appeared
Brand new mention of Venetia Stanley inside the verse #11 throws this new song no later on than simply very early 1725 when their own matrimony so you can Sir Kenelm Digby was made public
The newest devil the guy likte it off His lotte it had been so you’re able to carrie The fresh Usurer to help you hell quoth the guy there Shalte thou tarry beside me so you’re able to stay
As for the knave and you will C— [crossed-out Such as frends that have been genuine hearted it went aside together & subsequently never parted one to on the other
An unfinished backup, where far is shed on the 9 passages left since the from shorn parts of leaves, is within BL MS Harl
Given earliest let me reveal a young duplicate of track and you can tune “Past Christmas time ’twas my personal options.” It appears not to have been realized that the fresh song “Past Christmas ’twas my personal chance,” right here, and in Tablets so you can Purge Melancholy , V, 25, 1719, (together with when you look at the Pills , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) is actually partly borrowed and you may partly copied from the Revesby Blade Gamble .
Brand new song of your song is actually cited because of the first line once the that for most broadside ballads, and you may C. Meters. Simpson inside BBBM got brand new Pills song once the best you to definitely for those, providing it as his #272. The fresh new track, although not, appears during the BL MS Include. 23723, f. 21, and is apparently regarding 1622, and you may, moreover, this new manuscript comes with the track, you to offered right here, that’s not one into the Pills . It text message and tune don’t seem to have become penned. A great 14 verse particular the new track, without supposed, is actually BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. 7332, f. 51. Adequate stays to display the several additional passages in the Sloane MS duplicate were not within text possibly. The excess two passages of one’s Sloane MS text message are the ones offered for the supports on the text message.
Simpson try safely somewhat cautious during the determining ballad songs, and you can didn’t associate “Gallants been away” which have “Last Christmas time ’twas my personal possibility,” but we see the special verse form and you will chronology log off little question that they have been the same song.
The fresh track is actually undoubtably you to on track on Percy Folio MS, “Panders been aside” ( Shed and you will Funny Sounds , p. 104, 1868, 1963) quoted due to the fact track to own broadside ballads given that “Gallants become away.” John Wardroper reprints some of “Panders been out” from the Percy folio MS in love and Drollery , #232, and supply worthwhile notes in order to they, that we will not repeat totally, however, will grow onto some extent. She died, much venerated and lamented, into the 1733. See Ben Jonson’s poem on her behalf, and her epitaph.
A number of the sagging female and you can prostitutes mentioned in other verses from “Panders/ Gallants already been” were notorious also. In the Wardroper’s cards try an enthusiastic epigram to the (Dorothy?) Nott, from which you can find a few versions. You to manuscript copy commences “Here lies she that was Maybe not created, Not begot,” caused by ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). Which happens: