A published type is in the Merry Medley or a christmas-Box having Gay Gallants and you will A great Companions , II, 1745
And you will stop it theire maske The newest foole god did hold abreast of their backe during the haste not any longer manage it tarry it rode rapidly
[And Bels? from all of them slip the fresh new bawde & Woman went Unto the latest hospitall Byth’ divel thither delivered a good pox of all of the]
The fresh beggar tooke brand new knight who tooke they within the derision The fresh Servint exposed with spight The fresh guy so you can prisin for all his you’ll
Yards. Simpson during the BBBM grabbed the brand new Pills song while the best you to for these, providing it their #272
New Cuckolde stupid man for all he was abhorred he tooke new Citizen & ledde him from the forheade & aside they showed up
The other one or two passages of one’s Sloane MS text are the ones offered inside supports about text
The fresh new demon the guy likte it off His lotte it actually was so you’re able to carrie The brand new Usurer in order to hell quoth the guy here Shalte thou tarry with me so you’re able to live
As for the knave and you may C— [crossed-out Including frends that have been true hearted it ran away to one another & since then never ever parted one to on the most other
Provided first here is an earlier duplicate of one’s track and you may track “Last Xmas ‘twas my personal chance.” It appears not to have been realized that the fresh new song “Past Christmas time ‘twas my personal chance,” here, along with Tablets so you’re able to Provide Melancholy , V, twenty five, 1719, (also for the Tablets , III, p. 97-8, 1707; III, p. 97-8, 1714) try partially lent and you may partly copied regarding the Revesby Blade Play .
The track of the tune was cited by the first line because one to for many broadside ballads, and C. The brand new track, however, seems from inside the BL MS Add. 23723, f. 21, and you will seems to be out-of 1622, . . . . . . and you may, also, brand new manuscript contains the track, one to provided right here, that’s not one in Pills . This text and you will tune don’t seem to have already been published. A great fourteen verse types of the brand new song, with no heading, is in BL MS Sloane 1489, f. 5v. An incomplete copy, in which far is actually lost in the 9 passages left because the from shorn chapters of actually leaves, is actually BL MS Harl. 7332, f. 51. Adequate remains to display that the a couple additional verses throughout the Sloane MS content weren’t contained in this text sometimes.
Simpson was securely slightly cautious in the distinguishing ballad music, and you will didn’t associate “Gallants already been aside” with “Past Christmas ‘twas my personal opportunity,” however, we come across both unique verse means and you will chronology get-off nothing doubt that they were an identical track.
Brand new tune try undoubtably you to definitely into the track on Percy Folio MS, “Panders started away” ( Reduce and Funny Tunes , p. 104, 1868, 1963) quoted because the tune to possess broadside ballads as the “Gallants already been aside.” John Wardroper reprints the “Panders been away” in the Percy folio MS crazy and you can Drollery , #232, and provide beneficial cards in order to it, that we does not repeat completely, but often develop to some degree. The fresh regard to Venetia Stanley from inside the verse #eleven leaves new tune no afterwards than early 1725 whenever her wedding so you’re able to Sir Kenelm Digby is made social. She died, much venerated and you will lamented, inside the 1733. Discover Ben Jonson’s Russian Beauty Date mobil poem on her behalf, along with her epitaph.
A number of the sagging female and prostitutes stated in other verses out of “Panders/ Gallants already been” had been infamous in addition to. Inside the Wardroper’s notes try a keen epigram towards (Dorothy?) Nott, at which you’ll find a number of versions. One to manuscript copy begins “Right here lays she that has been Maybe not created, Perhaps not begot,” attributed to ‘vicount St. Alban’ (Bodleian MS Rawl. B 151). That it happens:
