Right song try “The brand new Upset Widow” throughout the second volume of Brand new Dance Master and you will Gay’s Polly

Ile walking upon Thames As well as on dry land, Without being carry’d inside the barge, vessel, otherwise vessel: Ile goe from the a high wave “Twixt London area and you will Gravesend; Once the quick as the an effective wherry We finely can also be flote: And then in place of possibility Ile ticket Yarmouth mud, And courageously and you may securely within Plimouth Ile residential property: Ile goe for the an email Unto the good Turke, Ith’ morne; and also at night Ile getting heere difficult in the worke.

All of the undressed in the cold temperatures, Ile move and therefore to Eco-friendly-residential property, To Russia, Polony, to Denmark or Frost [Friesland And oft into the a great humour To The netherlands that okay Home. We manage, and you may came backe, yet zero people me observes. We have to your an abrupt Swum over to Spaine, At midnight, and heere, am againe. All this keeps I complete As for specifics will get appeare, And a lot more up coming all of this, because you immediately after should heare.

I also provide learned The read vocation, [sic] To see the starres while the planets doe move: I’m sure in a minute What exactly is sone in every places, And for eight yeeres just after, just what events still will prove. When the French, Turke or Spaniard Up against united states collude, Ile burne its entire armies which have testicle of crazy-fire: [Greek flames? The fresh new sample away from a cannon We keep but a great toy: We kill’d thirty thousand while i was but an excellent boy.

The latest victuals who Gargantua sustaine The room away from good yeere We doe hold however, a bit: Having give the new ten thousands of Waynes strongly packed, And i per day commonly eat all whit. Off hogsheads the most significant That’s in just about any house, Ile drink out-of double twenty during the good mornings Carowse; And strike thorow my nostrils Including a good blusterous gale, ‘Twill generate 30 thousand significant ships having so you’re able to sayle.

Regardless if I have travel’d Thanks to blade and you can as a result of flames, And you can earlier activities just like the never ever performed wane, Of the many sort sof some body, I dislike a bottom Lyer, What talkes from adventures, yet , never spotted not one; For many who meete having a fellow That prate, offer and lye, Simply tell him out-of my Travels, he’l quit by-and-by. Thus prepared genuine Souldiers For this reason prizes increase, A fig having base Lyers, thus i usually give it up. Finis

The first regarding the is probably “Out-of Berwick to help you Dover, tern thousand minutes more” within the BL MS Sloane 1489, f. twenty six, and most likely from the George Whetstone.

The newest Joviall Broome guy:

Or, A lease Highway Souldier’s specific relatives Of all of the his Trip inside the Every Country. Their well-known serves are shewne right here, Like in so it facts doth appeare.

Roome to possess a chap that’s are from seas, Hi jolly Broome-guy, You to definitely cheerfully now create need his convenience, And that make me roome, people.

Tune try obviously the ones from the brand new fool around with Versus Currency , although not posted up to far afterwards. It’s you to definitely towards the track on “Widdow Brownish/ Slow Guys out-of London area” set to the wrong tune in Pills to Throw up Depression .

Curiously the fresh song was also understood by a keen Irish name because the “This new Humours regarding Dublin” and you will is actually oft published below that it label, and also as early while the c 1726 inside Dublin on Neals’ An option Type of Nation Dances

** ‘Hollanders’ League’ was not ‘Holland’s Leaguer’. The second was a slang term for Mrs. Holland’s brothel, c 1625-32. To possess Lawrence Price’s ‘tongue in the cheek’ breakdown from it, come across his “Reports off Holland’s Leaguer’ inside Vol. We of your own Pepys Ballads (that have an excellent woodcut of the brothel). Age Holland is carted in the Feb. 1598, and place when you look at the Newgate until their okay of forty lbs is actually repaid, for staying good brothel within Pickthatch.