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A Christmas Play [Broughton, Lincs.] - Text A - 1824
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Line	A Christmas Play [Broughton, Lincs.] - Text A - 1824	The "Plouboys oR modes dancers" at Revesby 1779
1.	gentlemen and ladies
2.	i m come to see you all
3.	this merry time of christmas
4.	i neither knock nor call
5.	i come in so brisk and bold
6.	with confidence i say
7.	what can you expect of a fool
8.	that knows no other way
9.	a fool i know i am
10.	and so do you
11.	fools and little children
12.	for most parts speaks true
13.	my name is noble anthony	my name it is noubel antony
14.	i m as live and as blyth and as mad
15.	and as melancholy as that mantletree	i am as mallencoly as the manteltree
16.	make room for noble anthony	make room for noubel antony
17.	and all his jovial company	and all his good cumpany
18.	when i was a maid in blooming years
19.	my pleasure was all in pride
20.	my tatling tongue could never lie still
21.	in service to abide
22.	i thought it long all in my arms
23.	a young man to embrace
24.	but instead of a man i meet with a clown
25.	is not that a sad pitiful case
26.	a pitiful case indeed madam
27.	hey ho wher s all this paltry poor
28.	still paltry in this place
29.	and yet not perfect for shame
30.	step forth
31.	peoples eyes look s dim
32.	with a very red expectation
33.	how now m e amorous george
34.	still as live and as blyth and as mad
35.	and as melancholy as that mantletree	i am as mallencoly as the manteltree
36.	what play have you got here today
37.	play boy
38.	yes play
39.	i look upon the tittle of the spectimony once a year
40.	you old scallibush
41.	nothing but parch pennyworth
42.	tuf coal callyely
43.	old callymuf s
44.	you rolling bolling bangling fool
45.	stand out of my sight
46.	zounds what a man have i got here
47.	man you mistake in me
48.	i m no talker i am a juggler
49.	i can shew you the trick of the twelves
50.	as many tricks as there are days in the year
51.	toils and moils and motes in the sun
52.	i have them all upon my finger end
53.	jack in the loft quick and be gone
54.	now man i l warrant the
55.	hey now man i see thou can do something
56.	hold thy hand
57.	here s a shilling for thy labour
58.	take to that poltry of the poor and throw unto them
59.	say thou hast quite lost the title of this play
60.	callyflaskin jest shall stenge our sight
61.	and you shall hear a new delight
62.	well meet fair lady in this place
63.	the exercise that is in the
64.	will over shade the fairest face
65.	when beauty comes on high degree
66.	since once to you i ve told my mind
67.	i pray fair lady dont be unkind
68.	it is your beauty makes me say
69.	i shall go blind and loose my way
70.	i will lead you sir
71.	courteous knight how must this be
72.	you will no answer take of me
73.	you look so great i do declare
74.	you come to me but in a jeer
75.	a jeer dear love it is not so
76.	i ll make it known before i go
77.	before i go hence from this place
78.	i will obtain your comely face
79.	away away from me begone
80.	a witty man or i ll have none
81.	aman for wit i am the best
82.	that ever did to you express
83.	i have such causes underhand
84.	no man like i can understand
85.	a lawyer i suppose you be
86.	you plead your cause so wittily
87.	but by and by i ll tell you plain
88.	the cause you plead is all in vain
89.	my wit it never did me fail
90.	if not for hopes it would prevail
91.	if not for hopes my heart would burst
92.	and in your love i put my trust
93.	away away out of my sight
94.	go talk along with yon fair knight
95.	be she gone be she gone
96.	farewell i care not
97.	for if she s a pretty thing
98.	i ve had my share on t
99.	for if she has more land than i
100.	by one half acre
101.	i v plow d and sown in her ground
102.	let the fool take her
103.	i am my fathers eldest son and heir to all his lands	i am my fathers eldest son and air of all his land
104.	and hope in a short time it will all fall in my hands	and in a short time i hope it will fall into my hands
105.	i was brought up at linsecourt all the days of my life	i wass brought up at linsa coart all the days of my life
106.	i m walking with this lady fair i wish she were my wife	hear stands a fair lady i wish shee was my wife
107.	her fingers long with rings upon all made of pure gold	shee has fingers long and rings of honor of beaten gould
108.	good master and good mistress i d have you here behold
109.	it is my clothing you admire
110.	its not my company you desire
111.	so farewell i ll bid adieu
112.	step in kind sir here s room for you
113.	here comes i the husbandman
114.	upon my principal for to stand
115.	i m come to woo this lady fair
116.	to gain her love thats all i care
117.	to gain my love that never will do
118.	you speak so clownish i to woo
119.	i v cart i v plow i v husbandry
120.	i gold and silver enough for the
121.	i v something else will do the good
122.	will nourish thy veins and warm thy blood
123.	i ve something else for the beside
124.	if thou l consent to be my bride
125.	my fathers working at his loom
126.	my mothers spinning hard at home
127.	their dinners they v got
128.	their suppers they want
129.	so i pray you be gone and give me your room
130.	here comes i the old ancient man
131.	to speak for myself the best i can
132.	my old grey locks thy hang so low
133.	i ll speak for myself the best i know
134.	cheer up old man and never fear
135.	wipe thy eyes and thou l see clear
136.	hey hey me thinks me see the stars shine bright
137.	mee s come to y a my arts delight
138.	why dost thou think i can fancy such an old man as thee
139.	no i ll have one of a higher degree
140.	kick my ladie out of the room
141.	i ll be hang d over our kitchen door
142.	if ever i come to court y a any more
143.	take your porridge face away
144.	my porridge face is as handsome as y rs and ugly enough too
145.	i comes jane with along neck d crane
146.	come dappling ore the meadow
147.	she s fib d before to shew you some sport
148.	look about you old maids and widows
149.	long time i v sought but now i v found
150.	my joy and only asturd
151.	but since you v said so and calld me your whore
152.	sarrah come take your bastard
153.	bastard t is none of mine its not a bit like me
154.	i m a valiant knight just come from sea	i am a valrant night new cumd from the seas
155.	you never heard talk of me before did ye	you do mow mee do you
156.	i kill d ten men with a mess of mustard	i can cill you one man for a mece of mustord
157.	ten thousand with my bright sword	or i can cill you ten thousand for a good custord
158.	i have a sheep skin	i hauve a ould sheep skin
159.	to lap them in	and i lap it well in
160.	look about you old maids and widows
161.	had i been aman in this country known	for had not i been in this cuntry
162.	and my valour had been shown	i should not a shoun my valer among you
163.	sound music sound i m just agoing row de dow	1. sound musick i must be gon 2. but sound musick i must begon
164.	stop abit
165.	i have abit of a song to sing to my lady before i go
166.	i ll snite my eyes and clear my nose
167.	and see what i can do before i go
168.	my love my dear my dove my duck
169.	one pleasant smile my heart will cheer
170.	but if on me you cast one frown
171.	i greatly fear it will knock me down
172.	indeed kind sir since you say so
173.	to banter me will never do
174.	when i become a married wife
175.	there after follows care and strife
176.	alas sweetheart you are mis tain
177.	for more than that i ll tell you plain
178.	a maiden she must run and go
179.	toil and moil through care and woe
180.	whereas a married wife may sit and rest
181.	pray tell me which lifes the best
182.	indeed kind sir since you say so
183.	along and along with you i ll go
184.	i ll wed with none but only you
185.	to all other gallants i ll bid adieu
186.	adieu and adieu to all but you my dear
187.	you may all behold and see	but you shall see and so shall wee
188.	t is the fool that leads away the fair ladie	tis i that carys the las away
189.	im come to invite you all to my wifes wedding and mine
190.	and what you like best you may bring along with you
191.	how the duce should i know what you all like
192.	some likes fish some likes flesh
193.	some likes kissing and some likes frummity
194.	but as for my part i m a good deal the nature of my old grandmother
195.	she talks short tongu d and i learnt to talk after her
196.	but i ll tell you what m e ladie and i likes
197.	and we will have it too
198.	we will have a long taild porridge thickn d with barley meal
199.	we will have a good salt herring to relish a quart of ale
200.	we will provide for the wedding as fast as ever we may
201.	we will have a jovial wedding the fiddle shall merrily play
202.	hedge about boys and i ll knock down stakes
203.	and i ll help to bind
204.	so now our sport is ended you will hear our voices ring
205.	i hope you r well contented so god save the king
206.	we re not those lonnon actors
207.	that hacks in lonnon court
208.	we are the country plow lads
209.	just com d from plow and cart
210.	so i hope you r well contented
211.	with what we have shown you here
212.	i wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year
213.	and what you please to my box and a sup of your strong beer
214.	god bless the master of this house and send him long to reign
215.	a many merry christmas s
216.	we wish to see him again
217.	amongst our friends and neighbours
218.	that live both far and near
219.	we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year

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A Christmas Play [Broughton, Lincs.] - Text A - 1824versusThe "Plouboys oR modes dancers" at Revesby 1779

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A Christmas Play [Broughton, Lincs.] - Text A - 1824
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The "Plouboys oR modes dancers" at Revesby 1779