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Mummers' Play from Kirtlingon[?] - 1815-1816
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South Cerney (Gloucestershire) Mummers Play

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Line	Mummers' Play from Kirtlingon[?] - 1815-1816	South Cerney (Gloucestershire) Mummers Play
1.	in comes i old father christmas welcome or welcome not
2.	i hope old father christmas will never be forgot
3.	a room a room i do presume
4.	for me and my brave gallant boys all
5.	pray give me leave to act and rhyme
6.	now this merry christmas time
7.	i ll show you some of the finest plays that ever were acted on saint mary andrews stage	such activity has never been seen or acted on a stage
8.	step in king george
9.	in comes i king george a man of courage bold
10.	with my broad sword and shield i won ten thousand crowns in gold
11.	aye i fought the fiery dragon and brought him to the slaughter
12.	and for this great victory i won the queen of england s daughter
13.	bring any man to me i ll cut him and hue him as small as flies	i cuts em down as fine as dust
14.	and send him to the cook s shop to make mince pies	and sends em to satan to make mince pie crust
15.	mince pies hot mince pies cold
16.	mince pies in the pot nine days old
17.	in comes i a turkish knight
18.	from turkey land i came to fight
19.	i ll fight thee king george the man of courage bold
20.	if thy blood be hot i ll quickly draw it cold
21.	thou saidst thou cut me and hue me as small as flies	i cuts em down as fine as dust
22.	and send me to the cookshop to make mince pies	and sends em to satan to make mince pie crust
23.	over many fields as thou made me fly
24.	but now i am come with a mind to try
25.	to see which on the ground shall lie
26.	doctor doctor play thy part
27.	king george is wounded to the heart
28.	doctor doctor haste away
29.	see thou make no longer stay
30.	five pounds i d freely give if that noble doctor were but here	1. five thousand pounds will i lay down if a noble doctor could be found 2. yes then ten thousand pounds i will lay down if a noble doctor could be found
31.	in comes i little doctor brown
32.	the best little doctor in the town
33.	a doctor and a doctor good	i am a noble doctor both stout and good
34.	and with my hand i ll swage his blood	with my created hand i can purge the blood
35.	my pills shall work him through and through
36.	to cure his body and stomach too
37.	where com st thou from
38.	from france from spain
39.	and from the greatest parts of christendom i came
40.	and what can st thou cure
41.	the hitch the stitch the ston the palsy and the gout	cure the stitch the itch the palsy or the gout
42.	the pains within and the pains without	all pains within all pains without
43.	the molygrubs the polygrubs and those little rantantorius diseases
44.	let the wrinkles break
45.	or the palsy quacke
46.	take one of my pills and try them
47.	bring any old woman unto me that has been dead seven years	bring an old woman ninety years dead
48.	in her coffin eight	ninety nine years bred
49.	and buried nine	and a hundred years laid in her grave
50.	if she s only got one hollow rum turn serum turn old jack tooth in the back of her head
51.	if she can only manage to crack one of my little pills	if she can sit up and crack one of my golden pills
52.	i ll be bound in the bond of a thousand pounds to maintain her back to life again	in bond i ll be bound if a loan of fifty pound that her life shall be saved
53.	this is the case that was never before
54.	but now king george rise up and fight once more
55.	if there any man can do more than me
56.	let him step in if his name is jack finny
57.	my name is not jack finny	my name s not jack vinney
58.	my name is mr finny	my name is mister vinney
59.	i am a man of great fame
60.	and what canst thou do
61.	cure a magpie with the toothache
62.	and how canst do that
63.	by cutting off his head and throwing his body in a ditch
64.	barberous rascal
65.	no barbary at all
66.	but certain cure
67.	i can cure this man if he not dead	i can cure this man if he s not quite dead
68.	so pray me honest friend rise up thine head
69.	in comes tom the tinker	then here comes i old tom the tinker
70.	sold him for a winker
71.	the chimney corner was his place	the chimney corner was his place
72.	where he sat and dried his face
73.	till tom s hair brown
74.	here comes i who hant bin it	here comes i as ain t been yet
75.	with my great head and little wit	with my big head and little feet
76.	my head so great my wit so small	my head s so big and my feet so small
77.	i ll do my best to please you all
78.	here comes i old beelzebub	then here comes i old beelzebub
79.	on my shoulder i carries my club	on my shoulder i carry my club
80.	in my hand a drinking can	in my hand a dripping pan
81.	don t you think me a jolly old man	don t you think i m a jolly old man

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Mummers' Play from Kirtlingon[?] - 1815-1816
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South Cerney (Gloucestershire) Mummers Play