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Christmas Play from Icomb, Glos. - 1913-1916
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3. Witley [sic], Reading, Berks. [1930]

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1.	in comes i old hind before
2.	i comes fust to open your door
3.	i comes fust to kick up a dust
4.	i comes fust to sweep up your house
5.	i went down a dark narrow lane weren t very dirty neither very clane
6.	i come to wrought iron house
7.	thatched with brass candlesticks
8.	there was an iron par tree before the door
9.	i knocked at the door and the maid came out
10.	i asked her one and she gave me one
11.	as hard as a blacksmith s anvil
12.	i returned her many thanks
13.	she asked me to have a crust of her ale
14.	and a glass of her bread and cheese
15.	i said yes thanks but i meant no please
16.	i went down a little bit furder
17.	i come to two men threshing bacca carns
18.	one hit a rearing blow t other hit a driving blow
19.	which cut a bacca carn through a nine inch wall
20.	killed a dead dog t other side
21.	the dog jumps up and hollowes bow wow wow
22.	i took me dog without his tail
23.	and loaded me gun with a long spiked nail
24.	i met a man he fled with glee
25.	i nailed his shadow to a tree
26.	i ve travelled here i ve travelled there
27.	i should like to taste a drop of your strong beer
28.	a room a room brave gallants all room to rise and room to fall
29.	please to make room for me and my company all
30.	we was come round this merry christmas time
31.	to act activity of young activity of age	old activity new activity
32.	some of the funniest activities as ever was acted on king george s stage
33.	walk in the royal of prussia king
34.	in comes i the royal of prussia king
35.	many a battle have i fought in
36.	england ireland scotland and spain
37.	now i return to old england again
38.	where is the man that forbids me stand	is there a noble man to stand before me
39.	said he would knock me down with his gracious hand	that i may cut him down with my graded hand
40.	he would hit me hack me as small as flies
41.	send me to the cook shop to make mince pies
42.	mince pies hot mince pies cold
43.	send me to giberhalter before i be nine days old
44.	so he and i will have a try	battle to battle to thee i cry
45.	to see which on the floor shall lie	1. to sec which on tills ground shall lie 2. to see which on this ground shall lie
46.	so guard thy head and guard thy blows	mind your hits and guard your blows
47.	for on the floor thee bist sure to go
48.	in comes i little john bull robin john bull robin is my name
49.	sword and pistol at my side and i wish to win the game
50.	so thee and i will have a try	battle to battle to thee i cry
51.	to see which on the floor shall lie	1. to sec which on tills ground shall lie 2. to see which on this ground shall lie
52.	so guard thy head and guard thy blows	mind your hits and guard your blows
53.	for on the floor thee bist sure to go
54.	five pounds for a good doctor
55.	won t come
56.	ten pounds for a good doctor
57.	won t come
58.	fifteen pounds for a good doctor
59.	won t come
60.	twenty pounds for a good doctor
61.	won t come
62.	i ll give three good bad farthing for a doctor
63.	i ll come and glad of the money
64.	hold my horse jack
65.	hold him thee self
66.	what s that you saucy young beggar
67.	got ed fast by the tail sir
68.	what be e to do wi um when i gets um ome
69.	oh sup um up with rack staves
70.	bed um down with thorns
71.	gi um a buccutt of warm ashes to drink
72.	and rub um down dry with a wet snowball
73.	that s the way to do a oss jack
74.	i am the doctor come from spain
75.	to fetch the dead to life again
76.	and if his life he should transgress
77.	ten thousand pound ull distress the grave
78.	bring unto me an old woman
79.	seven years wed eight years dead
80.	nine years led in her grave
81.	if her can rise up and crack one of my small pills
82.	i ll be bound her life to save
83.	what else cans t cure
84.	why a magpie with tooth ache	i cured an old magpie of the itch the other day
85.	how st do it	how do st do that then doctor
86.	chop his head off and chock his body in the ditch	cut off his head throw his body in the ditch
87.	i shan t have my man served like that
88.	jack finney is not my name
89.	mr finney is my name
90.	in comes i with my bold hart
91.	to see the doctor play his part
92.	doctor thee hasn t done thy part by this man
93.	i thought thee ud find fault jack when thee com st in
94.	what wants doing now
95.	large tooth wants drawing
96.	can st thee draw im
97.	i ll have a try
98.	get out of the road
99.	i can see thee cass nt do it
100.	no more cass nt thee without help
101.	fetch my implements
102.	fetch em thee self
103.	what s that you saucy young beggar
104.	i ll fetch em meself
105.	fetch em then and quick about it
106.	well what do st want to throw em down there fur
107.	for thee to pick em up
108.	what s that you saucy young beggar
109.	for me to pick em up
110.	pick em up then and quick about it
111.	catch olt of my tail and pull
112.	be he out sur
113.	no
114.	be he out yet sur
115.	yes and more like a helephant s tooth than a christian s
116.	hold a sack of beans one side and a quart of best ale t other
117.	any better old feller
118.	yes
119.	rise up and sing
120.	in comes i old bells abub
121.	and on me shoulder i carry me club
122.	in me hand me drippin pan
123.	don t you think i m a jolly old man
124.	out of children eleven i ve got but seven
125.	and they be started up to heaven
126.	out of the seven i ve got but five
127.	and they be starved to death alive
128.	out of the five i ve got but three
129.	and they be popped behind a tree
130.	out of the three i ve got but one
131.	and he got round behind the sun
132.	me father is an old shop keeper and you can plainly see
133.	me mither gi i this old tin can to play the girdy gee
134.	silence merry gentlemen unto to my conscience say
135.	for my name is alexander and i ll show you thrice to tie
136.	we are six of us all six merry boys are we
137.	we come to take a ramble in your houses for to see
138.	in your houses for to see
139.	and some treasures for to give
140.	for what you freely give to us we freely shall receive
141.	the next young man that i call in he glowren of me no
142.	and he shall slay the admiral and then he ll take the crown
143.	who s that coming over yonder hill
144.	it s only little john bull robin to fight thee in thy field
145.	that s a fine way to come into a man half dead
146.	that s the way to liven his nerves up
147.	let him take a drop of my inkum pinkum
148.	mixed up with cat s feathers
149.	have a drop in his eye a drop in his nose and a drop in his mouth
150.	any better old feller
151.	once i was dead and now i am alive
152.	blessed be the doctor who brought me to revive

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Christmas Play from Icomb, Glos. - 1913-1916
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3. Witley [sic], Reading, Berks. [1930]