Bess Broughton 's the subject out-of an effective biographical design into the John Aubrey's Brief Lifetime , in which he rates element of a great poem because of the Ben Johnson and therefore states their own (while the detailed by the Wardroper). Nan Wright while some are also stated in other contemporary work, as well as poems by the Ben Johnson.

Brand new song stayed preferred for the majority decades, getting used for a track when you look at the a great chapbook by the Laurence Rates, A chart regarding Merry Conceits , entered on Stationers' Sign in towards the March eleven, 1639, and you may reprinted by the F. Grove, 1656. A tune a number of manuscripts, getting started "Conductors already been aside," is with the same tune. Wardroper offers the basic verse away from Bodleian MS Rawl. poet. twenty-six, in which it is went "An effective ballad throughout the English Go camping in the Northern 1640." Within the Bodleian MS Rawl. (more…)