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Christmas Play from Icomb, Glos. - 1913-1916
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Christmas Mummers Play from Sapperton, Glos. - 1914

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1.	in comes i old hind before	in comes i 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	with my broad broom to sweep up the floor
5.	i went down a dark narrow lane weren t very dirty neither very clane	1. as i was going down a wee won narrow straight crooked lane 2. as i was going down a wee woa narrow straight nasty dirty sandy clean lane 3. and as i was going down this ere wee woa narrow straight nasty dirty sandy clean lane
6.	i come to wrought iron house
7.	thatched with brass candlesticks
8.	there was an iron par tree before the door	and in this orchard there was cast iron steel pear trees
9.	i knocked at the door and the maid came out	i knocked at the maid and the door fled 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	i asked for a crust of her beer
14.	and a glass of her bread and cheese	and a glass of bread and cheese
15.	i said yes thanks but i meant no please	i said no thank you she said yes if you please
16.	i went down a little bit furder
17.	i come to two men threshing bacca carns	inside this barn there was two men threshing tobacco
18.	one hit a rearing blow t other hit a driving blow	one it a reave and blow and the other a dreave and blow
19.	which cut a bacca carn through a nine inch wall	hit a pack of barley corns through a nine foot wall
20.	killed a dead dog t other side	and killed a little dead dog the other side
21.	the dog jumps up and hollowes bow wow wow	this dog bid kow yelping a fortnight after he was dead
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	a room for gallant store prey give me room to rhyme
29.	please to make room for me and my company all
30.	we was come round this merry christmas time	for i am come with my gallant men to show you a little activity on this merry christmas tide
31.	to act activity of young activity of age
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	any man that won t let me stand
39.	said he would knock me down with his gracious hand	i ll fetch him down with my most mighty 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
45.	to see which on the floor shall lie
46.	so guard thy head and guard thy 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	with my bockel and my staff i mean to win the game
50.	so thee and i will have a try
51.	to see which on the floor shall lie
52.	so guard thy head and guard thy 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	i ve got him 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	rack him up with a fuzz faggot
70.	bed um down with thorns
71.	gi um a buccutt of warm ashes to drink	and give him a bucket of coal ashes to drink
72.	and rub um down dry with a wet snowball	scrub him down with a broom stick
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	and if this man has been dead one hundred and ninetynine years
79.	seven years wed eight years dead
80.	nine years led in her grave	and if this man has been dead one hundred and ninetynine years
81.	if her can rise up and crack one of my small pills	he shall take a pill out of my golden box
82.	i ll be bound her life to save
83.	what else cans t cure
84.	why a magpie with tooth ache	i know the way to cure a magpie with the toothache
85.	how st do it	1. how s that sir 2. how that
86.	chop his head off and chock his body in the ditch	cut off his head and throw his body into the ditch
87.	i shan t have my man served like that
88.	jack finney is not my name	my name s not jack vinney my name s mr vinney
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	draw a tooth
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	and rise and fight again
120.	in comes i old bells abub	in comes i old belsey bob
121.	and on me shoulder i carry me club	and on my sholder i carry my nob
122.	in me hand me drippin pan	in my hand a dripping pan
123.	don t you think i m a jolly old man	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 in your houses for to see
138.	and some treasures for to give
139.	for what you freely give to us we freely shall receive
140.	the next young man that i call in he glowren of me no
141.	and he shall slay the admiral and then he ll take the crown
142.	who s that coming over yonder hill
143.	it s only little john bull robin to fight thee in thy field
144.	that s a fine way to come into a man half dead
145.	that s the way to liven his nerves up
146.	let him take a drop of my inkum pinkum
147.	mixed up with cat s feathers
148.	have a drop in his eye a drop in his nose and a drop in his mouth
149.	any better old feller
150.	once i was dead and now i am alive
151.	blessed be the doctor who brought me to revive

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Christmas Play from Icomb, Glos. - 1913-1916versusChristmas Mummers Play from Sapperton, Glos. - 1914

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Christmas Play from Icomb, Glos. - 1913-1916
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Christmas Mummers Play from Sapperton, Glos. - 1914