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Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
11-Mar-01 - 06:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins of The Wild Rover
Subject: RE: Origins of The Wild Rover
Correction, Ebsworth mentions and quotes a bit of "The Rale Ould Irish Gintleman" (5 verses he says) from Dinny Blake's Sprig of Shillelah (pretty much a generic title), but doesn't say specifically that Blake wrote it, nor does he give it's date.

His notes on other descends, 'Fine old/(even young) x gentleman' are in his notes to 'An Antidote to Melancholy' (1661) in his reprint edition of 'Choyce Drollery' (1656), 1876 (of which 'Choyce Drollery' isn't a large part).