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Thread #4260   Message #577136
Posted By: GUEST,Guest
21-Oct-01 - 10:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Reynardine: Info?
Subject: RE: Reynardine: Info?
There is a euphemistic 'kiss' in full traditional versions of the song (she faints and then he has sexual intercourse with her).
This is in a very few of the broadside versions, but not in those broadside texts where his name is given as 'Randal Rhine'. The latter is an expurgated text, and not ancestral to traditional versions.