Lyr Req: News from Holland's Leaguer

Subject: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: Sapper_RE
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 03:08 PM

I realise that is probably in there somewhere, but could someone point me towards it please??

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 03:25 PM

A ballad by Laurence Price on the closure of a London brothel, probably late 1620s. See item ZN3117 in the broadside bllad index on my website for the broadside. Click

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 03:38 PM

I can't figure out why that blue clicky thing won't work.

Go to www.erols.com/olsonw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 04:10 PM

Thanks. Joe?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: Sapper_RE
Date: 01 Jul 00 - 05:07 PM

Sorry took a while to get back to here, but thanks!! Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 03:21 PM

News from Hollands Leaguer
Pepys, i, 98, B.L., two woodcuts, five columns.
Holland's Leaguer was a notorious brothel kspt by a Mrs Holland1 on the Bankside, Southwark. It is described in a quarto pamphlet called Hollands Leagver: OR, An Historical Discourse Of The Life and Actions of Dona Brit-tanica Hollandia the Arch-Mistris of the wicked women of Evtopia, 1632 (Bodleian, Malone 227). Of this establishment J. W. Ebsworth {Bagford Ballads, 1, 507*) remarks:
In general, the houses of ill-fame, attacked by the apprentices on Shrove-Tuesdays, were scarcely different from ordinary dwellings, and perhaps private spite often dictated the selection more than just cause of offence. But Holland's Leaguer was exceptional, and claimed to be an island out of the ordinary juris—èiction. The portcullis, drawbridge, moat, and wicket for espial, as well as an armed bully or Pandar to quell disagreeable intruders, if by chance they got admittance without responsible introduction, all point to an organized system. There were also the garden-walks, for sauntering and "doing a spell of embroidery, or fine work," i.e. flirtation; the summer-house that was proverbially famous or infamous for intrigues, and the river conveniently near for disposal of awkward visitors who might have met with misadventure.
Ebsworth {ibid. p. 508*) has reproduced from the 1632 pamphlet the famous woodcut of the brothel.
The pamphlet was licensed for publication on January 20, 1632; six days later Shackerley Marmion's comedy of Holland's Leaguer was licensed. Laurence Price's ballad followed on May 24 (Arber's Transcript, iv, 278), and deals with the same subject: it is simply a poetical paraphrase of the tract of January 20, although Ebsworth states positively (Roxburghe Ballads, vm, 564) that it "is historical, on the Dutch alliance, and has nothing to do with the moated grange bearing the same name, on the Bankside in London."
For the tune see the introduction to No. 33.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: GUEST,999--BINGO
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 03:27 PM

Google

A Pepysian Garland; Black-Letter Broadside Ballads of the Years ... - Google Books Result

Starting at p.400 is the song. I don't know how to copy and paste the lyrics, but THERE THEY BE!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 06:26 PM

There was another thread on this, here.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 06:33 PM

Thanks, Kitty. It took me an hour to reinvent the wheel. DANG!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 06:34 PM

999 - an hour's not so long, and I do have happy memories of the Songwainers singing this!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: News from Hollands Leaguer
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Dec 09 - 11:16 PM

That makes it worth it. Thanks.