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Lighter Lyr Add: Tom Bolynn (3) (49) RE: Lyr Add: Tom Bolynn (3) 09 Jan 19

It's curious that Wager's stanza is so much closer to modern versions than is that in the much later, anonymous "The Pinder of Wakefield" (1632):

Tom a Lin riding over a bridge,
The bridge was narrow and he fell in,
His foot it slipt, his heeles vp tript,
This is ill lucke quoth Tom a Lin.

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