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Thread #83878   Message #2310195
Posted By: GUEST, Sminky
08-Apr-08 - 12:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Mattie Groves - What year?
Subject: RE: Mattie Groves - What year?
The following quote is from Fletcher's play 'Knight of the Burning Pestle' (first performed 1607, published 1613):

"OLD MERRYTHOUGHT
(sings)
And some they whistled, and some they sung,
Hey, down, down!
And some did loudly say,
Ever as the Lord Barnet's horn blew,
Away, Musgrave, away!"