The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163812   Message #3913311
Posted By: Steve Gardham
26-Mar-18 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Let No Man Steal Your Time / Thyme
Subject: RE: Origins: Let No Man Steal Your Time / Thyme
Looking carefully at the version I've just posted it has all the hallmarks of a piece very close to a probable original. It is unnecessarily repetitive, the language is somewhat stilted, but the format and metre are much tighter than later versions; it has a long involved title and a preamble typical of early broadsides. The imagery is in places slapdash and not always consistent.

The successful imagery/cliche is very thin and easy to follow. The shorter 19thc versions are in my opinion much more successful.