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13 - If all the World were Paper (1651)

IF ALL THE WORLD WERE PAPER
from "Wit's Recreations" (anon, 1640 but probably written earlier)

If all the world were paper,
And all the sea were ink,
And all the trees were bread and cheese,
What would we do for drink?

If all the world were sand-o!
Oh, then what should we lack-o!
If, as they say, there were no clay,
How should be take tobacco?

If all our vessels ran-a
If none had but a crack-,
If Spanish apes ate all the grapes,
How should we do for sack?

If friars had no bald pates
No nuns no dark cloisters,
If all the seas were beans and peas,
What should we do for oysters?

If there had been no projects,
Nor none that did great wrongs;
If fiddlers shall turn Players all,
How should we do for songs?

If all things were eternal,
And nothing their end bringing,
If this should be, then how should we
Here make an end of singing?

16 - Old Noll's Jigg (1703)
Old Noll. Oliver Cromwell was so called by the Royalists. Noll is a familiar contraction of Oliver - i.e. Ol' with an initial liquid. There is some good inforlation about Olver Cromwell here. "History hasn't been kind to Oliver Cromwell. He was survived by enemies who decided to rewrite his life to avoid confronting their own shortcomings. At the very least, Oliver deserves a touch of the truth ...". In fact, Cromwell was a very considerable reformer. He thought that harsh penalties were not necessary to the enforcement of the law and believed that the death penalty should be restricted to murder, treason and rebellion. He readmitted Jews to England, reestablished a centralized treasury, improved debtors' prisons, reorganized the post office, held elections in Scotland and Ireland so they had representation in Parliament. He was particularly upset that Parliament failed to understand the need for liberty of conscience, even for Catholics.

19 - Gelding of the Devil (1657)
The Gelding of The Devil is in "Pills To Purge Melancholy" as "Now listen a while, and I will tell"

Anyone willing to have a go at the last 4? No. 17's a doddle and I'm surprised no-one seems to know 12. Where's Wolfgandg?

9 - Henry VIII's Hertfordshire mansion where Mary taught Elizabeth to gamble.
12 - The original Irish washerwoman, found early with a May bush.
17 - You could say it's a bit of a pansy, really.
20 - Purcell's "hornpipe" could be a window, or a door ...

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