1600 - Breton, Nicholas - Pasquil's Mistress (2)

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Allusion

She that doth hate to brabble, brawle and scolde,
To sweare, and lie, and talke of Robin Hood:
And will no longer any question holde,
Then while she wel may make her iudgemēt good
To prooue that shee her selfe hath vnderstood:
Such a rare wench, for a well gouernd wit,
Wold make him happy that were matcht with it.

Source notes

Italics as in source.

IRHB comments

Mention of hobby horse and morris dance, sig. D1r.

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
• Not included in Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Sources

• [Breton, Nicholas]; Treboun, Salochin, introd. Pasqvils Mistresse: or the Worthie and Vnworthie Woman. With His Description and Passion of That Furie, Iealousie (Imprinted at London, 1600), sig. E3r.

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