1615 - Braithwaite, Richard - Strappado for Diuell (1)

Allusion
Date	1615
Author	Braithwaite, Richard
Title	Strappado for the Diuell
Mentions	Robin Hood; May Marian [Maid Marian]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-09.

Allusion

A Satyre.

THere is a Patron, to expresse his name,
I thinke it needlesse, for you may coniecture,
Who tis by dumbe showes: yet Ile reade a Lecture,
Vpon's Anatomy: "He thinks no shame
To be at home, yet to deny the same,
By one of 's Pander porters: he is proud [p. 63:]
Of a new Title giuen him, yet it's stale,
Knight-hood I wish: for's speech he speaks a tale,
With a Beere-brewers Grace, as for his bloud,
He saies he can deriu't from Robin hood,
And his May-Marian, and I thinke he may,
For's Mother plaid May-Marian tother day.

If a rich country-Boore come to present him,
With Pigge or Goose, he shall no sooner come,
But the gate's open, and the Knight's at home
[...]

Lists

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 316.
• Outside scope of: 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.

Notes

Also see

• 1615 - Braithwaite, Richard - Strappado for Diuell (2)
• 1615 - Braithwaite, Richard - Strappado for Diuell (3)