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{{AllusionsItemTop|About=George upon the Greene [George à Greene, Pinder of Wakefield?]; Lusty Roger; Whitsun ale; Vincent of the Crown; course-a-park [a game]|DatePrefix=|Date=|DateSuffix=|AuthorPrefix=|Author=Suckling, John|AuthorSuffix=|Title=Ballad upon a Wedding|PlainTitle=|Poem=|Chronicle=|AlCat1=Jolly Pinder of Wakefield|AlCat2=Anonymous - 1632 - Pinder of Wakefield|AlCat3=Greene, Robert - George a Greene}}
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<p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-02. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-17.</p>
== Allusion ==
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{{quote|At Course-a-Park, without all doubt,<br/>
He should have first been taken out<br/>
By all the maids i' th' town:<br/>
Though lusty Roger there had been.<br/>
Or little <keyword>George upon the Green</keyword>,<br/>
Or Vincent of the Crown.<br/>
But wot you what ? the youth was going<br/>
To make an end of all his wooing;<br/>
The parson for him staid:<br/>
Yet by his leave (for all his haste)<br/>
He did not so much wish all past<br/>
(Perchance) as did the maid.<br/>
The maid—and thereby hangs a tale;<br/>
For such a maid no Whitson-ale<br/>
Could ever yet produce:<br/>
No grape, that's kindly ripe, could be<br/>
So round, so plump, so soft as she,<br/>
Nor half so full of juice.<ref>{{:Suckling, John 1910a}}, p. 30 (ll. 19-36), notes p. 371.</ref>}}</onlyinclude>
== Source notes ==
"l. 19 ''Course-a-Park]'' A country game, akin to Barleybreak, and not unlike Kiss-in-the-ring".<br/>
"1. 32. ''Whitson-ale]'' [...] The surplus of these feasts, supplied by parochial contributions, was devoted to repairs, etc., connected with the church fabric or furniture. Thus, an inscription on the ringing-gallery at Cawston, Norfolk, records ' what good ale this work made'; and another, on the 'bachelors' loft' before the south chapel of the chancel at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, states that part of the expense was defrayed by 'alys.'" [p. 371.]<br/>
IRHB's brackets.

== IRHB comments ==
The editor does not comment on what may be an allusion to George à Greene, the Pinder of Wakefield. In this context, "lusty Roger" just possibly might allude to Roger of Doncaster of the ''Gest'' ("Red Roger" of the A-version of ''Robin Hood's Death''; C119 A), but that would make Suckling something of a Robin Hood expert, and besides an allusion to a villain like Roger of Doncaster would hardly be in place here.

== Lists ==
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}.
* Outside scope of {{:Sussex, Lucy 1994a}}.

== Editions ==
* {{:Suckling, John 1836a}}, pp. 73-76; see p. 74.
* {{:Suckling, John 1874a}}, pp. 42-46; see p. 43f.
* {{:Suckling, John 1886a}}, pp. 31-36; see p. 32f.
* {{:Hutchison, William G 1906a}}, pp. 19-23; see p. 20.
* {{:Suckling, John 1910a}}; see p. 30, notes p. 371.
* [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/wedding.htm Luminarium: A Ballad upon a Wedding.]
* [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2039.html Representative Poetry Online: A Ballad upon a Wedding (excerpt; online text).]
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