Plough Monday fragment from Winterton - 1901 M.Peacock (1901) p.323 90se91pm.xml mastermummers.org Mabel Peacock Plough Monday Mummeries Notes and Queries, 9th Series 27th April 1901, Vol.VII, p.323

Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).

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 Winterton Lincolnshire England SE9218 Publ. 1901 Plough Monday [Not given] Quack Doctor: Plough Tomfool Clown Peter Millington's Notes:

This fragment is the second of four texts published in this article. The general introduction implies that they all were performed on Plough Monday by "plough-jags", although there is no such specific information for this fragment.

"ohs", which Peacock suggests means "I've" is in fact more likely to be a rendition of "who's".

"Little Brown Jug" was a popular music hall song.

 22-Dec-2000 Peter Millington Encoded 15-Jan-2021 Peter Millington TEI-encoded The introductory speech of the clown given below differs from the that in the above dialogue [Hibalstow]. It was copied by Miss Mina Fowler from the version of a village boy at Winterton, but the rest of the "ditties" have yet to be collected. Tomfool In comes I, ohs I've? never been before, With my big head and my little wit. If my head be big and my wit be small I'l act Tomfool among you all. Ah, Ah, Ah, you and me, Little brown juden jug? , I love thee. If I had a cow that gave such milk I'll clothe her in the richest silk. I'll feed her on the best of hay, And milk her forty times a day. In comes I, hungry and dry, Please will you give us a bit of pork-pie. The request which concludes this speech smacks of the soil, for pork-pie is a favourite dish among high and low in the county of Tennyson and Newton, where "pig-meat" is held in great esteem.