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FROM HENRY VII. TO RIARY.
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a ballad, entitled Lenton Stuff, which was, in all probability, the same. Elderton's
ballad is called — " A new ballad, entitled Lenton Stxuff,
For a little money ye may have enough;"
to the tune of Tlie Cramp.
" Lenton stuff is come to the town,
The cleansing week comes quickly ;
You know well enough you must kneel down,
Come on, take ashes trickly ;
That neither are good flesh nor fish,
But dip with Judas in the dish.
And keep a rout not worth a ryshe " [rush].
[Heigh ho ! the cramp-a.]
It is not noticed by Ritson in his list of Elderton's ballads, Bibl. Poet. p. 195-8 ;
bat Mr. Halliwell has printed it in the volume containing The Marriage of Wit
and Wisdom, for the Shakespeare Society. The following is from Pammelia,
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