by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Robin Goodfellow
Language: English
And can the physician make sick men well? And can the magician a fortune divine? Without lily, germander, and sops-in-wine, With sweet-briar and bonfire And strawberry wire and columbine. With in and out, in and out, round as a ball, With hither and thither, as straight as a line, With lily, germander, and sops-in-wine, With sweet-briar and bonfire And strawberry wire and columbine. When Saturn did live, there lived no poor, The king and the beggar with roots did dine, With lily, germander, and sops-in-wine, With sweet-briar and bonfire And strawberry wire and columbine.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, written <<1600, appears in Robin Goodfellow: commonly called Hob-Goblin, with his mad pranks and merry jests, first published 1628 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Robin Goodfellow", 1928, published 1978 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Le Flem (1881 - 1984), "Robin good fellow", 1952 [ baritone and piano ], from Dix chants populaires écossais, no. 10, Partition inédite [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Robin Goodfellow", 1926, published 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 94