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Calverton Plough Monday Play Fragment, 1951

F.G.Brooks (1952)

Context

Location: 
Calverton
SK6149
Time of Occurrence: 
Plough Monday
Collective name: 
[Not given]

Source

Author: 
[Mrs.F.G.Brooks]
Title: 
Plough Monday Plays
Publication: 
Jan.1952, Vol.13, No.3, pp.7-8

Cast

Mop
Eezum Squeezum

Text

{The Calverton play began:—}

[Mop]

"In comes I with a mop.
If you don't give us ought we will stop

Eezum Squeezum

"In comes I the Eezum Squeezum,
On my back I carry a beasom,
In my hand a whit leather pan.
Don't you think I'm a funny old man?"

Notes

'Ne'er o'er holled [hurled]
And ne'er stuck fast,
We've got our harvest in at last."