%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> LONG LENT, 1685. / Or a Vindication of the Feasts, / Against those three great Horned Beasts, / John Forbes, Master Duncan Lidel, / With his Son George to tune their fidle. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1685-1685 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/15/2014 34257

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R180132 LEnt fourty Work dayes ever was, / With just six Sundayes more; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 32 LONG LENT, 1685. / Or a Vindication of the Feasts, / Against those three great Horned Beasts, / John Forbes, Master Duncan Lidel, / With his Son George to tune their fidle. LONG LENT, 1685. Or a Vindication of the Feasts, Against those three great Horned Beasts, John Forbes, Master Duncan Lidel, With his Son George to tune their fiddle. 1685-1685

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LEnt fourty Work dayes ever was, With just six Sundayes more; But three Horn'd Beasts at Aberdeen Intends to make three score. For now they want but only fix, As clearly may appear; And if they continue with their old tricks, They shall want none nixt year. But for to know when Pasch should be, Their Errors to discover, It still should the first Sunday fall, After the Jews Pass'over. Which falls this year April the seventh, As Jews do reckon all The fourteen day of Nisan Month It every year must fall. The Month of Nisan doth begin As best imform'd I am, The first change of the Moon each year That fall [?]o the Ram. On March the twenty fourth this year The change doth fall at night; Then after that count fourteen dayes, April the seventh comes right. Then Sunday nixt for Pasch ye'l find April the twelfth will be Good Friday's still near the full Moon All Authors doth agree; Which made Dionisius to say, The World's at an end: Or else the God of nature must Suffer; this is well kend. Because the darkness that was then Did fall near the full Moon, Then certainly the Moon he knew, Could not Eclips the Sun: But all their Feasts are wrong this year, Save Argol, which is strange For all their Almanacks makes Pasch But four dayes from the Change. Edinburgh's true Almanack is right As all the World may see; But those set out at Aberdeen Still worse and worse they be, For since that Pasch doth Rule the rest, As Wing and others show, Then six weeks & five dayes count back For Fastens even to know. Then count just seven Weeks after Pasch For to find Whitsunday, And ye shall find it fall this year On the last day of May: But this they do not understand, It is for them too deep, Although the Ram do bear de Bell Amongst a flock of Sheep.
They do pretend to much learning In Latin and in Greek, And yet they neither can well writ, Nor yet good Latin speak, For prima Cornu they do say, It is not Latin good, Whereas the sense do clearly show That stelas understood. If Master Duncan understood The Gramer Rules aright, The Rule Eclipsis he would mind And that would set him right; And yet of Learning he will boast, And unlearn'd others call; But he that braggeth most thereof Hath oftimes leas[t] of all. Now ye that doth intend this year To keep your Fairs aright, That doth depend upon these Feasts, Cause benish from your sight These Almanacks of Aberdeen With others of that kind, Or else your Fairs will err a Week, Which ye too true will find. For if these who at Fairs do use Come but a Week to late, And find these Fairs is past and gone They will look wonderous blait. Since Rabin in Aberdeen deceast It is near fourty years, And ever since their Almanacks Hath still been Jock the liers; Yet they'l rely on Aberdeen, Because it had the Name: But when they see it errs so much Thereof they will think shame, And say the City Edinburgh is The Metropolitan, Wherein all Arts is truly taught That's for the use of Man. If any Man will this deny Let him take this Debate, And Mr. Duncan now defend, Or else he'l come too late. For now he stands upon the Stage, The day is almost lost; Although in London he did teach, Which causeth him to boast. But such a Master he hath been, As Lilly to us show; Whom he did first in London meet, The like he near did know. They alwayes carp at all the Works Which other men hath done, If they them want; like AEshops Dog, They'l bark even at the Moon.
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