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Kentish Dick
Kentish Dick is an English Broadside ballad that dates back, from estimation by the English Short Title Catalogue, to the 1670s. The full title is: "Kentish Dick; Or, The Lusty Coach-Man of Westminster. With an Account how he Tickled the Young Lasses and Caused their Sad Lamentation." It is most recognized by the tune to which it is set, "Let Mary Live Long."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/search_combined/?ss=kentish+dick )〕 The ballad's opening lines are, "In Westminster Town/ you there may discover/ a wavering lover." Extant copies of the ballad can be found at the University of Glasgow Library, the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.
== Synopsis ==
The ballad recounts the story of Richard—Kentish Dick—who comes from Kent and makes a sport of pursuing lasses. He pursues these young women indiscriminately—regardless of size or hair color—and given this proclivity, he eschews marriage and is constantly on the look out for another lover. His fair share of paramours are pregnant by him, "and five or six lasses,/ Are gotten with child/ From him, as I hear," and he refuses to marry or take responsibility for any one besides himself. He is able to sexually engage with the women, taking their maidenhead, with the false promise that he will wed them. And given his roaming promiscuity, the town seeks to "sever from him/ That unruly limb."
Form
The ballad's form is set with eleven-line stanzas—usually with three sets of interred, rhyming couplets—with the rhyme scheme: A,B,B,A,C,D,D,E,F,F,E. The last two penultimate lines (F,F) repeat the exact same line, with variant phrasing.
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