Widecombe Fair
Widecombe Fair est cantilena Anglica quae mercatum ad Widecumbam Devoniae annuatim celebratum commemorat, ab anno 1850 inceptum. Cantilena e traditione populari descripta anno 1890 a Sabino Baring-Gould edita est, annoque 1941 a cantore Burl Ives docta. Sic incepit:
- Tom Pearse, Tom Pearse, lend me your grey mare
- All along, down along out along lea
- For I wants for to go to Widecombe Fair
- With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy,
- Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all --
- Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
Ex hac cantilena enim extrahitur locutio Anglica "Uncle Tom Cobley and all".
Nexus externi
recensere- De mercatu apud situm vici Widecombe
- Situs mercatús officialis
- Recensio a Burl Ives docta
Bibliographia
recensere- Sabine Baring-Gould, Henricus Fleetwood Sheppard, edd., Songs and Ballads of the West. 1888-1891