Widecombe Fair

Widecumba in valle visa

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".

Sabinus Baring-Gould

Nexus externi

• De mercatu apud situm vici Widecombe
• Situs mercatús officialis
• Recensio a Burl Ives docta

Bibliographia

• Sabine Baring-Gould, Henricus Fleetwood Sheppard, edd., Songs and Ballads of the West. 1888-1891