Definition of Gurtons. Meaning of Gurtons. Synonyms of Gurtons

- buffoonery in A Ryght Pithy, Pleasaunt and merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer Gurtons Nedle, was first credited with its authorship by Isaac Reed in his 1782...
- Gammer Gurton's Garland: or, The Nursery Parn****us, edited by the literary antiquary Joseph Ritson, is one of the earliest collections of English nursery...
- put them to bed. The earliest printed version in Joseph Ritson's Gammer Gurton's Garland in 1784 has the co****r last line: She whipp'd all their bums,...
- century. More English rhymes were collected by Joseph Ritson in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parn****us (1784), published in London by Joseph...
- old-fashioned view that comedy began in England in the 1550s with Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister is mistaken, ignoring as it does a rich...
- Saratoga in 1777. A variant is preserved in the 1810 edition of Gammer Gurton's Garland: Or, The Nursery Parn****us, collected by Francis Douce, now in...
- forrest grew." The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784), a collection of English nursery rhymes published in London...
- twenty, my stomach's empty. A version published five years later in Gammer Gurton's Garland (1810) was titled "Arithmetick" and had the following different...
- A rhyme similar to the modern standard version can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland, a 1784 collection of English nursery rhymes published in London...
- Robin Goodfellow appears in 'The Mad Pranks of Robin Goodfellow', Gammer Gurton's Pleasant Stories of Patient Grissel, The Princess Rosetta, & Robin Goodfellow...