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The latter song heaped abuse on the citizens of that town for siding against the King in the civil wars, and began "You coward-hearted citizens..."; it is printed in Rats rhimed to Death; or, The Rump Parliament hanged in the Shambles (1660) and in both editions of Loyal Songs written against the Rump Parliament. "Culcolds All a Row" is mentioned in the older song "O London in a fine town." Cuckoldry was frequently the topic of comic productions and ordinary jests in the early decades of the 17th century. Keith Whitlock ("John Playford's The English Dancing Master 1650/1 as Cultural Politics", Folk Music Journal, vol. 7, No. 5, 1999) suggests this stemmed from the annulment by King James VI/I of the marriage between the Earl of Essex and Lady Frances Howard, which resulted in a famous scandal and murder. The two principals were both barely out of puberty when they were wed in a political union, but quckly separated before the marriage could be consummated. Essex was sent abroad on an extended tour, and meanwhile Frances had found a new love in the 1st Earl of Somerset. When he returned they spurned one another, each decrying the incompatibility of the other; Frances's virginity was physically checked by committee, but a stand-in may have actually been examined. Sir Thomas Overbury, a close friend and advisor of Somerset, had tried to advise Somerset of the unsuitability of Frances, but the Howard family was anxious to see them wed, if only they could free her of her previous commitment to Essex. They were able to maneuver Overbury into disfavor with the King and he was imprisoned and then poisoned, allegedly by Frances and Somerset. This removed the last obstacle to Frances and Somerset and they were married, but the crime was revealed and the couple sent to the Tower of London. She was found guilty in a subsequent trail but spared execution, and was eventually pardoned by the King and released in early 1622. Cuckolds became the subject of ridicule in period broadside ballads and masquerades.

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 {{SheetMusic
-|f_track=Rattlin Roarin Willie.mp3
+|f_track=Cuckolds All in a Row.mp3
-|f_pdf=Ranting Roaring Willie.pdf
+|f_pdf=Cuckolds All In A Row.pdf
-|f_artwork=Rattlin Roaring Willie.jpg
+|f_artwork=Cuckold.jpg
-|f_tune_name=Rantin' Roarin' Willie
+|f_tune_name=Cuckolds All in a Row
-|f_track_title=Rantin'_Roarin'_Willie_(1)
+|f_track_title=Cuckolds All in a Row
-|f_section=X4
+|f_section=abc
-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/danny-mcnab-93215924 Danny Mc Nab]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/erasmustalbot-music Erasmus Talbot]
 |f_notes= Glen Collection of printed music: Songs of Scotland prior to Burns.
 |f_caption=The song is a description of the adventures of a whirligig maker or wood turner in the pursuit of a runaway galloway or pony, and the ingenious way in which the names of the different localities are interwoven with the story reveal a marvelous command of the rhyming faculty.
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/danny-mcnab-93215924/rattlin-roaring-willie-bon Soundcloud]
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/erasmustalbot-music/cuckolds-all-in-a-row Soundcloud]
 |f_pix=420
 |f_picpix=200
-|f_article=[[Rantin'_Roarin'_Willie_(1) | '''Rantin' Roarin' Willie''']]
+|f_article=[[Cuckolds All in a Row | '''Cuckolds All in a Row''']]
-'''Old and New Edinburgh, vol. 2''' (p. 55) gives that Burns’ poem was inspired by a member of the Crochallan Fencibles, a convivial society in Edinburgh that met at Dawney Douglas’s tavern, to which Burns was introduced in 1787. The member’s name was Wiliam Dunbar, W.S., and he was the “Colonel” of the club and a predominant wit. A different tale has it that Rattlin' Willie was a wandering fiddler famous as both a musician and as a brawler in the Jedburgh (Jeddart) area, whose "sword-hand was dreaded as much as his bowing arm was admired". He fell out with another fiddler named Robin Rool (Robin of Rule Water) after an argument over their respective musical abilities and in the fight that ensued Robin was killed. His death was avenged at the hands of two of the Elliots, who in turn slew Willie. Scott alludes to Rattlin' Roarin' Willie (described as “the jovial harper”) in his The Lay of the Last Minstrel, noting that he was a real person. Other accounts say that Willie, still a ‘rantin’, roarin’ lad, lived in the 17th century and did business in the Hawick and Langholm districts, until, having had the misfortune to murder a brother in trade who passed by the name of 'Sweet Milk', he was executed at Jedburgh. Neil (1991) quotes the following verse:
+The latter song heaped abuse on the citizens of that town for siding against the King in the civil wars, and began "You coward-hearted citizens..."; it is printed in '''Rats rhimed to Death; or, The Rump Parliament hanged in the Shambles''' (1660) and in both editions of '''Loyal Songs written against the Rump Parliament'''. "Culcolds All a Row" is mentioned in the older song "O London in a fine town." Cuckoldry was frequently the topic of comic productions and ordinary jests in the early decades of the 17th century. Keith Whitlock ("John Playford's The English Dancing Master 1650/1 as Cultural Politics", '''Folk Music Journal''', vol. 7, No. 5, 1999)  suggests this stemmed from the annulment by King James VI/I of the marriage between the Earl of Essex and Lady Frances Howard, which resulted in a famous scandal and murder. The two principals were both barely out of puberty when they were wed in a political union, but quckly separated before the marriage could be consummated. Essex was sent abroad on an extended tour, and meanwhile Frances had found a new love in the 1st Earl of Somerset.  When he returned they spurned one another, each decrying the incompatibility of the other; Frances's virginity was physically checked by committee, but a stand-in may have actually been examined. Sir Thomas Overbury, a close friend and advisor of Somerset, had tried to advise Somerset of the unsuitability of Frances, but the Howard family was anxious to see them wed, if only they could free her of her previous commitment to Essex. They were able to maneuver Overbury into disfavor with the King and he was imprisoned and then poisoned, allegedly by Frances and Somerset. This removed the last obstacle to Frances and Somerset and they were married, but the crime was revealed and the couple sent to the Tower of London.  She was found guilty in a subsequent trail but spared execution, and was eventually pardoned by the King and released in early 1622.  Cuckolds became the subject of ridicule in period broadside ballads and masquerades.
-<blockquote>
-''The Lasses of Ousenam Water''<br>
-''Are rugging and riving their hair,''<br>
-''And a' for the sake O' Willie—''<br>
-''They'll hear his sangs nae mair,''<br>
-''Nae mair to his merry fiddle''<br>
-''Dance Teviot's maidens free;''<br>
-''My curses on their cunning''<br>
-''That gar'd sweet Willie dee!''<br>
-</blockquote>
 }}