Notes. In the only known source for this rather opaque couplet, John Rous’s news-diary, Rous notes that in October 1628, “ere Bartholomewe fayer was done there was a picture sold (to which much running) where in was drawen a naked young woman & besides her or before her one riding on the backe of an ougly ould woman”, and “under it” were these lines, on the Ile de Ré expedition.

All you that will goe with me

Ile carry you to the naked Ile of Re

Source. BL Add. MS 22959, fol. 28r

Other known sources. Rous 31

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