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From: Richard Prankerd <>
Subject: [Lon] Re: Cockney
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:07:15 +1100
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In addition....

>To add confusion there is 'cockayne' or cockaigne', a mythical land
>of plenty, derivation uncertain.
>
>Interestingly, in a ballad first printed in Camden's *Britannia*
>(1607) has Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, defying Henry II in these
>terms:
>
>Were I in my Castle of Bungay,
>Upon the water of Waveney,
>I would ne set a button by the King of Cocknaye
>Nor all his mesnie

The name "Cockaigne" has a general attachment to London, according to
Sir Edward Elgar, who wrote a marvellous overture by that name,
subtitled "In London Town". One section depicts the whistling of
cockney urchins.

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Richard
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