Today is National Sardine Day, so here's an Elizabethan theatre song about eating pilchards.
From Blurt Master-Constable. Or The Spaniards night-walke.
[Attributed to] Middleton and Dekker, c1602
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVBraD9ZlOA&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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Blurt Master-Constable: What meat eats the Spaniard?

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What meat eats the Spaniard?
An anonymous #Elizabethan #theatre #song about eating too much fish!
From Blurt Master-Constable. Or The Spaniards night-walke.
[Attributed to] #Middleton and #Dekker 1602.

Emily Atkinson: #soprano
Richard de Winter: #tenor
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #violin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVBraD9ZlOA&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Blurt Master-Constable: What meat eats the Spaniard?

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I've been looking into why Waihau Bay near the East Cape of New Zealand is such a good location for recreational Southern Bluefin Tuna fishing. After working in California for 11 years, the sparsity of oceanographic information about the region is startling for me.
#oceanography #fisheries #GameFishing #tuna #BlueFinTuna #eddies #canyons #SecondaryProduction #pilchards #krill #Sardines

In the 17th century, along the Cornish coast, pilchards became politicised. Find out about the regulations, including duty and tax, that Parliament tried to impose on pilchards and the reactions from merchants 👇 http://ow.ly/yUVZ50MyQTk

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Of Puritans and Pilchards

The History of Parliament