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</blockquote>-from ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Roister_Doister Ralph Royster Doyster]'', Act II. scene 1, a comedy by Nicholas Udall, circa 1522. | </blockquote>-from ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Roister_Doister Ralph Royster Doyster]'', Act II. scene 1, a comedy by Nicholas Udall, circa 1522. | ||
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[[Category:Fictional songwriters|Raker, Jack]] | [[Category:Fictional songwriters|Raker, Jack]] | ||
[[Category:Myths and legends|Raker, Jack]] | [[Category:Myths and legends|Raker, Jack]] | ||
Revision as of 04:02, 26 September 2017
A generic fictional composer of terrible poetry and bad popular songs; a balladmonger.
Mentioned in several plays, the term was used in the 1500s-1600s.
Of Songs and Ballads also he is a maker,
And that can he as finely do as Jack Raker.
-from Ralph Royster Doyster, Act II. scene 1, a comedy by Nicholas Udall, circa 1522.
The term was also used by English poet John Skelton (c. 1463–1529) in his "Speak, Parrot," and "Why come ye not to Court."
