The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng

The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng is a long raucous, misogynous and libellous poem by English poet John Skelton.

The poem concerns a publican who was fined in Leatherhead in 1525 for selling short measures at expensive prices.

[1] The poem was printed by Richard Lant sometime in 1550 and presents what many would consider disgusting images of rural drinking and drunkenness.

Elynour easily acquires all her ingredients for quite acceptable ale from the local farmers in southern England where her pub was apparently located.

Ralph Vaughan Williams set extracts in his Five Tudor Portraits with other poems by Skelton.