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	Tom o' Bedlams — Infoplease.com
		Bedlam - Bedlam A lunatic asylum or madhouse; a contraction for Bethlehem, the name of a religious house in...
		Abram-Man or Abraham Cove - Abram-Man or Abraham Cove A Tom o' Bedlam; a naked vagabond; a begging impostor.
		Abram-Man - Abram-Man or Abraham Cove A Tom o' Bedlam; a naked vagabond; a begging impostor.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/tom-o-bedlams.html (201 words)

	Tom o' Bedlam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Tom O' Bedlam" was used in Early Modern Britain and later to describe beggars and vagrants who had or feigned mental illness.
		Maudlin was a form of Mary Magdalene; Bedlam was all-male, and the corresponding institute for females was the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem.
		On the lordly lofts [this is sarcasm] of Bedlam,
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_o'_Bedlam (629 words)

	Chapter Tom Thumb <i>to</i> Tonio of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Tom Thumb, the name of a very diminutive little man in the court of king Arthur, killed by the poisonous breath of a spider in the reign of king Thunstone, the successor of Arthur.
		Tom Tram, the hero of a novel entitled The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram, Son-in-Law to Mother Winter, whereunto is added his Merry Jests, Old Conceits, and Pleasant Tales (seventeenth century).
		Tom o’ Bedlam, a ticket-of-leave madman from Bethlehem Hospital; or one discharged as incurable.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1130/15046/1.html (668 words)

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		'Tom o' Bedlam's Song' can be regarded, through the high opinion Graves held of its literary merit and the associations with 'primitive religion' it evoked in his mind, as a quintessential White Goddess poem.
		The ballad itself is one of a group of anonymous compositions that appear in seventeenth-century manuscripts and popular anthologies that reflect the Elizabethan and Jacobean fascination with madness, often expressing a manic poetic energy and a savage kind of poignancy.
		Of the surviving examples, as Graves points out, 'Tom o' Bedlam's Song' is easily the most accomplished technically, both in its metrical control and in the sophistication of its wordplay, which revolves around a word rich in associations for the poets of the period: 'horn'.
	www.quarto.iinet.net.au /writing_6.html (2738 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Tom.
		Between “Tom” and “Jack” there is a vast difference.
		Counterfeits are “Jack,” but Toms are simply bulky examples of the ordinary sort, as Tomtoes.
		No one would think of calling the thick-headed, ponderous male cat a Jack, nor the pert, dexterous, thieving daw a “Tom.” The former is instinctively called a Tom-cat, and the latter a Jack-daw.
	www.bartleby.com /81/16600.html (301 words)

	Amazon.com: Tom O'Bedlam: Robert Silverberg: Books
		Although Tom is portrayed as crazy or faking craziness, the reader is asked to accept Tom's killing of people as actually releasing them from the pain of their worldly life.
		The willy nilly story becomes confusing when Tom transports both willing souls and unwilling souls out of their bodies-all types: a salvation seeker, a would be suicide and would be killer are all sent to a non human afterlife.
		Tom O'Bedlam is seen as a crazy person, raving about weird things like aliens and other planets and places and all sorts of other things that seem ludicrous to the people around...
	www.amazon.com /Tom-OBedlam-Robert-Silverberg/dp/1587541165 (1110 words)

	TOM A BEDLAM
		Thede (1967) revealed that a Tom and Jerry was a concoction whose ingredients are whiskey, hot water, sugar, nutmeg, and whipped whites of eggs; it is sometimes known as a seasonal (New Year’s) drink, served in a special bowl.
		Tom Billy Murphy (1879-1944), a native of Ballydesmond, west Kerry, was an influential fiddler and teacher in the Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border during the early twentieth century, and was a contemporary of the great Kerry fiddler Padraig O’Keeffe.
		The title honors Tom Billy Murphy of Kingwilliamstown (1879-1944), an influential fiddler in the Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork/Kerry border.
	www.ibiblio.org /fiddlers/TOM_TON.htm (2788 words)

	Shakespeare King Lear Summary
		Justice on earth is personified by a madman (Lear), Edgar (disguised as Tom o' Bedlam), and the Fool.
		She says "O, sir, you are old; / Nature in you stands on the very verge / Of her confine: you should be ruled and led / By some discretion that discerns your state / better than you yourself." She wants Lear to return to and ask Goneril for her forgiveness.
		O. has informed Albany that the French army is landed, that she is coming, the action against Lear, etc., and he has reacted unexpectedly.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/ws_kinglear.html (8337 words)

	minstrel: Tom O'Bedlam
		Apollo is the Graeco-Roman sun god; Tom knows more than the sun, for he is awake during the night, when the sun doesn't see what the stars and planets are up to.
		In mythology, the moon goddess is married to the morning star but embraces a shepherd boy, and Venus embraces Mars yet she is married to Vulcan.
		Tom is hallucinating the acts of the gods of mythology, indicating that the author of this lyric was certainly educated.
	www.pbm.com /pipermail/minstrel/1997/001612.html (1179 words)

	Tom O'Bedlam by Robert Silverberg
		Tom, like the medieval Tom O'Bedlam, can't decipher the meaning of the images plaguing his mind.
		Much like the wondering and mad Tom of the medieval ballad, the Tom O' Bedlam of 2103 doesn't know what to make of the images that keep cluttering his mind.
		In this post-industrial world on the verge of a total collapse, Tom has become humanity's spokesperson to the distant planet that may be his world's salvation.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /s/robert-silverberg/tom-obedlam.htm (148 words)

	SciFan: Books: Tom O'Bedlam by Robert Silverberg (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tom, like the medieval Tom O'Bedlam, can't decipher the meaning of the images plaguing his mind.
		Much like the wondering and mad Tom of the medieval ballad, the Tom O' Bedlam of 2103 doesn't know what to make of the images that keep cluttering his mind.
		In this post-industrial world on the verge of a total collapse, Tom has become humanity's spokesperson to the distant planet that may be his world's salvation.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=7411 (233 words)

	Re: Euphemism . . . 'Tom'
		Cockney rhyming slang definitely already has two other meanings for the word "tom", namely jewellery (from tomfoolery) and shit (from Tom Tit), which just goes to show that context is everything when trying to understand a Cockney.
		An early example of 'Tom' to describe a madman is in Shakespeare's King Lear (3.iv) when Edgar, in disguise and apparently living in a hovel, uses the name and also speaks the phrase 'Poor Tom's a-cold'.
		Apparently "Tom Fool" was similar to "John Doe," a substitute for a name, commonly given in medieval times to a man whose mental functioning was so impaired that he couldn't tell people his name--what we'd now call the village idiot.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/20/messages/841.html (513 words)

	Tom a Bedlam (Bedlam Boys) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Notes: The Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem (Bedlam), in London, was the first hospital for insane men in England.
		"Bedlam songs" seem to have been a phenomenon in the eighteenth century and after.
		Under the circumstances, I've listed the most traditional-seeming of the bunch ("Tom a Bedlam") here, and hope cross-references in the "References" field will suffice for the others.
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/Log172.html (255 words)

	Curiosities of Literature: Tom O’ Bedlams
		Sir Walter Scott first obligingly suggested to me that these roving lunatics were out-door pensioners of Bedlam, sent about to live as well as they could with the pittance granted by the hospital.
		They could not get it off; they wore about their necks a great horn of an ox in a string or bawdry, which, when they came to a house, they did wind, and they put the drink given to them into this horn, whereto they put a stopple.
		Poems composed in the character of a Tom o’ Bedlam appear to have formed a fashionable class of poetry among the wits; they seem to have held together poetical contests, and some of these writers became celebrated for their successful efforts, for old Isaac Walton mentions a “Mr.
	www.spamula.net /col/archives/2005/11/tom_o_bedlams_1.html (1296 words)

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		Edgar\rquote s portrayal of Tom O\rquote Bedlam, on the other hand, is as one might expect it to be: rambling and filled with sing-song and gibberish.
		His \ldblquote O, do, de, do, de,\rdblquote and his attempt to catch the \ldblquote foul fiend\rdblquote on his person place him socially beneath even the like of Flavius, who might have been imprudent, but not, as Tom is, mad.
		The question still remains, however, as t o how valid my research is, because I have admittedly glossed over a few rather crucial points in my arguments, such as that Julius Caesar often does }{\ul not}{ speak his lines in a Latin object-subject-verb sentence pattern.
	www.mathcs.duq.edu /~tobin/cv/essay.3k.01.rtf (3581 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Bess o’ Bedlam. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Bess o’ Bedlam.
		Bedlam is a common name for a madhouse, and Bess is a national name for a woman, especially of the lower order.
		The male lunatic is a Tom o’ Bedlam.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/1770.html (72 words)

	Dissertations, Essays on Edgar: Mad or Sane
		Edgar: Mad and Sane In King Lear by William Shakespeare, a theme that is seen in several characters is madness.
		Madness in Elizabethan times was a complex state of mind commonly associated with beggars, called Tom O’ Bedlam.
		Edgar, the Duke of Gloucester’s eldest son is shown going from a respectable nobleman to a Poor Tom.
	www.essayboom.com /essay/Edgar_Mad_or_Sane-96016.html (168 words)

	Forums - Wiene's DR.CALIGARI - rate it!
		So it's realistic in the sense that it's expressionist images and the construction and context of the film evoke realistic ideas (such as the poles of tyranny and freedom - i.e., the three flights of stairs leading to Caligari's office to reinforce hierarchy).
		So, Tom O' Bedlam and Beau - while Caligari is German expressionism, it is also a reflection of the German soul.
		So, Tom O' Bedlamn and Beau - while Caligari is German expressionism, it is also a reflection of the German soul.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=582538 (4817 words)

	Jacob Avshalomov: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The oboe and percussion give such a sense of Tom's madness, and the chorus express so clearly his fever and pathetic frailty, that one almost forgets the brilliance with which you have embodied these qualities in your music."
		This is a truly superb oriental fantasy, large in subject and scope though by no means long.
		"Gov. Tom McCall as the speaker, was a splendid protagonist of the lines that John F. Kennedy spoke in the Massachusetts capital that are the poetic and inspiring verbal skein that runs through the entire work and holds it in consistent and logical form."
	www.composers.com /avshalomov/reviews.html (783 words)

	The Poetry Archives @eMule.com :: General Discussion :: Tom O'Bedlam
		Bedlam was of course The Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, where the loonies were sent way back when.
		Witchcraft appears with the hag and hungry goblin, I would think, and the book of moons could be an astrology reference.
		Welkin is the region of the air where the clouds float.
	www.emule.com /2poetry/phorum/read.php?4,165029,165036 (647 words)

	MySpace.com - Tom O'Bedlam - 22 - Male - Biggins & Manchester, Northwest - www.myspace.com/notahappyman
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		Dear tom its been the longest time since i have spoken to you you fraudster you back at home for the summer or you still bumming around in manchester.
		I have a plaster cast on my little arm and im not to happy about it.
	www.myspace.com /notahappyman (1214 words)

	The Cult - Joust Club
		The first rule of Joust Club is thou must not speak of Joust Club to thine wyfe, child or Tom o' Bedlam.
		The second rule of Joust Club be that thou MUST NOT speak of Joust Club to thine wyfe, child or any Tom o' Bedlam.
		The third rule of Joust Club be that if thine opponent doth fall from his horse, become possessed by a demon or die of leprosy, then the Joust be over.
	www.chuckpalahniuk.net /community/printthread.php?t=5187&pp=40 (600 words)

	Tom — Infoplease.com
		“For that being one o' the lowest, basest, poorest of this most wise rebellion, thou goest foremost.” (
		A waterman, who bears the same relation to a Jack Tar as a carthorse to an Arab.
		Tom - Tom Tom, river, c.525 mi (840 km) long, rising in the Alatau range, S Siberian Russia.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/tom.html (325 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Tom o' Bedlam, st. 8./
		BBC - h2g2 - Tom o' Bedlam, st. 8./
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	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3099495 (119 words)

	Bedlam
		I believe at the time, and Im satisfied now, it would have been fatal if we had done what he asked. Maj Stanley said that not since the Korean War had all available gunfire been released at once 18 Hamm howitzers firing constantly.
		James Blunt quickly sold out the Paramount Theatre in March, a no-brainer considering his mass appeal and the fact his debut, "Back to Bedlam," was
		Maj Stanley, now 75 and living on Aucklands North Shore, said it was turmoil, with an afternoon monsoon downpour adding to the mayhem.
	www.paleorama.com /Marvel-B/Bedlam.php (407 words)

	Time of Legends Developers Log: Influences
		The Fisher King - Robin Williams char is a nice combo of Tom O Bedlam and the wise street shaman.
		The Gentleman ahve that fairytale horror charm that we want from our monster encounters, and Restless lays on the metaphors o dream quite thickly.
		Effectively we're doing Everway as a Live Roleplaying game, less freeform but the world walking is what it's all about.
	www.pagga.net /mtarchive/000003.html (383 words)

	tom - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com
		tom - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Tom - contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
		Black person, flamoor, Negro, Negroid, Black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
	www.onpedia.com /dictionary/Tom (93 words)

	The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, Mélodies, Chansons and other Vocal Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		by C. Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960), "Tom o' Bedlam", 1934.
		Search sheetmusicplus.com for Tom o' Bedlam, Art song, Lieder, chansons, or works for solo voice
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	www.recmusic.org /lieder/get_text.html?TextId=1580 (251 words)

	Reader's Club: Email Review
		these are becoming more than just daydreams to Tom O?Bedlam.
		Religious cults are growing, and scientists are scrambling for answers; are these aliens, god, or shared hallucinations.
		Faith in Tom O?Bedlam may cost you your life; then again, it may save it!
	www.readersclub.org /emailReview.asp?id=867 (100 words)

	Poor Tom's Revenge reviewed in Krax (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is a very intense collection by someone with many points to make.
		The title poem, being based on the Tom o' Bedlam ballad, is equally lyrical, and if you wanted to you could sing it along to the tune (I've only got the Bluehorses' 'Mad Tom' version for comparison) - again this is a tongue-in-cheek update.
		For me, though, it lacks that one memorable outstanding item that could be its selling point.
	bfewster.members.gn.apc.org /poetry/tom/krax.htm (112 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - Apu Trilogy? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BTW the fire at merchant/ivory's wharehouse contributed to the lack of a great print.
		Send a private message to Tom O' Bedlam
		Location: DC The restored Silver Theatre (American Film Institute) in Silver Spring Maryland is showcasing this trilogy at the end of the month and early May.
	forum.dvdtalk.com /showthread.php?t=271396 (228 words)

	Tom o'Bedlam
		(7.2.1997): "Mad Maudlin's Search for Her Tom of Bedlam", currently popularized by Tom Gilfellon, was published by Thomas D'Urfey in his Pills to Purge Melancholy in 1720"
		The version he sang was taken from print, and the words are almost the same as the following.
		Mad Maudlin's Search for Her Tom of Bedlam
	www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/donkeybe.htm (644 words)

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