A northern rhyme named each day of Shrovetide by what it brought, from Collop Monday through Pancake Tuesday to a Bloody Thursday. Collop Monday was for slices of ham or bacon, and the rhyme looked forward to Saturday afternoon at the end of the long week. Denham printed it among his Shrovetide rhymes.
Collop Monday and Bloody Thursday
48 days before Easter · Northern England
No longer kept
Shrove Sunday, Collop Monday, Pancake Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Bloody Thursday, Friday's lang, but will be dune. Then hey for Setterday efternune.
From The Denham Tracts, vol. 2, p. 17. Read the original
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