EBBA 21176
Magdalene College - Pepys
| The Loving Mistress, / AND / The WANTON CLERK. / The Mistress and the Maid would try, / If Will between them both could lie / And not with them the Wanton play, / Of this they did a wager lay, / He to be wanton did begin, / So they the VVager thought to win. | |
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| Date Published | 1662-1692 ? |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for J. Conyers, an[d]/ are to be had at his Shop at/ the Black Raven a little a-/ bove St. Andrews Church/ in Holborn. |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 3.164 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 3.164 |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | The Loving Mistress, / AND / The WANTON CLERK. / The Mistress and the Maid would try, / If Will between them both could lie / And not with them the Wanton play, / Of this they did a wager lay, / He to be wanton did begin, / So they the VVager thought to win. |
| Tune Imprint | The Tune is, A fig for France, or, The Country Farmer, or, Where's my Shepherd. |
| First Lines | A Lawyer in our Town did dwell, / who lov'd his Wife exceeding well, |
| Refrain | And him she called wanton Will. [with variations] |
| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 334 |
| Condition | cropped right edge, torn top edge |
| Ornament | vertical rule and cast fleurons |