EBBA 21288
Magdalene College - Pepys
| The Crafty MISS: / Or, An Excise man well fitted. / Being a true Relation of an Excise-man, who lately in the County of Kent, had / received the Sum of Four-score-pounds and lighting into the company of a / Crafty Miss who gave him the Chouse for it all; and riding away with his / Gelding, left in the stead a Mare which she had stole, for which Mare he was / Arraigned, and narrowly escaped the severe penalty of the Law: Which may / be a sufficient warning to all Excise-men far and near, to amend their lives, to hate a Miss, and love their Wives. | |
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| Date Published | 1671-1702 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for I. Deacon, at the sign of the Angel in Guilt=spur-street |
| License | Entred according to Order. |
| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 3.274 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 3.274 |
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| Title | The Crafty MISS: / Or, An Excise man well fitted. / Being a true Relation of an Excise-man, who lately in the County of Kent, had / received the Sum of Four-score-pounds and lighting into the company of a / Crafty Miss who gave him the Chouse for it all; and riding away with his / Gelding, left in the stead a Mare which she had stole, for which Mare he was / Arraigned, and narrowly escaped the severe penalty of the Law: Which may / be a sufficient warning to all Excise-men far and near, to amend their lives, to hate a Miss, and love their Wives. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, Moggies Iealousie. |
| First Lines | THere was an Excise-Man so fine, / rode into the county of Kent, |
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| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?205 x 310 |
| Condition | cropped and torn top edge, creased, damaged surface |
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