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Magdalene College - Pepys
The North Country lovers: / Or: The plain Downright wooeing between John and Joan. / A Pleasant new Song as it was sung before the Court at Windsor. / Johney Addresses to his Joan most dear / And on her Piggsneys casteth many a lear, / Telling her how he wealth and love had got / The which so far transports the subtel slut, / That unto Venus sport she drew him in / And in her mortrice fastened straight his pin
Date Published ?
Author Thomas D'Urfey
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Imprint [Imprint cropped]
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Collection Magdalene College - Pepys
Page 4.24
Location Pepys Library
Shelfmark Pepys Ballads 4.24
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  Part 1
Title The North Country lovers: / Or: The plain Downright wooeing between John and Joan. / A Pleasant new Song as it was sung before the Court at Windsor. / Johney Addresses to his Joan most dear / And on her Piggsneys casteth many a lear, / Telling her how he wealth and love had got / The which so far transports the subtel slut, / That unto Venus sport she drew him in / And in her mortrice fastened straight his pin
Tune Imprint To a New tune. Quoth Iohn to Ioan.
First Lines QUoth John to Joan what wilt thou have me, / I prithee now do and i'le marry with thee,
Refrain Say my Joan, say my Joan will not this do, / I connot I connot come every day to woe. [with variations]
Album Page 1/2 sheet oblong folio, folded, 220 x 268
Condition cropped top and bottom edges, uneven inking
Ornament cast fleurons