EBBA 22342
Magdalene College - Pepys
| THE / Maiden LOTTERY: / Containing Seventy Thousand Tickets; each a Guinney; the / Prizes being Rich and Loving Husbands, from three Thousand to one / Hundred a Year, which Lottery will begin to draw on next Valentine's Day. / Then Pretty Lasses venture now, / Kind Fortune may her Smiles allow. | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
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| Imprint | LONDON: Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-ball in Pye-Corner |
| License | Licensed according to Order. |
| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 5.420 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 5.420 |
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| Title | THE / Maiden LOTTERY: / Containing Seventy Thousand Tickets; each a Guinney; the / Prizes being Rich and Loving Husbands, from three Thousand to one / Hundred a Year, which Lottery will begin to draw on next Valentine's Day. / Then Pretty Lasses venture now, / Kind Fortune may her Smiles allow. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, The Evening Ramble. |
| First Lines | YOung Ladies that live in the City, / sweet beautiful proper and tall, |
| Refrain | Of her that shall light of a fortunate Lott; / There's six of three thousand a Year to begot. (with variations; not stanza 8) |
| Album Page | 1/2 sheet folio, 250 x 170 |
| Condition | cropped top and right edges, creased, uneven inking |
| Ornament | vertical rules |