EBBA 30028
British Library - Roxburghe
| Choice of Inuentions, Or / Seuerall sorts of the figure of three, / That are newly compos'd as here you may see, / Then lend your attention you shall heare anon / It goes to the tune of Rock the Cradle sweet Iohn. | ||
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| Date Published | 1624-1680 ? | |
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| Imprint | Printed at London for F. Coles. | |
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| Collection | British Library - Roxburghe | |
| Pages | 1.32, 1.33 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.7.32-33 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Choice of Inuentions, Or / Seuerall sorts of the figure of three, / That are newly compos'd as here you may see, / Then lend your attention you shall heare anon / It goes to the tune of Rock the Cradle sweet Iohn. | The second part |
| Tune Imprint | It goes to the tune of Rock the Cradle sweet Iohn. | To the same tune. |
| First Lines | THere were three men of Gotam, / as I haue heard men say, | THere was a Lasse had three Louers / the one of them a Taylor, |
| Refrain | There was an Ewe had three Lambes, / and one of them was blacke, / There was a man had three sonnes, / Ieffrey, Iames and Iacke, / The one was hang'd, the other drown'd, / The third was lost and never found, / The old man he fell in a sownd, come fill vs | There was a Ewe had three Lambes, / and one of them was blacke, / There was a man had three sonnes, / Ieffrey, Iames and Iacke, / The one was hangd, the other drownd, / The third was lost and never found, / The old man he fell in a sownd, come fill vs a c |
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