EBBA 30099
British Library - Roxburghe
| The industrious Smith wherin is showne, / How plain dealing is overthrown, / That let a man do the best that he may, / An idle huswife will work his decay, / Yet art is no burthen, though ill we may speed, / Our labour will help us in time of our need; | ||
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| Date Published | 1633-1652 ? | |
| Author | Humphrey Crouch | |
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| Imprint | LONDON, Printed for RICHARD HARPER in Smithfield. | |
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| Collection | British Library - Roxburghe | |
| Pages | 1.158, 1.159 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.7.158-159 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The industrious Smith wherin is showne, / How plain dealing is overthrown, / That let a man do the best that he may, / An idle huswife will work his decay, / Yet art is no burthen, though ill we may speed, / Our labour will help us in time of our need; | The second part |
| Tune Imprint | To the tune of yong man remember delights are but vain. | to the same tune. |
| First Lines | THere was a poor Smith liv'd in a poor town, / That had a loving wife bonny and brown, | A Sort of Saylers were drinking one night, / And when they were drunk began for to fight |
| Refrain | These things must be if we sell Ale. [with variation] | |
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