EBBA 30255
British Library - Roxburghe
| Slippery VVill, or The old Bachelors complaint, with his / aduice to all yong men not to doe as he had done: / His youthfull time he spent away, / Which makes him now this Prouerbe say, / That he that will not when he may, / When he would, he should haue | ||
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| Date Published | 1618-1658 ? | |
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| Imprint | Printed at London for E.B. | |
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| Collection | British Library - Roxburghe | |
| Pages | 1.380, 1.381 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.7.380-381 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Slippery VVill, or The old Bachelors complaint, with his / aduice to all yong men not to doe as he had done: / His youthfull time he spent away, / Which makes him now this Prouerbe say, / That he that will not when he may, / When he would, he should haue | The second part. |
| Tune Imprint | To the tune of, The Bonny Bonny Broome. | To the same tune. |
| First Lines | LOng haue I liu'd a Batchelors life, / and had no mind to marry, | SWeet Nan did loue me deare indeed, / she would not see me to lacke, |
| Refrain | O young men all, to you I cry and call, / make not too long delay, / For if you will not when you may, / when ye would ye shall haue nay. | O young men all, to you I cry and call, / make not too long delay, / For if you will not when you may, / when you would, you shall haue nay. | For time and tide doth quickly glide, / and time for none will stay, / Then take your time when as you may, or else perhaps you may have nay. |
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