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EBBA 30686

British Library - Roxburghe
I Father a Child that's none of my own, / BEING / The SEAMANS Complaint, Who took a Whore instead of a Saint. / Shewing, That whilst he was Trading Seven Years from Port to Port at Sea, and brought / home great Wealth; his Wife in the mean time by Trading in the Low Countries, got a / Mischance, fell down and broke her---Elbow: above all praising the Innocence of a Coun- / try Life.
Date Published 1672-1696 ?
Author
Standard Tune
Imprint Printed for P. Brooksby, near the Hospital-gate, in West-smithfield.
License
Collection British Library - Roxburghe
Page 2.225
Location British Library
Shelfmark C.20.f.8.225
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  Part 1
Title I Father a Child that's none of my own, / BEING / The SEAMANS Complaint, Who took a Whore instead of a Saint. / Shewing, That whilst he was Trading Seven Years from Port to Port at Sea, and brought / home great Wealth; his Wife in the mean time by Trading in the Low Countries, got a / Mischance, fell down and broke her---Elbow: above all praising the Innocence of a Coun- / try Life.
Tune Imprint To the Tune of, Cook Laurel: Or, Give me the Lass, &c.
First Lines IF every Woman was serv'd in her kind, / and every Man had his just desert,
Refrain And got me a Child, though 'tis none of my own [with variation]
Condition
Ornament