EBBA 30843
British Library - Roxburghe
| The Old Mans Complaint: / OR, / The Unequal Matcht Couple. / She pines and grieves, because he cannot ease her, / He's old and feeble, therefore cannot please her; / She's young and wanton, and would have it fain, / And that's the cause why he doth thus complain. | ||
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| Date Published | 1640-1674 ? | |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for Richard Burton, at the Horshooe in Smithfield | |
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| Collection | British Library - Roxburghe | |
| Pages | 3.196, 3.197 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.9.196-197 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The Old Mans Complaint: / OR, / The Unequal Matcht Couple. / She pines and grieves, because he cannot ease her, / He's old and feeble, therefore cannot please her; / She's young and wanton, and would have it fain, / And that's the cause why he doth thus complain. | The Second Part, |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, I prethee love turn to me. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | O What a pittiful passion / it is to be sick for love, | WHen I seem to be sleepy, / she calls me drowsie Als; |
| Refrain | She would have the thing that I have not, / for the cramp lyes in my knee. [with variation] | She looks for the thing that I have not, O the cramp lies in my knee. [with variation] |
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