EBBA 30860
British Library - Roxburghe
| Dead and Alive. / This Ditty out of Glocestshire was sent / To London, for to have it put in print, / Therefore draw neer and listen unto this, / It doth concern a man that did amiss, / And so to shun the anger of his wife, / He thought with poyson for to end his life / But in the stead of poyson he drunk Sack, / For which his wife did soundly pay his back | ||
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| Date Published | 1623-1661 ? | |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for F. G. on Snow-hill, | |
| License | Entered according to Order. | |
| Collection | British Library - Roxburghe | |
| Pages | 3.210, 3.211 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.9.210-211 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Dead and Alive. / This Ditty out of Glocestshire was sent / To London, for to have it put in print, / Therefore draw neer and listen unto this, / It doth concern a man that did amiss, / And so to shun the anger of his wife, / He thought with poyson for to end his life / But in the stead of poyson he drunk Sack, / For which his wife did soundly pay his back | The second part |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, Old flesh. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | There was a shaving Royster / as I heard many tell, | ANother day she sent him / her Ducks and Geese to tend |
| Refrain | he could not rule his wife [with variation] | to make unto his wife [with variation] |
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