EBBA 31805
University of Glasgow Library - Euing
| News out of the Strand, / OR, / The Brewers Misfortune. / Being a true relation of a London Brewer, who was taken by his own Wife and the constable, in bed with / two strapping Lasses both at once, he lying in the middle, and they on each side. This was done near Co- / vent-Garden on monday the seventh day of this present July, 1662. about one of the clock in the morn- / ing; the manner how, is more fully exprest in this following Ditty. | ||
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| Date Published | 1662 | |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for Francis Grove on Snow-hill. | |
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| Collection | University of Glasgow Library - Euing | |
| Location | University of Glasgow Library | |
| Shelfmark | Euing Ballads 252 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | News out of the Strand, / OR, / The Brewers Misfortune. / Being a true relation of a London Brewer, who was taken by his own Wife and the constable, in bed with / two strapping Lasses both at once, he lying in the middle, and they on each side. This was done near Co- / vent-Garden on monday the seventh day of this present July, 1662. about one of the clock in the morn- / ing; the manner how, is more fully exprest in this following Ditty. | The second part |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, Come my own Dear let us dally a while. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | COme listen a while and I'le tell you a jest, / There's nothing but truth in my Ditty exprest, | O Was not this a wonderful Riddle, / Two whores in the Bed, and a Knave in the middle, |
| Refrain | with a fa, la, la, la, la lero, | with a fa, la, la, la, la lero, |
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