EBBA 31844
University of Glasgow Library - Euing
| The heavy Heart, and a light Purse. / Being the good fellows vindication to all his fellow Companions, wishing them / all to have a care, and keep out of the Ale-wives snare, for when they are out you / may get in, / but when you are in, you can't get out, this by experience he hath / found true, but now he bids them all adieu. / This Song it was composed and made / By a Loyal heart that is called John Wade. | |
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| Date Published | 1681-1686 ? |
| Author | John Wade |
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| Collection | University of Glasgow Library - Euing |
| Location | University of Glasgow Library |
| Shelfmark | Euing Ballads 136 |
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| Title | The heavy Heart, and a light Purse. / Being the good fellows vindication to all his fellow Companions, wishing them / all to have a care, and keep out of the Ale-wives snare, for when they are out you / may get in, / but when you are in, you can't get out, this by experience he hath / found true, but now he bids them all adieu. / This Song it was composed and made / By a Loyal heart that is called John Wade. |
| Tune Imprint | Tune of, My Lord Monks March to London, or, Now we have our freedom, &c. |
| First Lines | FUll fifty Winters have I seen, / yet nine and forty too many, |
| Refrain | my kind heart hath undone me. [with variation] |
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