EBBA 32022
University of Glasgow Library - Euing
| Slippery Will, or The old Bachelors complaint, with his / aduice to all yong men not to doe as he had done: / His youthfull time he spent away, / Which makes him now this Proverbe say, / That he that will not when he may, / When he would, he should haue nay. | ||
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| Date Published | 1618-1658 ? | |
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| Imprint | Printed at London for E.B. | |
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| Collection | University of Glasgow Library - Euing | |
| Location | University of Glasgow Library | |
| Shelfmark | Euing Ballads 337 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Slippery Will, or The old Bachelors complaint, with his / aduice to all yong men not to doe as he had done: / His youthfull time he spent away, / Which makes him now this Proverbe say, / That he that will not when he may, / When he would, he should haue nay. | The second part, |
| Tune Imprint | To the tune of, The Bonny Bonny Broome. | To the same tune. |
| First Lines | LOng have I liv'd a Batchelors life, / and had no mind to marry, | SWeet Nan did love me deare indeed, / Shee would not see mee to lacke, |
| Refrain | O young men all, to you I cry and call, / make not too long delay, / For if you will not when you may, / when ye would, ye shall have nay. | O young men all, to you I cry and call, / make not too long delay, / For if you will not when you may, / when you would you shall have nay. [with variation] |
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