EBBA 33992
National Library of Scotland - Crawford
| Jennies Answer to Sawny. / Wherein Loves Cruelty is requited, Or, The Inconstant Lover justly / Despised. / Being a Relation how Sawney being Disabled and and turn'd out of Doors by the Miss of London / town, is likewise scorned and rejected by his Country Lass, and forced to wander where he may / Jenny at at last in a most woful case, / Is forc'd to leave the Patch'd and Painted face; / For money there rules all, and when 'tis gone, / The Cully is no longer writed on: / Down to his Jenny he does hye with speed, / But she remembers his Ungrateful deed; / Nor will forgive though on his knees he fall, / So Mortify'd he is despis'd by all. | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball, near the Hospital-Gate in West-Smithfield. |
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| Collection | National Library of Scotland - Crawford |
| Location | National Library of Scotland |
| Shelfmark | Crawford.EB.1321 |
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| Title | Jennies Answer to Sawny. / Wherein Loves Cruelty is requited, Or, The Inconstant Lover justly / Despised. / Being a Relation how Sawney being Disabled and and turn'd out of Doors by the Miss of London / town, is likewise scorned and rejected by his Country Lass, and forced to wander where he may / Jenny at at last in a most woful case, / Is forc'd to leave the Patch'd and Painted face; / For money there rules all, and when 'tis gone, / The Cully is no longer writed on: / Down to his Jenny he does hye with speed, / But she remembers his Ungrateful deed; / Nor will forgive though on his knees he fall, / So Mortify'd he is despis'd by all. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, Sawney will ne'r be my Love again. |
| First Lines | VVHen Sawny left me he had store of Gilt, / but he hath spent it in London Town; |
| Refrain | For Sawny shall never more be mine. [with variation] |
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