EBBA 35301
Houghton Library - 25242.67
| I Father a Child that's none of my own, / BEING / The SEAMANS Complaint, / Who took a Whore instead of a Saint. / Shewing, That whilst he was Trading Seven Years from port to Port at Sea, and brought / home great Wealth; his wife in the mean time by Trading in the Low Countries, got a / Mischance, fell down and broke her---Elbow: above all praising the Innocence of a Coun- / try Life. | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby, near the Hospital-gate, in West-smithfield. |
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| Collection | Houghton Library - 25242.67 |
| Page | 1.65 |
| Location | Houghton Library |
| Shelfmark | 25242.67 |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | I Father a Child that's none of my own, / BEING / The SEAMANS Complaint, / Who took a Whore instead of a Saint. / Shewing, That whilst he was Trading Seven Years from port to Port at Sea, and brought / home great Wealth; his wife in the mean time by Trading in the Low Countries, got a / Mischance, fell down and broke her---Elbow: above all praising the Innocence of a Coun- / try Life. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, Cook Laurel: Or, Give me the Lass, &c. |
| First Lines | IF every Woman was serv'd in her kind, / and every Man had his just desert, |
| Refrain | If I Father a Child that is none of my own. [with variation]. |
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