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EBBA 35501

Houghton Library - Huth EBB65H
A Tryal of skill, performed by a poor decayed Gentlewoman, / Who cheated a rich Grasier of Sevenscore pound, and left him a Child to keep. / If you will know, then listen a while, / And you shall know that which will make you smile.
Date Published 1681-1684 ?
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Imprint Printed for I. Wright, I. Clarke, W. Thackeray, / and T. Passinger.
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Collection Houghton Library - Huth EBB65H
Page 2.182 Verso
Location Houghton Library
Shelfmark EBB65H
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  Part 1
Title A Tryal of skill, performed by a poor decayed Gentlewoman, / Who cheated a rich Grasier of Sevenscore pound, and left him a Child to keep. / If you will know, then listen a while, / And you shall know that which will make you smile.
Tune Imprint The Tune is, Ragged and Torn.
First Lines KInd Country=men list to my Ditty, / I pray you what ever you be,
Refrain Take heed of bad women therefore, / by women are men overthrown, / And rich men are often made Poor, / when as they keep more then their own.
Condition
Ornament
Notes Printed on the verso of EBBA 34492, "The Master-piece of Love-songs: / A Dialogue betwixt a bold KEEPER and a LADY gay, / He woo'd his LORD's Daught[e]r, and carried the day; / But soon after Marriage was forc'd for to fight, / With his Lord and six Gentlemen, for his own Right; / He cut them, and hew'd them, and paid them with blows, / And made them his Friends, that before were his Foes."