EBBA 35512
Houghton Library - Hazlitt EC65
| A New BALLAD of the Three Merry BUTCHERS, / And Ten Highway MEN. / How three Butchers went to pay Five Hundred Pounds away, and hearing a Woman crying in the Wood, went to relieve / her, and was there set upon by Ten Highway Men; and how, only stout Johnson fought with them all, who killed Eight of / the Ten, and at last was killed by the Woman he went to save in the Wood. | |
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| Date Published | 1687-1732 ? |
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| Imprint | London: Printed by T. Norris, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge |
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| Collection | Houghton Library - Hazlitt EC65 |
| Page | 1.116 |
| Location | Houghton Library |
| Shelfmark | EC65.A100.690v2 |
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| Title | A New BALLAD of the Three Merry BUTCHERS, / And Ten Highway MEN. / How three Butchers went to pay Five Hundred Pounds away, and hearing a Woman crying in the Wood, went to relieve / her, and was there set upon by Ten Highway Men; and how, only stout Johnson fought with them all, who killed Eight of / the Ten, and at last was killed by the Woman he went to save in the Wood. |
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| First Lines | I'LL tell you of a Story of lovely Butchers three, / There's Wilson, Gibson, Johnson, mark well what I shall say; |
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