EBBA 36008
Beinecke Library - Michell-Jolliffe
| The Cloath-worker caught in a Trap: / Or, A Fool and his Mony soon parted. / Being a true Relation of a Cloath-worker, dweelling in Thames-street, who was wished by an old wo- / man to a Maid near Pauls Church-yard, perswading him she had mony at use, being a meer Plot of / the Maiden and she to cheat him of his Money, knowing him to be none of the wisest, cheated him / of forty pound. / if you will know then give good Ear, / The merriest Jest that e'r you did hear. | |
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| Date Published | 1678-1688 ? |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and W. Whitwood. |
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| Collection | Beinecke Library - Michell-Jolliffe |
| Location | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
| Shelfmark | 2000 Folio 6 254 |
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| Title | The Cloath-worker caught in a Trap: / Or, A Fool and his Mony soon parted. / Being a true Relation of a Cloath-worker, dweelling in Thames-street, who was wished by an old wo- / man to a Maid near Pauls Church-yard, perswading him she had mony at use, being a meer Plot of / the Maiden and she to cheat him of his Money, knowing him to be none of the wisest, cheated him / of forty pound. / if you will know then give good Ear, / The merriest Jest that e'r you did hear. |
| Tune Imprint | The Tune is, How now Jocky whither away. Or the Tyrant. |
| First Lines | CGod people I'll tell you now of a fine jest, / Which now unto you shall here be exprest, |
| Refrain | She made me a promise she would be my Bride, / But I have lost her and my Mony beside. [with variation] |
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