EBBA 36043
Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
| Come buy a Mouse-Trap, Or, a new way to catch an old Rat: Being a true relation of one Peters a Post of Roterdam, who temping / an honest woman to leudnesse, was by her and her husband catch in a Mouse Trap, by what meanes the following Story shall relate. | |
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| Date Published | 1647? |
| Author | Humphrey Crouch |
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| Imprint | LONDON, Printed by Iohn Hammond. |
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| Collection | Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads |
| Page | 1.52 |
| Location | Manchester Central Library |
| Shelfmark | BR f 821.04 B49 |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | Come buy a Mouse-Trap, Or, a new way to catch an old Rat: Being a true relation of one Peters a Post of Roterdam, who temping / an honest woman to leudnesse, was by her and her husband catch in a Mouse Trap, by what meanes the following Story shall relate. |
| Tune Imprint | To the tune of, Packingtons Pound. |
| First Lines | THis Nation long time hath bin plagued with old Rats, / And bin at great charges to keepe them good Cats, |
| Refrain | But certaine you shall have no need of a Cat, / Come buy a new Mouse-Trap to catch an old Rat. [with variation] |
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