EBBA 36054
Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
| The Gossips Feast: / Or, A merry meeting / Of women kinde each other greeting. / VVhich by a fire with spiced Ale, / Told many a pleasant Christmas tale. | ||
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| Date Published | 1635-1636 ? | |
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| Imprint | Printed at London for Thomas Lambert / at the signe of the Hors-shoo / in Smithfield. | |
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| Collection | Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads | |
| Page | 2.6 | |
| Location | Manchester Central Library | |
| Shelfmark | BR f 821.04 B49 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The Gossips Feast: / Or, A merry meeting / Of women kinde each other greeting. / VVhich by a fire with spiced Ale, / Told many a pleasant Christmas tale. | The second part. |
| Tune Imprint | To a delicate Northerne tune: Or, There was an old man sate piping. | To the same tune. |
| First Lines | OF late within an euening tide / it was my chance to be | THen said old smug the blacksmiths (wife / my husband is vnkind, |
| Refrain | This ale goes merrily downe, downe, / this ale goes merrily downe. / Since here we be good company / let each wife drinke her round. | This ale goes merrily downe, downe, / This ale goes merrily downe, / Since here we be good company / let each wife drinke her round. |
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| Notes | The ESTC notes an entry in the Stationers' Register: "Entered 2 January 1635 and 18 June 1636." | |