EBBA 36211
Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
| The cunning Northerne Begger, / VVho all the By-standers doth earnestly pray, / To bestow a penny upon him to day. | ||
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| Date Published | 1634? | |
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| Imprint | Printed [at] London for F. Coules. | |
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| Collection | Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads | |
| Page | 2.37 | |
| Location | Manchester Central Library | |
| Shelfmark | BR f 821.04 B49 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The cunning Northerne Begger, / VVho all the By-standers doth earnestly pray, / To bestow a penny upon him to day. | The second part, |
| Tune Imprint | To the tune of Tom of Bedlam. | To the same tune. |
| First Lines | I Am a lusty begger, / and live by others giving, | SOmetime I like a Criple / Upon the ground lye crawing, |
| Refrain | For still will I cry good your worship good sire, / Bestow one poore denier sir: / Which when I've got / At the Pipe and Pot, / I soone will it casheere sir. [with variation] | And faintly I cry good your worship good, sir, / Bestow one poore desire sir, / which when I've got, / at the Pipe and Pot, / I soone will it casheere sir. [with variation] |
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