EBBA 37122
British Library - Huth
| Merry Tom of all TRADES; / OR, / A trick to get money at every dead lift, / Made known by Tom of all Trades, that bravely could shift, / From one Place to another, about he did range, / And at his own pleasure his Trade he could change. | |
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| Date Published | 1681-1684 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for I. Wriight, I. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger. |
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| Collection | British Library - Huth |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | Huth50.(75,76.) |
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| Title | Merry Tom of all TRADES; / OR, / A trick to get money at every dead lift, / Made known by Tom of all Trades, that bravely could shift, / From one Place to another, about he did range, / And at his own pleasure his Trade he could change. |
| Tune Imprint | The Tune is, Behold the Man. |
| First Lines | MY name is Tom of all Trades, / there's many knows me well, |
| Refrain | Then hey for Tom of all Trades, / is all the peoples cry, / And point their fingers at me, / as I am passing by. |
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| Notes | Printed on the verso of a newer ballad, EBBA 37121, "The Fatal VIRGIN: / Or, the young Lady's Drowning herself / In the River of Thames, / Who leap'd out of a Boat in the middle of the River / on Saturday last at Ten at Night, and taken up on Sun- / day morning the 23d. of July, 1710. at break of Day."
This item (75,76) is interleaved between item 74 (EBBA 37117, "THE / KINGDOMES MONSTER / Vncloaked from Heaven: / The Popish Conspirators, Malignant Plotters, and cruell Irish, in one Body to destroy / Kingdome, Religion, and Lawes: But under colour to defend them, especially the Irish, who / having destroyed the Protestants There, flye hither to defend the Protestant Religion Here") and item 77 (EBBA 37118, "Love deserveth Love"). |