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EBBA 37394

British Library - Bagford
The heavy Heart, and a light Purse. / Being the good fellows Vindication to all his fellow Companions, / wishing them all to have a care, and keep out of the Ale-wives snare, / for when they are out you may get in, but when you are in you can't / get out, this by experience he hath found true, but now he bids you / all adieu.
Date Published 1684-1686 ?
Author John Wade
Standard Tune
Imprint Printed for J. Clark, W. Thackery, and T. Passinge.
License
Collection British Library - Bagford
Pages 2.53 Page Verso, 2.54
Location British Library
Shelfmark C.40.m.10.(57.)
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Additional Information
  Part 1
Title The heavy Heart, and a light Purse. / Being the good fellows Vindication to all his fellow Companions, / wishing them all to have a care, and keep out of the Ale-wives snare, / for when they are out you may get in, but when you are in you can't / get out, this by experience he hath found true, but now he bids you / all adieu.
Tune Imprint Tune of, My Lord Monks March to London; Or, Now we have our freedom.
First Lines FUll fifty Winters have I seen, / yet nine and forty too many,
Refrain my kind heart hath undone me. [with variation]
Condition
Ornament
Notes Cut apart and pasted onto two facing album sheets.