EBBA 37514
British Library - Bagford
| The Maids Complaint / For want of a Dil doul. / This Girl long time had in a sickness been, / Which many maids do call the sickness green: / I wish she may some comfort find poor Soul / And have her belly fill'd with a Dil doul. | ||
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| Date Published | 1681-1684 ? | |
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| Imprint | Printed for J Wiight, J. Clark, W. Thackeray / and T. Passenger. | |
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| Collection | British Library - Bagford | |
| Pages | 2.159 Page Verso, 2.160 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | C.40.m.10.(163.) | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The Maids Complaint / For want of a Dil doul. / This Girl long time had in a sickness been, / Which many maids do call the sickness green: / I wish she may some comfort find poor Soul / And have her belly fill'd with a Dil doul. | The Second Part, |
| Tune Imprint | To a New Tune, called the Dil doul; or Women and Wine. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | YOung men give ear to me a while / if you to merriment are inclin'd, | KInd sister, quoth she to tell you the truth, / it has been gone this twelve months day |
| Refrain | For a dill doul, dil doul, dil doul doul, / (quoth she) I'm undone if I hant a dil doul [with variation] | For a dill doul dill doul, dil doul doul, / O my, &c. [with variation] |
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| Notes | Cut apart and pasted onto two facing album sheets. The first part of this ballad is pasted onto the same album sheet as the third column of EBBA 37513, "THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE / The Free Unchain'd Lover boasts / That he is now at Large. / That [ot]her men should keep so too / He [give]s this frieudly charge." | |