EBBA 37698
British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
| Sweet Williams kindness, / OR, / The Hertford-Shire Frollick. / Now Christmas time is drawing near, / 'Tis good to taste of three-penny Beer; / 'Twill make you hot when you are cold, / If bashful it will make you bold, / As by the Sequel you may find / If you do please my Song to mind | |
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| Date Published | 1671-1702 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Deacon, at the Sign of the Angel in Guiltspur-street. |
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| Collection | British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.22.f.6.(79.) |
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| Title | Sweet Williams kindness, / OR, / The Hertford-Shire Frollick. / Now Christmas time is drawing near, / 'Tis good to taste of three-penny Beer; / 'Twill make you hot when you are cold, / If bashful it will make you bold, / As by the Sequel you may find / If you do please my Song to mind |
| Tune Imprint | Tune is, A Fig for France. |
| First Lines | THe strangest news you e're did hear / Was lately done in Hertford-shire, |
| Refrain | For Hannah, Moll, and Betty and all, / Sweet VVilliam jumbled against the VVall. [with variation] |
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