EBBA 37699
British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
| The Alewives Invitation / to Married-Men, and Batchelors. / SHEWING / How a Good Fellow is slighted when he is brought to Poverty. / Therefore take my Counsel, & Alewives don't trust, / For when you have wasted, and spent all you have, / Then out of Doors she will you headlong thrust, / Calling you Rascal, and shirking Knave. / But so long as you have Money, come early or / (late, / You shall have her at Command, or else her / (Maid Kate. | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball, in Pye-Corner. |
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| Collection | British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.22.f.6.(80.) |
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| Title | The Alewives Invitation / to Married-Men, and Batchelors. / SHEWING / How a Good Fellow is slighted when he is brought to Poverty. / Therefore take my Counsel, & Alewives don't trust, / For when you have wasted, and spent all you have, / Then out of Doors she will you headlong thrust, / Calling you Rascal, and shirking Knave. / But so long as you have Money, come early or / (late, / You shall have her at Command, or else her / (Maid Kate. |
| Tune Imprint | To a New Tune; or, Digby's Farewell. |
| First Lines | GOod fellows come hither, 'tis to you I speak, / Good Counsel here's for you, if you will it take, |
| Refrain | For so long as I had money, my kind Hostess she, / Would cry, come when thou wilt boy, thou art / (welcome to me. [with variation] |
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