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EBBA 37699

British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
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Ballad 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.
Standard Tune Title Digby's Farewell
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