Close ×

Search EBBA

Advanced Search

EBBA 37741

British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
The Gowlin: or, / A Pleasant Fancy for the SPRING. / Being an Encounter betwixt a Scotch Leard, & a buxome begger-wench. / He captivated was at the first sight, / Not with her gay attire, her Beauty bright; / He Woo'd and won her for to serve his will, / But he's a Leard, and she a Begger still.
Date Published 1681-1684 ?
Author Thomas D'Urfey
Standard Tune
Imprint Printed for I[.] Wright[,] I[.] Clark[,] W[.] Thackeray[,] and T[.] Passinger[.]
License
Collection British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
Location British Library
Shelfmark C.22.f.6.(120.)
ESTC ID
Keyword Categories
MARC Record
Additional Information
  Part 1
Title The Gowlin: or, / A Pleasant Fancy for the SPRING. / Being an Encounter betwixt a Scotch Leard, & a buxome begger-wench. / He captivated was at the first sight, / Not with her gay attire, her Beauty bright; / He Woo'd and won her for to serve his will, / But he's a Leard, and she a Begger still.
Tune Imprint To a new Play-house Tune; Or, See the Gowlin, &c.
First Lines ABroad as I was walking, / upon a Summers day,
Refrain She was the first that taught me, / to see the Gowlin; / Ah! to see the Gowlin my Jo, / to see the Gowlin; / She was the first that taught me / to see the Gowlin.
Condition
Ornament
Notes ESTC Author: Thomas D'Urfey.