EBBA 37750
British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
| THE / Innocent Shepherd and the Crafty Wife / Or, A Dialogue between a Shepherd and his Love. / Brethren, see here what some are Born unto, / If it's your Birth-right, what should Women do? / Kind thing; they think, they do all for the best, / But so or not, we must Contented rest. | |
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| Date Published | 1680-1695 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for C. Dennisson, at the Stationer-Arms within Aldgate. |
| License | This may be Printed, R.P. |
| Collection | British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.22.f.6.(129.) |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | THE / Innocent Shepherd and the Crafty Wife / Or, A Dialogue between a Shepherd and his Love. / Brethren, see here what some are Born unto, / If it's your Birth-right, what should Women do? / Kind thing; they think, they do all for the best, / But so or not, we must Contented rest. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, The Country-Farmer; Or, The Buxom Virgin. |
| First Lines | A Silly poor Shepherd was folding his Sheep, / He walked so long he got Cold in his Feet; |
| Refrain | But the more he laid on the Cuc---colder was he. [with variation] |
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