EBBA 37770
British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
| The Maids Complaint for the want of a dil-doul. / This Girle long timehath in a sickness been, / Which many maids do call the sickness green. / I wish she may some comfort find, poor soul, / And have her belly filled with a Dill doul. | |
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| Date Published | 1680-1690 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for V. Wentbridg in Duck-Lane. |
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| Collection | British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.22.f.6.(148.) |
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| Title | The Maids Complaint for the want of a dil-doul. / This Girle long timehath in a sickness been, / Which many maids do call the sickness green. / I wish she may some comfort find, poor soul, / And have her belly filled with a Dill doul. |
| Tune Imprint | To a newtune, called, The Dill doul, or Women and Wine. |
| First Lines | YOungmen give ear to me a while, / if you to merriment are inclin'd, |
| Refrain | For a dill doul, dill doul, dill doul, doul, / (quoth she) I'm undone if I han't a dil doul. [with variation] |
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