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  National Library of Scotland - Rosebery • 34322

  1714

  VVedding Song, / ON / The Marraige of John Brown, / Merchant in Holland, and Mar- / garet Hepburn, Daughter to the / Laird of Bansoot, / Solemnized 28 of July 1714.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37265

  1684-1686 ?

  Wades Reformation, / To all good Fellows in this Nation. / Wherein he doth show to'th old and to'th young, / To beware of false hearts, and a flattering tongue, / For they be two evils, and will bring …

  tune is, the maid is the best that lyes alone; or 'tis old Ale has undone me.

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  British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads • 36979

  1672-1696 ?

  WATTEN Towns-end; Or, / A Nosegay of Pleasure, / Which grew in the Garden of VENUS.

  Tune is, Watten Towns end; Or, Lame Leg next the Wall.

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  National Library of Scotland - Crawford • 32833

  1672-1696 ?

  WATTEN Towns-end; Or, / A Nosegay of Pleasure, / Which grew in the Garden of VENUS.

  Tune is, Watten Towns end; Or, Lame Leg next the Wall,

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  Houghton Library - EBB65 • 35067

  1672-1696 ?

  WATTEN Towns-end; Or, / A Nosegay of Pleasure, / Which grew in the Garden of VENUS.

  Tune is, Watten Towns end; Or, Lame Leg next the Wall.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21791

  1664-1703 ?

  Whose there Agen: / OR, / The 6-penny Cuckold of Shoreditch his Policy. / Pollicy still, the proverb saith, / beyond Strength it does go; / And if you mind, you'l surely find / that it is even so.

  To the Tune of, Daniel Cooper.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21941

  1685-1688

  Yea & Nay the Quaker, Deceiv'd: / OR, / The Taylors Cabbidge Discovered[,] / Shewing how a Taylor took a Satten Gown to make for a Lady, and how he Cabbidged four yards of the Satten out of it.

  To the Tune of, The Two English Travellers: Or, Packingtons Pound.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21048

  1624-1680 ?

  [?] You young-men all I pray draw neer, / That does desire a song to hear, / It will teach you what wife for to chuse, / Who to take, and who to refuse, / And a man may have a woman in a trice, / They …

  To the Tune of, The World goes merrily round.

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  National Library of Scotland - Rare Books I.262 • 34192

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  [AL]LAN WATER / OR, A / [L]OVER / IN / [CA]PTIVITY / A / [N]EW SONG / Very much in request.

  [Sung] with its own pleasant new Air.

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  Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads • 36409

  1641-1651

  [Come turn to mee thou pretty little one, and I will / turn to thee.]

  [To a pleasant new Tune.]

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