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  British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads • 37298

  1678-1680 ?

  No Money, no Friend. / The Spend-thrift he, when 'tis too late, / Laments his sad and Wretched state: / And all good Men he doth advise, / That they would Merry be, and wise.

  The Tune is, / All you that do do desire to play / At Cards, to pass the time away.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21915

  1678-1680

  No Money, no Friend. / The Spend-thrift he, when 'tis too late, / Laments his sad and Wretched state: / And all good Men he doth advise, / That they would Merry be, and wise.

  The Tune is, All you that do do defire to play At Cards, to pass the time away.

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  Houghton Library - 25242.67 • 35335

  1678-1680 ?

  No Money, no Friend. / The Spend-thrift he, when 'tis too late, / Laments his sad and Wretched state: / And all good Men he doth advise, / That they would Merry be, and wise.

  The Tune us, All you that do do desire to play / At Cards, to pass the time away.

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  National Library of Scotland - Crawford • 32709

  1678-1680

  No Money, no Friend. / The Spend-thrift he, when 'tis too late, / Laments his sad and Wretched state: / And all good Men he doth advise, / That they would Merry be, and wise.

  The Tune is, / All you that do do desire to play / At Cards, to pass the time away.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 20177

  1622?

  Nobody his Counsaile to chuse a / Wife: OR, The difference betweene Widdowes and Maydes.

  To the Tune of the wanton Wife of Westminster.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21744

  1685-1688

  Nothing like to a good Wife: / Let a Man consider to the end, / A Loving Wife is his best Friend; / In sickness and in health I say, / She will stick to him night and day, / Oh a Loving Wife, I say gi …

  To the Tune of, The Country Farmer.

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  British Library - 806.k.16 • 36943

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  Numb. 1. / MERCURIUS DEFORMATUS: / Or the TRUE / OBSERVATOR. / Omne verum deforme imaginatione perversa.

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  British Library - Huth • 37090

  1556-1581 ?

  Of trust and triall.

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  Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads • 36094

  1635?

  Oh faine would I marry / Yet divers occasions a while make me tarry, / Before he will wedd he is thrifty to see, / And set downe with Items what charge It will be.

  To the tune of Drive the cold Winter away.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21990

  1672-1696 ?

  Old England's New Save'=all: / OR, / The Boasting Farmer's Vain-glory. / Together with the Merchant, Weaver, and Taylor's Lamentation: / Concluding with Honest Tom the Cobler's Resolution.

  To the Tune of, Let Mary live long.

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