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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 20091

  1630?

  Sure my Nurse was a witch, / OR, / The merry Night-wench. / Who when her child doth cry, merry to make him, / Doth sing unto it, Come take him beggar, take him.

  To the tune of See the golding, or watton townes end.

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  Beinecke Library - Michell-Jolliffe • 35730

  1672-1696 ?

  Sweet Williams kindness, / OR, / The Hertford-Shire Frollick, / Now Christmas time is drawing near, / 'Tis good to taste of three-penny Beer; / 'Twill make you hot when you are cold, / If bashful it w …

  Tune is, A Fig for France.

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  National Library of Scotland - Crawford • 33730

  1672-1696 ?

  Sweet Williams kindness, / OR, / The Hertford-Shire Frollick. / Now Christmas time is drawing near, / 'Tis good to taste of three-penny Beer; / 'Twill make you hot when you are cold, / If bashful it w …

  Tune is, A Fig for France.

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  British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads • 37698

  1671-1702 ?

  Sweet Williams kindness, / OR, / The Hertford-Shire Frollick. / Now Christmas time is drawing near, / 'Tis good to taste of three-penny Beer; / 'Twill make you hot when you are cold, / If bashful it w …

  Tune is, A Fig for France.

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  British Library - Roxburghe • 30271

  1633-1652 ?

  Take time while 'tis offerd. / For Tom has broke his word with his sweeting, / And lost a good wife for an houres meeting, / Another good-fellow has gotten the Lasse, / And Tom may go shake his long e …

  To the tune of Within the North country.

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  British Library - Roxburghe • 30273

  1601-1640 ?

  Take Time, while Time is: / Being an Exhortation to all sorts or Sexes, of what Degree / soever, from the Highest to the Lowest, Old or Young, / Rich or Poore.

  To the Tune of, / The Ladies Daughter of Paris.

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  Chetham's Library - Halliwell-Phillipps • 36145

  1699

  THE / Baiting of the TYGER: / OR, / A true Relation of a bloody Rencounter that lately hap- / pen'd between a foreign Cat, and four great English / Dogs, at the Cockpit Royal near St. James's Park, in …

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 22276

  1689

  THE / Boast of Great Britain; / OR, / A SONG in praise of MARY present Queen of / England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c.

  To the Tune of Good Health to Betty: Or, Queen Marys Lamentation.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21363

  1678-1680

  THE / Broken=hearted Lovers Triumph. / SHEWING, / That though for Love their hearts were broke, / They counted Love no heavy Yoak; / For after Death such joys they find, / Brings Peace and quiet to th …

  The Tune is, Blind Cupids Power I Set at nought.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 22321

  1672-1696 ?

  THE / CANTER's Confession: / OR, / The Old Round=head / Turn'd RANTER.

  To the Tune of, The Guinea Wins Her, &c.

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