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British Library - Bagford • 37485
1681-1684 ?
The Mourning Conquest: Or, / The Womans sad Complaint, and doleful Cry, / To see her Love in Fainting fits to lye.
The Tune is, A loving Husband will not be unto his Wife unkind.

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British Library - Roxburghe • 31067
1690
A homely Dialogue / betwixt a young wo- / man and her sweet- / heart.
To a pleasant new Tune, / Alace poor thing.

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Magdalene College - Pepys • 21203
1684-1695
THE / Wanton Maidens Choice. / No Landed Men nor Farmers are for she, / She delights not in that Wealthy Company: / No Taylors, Joyners, Gentle-Craft, or any, / But a thumping Tinker that can pay her …
Tune is, Hey boys up go we: Or, Alas poor thing.

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Beinecke Library - Michell-Jolliffe • 35837
1684-1695
THE / Wanton Maidens Choice. / No Landed Men nor Farmers are for she, / She delights not in that Wealthy Company: / No Taylors, Joyners, Gentle-Craft, or any, / But a thumping T[i]nker that can pay he …
Tune is, Hey boys up go we: Or, Alas poor thing.

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British Library - Roxburghe • 30167
1634-1680 ?
The merry Carelesse Lover: / OR, / A pleasant new Ditty, called, I love a Lasse since yesterday, / And yet I cannot get her.
To the tune of, The Mother beguilde the Daughter.

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Magdalene College - Pepys • 21151
1674-1679
The Mourning Conquest. Or, / The Womans sad Complaint, and doleful Cry, / To see her Love in Fainting-fits to lye.
The Tune is, A loving Husband will not be unto his Wife unkind.

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National Library of Scotland - Crawford • 33351
1672-1696 ?
The VVestminster Frolick. / Or, A Cuckold is a good mans Fellow. / A wanton Wife that loved a relishing Bit, / In Westminster the same then she did get; / And it is now concluded so together, / Her Hu …
Tune of Hey boys slap goes she; Or, Alas poor thing!

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Houghton Library - 25242.67 • 35417
1672-1696 ?
The VVestminster Frolick. / Or, A Cuckold is a good mans Fellow. / A wanton Wife that loved a relishing Bit, / In Westminster the same then she did get; / And it is now concluded so together, / Her Hu …
Tune of, Hey boys slap goes she; Or, Alas poor thing!

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