The loving mistress, and the wanton clerk. The mistress and the maid would try, if will between them both could lie and not with them the wanton play, of this they did a wager lay, he to be wanton did begin, so they the vvager thought to win. The tune is, A fig for France, or, The Country farmer, or, Where's my shepherd

People / Organizations

• Joshua Conyers ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for J. Conyers, and are to be had at his shop at the Black Raven a little above St. Andrews Church in Holborn, [ca. 1683]

Publication year

1683

ESTC No.

R188508

Grub Street ID

76421

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 1°.

Note

Date of publication from Wing

Verse - "A lawyer in our town did dwell,"

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 3, p. 164.

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