Kind William, or, Constant Betty. Let maids beware, and shun the snare, I say be rul'd by me, though you embrace, be perfect chaste, from stains of infamy. To the tune of The doubting virgin

People / Organizations

• Tobias Bowne (Author)

Imprint

London]: Printed for J[onah]. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-Spur-Street without Newgate, [1684

Publication year

1671-1704

ESTC No.

R234437

Grub Street ID

105784

Description

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

Note

Anonymous. Attributed to Tobias Bowne (Wing)

Bodleian Library ballads database suggest date range "between 1671 and 1704" for a very similar edition; Wing suggests publication date of "[1684]"

Verse - "Constant Betty that sweet creature,"

Another edition has "berul'd" in title and omits any mention of the Angel in the imprint. A third has "be rul'd" in title and "at the sign of the Angel" in the imprint

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 3, p. 179.

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