The master-piece of love-songs. A dialogue betwixt a bold keeper and a lady gay, he woo'd his Lords daughter and carried the day, but soon after marriage was forc'd for to fight, vvith his Lord and six gentlemen for his own right, he cut them, and hew'd them, and paid them with blows, and made them his friends that before were his foes. To the tune of, The week before Easter, the days long and clear

People / Organizations

• Abraham Miles (Author)
• Thomas Passinger Jr. ("printed for")

Imprint

London]: Printed for John Clarke, William Thackeray, and Thomas Passinger, [ca. 1695

Publication year

1695

ESTC No.

R234545

Grub Street ID

105883

Description

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

Note

Verse - "It was a bold keeper"

Signed at end: By Abraham Miles

Place and date of publication conjectured from Wing M1064 which is same ballad with different imprint

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 5, Appendix II, p. 29.

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