Dirty dolls farevvel. Being an account of a certain woman, known by the name of Dirty Doll, once living near Horslydown in Southwark, who was in her life-time so notorious for several misdemeanors, that it is said, the devil about the 17th. or 18th. of August 1684. appeare to her, between whom there hapened a terrible combat, in which Dirty Doll was much bruised, so that one of her arms was as black as a cole, and her thumb pinched off: she dyed on the 25th. of the same month, and was buried the 28th. Being accomodated to the grave with whooting and hallowing, in a strange manner. Tune of, The rich merchant-man

People / Organizations

• Thomas Passinger Sr. ("printed for")

Imprint

London]: Printed for J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackeray, T. Passinger, [1684?

Publication year

1684

ESTC No.

R234550

Grub Street ID

105888

Description

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

Note

Verse - "Come listen to my song,"

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 5, Appendix II, p. 47.

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