The merchant-man and the fidlers wife: discovering a pretty conceit how a fidler, in hope of gain (and trusting too much to his wifes honesty) was made a cuckold by the merchant; and lost his fiddle to boot. He laid his fiddle to a ship, in hopes for to be made but Peggy let the merchant slip, and Robin he was betray'd. To a pleasant northern tune, by J.P

People / Organizations

• Thomas Passinger Sr. ("printed for")

Imprint

London]: Printed for Fr. Coles, Tho. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger, [between 1678 and 1681

Publication year

1678-1681

ESTC No.

R234646

Grub Street ID

105962

Description

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

Note

Verse - "It was a rich merchant man,"

Place and date of publication suggested by Wing

Cf. Wing P56A which lacks "J. Wright" in imprint

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 4, p. 163.

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