Catalogue of a collection of English ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries

He that a Shrew would gladly Tame,
Example take here by the same :
As in this Ditty you may find,
Fair words doth please a Womans mind :
And all good Wives where e're you be,
Pray listen well to this Ditty ;
To please you all I know not how,
But yet I say, God speed the Plow.
(these 8 lines in 2 cols, four and four.)
To a Delightful New Tune ; Or, The Collier of Croydon had Coles to sell. |
Finis. I
Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball | near the Hospital-gate, in
West-Smithfield. | [1672-90.]
4 small woodcuts, 4 cols. B.L.
The 3rd and 4th cols, contain " The second part, to the same Tune. | Shewing, | How
the Old Man married his Daughter to this Young-man. | And how the Young-man dealt
with his Cross-grain'd Wife, | Yet after liv'd a sweet Contented Life. | "
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167—Be Wise as Somerset, as Somer's Brave, |
As Pembroke Airy, and as Richmond Grave; |
The I Country Parson's Honest Advice | To That | Judicious
Lawyer, ] And ] Worthy Minister of State, | My Lord Keeper. |
[No imprint.]
Long lines, recto and verso. Roman Letter.
Addressed to Sir Simon Harcourt on his receiving the Great Seal, Sept., 1710.
168—A Beauteous Lady of comely carriage, |
v\^hom many a gallant sought in Marriage; i
The fair Lady of the West : | And | The fortunate Farmers Son. |
Relating, how a Gallant young Lady in the West-Country, Being
courted by many Persons | of Quality, refused them all, and cast her
Affections upon a Farmer's Son ; to whom she | discovered her love ;
And, having neither Father nor Mother living to Contradict her, | they
were privately Married to both their Hearts desire ; And now, live in
joy and hap- ( py Content. [