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THE HANDSOME COBLER.
YOU that delight in merriment,
coffie liften to my ibng,
’Tis very new and certain true,
you will-not tarry long
Before you laugh your belly full,
then be pleas’d to flay,
And I hope you will be plea fed
before you go away.
There was a knight m Derbylliire,
that had a ha^idfome £bn,
He kept a ha^dfome chambermaid,
the which Uis favour &ron;.f
They dearly iWd each other,
and oft wpuld fport and play,
Until he got her belly up,
pray mind now what f fay.
In tears (lie told the Rory,
my deareft love faid me,
YOU that delight in merriment,
coffie liften to my ibng,
’Tis very new and certain true,
you will-not tarry long
Before you laugh your belly full,
then be pleas’d to flay,
And I hope you will be plea fed
before you go away.
There was a knight m Derbylliire,
that had a ha^idfome £bn,
He kept a ha^dfome chambermaid,
the which Uis favour &ron;.f
They dearly iWd each other,
and oft wpuld fport and play,
Until he got her belly up,
pray mind now what f fay.
In tears (lie told the Rory,
my deareft love faid me,
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Wit and humor > Handsome cobler, or, The father outwitted > (2) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/117777748 |
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| Description | In verse. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2806(6) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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