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Mind all ye lads and lasses, make your bargain well

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(1) Mind all ye lads and lasses, make your bargain well
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DescriptionFirst line reads: Come all you lads of high renown. In two columns with an illustration above the title. This ballad concerns the hiring fairs where labourers would sell their skills to highest bidder.
ShelfmarkCrawford.EB.1838
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Sports & entertainments
English ballads
DescriptionCollection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
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  • Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
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