Tar water, a ballad, inscribed to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield: occasioned by reading a narrative on the success of tar water, dedicated to His Lordship by Thomas Prior, Esquire.
London : printed for W. Webb,
1747.
Thomas Prior's 'An authentic narrative of the success of tar-water' was published in 1746.
Commonly attributed to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, but not in fact by him.
ESTC
Foxon T40