The cloath-worker caught in a trap, or, A fool and his mony soon parted.being a true relation of a cloath-worker, dweeling in thames-street, who was wished by an old wo-man to a maid near pauls church-yard, perswading him she had mony at use, being a meer plot ofthe maiden and she to cheat him of his money, knowing him to be none of the wisest, cheated him of forty pound.if you will know then give good ear,the merriest jest that e'r you did hear.
University of California, Santa Barbara.Early Modern Center.
London, England : Passinger, Thomas; Thackeray, William; Whitwood, William,
c. 1678-1688.
Title from English Broadside Ballad Archive Catalogue
ESTC
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)
Digital
National Library of Scotland.
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Ballads, English
Broadside