The contented cuckold, or Patience upon force is a medcine [sic] for a mad man. You batchellors both young and old give ear unto this ditty, a story here I will unfold in mirth I hope it will ... ye, a batchellor of three score years a damsel young did marry now he complains she doth him wrong and basely doth miscarry. Near Worksworth town in Darby-shire this couple they do dwell, with patience pray this ditty hear and then I bid farewell. To the tune, She cannot hold her legs together.
T. R.
[London] : Printed for Thomas Passenger at the three bibles on London-bridge,
[1688?]
Verse - "You young men all to you I call".
Place and date of publication from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.
Wing CD-ROM, 1996 gives a range of dates, 1666-1670.
Tempnote Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library.
Locations:  E  Copy notes: Matched from printed catalog. Shelfmark: Crawford Coll.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
ESTC
Microfilm.
Ballads, English