[I] father a child that's none of my own, being the seamans complaint, who took a whore instead of a saint. Shewing, that whilst he was trading seven years from port to port at sea, and brought home great wealth; his wife in the mean time by trading in the Low Countries, got a mischance, fell down and broke her-elbow: above all praising the innocence of a country life. To the tune of, Cook Laurel; or, Give me the lass, &c.
[London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, near the Hospital-gate, in West-smithfield,
[1680?]
Verse - "If every woman was serv'd in her kind,".
Place and date of publication from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.
Tempnote L copy trimmed.
Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 1[148], cropped at left margin, affecting title and text.
Tempnote Reproduction of original in the British Library.
Adamnote Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
Locations:  E  Copy notes: Matched from printed catalog. Shelfmark: Crawford Coll.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
ESTC
Microfilm.
Microfilm.
Microfilm.
Sea songs
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