The industrious smith
Subtitle: wherin is showne, how plain dealing is overthrown, that let a man do the best that he may, an idle huswife will work his decay, yet art is no burthen, though ill we may speed, our labour will help us in time of our need; to the tune of yong man remember delights are but vain
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 2123:158/159
Publisher: printed for Richard Harper in Smithfield
Published: 1635
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Ballads, English -- 17th century
Notes: In two parts; woodcuts at head of each part

Publication date suggested by STC

Signed at the end: Humfrey Crowch

Verse - "There was a poor smith liv'd in a poor town,"

Reproductions of the original in the British Library

STC (2nd ed.) 6073

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1991. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2123:158/159).