A Leicester-shire frolick; or, The valiant cook-maid
Subtitle: Being a merry composed jest of five taylors that had been at work till their wages came to 5 pounds; likewise a merry conceited cook-maid that lived in the house, went to her master and desired him to lend her a horse, and she would venture her skill to take the 5-pound from these five taylors, without either sword or pistol, in a jesting way, to make her master some sport and to show her valour: her master loving mirth more then sadness, agreed to it: so a horse was sadled, and other things to disguise her self, because she might not be known: away she went (it being in the evening) and met them before they got home, with nothing in her hand but a black pudding, the faint-hearted taylors delivered her their money very quietly, for fear they should a been shot through with a black pudding, and what followed after is expressed in this following ditty. Tune is, Ragged and torn. With allowance
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1927:11
Publisher: Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball, in Pye-Corner, near West-smithfield
Published: 1680
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Ballads, English -- 17th century
Other titles: Leicester-shire frolick; Valiant cook-maid
Notes: Place of publication and suggested date of publication from Wing

Verses in black letter; chorus lines in roman

Printed in four columns with a woodcut at head of first column of text

Verse - "I'lle tell you a pretty fine jest;"

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library

Wing (2nd ed.) L971

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1927:11).