The Taunton maids delight
Subtitle: or, hey for the honest woosted-comber
Publisher: Printed for P. Brooksby at the golden Ball in VVest-Smithfield
Published: 1680
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: You pretty maids where e're you are
Notes: After the title follows a verse: " In Taunton town a maid doth dwell, who loves a woosted-comber very well, in the praise of him she doth declare, no other tradesman can with him compare. All sweethearts that doth come she does refuse, only a woosted-comber she doth chuse, to him she wisheth good prosperity, for 'tis a comber must her husband be."

"The tune is, I have a good old mother at home, &c."

Signed: "T. L."

Publication date range from Wing.

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Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L361

Crawford, 1420

ESTC, R227388

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

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Numbered in manuscript in top right corner: 37[1?].

No. 118 of 167 black-letter broadside ballads mounted on paper and bound in two volumes. In volume 2, which begins with no. 57.

Bound in two volumes in later gilt morocco with spine title: Black-letter broadside ballads. Reign of Charles II (binding and leaves within brittle and cracked; some leaves detached); in CMI.