The birds lamentation ...
Subtitle: To the tune of, The bird-catcher's delight
Publisher: Printed by Wm. Dicey, and sold at Mr. Burnham's snuff-shop, and by Mathias Dagnell bookseller in Aylesbury; Paul Stevens in Bicester; William Ratten bookseller in Coventry; Caleb Ratten bookseller in Harborough; Thomas Williams bookseller in Tring; Anthony Thorpe in St. Albans; William Peachey near St. Bennet's church in Cambridge; Mary Timbs in Newportpagnell; John Timbs in Stony-Stratford; Jeremiah Roe in Derby; John Hirst printer in Leeds; Thomas Gent printer in York; John White printer in Newcastle upon Tyne; and by Churrude Brady in St. Ives. At all which places chapmen and travellers may be furnish'd with the best sorts of old and new ballads broadsides &c.
Published: 1730
Place of publication: Northampton
Language: eng
Notes: Also printed under title: The woody quiristers; or, The birds harmony.

First line: Oh! says the cuckoo loud and stout.

No.280 in a collection of broadside ballads formed by Thomas Percy.

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