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4.281 R227496 1 Old Simon the King Old Simon the King Old Simon the King COme listen unto my new Ditty, / it is of a Monstrous Creature advertisement in imprint. Pepys 4.281 Wing W3360; Rollins (2) ?3020 (Mch. 20, 1638, IV, 413, Tho. Lambert); Rollins (2) ?3021 (Jan. 21, 1639, IV, 450, Rich. Harper). Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 4: 281 The Wonder of Wonders: / OR, / An Excellent SONG of a / Six-Legged Creature. The Wonder of Wonders: OR, An Excellent SONG of a Six-Legged Creature. The Wonder of Wonders: Or, an Excellent Song of a Six-Legged Creature. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 185 x 300 uneven inking cast fleurons 1684-1700 Printed for Iames Bissel at the Bible and / Harp in West=Smithfield. / Where any Chapmen may be furnished / with all sorts of new and old Songs. James Bissel PBA

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 8/14/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Various Subjects London military/war monstrosity 08/14/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created, ESTC # recorded / found in bl.uk 07/10/07 Checker Rachel Mann Ballad Checked : ESTC # R227496 02/03/07 Transcriber Talya Meyers Original Transcription 9/1/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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COme listen unto my new Ditty, it is of a Monstrous Creature Who liveth in London's fair City she's known to be loving by Nature. She liveth in Service with many, a Creature both loving and quiet. And wages she ne'r receives any, so she hath both Lodging and Dyet. She is not for running away, her anger she soon can expell; Till Death with her Master she'l stay, if that he will use her but well.
This Creature she is not very tall, sometimes she's upon the Exchange, Full six Legs she travels withal; oh! is this not wondrous strange? She'l venture as far in a Battel as any stout Souldier that goes; Tho' Cannons and Musquets do rattle, she cares not a Fig for her Foes. She values no Pistol nor Gun, nor any Commanders high words; Nor will she be put to the run, for fear of a thousand drawn Swords.
She ranges the streets very late, her valour and courage is such, She fears not a knock on the pate by Constable, Beadle, or Watch. Thus she in her freedom does reign, no creature more stouter and bolder: The Stocks she does highly disdain, they never was able to hold her. A Washer she cannot indure, foul Linnen is all her delight; For there she can lye most secure, and never be put to the fright. That man that hath been a great waster, and every thing he does lack, She chuseth him to be her master, although not a shirt to his back. Although he be never so poor, without e're a Groat in his Purse, She'l guard him behind and before, her love it is never the worse. A fuller account I will give of her worthy Fame or Renown: This creature she often doth live with many fine Blades of the Town.
Her Pedigree now I'le unfold, resolving to speak in her praise; She sprung from a Nation of old, where I never was many days: 'Twas AEgypt, as I have heard say, which once was our natural soil; But now she is grown very gray, With traveling many a Mile. You know when old Herod was King, there then was a wonderful sort Of these in that Nation did spring, and nurst by his Ladies at Court. The reason that many don't love her, because she such numbers doth breed: But this is the worst I say of her, she is a Back-biter indeed.
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Printed for James Bissel at the Bible and Harp in West-Smithfield. Where any Chapmen may be furnished with all sorts of new and old Songs.