EBBA 22336
Magdalene College - Pepys
| Great NEWS from SOUTHWARK: / OR, THE / Old Woman's Legacy to her Cat: / Giving an Account of an old miserable Woman, who lately kept a blind / Ale-house, in Tooley street, near the Burrough of Southwark; who was so wretch- / ly Covetuous, as to deny herself the common Benefits of Life, as to Meat and / Cloaths; leaving at her Death, about eighteen hundred Pounds to her CAT; / using to say often, when the CAT mew'd, / Peace PUSS, peace; thou shalt have all, when I am Dead. | |
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| Date Published | 1695 |
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| Imprint | LONDON: Printed for James Reud, 1695. |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 5.414 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 5.414 |
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| Title | Great NEWS from SOUTHWARK: / OR, THE / Old Woman's Legacy to her Cat: / Giving an Account of an old miserable Woman, who lately kept a blind / Ale-house, in Tooley street, near the Burrough of Southwark; who was so wretch- / ly Covetuous, as to deny herself the common Benefits of Life, as to Meat and / Cloaths; leaving at her Death, about eighteen hundred Pounds to her CAT; / using to say often, when the CAT mew'd, / Peace PUSS, peace; thou shalt have all, when I am Dead. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, The Bleeding Heart, &c. |
| First Lines | IN Southwark there did lately dwell, / A rich old Woman, noted well: |
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| Album Page | 1/2 sheet folio, 246 x 155 |
| Condition | cropped left and right edges, uneven inking |
| Ornament | horizontal rules |