EBBA 30096
British Library - Roxburghe
| Halfe a dozen of good VVives. / All for a penny. / Kind Cozens or Country-men what ere you be, / If you want a good penny-worth, come buy it of me, / Sixe Wives for a penny, a young one or old, / A cleanely good huswife, a Slut or a Scold. | ||
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| Date Published | 1630-1649 ? | |
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| Imprint | Printed at London for F.C. dwelling / in the Old-Bayly. | |
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| Collection | British Library - Roxburghe | |
| Pages | 1.152, 1.153 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.7.152-153 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Halfe a dozen of good VVives. / All for a penny. / Kind Cozens or Country-men what ere you be, / If you want a good penny-worth, come buy it of me, / Sixe Wives for a penny, a young one or old, / A cleanely good huswife, a Slut or a Scold. | The second part. |
| Tune Imprint | To the tune of, The cleane contraryway. | To the same Tune. |
| First Lines | IF any standers by / that leads a single life, | BUt yet she had skill in spinning, / with her the world runs on wheeles: |
| Refrain | For in my time I have / made proofe of half a dozen, / And if thou hast a mind unto't, / come take one honest Cozen, / oh come take her honest Cozen. [with variation] | Oh this was my good wife, / the best of the halfe dozen, And if th'art wearie of a single life, / then take her honest cosen, / oh then take her honest cosen. [with variation] |
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