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ESTC R12358 ; Signed at end: A.T ; Wing suggests imprint date = [1681] Bodleian Library ballads database suggests [1683] ; Verse - "There is an old story"
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ESTC R947 ; Bodleian Library ballads database suggests publication date "[c.1689]" Wing suggests "[1690]" ; Verse - "Canonical black-coats, like birds of a feather,"
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ESTC R221474 ; Bodleian Library ballads database suggests publication date "between 1671 and 1704" for a very similar edition Wing suggests "[1684-95]" ; Verse - "The country farmer is now undone," ; In this edition, the woodcut of the two men is on the left, and the first line of the imprint ends: in
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ESTC R206506 ; Attributed by Wing to Thomas D'Urfey, but according to the Bodleian Library ballads database, "Originally written by Francis Quarles, but added to by Tom D'Urfey and others". Perhaps D'Urfey's contribution is limited to the expanded version, titled "The Whig rampant" ; Verse - "Now now the Tories all shall stoop, religion and the laws, and Whigs on Commonwealth"
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ESTC T33696 ; Range of publication dates from the Bodleian Library Ballads database. ; Verse - "I will tell you a story, a story anon,". ; Printed in four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two with lines of ornamental type between the first two columns as well as the third and fourth columns.
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ESTC T40923 ; Anonymous. By Richard Johnson. ; Range of publication dates from the Bodleian Library Ballads database. ; Printed in four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two the first and second and third and fourth columns are separated by lines of ornamental type. ; Verse - "In the West of England,".
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