An answer to Moggy's misfortune: or, The kind and courteous courtship of Shakum Guy, after the funeral of his cross and froward wife; which proved the two lovers happy conclusion. Tune of Robin Cusbe. Licensed according to order.
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- An answer to Moggy's misfortune: or, The kind and courteous courtship of Shakum Guy, after the funeral of his cross and froward wife; which proved the two lovers happy conclusion. Tune of Robin Cusbe. Licensed according to order.
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- [London] :: Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back,
- [between 1688-1692]
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- Ballads, English -- 17th century.
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"An answer to Moggy's misfortune: or, The kind and courteous courtship of Shakum Guy, after the funeral of his cross and froward wife; which proved the two lovers happy conclusion. Tune of Robin Cusbe. Licensed according to order." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B01390.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025.
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ANCIENT SONGS and BALLADS: Written on Various Subjects, AND Printed betwéen the Years MDLX. and MDCC.
CHIEFLY COLLECTED BY ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD, And purchased at the Sale of the late MR. WEST's LIBRARY, in the Year 1773.
ENCREASED BY SEVERAL ADDITIONS.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
These venerable ancient song-inditers Soar'd many a pitch above our modern writers: Our numbers may be more refin'd than those, But what we've gained in verse we've lost in prose. Their words no shuffling double meaning knew; Their speech was homely, but their hearts were true.ROWE.
LONDON, Arranged and Bound in the Year 1774.