The crafty miss, or, An excise-man well fitted : ... a true relation of an excise-man who lately in the county of Kent, had received the sum of fourscore pounds, and lighting into the company of a crafty miss who gave him the chouse for it all : and riding away with his gelding, left in the stead a mare which she had stole : for which mare he was arraigned, and narrowly escaped the severe penalty of the law : which may be a suffiecient warning to all excisemen far and near, to mend their lives to hate a miss, and love their wives / to the tune of, Moggies jealousie.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Broadsides--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Broadsides.

Adultery--England--Early works to 1800.

Adultery.

Robbery--Early works to 1800.

Robbery.

England.

England--London.

Genre:

Ballads -- England -- 17th century.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 1/2⁰

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[London] : [printed for I. Deacon], [1684]

Summary:

A ballad about a young woman who outwits an excise man.

Notes:

Verse - "There was an excise-man so fine,".

Imprint from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set reel 3, Douce Ballads 1[45], possibly a variant, punctuation varies in title and "Entred according to order" is at the end of title in this work; also, imprint includes after "I. Deacon," "at the angel in Guilt-spur street without Newgate"; cropped, affecting text and imprint.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Publications ; Oxford, England : Bodleian Photographic Service. 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C6779

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR228749.

OCLC:

63661628