The downfall of dancing, or, The overthrow of three fidlers, and three bagg-pipe-players, who lately broke all their fiddles and bagg-pipes, and tore their cloaks : so that they are utterly ruin'd : all this was done in a fearful fray, when one of the fidlers catch'd his wife with his fellow bagg pipe player, at uptails all / to the tune of, Robin G[o]odfellow.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Broadsides.

Man-woman relationships--Early works to 1800.

Man-woman relationships.

England--London.

Genre:

Ballads -- England -- 17th century.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; oblong 1/2⁰

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for J. Deacon, at the angel in Guilt-spur-street, without Newgate, [between 1671 and 1700]

Summary:

A ballad about adultery.

Notes:

Place and date of publication from Wing.

Verse - "Three pipers, and three fidlers too,".

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 1[121], stained, affecting text.

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), D2085A

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR233023.

OCLC:

63661773