The cloath-worker caught in a trap: or, A fool and his mony soon parted. Being a true relation of a cloath-worker, dweelling in Thames-street, who was wished by an old oman to a maid near Pauls church-yard, perswading him she had money at use,being a meer plot of the maiden and she to cheat him of his money, knowing him to be none of the wisest, cheated him of forty pound. If you will know them give good ear, the merriest jest that e'er you did hear. The tune is, How now jocky whither away. Or the tyrant.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1756:39.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads, English--17th century.

Ballads, English.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Cloath-worker caught in atrap

Fool and his mony soon parted.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Thackeray. T. Passenger, and W. Whitwood, [1670]

Notes:

Verse - "Good people I'll tell you now of a fine jest,".

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1987. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1756:39). s1987 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C4732

OCLC:

1085273605