The ballad of the cloak: or, the cloaks knavery. To the tune of, From Hunger and Cold, or Packington's Pound.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Cloaks knavery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads, English--17th century.

Ballads, English.

Presbyterianism--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.

Presbyterianism.

Controversial literature.

Genre:

Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : music ; 44 cm

Other Title:

Cloaks knavery

Fingerprint:

r.c. s.s, e:e, e,e: (c) 1681-1682 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Reprinted, Corrected, Revised, and enlarged, by the Author, [1681-1682].

Notes:

Place and date of publication suggested by NUC pre-1956 imprints.

First stanza, with music, followed by ten stanzas printed in two columns separated by a single rule.

Verse; begins "Come buy by new Ballet, I have't in my Wallet, But t'will not I fear please every Pallet: The mark what ensu'th, I".

Originally published in 1660 as "The cloaks knavery".

In this edition, line 3 of the fifth stanza ends "Excize:" and the initial letter "e" in "enlarged" in the imprint is in the lower case.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B604

ESTC, R220165

OCLC:

270974225