Index Entry | Ballads, sung by widow for money for burial, in lyric [beg] For her husband |
Location | New York |
Citation | NYGWPB.751.069 9 Dec 1751:22 (464) AN EPIGRAM FROM THE MIDWIFE, ON A WOMAN WHO WAS SINGING BALLADS FOR MONEY TO BURY HER HUSBAND. For her husband deceas'd, Sally chants the sweet lay; Why, faith, this is singular sorrow; But I doubt, since she sings for a dead man to day, She'll cry for a live on to-morrow.---- |
Generic Title | New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy |
Date | 1751.12.09 |
Publisher | Parker, James |
City, State | New York, NY |
Year | 1751 |
Bibliography | B0026173 |