A Leicester-shire frolick; or, The valiant cook-maid [[electronic resource] ] : Being a merry composed jest of five taylors that had been at work till their wages came to five pounds; likewise a merry conceited cook-maid that lived in the house, went to her master and desired him to lend her a horse, and she would venture her skill to take the 5-pound from these five taylors, without either sword or pistol, in a jesting way, to make her master some sport and to show her valour: her master loving mirth more then sadness, agreed to it: so a horse was sadled, and other things to disguise her self, because she might not be known: away she went (it being in the evening) and met them before they got home, with nothing in her hand but a black pudding, the faint-hearted taylors delivered her their money very quietly, for fear they should a been shot through with a black pudding, and what followed after is expressed in this following ditty. Tune is, Ragged and torn. With allowance

• Record Nr.: UNISA996386315003316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London], : Printed for R. Burton ..., [1641-1674]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut)
• Soggetti: Ballads, English - 17th century; Broadsides17th century.England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Place of publication and suggested date of publication from Wing (2nd ed.).; Imperfect: broadside cropped with some loss of print.; Verses in black letter; chorus lines in roman.; Printed in four columns with a woodcut at head of first column of text.; Verse - "I'lle tell you a pretty fine jest;"; Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0014