02242nam 2200361Ia 450 99638631500331620221102114155.0(CKB)1000000000615803(EEBO)2240859061(OCoLC)62369426(EXLCZ)99100000000061580320051129f16411674 uy 0engurbn||||a|bb|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[London] Printed for R. Burton ...[1641-1674]1 sheet ([1] p.) ill. (woodcut)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.eebo-0014Ballads, English17th centuryBroadsidesEngland17th century.rbgenrBallads, EnglishUMIUMIBOOK996386315003316A Leicester-shire frolick; or, The valiant cook-maid2354843UNISA