The lamentation of a bad market, or, The drownding of three children on the Thames. With this fantastick tragy [sic] comedy, tis like that one or other pleas'd will be; because the method carrie, mirth there[i]n, or else the subject were not worth a pin: howe're you'l say it is no laughing matter, to see poor children drowned in the water. Tune of, The ladies fall. With allowance.

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The lamentation of a bad market, or, The drownding of three children on the Thames. With this fantastick tragy [sic] comedy, tis like that one or other pleas'd will be; because the method carrie, mirth there[i]n, or else the subject were not worth a pin: howe're you'l say it is no laughing matter, to see poor children drowned in the water. Tune of, The ladies fall. With allowance.
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[London] :: Printed for F[rancis]. Coles, T[homas]. Vere, J[ohn]. Wright, and J[ohn]. Clarke.,
[between 1674-1679]
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Ballads, English -- 17th century.
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"The lamentation of a bad market, or, The drownding of three children on the Thames. With this fantastick tragy [sic] comedy, tis like that one or other pleas'd will be; because the method carrie, mirth there[i]n, or else the subject were not worth a pin: howe're you'l say it is no laughing matter, to see poor children drowned in the water. Tune of, The ladies fall. With allowance." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B04135.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

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