| Title: | A new ballad of the three merry butchers, and ten high-way men, how three butchers went to pay five hundred pounds away, and hearing a woman crying in the vvood, went to relieve her and was there set upon by the ten high-way men; and how only stout Johnson fought with them all; who killed eight of the ten; and at last was killed by the woman he went to save in the wood. To an excellent new tune. |
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| Print source: | A new ballad of the three merry butchers, and ten high-way men, how three butchers went to pay five hundred pounds away, and hearing a woman crying in the vvood, went to relieve her and was there set upon by the ten high-way men; and how only stout Johnson fought with them all; who killed eight of the ten; and at last was killed by the woman he went to save in the wood. To an excellent new tune. [London]: Printed for J. Bissel at the Bible and Harp in West Smithfield, [between 1685 and 1695] |
| Subject terms: |
Ballads, English -- 17th century.
Brigands and robbers -- Poetry.
Broadsides -- England -- 17th century.
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