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Title: Nick and froth; or, The good-fellows complaint for want of full measure. Discovering the deceits, and abuses of victuallers, tapsters, ale-drapers; and all the rest of the society of drunkard-makers: by filling their drink in false flaggons, pimping tankerds, cans, call'd ticklers; rabbits, jugs, and short quarterns, to the grand abuse of the society of good-fellowship. Good fellows drinks their liquor without flinching; then why should knavish tapsters use such pinching. Tune of, We'l drink this old ale no more, no more.
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Print source: Nick and froth; or, The good-fellows complaint for want of full measure. Discovering the deceits, and abuses of victuallers, tapsters, ale-drapers; and all the rest of the society of drunkard-makers: by filling their drink in false flaggons, pimping tankerds, cans, call'd ticklers; rabbits, jugs, and short quarterns, to the grand abuse of the society of good-fellowship. Good fellows drinks their liquor without flinching; then why should knavish tapsters use such pinching. Tune of, We'l drink this old ale no more, no more.
[London]: Printed for R. Burton, in West-smithfield., [between 1641-1674]
Subject terms:
Ballads, English -- 17th century.
URL: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/B04489.0001.001
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