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The down-right country-man; or, The faithful dairy-maid· : utmind [sic] how country lads do boast, whilst Londoners are blam'd, and country lasses praised most, while ours are wags proclaim'd. The tune is, Hey boys up go we: or, Busie fame.
Date: [between 1670-1696]- Books
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The lusty miller's recreation: or, The buxome females chief delight : Being a most pleasant design between a certain miller, the good-wife, and her three daughters. A most delectable new song, &c. Fair Peggy first to'th mill with grist was sent, who pleas'd return'd, but would not tell th' event; which Betty once perceiving, needs would go, who sped in the same tune, returned too; at which the mother knew not what to guess, but did her self in admiration bless. Till Jenny, of the three the youngest lass, would needs go see how all this came to pass, returns the same; then forth the mother set, who finds the plot, but ne'r discover'd it. To a pleasant new tune.
Date: [between 1670-1696]- Ephemera
How to dress "hairs" (a valuable receipt) : Professor Browne's Toilet Gem / Professor Browne.
Date: [between 1860 and 1879]- Ephemera
The following is a most earnest and convincing appeal from an unfortunate barber, who grievously complains of the conduct of various individuals in the non-payment for shaving and wig-dressing : ladies' beards : shaving gratis : whiskers.
Date: [1830]- Ephemera
The rape of the lock (not Pope's).
Date: [between 1870 and 1899]- Books
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The loving chamber-maid, or, Vindication of a departed maidenhead : Being the art to lye with a man and yet be a virgin. To a new tune Maidens .... but Ah what is a maid I pray an infant female that scarce views the day, for e're the things we virgins call aspire to 13 years, they feel a strange desire: longing for what themselves can scarcely tell, which strange desire of make their bellies swell and then what 'tis they know too fatal well.
Date: [1675?]
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Cimon in prison sucks at the breast of his daughter Pero. Woodcut and letterpress, ca. 1850 (?).
Date: [1850?]Reference: 573396i- Books
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The dumb lady; or, No, no, not I; I'le answer : To the tune of, the doubtful virgin, or the new Borey, or Will you be a man of fashion.
Date: [between 1682-1690]- Ephemera
R. Bennett, : donkey mews.
Date: [between 1850 and 1859]- Books
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Lusty Fryer of Flanders : how in a nunnery at the city of Gaunt this Fryer got thirty nuns with child in three weeks time, and afterwards made his escape. To the tune of, Cold and raw.
Date: [1688]- Books
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The Devonshire damsels frollick : being an account of nine or ten fair maidens, who went one evening lately, to wash themselves in a pleasant river, where they were discovered by several young men being their familiar acquaintances who took away their gowns and petticoats, with their smocks and wine with good chear; leaving them a while in a most melancholly condition. To a pleasant new play-house tune: or, Where's my shepherd? This may be printed. R. P.
Date: [between 1685-1688]
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A lady holding a fan in her right hand: an animal jumps out of her wig and bites the barber on the nose, forcing him to wear a black patch. Woodcut and letterpress.
Reference: 29737i- Ephemera
The baffler of time : personal appearance is more sided by a skilful hair dresser than by any other artist / Thomas Elliott.
Date: [between 1880 and 1889]- Ephemera
A lunatic lay : "adieu my mustachios! farewell to my tip!".
Date: [1830]