Descriptive notices of popular English histories / by James Orchard Halliwell.

  • James Halliwell-Phillipps
Date:
1848
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Credit: Descriptive notices of popular English histories / by James Orchard Halliwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Harlot, in three parts: how a merchant was de- luded from his lady by a harlot, to whom he carried gold, jewels, and other things of value, for many years, which she received with unspeakable flattery, till his wife gave him a penny to lay out in a pennyworth of wit. Sm. 8vo. Printed for S. Wates, in Fleet-street, 1707. A very popular ballad-tale, which has been reprinted in the north-country chap-books up to a very recent period; and is also common as a sheet ballad. It commences : Here is a pennyworth of wit For those that ever went astray ; If warning they will take by it, ’Twill do them good another day The story has appeared in many forms, as in the ancient poem. How a merchande dyd hys loyfe betray, printed in Ritson’s Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, 1791, p. 69, which is probably the same as the Chap- man of a Pennyworth of Wit, mentioned by Laneham, 1575. The tale also occurs in Penny-wise, pwiind- foolish, or a Bristow diamond, set in tioo rings, and both cracPd, 4to. 1631. A Pennyworth of IVytt was licensed to John Sampson in 1561. 12. The Pleasant History of Taffy’s Progress TO London, with the Welshman’s Catechesm : Behold in wheel-barrow I come to town. With wife and child to pull the Taffies down : For sweet St. David shall not be abus’d. And by the rabble yearly thus misus’d. Sm. 8VO. London, printed for F. Thorn, near Fleet-street, 1707.
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