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Black-letter Broadside Ballads Of The years 1595-1639
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A WONDER IN KENT
The tune of The maunding soldier is derived from Martin Parker's ballad, "The Maunding Soldier; Or, The Fruits of War Is Beggary. To the Tune of Permit me, Friends''' {Roxburghe Ballads, in, in). Richard Climsal has left many other ballads {e.g., ibid, i, 207, 499, 509; 11, 7, 281).
& toonber in Kent:
0i rtje abmiraole atomacfce of one Nicholas Wood,
btoeHing at Harrisom1 in tfje Count? of Kent.
Wbt iikt of fjtm toast neuer fjcarb, gfe in tfjte IBittp is betlar'b. |
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To the tune of, The maunding Souldier. |
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1 ALL you that valiant fellowes be, I pray giue eare a while to me, I tell you of a Champion bold, |
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I.e. Harrietsham,
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