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True love requited: or, The baliff's daughter of Islington. The young-man's friends the maid did scorn, 'cause she was poor and left forlorn, they sent the esquire to London fair, to be an apprentice seven year. And when he out of's [sic] time was come, he met his love a going home, and then to end all farther strife, he took the maid to be his wife. To a north-country tune. Or, I have a good old mother at home.

Title:True love requited: or, The baliff's daughter of Islington. The young-man's friends the maid did scorn, 'cause she was poor and left forlorn, they sent the esquire to London fair, to be an apprentice seven year. And when he out of's [sic] time was come, he met his love a going home, and then to end all farther strife, he took the maid to be his wife. To a north-country tune. Or, I have a good old mother at home.
Note:[London] : Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-corner., [between 1670-1696]
  
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Subject:Ballads, English -- 17th century
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