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Love and honesty or, The modish courtier What's here to do? a pretty modish song turn'd to a ballad? in troth I think e're long, a fourth part of the town will poets be, if that a line of wit they can but see: they must be medling and add further still, and never leave till all that's sence they kill: yet if I iudge aright, the vulgar sort are mightily beholding to them for't. The Duke of Monmouth's jigg. With allowance, Ro. L'Estrange. Feb. 8. 1676.

Title:Love and honesty or, The modish courtier What's here to do? a pretty modish song turn'd to a ballad? in troth I think e're long, a fourth part of the town will poets be, if that a line of wit they can but see: they must be medling and add further still, and never leave till all that's sence they kill: yet if I iudge aright, the vulgar sort are mightily beholding to them for't. The Duke of Monmouth's jigg. With allowance, Ro. L'Estrange. Feb. 8. 1676.
Note:[London] : Printed for E. Oliver, at the Golden-Key, on Snow-hill, over-a-gainst St. Sepulchres-Church, [1676]
  
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Subject:Ballads, English -- 17th century
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