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The patient hushand [sic], and the scoulding vvife, shewing how he doth complain of hard fortune he had to marry such a cross-grain'd q[u]ean as she was and he wishes all young men to be advised to look before they leap. You batchellors where ere you be this counsel here now take of me chuse not a wife that too percise [sic] for fear she should p[r]ick out your eyes. To the tune of, Bonny bonny bird.

Title:The patient hushand [sic], and the scoulding vvife, shewing how he doth complain of hard fortune he had to marry such a cross-grain'd q[u]ean as she was and he wishes all young men to be advised to look before they leap. You batchellors where ere you be this counsel here now take of me chuse not a wife that too percise [sic] for fear she should p[r]ick out your eyes. To the tune of, Bonny bonny bird.
Note:[London] : Printed for W. Thackeray at the Golden Sugar-Loaf in Duck-Lane, [1665?]
  
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Subject:Ballads, English -- 17th century
Subject:Broadsides -- England -- 17th century
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