Union First Line Index of English Verse

13^th-19^th Century (bulk 1500-1800)

First Line: Once on a time, as old stories rehearse,

Author (Last name, First): Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745

Title: `Lady B[etty] B[erkeley] finding in the author's room some verses unfinished under writ a stanza of her own, with raillery upon him, which gave occasion to this ballad to the tune of The cutpurse Augt. 1702'

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Last Line: You may know by the hand it had no cloven foot. | Let censuring &c.

Library: YO

Shelfmark: c.265

Folio: p. 2

Ref Nbr: Osborn O0983

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Musical Settings: `Cutpurse, The'

Names Mentioned: Berkeley, Lady Betty, 1680_1769

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Union First Line Index of English Verse

13th-19th Century (bulk 1500-1800)

13^th-19^th Century (bulk 1500-1800)