The bold sailor. To which are added, The Irish invasion. A touch on the times. The faint-hearted batchelor. The maid's answer. The travelling Chapman. Tears wash my sad cheeks. If e'er I do well 'tis a wonder.

The Irish invasion

A touch on the times.

The faint-hearted batchelor.

The maid's answer.

The travelling Chapman.

Tears wash my sad cheeks.

If e'er I do well 'tis a wonder.

1800

8 pages

15 cm

This is a collection of short ballads on various topics, including war, courting, and poverty. The major theme that seems to run through all the ballads is money, or the lack thereof. Men sign up as sailors because their pockets are empty, the French sail to invade/liberate Ireland to make some coin, complaints are made about the cheating of various tradesman and shopkeepers in the towns (including farmers, butchers, and cobblers), and a man bemoans the cost of getting married and raising a child (possibly not his own), while the would-be bride retorts that any woman would be cursed to marry someone so tight-fisted with money.

Ireland

Spain

Ballads and songs

Courtship and Marriage

War

Chapbooks - Scotland - Glasgow

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English Short Title Catalogue T126563

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