Titles:
Anybody ill
First Lines:
I am a learned surgeon, and my name is Doctor Quack
Themes:
Doctors
Imprint Names: Birt, T.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1828 and 1829
Imprint: Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail, 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials London
Title: Madam Sneak
First Line: 'Twas on a frosty morn as Madam Sneak & I
Themes: Doctors
Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, printer, Wholosale [sic] Toy ad Marble Warehouse 6, Great St Andrew Strent [sic], 7 Dials
Title: Madam Sneak and I
First Line: Twas on a frosty morn as madam Sneak and I
Themes: Doctors
Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Coles, F. , Vere, T. , Wright, J.
Imprint Locations: London , London , London
Date between 1663 and 1674
Imprint: London, Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright
Notes: Captions of the first illustration read: Here's help husband. Cox-body, thy husband is with child.
Title: The skilful doctor of Gloucestershire or A new way to take physick
First Line: A country farmar [sic] as 'tis said
Tune: Beds making
References:
ESTC: R235499
Themes: Doctors
Notes: Torn at right edge; lacks part of last seven verses and fifth woodcut.
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Notes: Torn at right edge; lacks part of last seven verses and fifth woodcut. Harding B 39(17) is a photograph of Douce Ballads 2(199b).
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Imprint Names: Conyers, G.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1685
Imprint: Printed for G. Conyers, at the Golden-Ring upon Ludgate-Hill, over-against the Old-Bayly: 1685
Notes: Caption of the first illustration reads: Here you may be cured
Title: The skilfull doctor; or, The compleat mountebank
First Line: Come here you brave gallants, of fame and renown
Tune: Over the mountains
Authors: Pilkington, R.
References:
ESTC: R233786
Themes: Doctors
Imprint Names: Palser, T.
Imprint Locations: London
Imprint: Printed and Sold by T. Palser, Harp Alley, Fleet Market
Title: Madam Sneak & I
First Line: 'Twas on a frosty morn as Madam Sneak and I
Themes: Doctors
Titles:
A murder at Brighton. Young woman poisoned by two doctors
First Lines:
A sad tale I'll tell if you'll pay attention
Subjects:
Brighton (England)
Themes:
Murder
Doctors
Titles:
History of Donald M'Neil
First Lines:
Donald M'Neil frae Scotland came
Themes:
Scots
Doctors
Titles:
O, Doctor Brown
Doctor Brown
First Lines:
Nobody knows me now, O cricky
There's no one knows me now, O crikey
Themes:
Apprentices
Doctors
Titles:
Doctor Brown
First Lines:
Did mortal e'er see such a figure?
Themes:
Apprentices
Doctors
Titles:
The budget; or, Dr. D---
First Lines:
Ye good folks of Norwich attend to my ditty
Themes:
Adultery
Doctors
Imprint Names: Fordyce, W. and T.
Imprint Locations: Newcastle
Date c.1840
Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 48, Dean-street, Newcastle. To be had also at No. 42, Myton Gate, Hull
Series Identifier: 112
Title: Come under my plaidy
First Line: Come under my plaidy, the night's gaun to fa'
Tune: Johnny Macgill
Authors: Macneill, Hector, 1746-1818
Title: History of Donald M'Neil
First Line: Donald M'Neil frae Scotland came
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Notes: With a prose account
Title: A murder at Brighton. Young woman poisoned by two doctors
First Line: A sad tale I'll tell if you'll pay attention
Subjects: Brighton (England)
Imprint Names: Walker, R.
Imprint Locations: Norwich
Date between 1780 and 1830
Imprint: Printed and Sold, by R. Walker, near the Duke's Palace, Norwich
Title: The budget; or, Dr. D---
First Line: Ye good folks of Norwich attend to my ditty
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Series Identifier: 253
Title: Shiver and shakery
First Line: All you who are fond, in spite of price
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Imprint Names: Coles, F. , Vere, T. , Wright, J. , Clarke, J.
Imprint Locations: London , London , London , London
Date between 1674 and 1679
Imprint: Printed for F. Coles, Vere, J. Wright, and I. Clarke
Title: A farewel to Hackney jades; or, Be kind to one and no more
First Line: Let Mally, and Jenny, and Peggy sit still
Tune: Let the bailiffs be hanged
References:
ESTC: R176953
Themes: Prostitution , Doctors
Imprint Names: Lindsay, J.
Imprint Locations: Glasgow
Date between 1851 and 1910
Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, 11 King et [sic], (off Trongate), Glasgow
Series Identifier: 26
Title: The bonnie lasses' answer
First Line: Farewell to Glasgow
Subjects: Glasgow (Scotland)
Title: The black cook, or The doctor outwitted
First Line: I will tell you a trick, that was played the other night
Subjects: Glasgow (Scotland)
Themes: Sailors , Doctors , Body-snatching
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: Glasgow
Imprint: Glasgow: Printed for the Flying Stationers
Title: The feeing time
First Line: A friend and I were frae Milgye
Subjects: Glasgow (Scotland)
Themes: Hiring fairs
Title: The traducers detected. A new song
First Line: A puny bit doctor has come to our town
Imprint Names: Brereton, P.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date c.1867
Imprint: P, Breton [sic], Printer, 1, Lr, Exchange, St, Dublin
Title: The docter [sic] outwited [sic] by the black
First Line: I'l tell you a trick that was play'd the hther [sic] eveing [sic]
Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, Printer, 6 Great st. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Title: Phoebe, or the beauty of Dundee
First Line: In the lowlands of Scotland fair Phoebe did dwell
Subjects: Scotland
Themes: Seduction and abandonment , Gipsies , Doctors
Title: Monmouth Street
First Line: Oh there's a place in London town
Tune: Regent Street
Subjects: London (England)
Titles:
Betsy Baker
My Johnny was a shoemaker
Betsey Baker
First Lines:
My Johnny was a shoemaker
Down, down in our village
From noise and bustle for away
From noise and bustle far away
From noise and bustle far away, hard work my time employing
Themes:
Sailors
Actors
Doctors
Medicine
Rejected suitor
Education
Titles:
The doctor outwitted
The doctor cheated
The black cook, or The doctor outwitted
First Lines:
I'll tell you a trick that was played the other evening
I'll tell you a trick that was play'd t'other evening
I will tell you a trick, that was played the other night
Subjects:
Glasgow (Scotland)
Themes:
Physicians
Sailors
Africans
Body-snatching
Doctors
Titles:
Dr. Stafford, and the weavers' daughter
Young doctor Stafford and the weaver's daughter
Dr Stafford, and the weavers' daughter
Doctor Stafford, and the weaver's daughter
Doctor Stafford
First Lines:
One evening as I walked, by the rocks of Mile
One ev'ning as I walked down by the rock of Mache
One evening as walk'd by the rocks of Mile
One evening as I walked down by the rocks of Myle
One day was I was walking down by the banks of Clyde
Subjects:
Clyde River (Scotland)
Themes:
Weavers
Physicians
Insanity
Doctors
Ghosts
Unrequited love
Titles:
Lovely Phoebe the pride of Dundee
Phoebe or the Beauty of Dundee
Jockey's escape from bonny Dundee
Lovely Phoebe, the pride of Dundee
Phoebe, or the beauty of Dundee
Phoebe or the beauty of Dundee
Phoebe, the beauty of Dundee
First Lines:
In the lowlands of Scotland fair Phoebe did dwe[ll]
Where got thou the haver-meal bannock?
In the lowlands of Scotland fair Phoebe did dwell
Subjects:
Scotland
Themes:
Seduction
Seduction and abandonment
Doctors
Pregnancy
Gipsies
