Author: Anonymous; Thomas D’Urfey (1653-1723)

Text type: Verse, ballad

Date of print: 1719

Editions: 1719, 1876, 1959

Source text:

Anonymous. 1719. “The West-Countryman’s Song on a Wedding”. Thomas D’Urfey. ed. Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; Set to Musick by Dr. John Blow, Mr. Henry Purcell, and Other Excellent Masters of the Town. Pills to Cure Melancholy. Vol. III. London: Printed by W. Pearson:277-79 .

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            Number of words: 315

            Dialect represented: Southwestern

            Produced by María F. García-Bermejo Giner