[A Merry new song wherin is shewed the cudgelling of the cobler of Colchester] This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A19120 of text S123454 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 5530.5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A19120 STC 5530.5 ESTC S123454 29709459 ocm 29709459 28089 2240919228

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A19120) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28089) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1861:51) [A Merry new song wherin is shewed the cudgelling of the cobler of Colchester] 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for Andrew White, and are to be solde at his shop at the [--] exchange ouer against [---] in [C]ornhill, At London : [1589] Date of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.) Imperfect: cropped and faded with loss of text; best copy available for photographing. Title supplied from STC (2nd ed.) Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries. eng Ballads, English -- 16th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 16th century. eebo A merry new song, vvherin is shevved the sorovvfull cudgelling of the cobler of Colchester ... [no entry] 1589 2 388 42 0 0 0 15 0 4948.45 F The rate of 4948.45 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2007-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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AT LONDON Printed for Andrew White and are to be solde at his shop at the Royall Exchange , ouer against the Conduct in Cornhill .