Scotch Moggy's misfortune: together with her chearful hops, that Shakum Guie will bury his wife, and then make Moggy a happy mother. To an excellent new tune. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06057 of text R227371 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S958). 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 B06057 Wing S958 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[83] 99887290 ocm99887290 182000 2248539990

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06057) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182000) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:4[83]) Scotch Moggy's misfortune: together with her chearful hops, that Shakum Guie will bury his wife, and then make Moggy a happy mother. To an excellent new tune. Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, J[onah]. Deacon, J[osiah]. Blare, J[ohn]. Back., [London] : [between 1688-1692] Verse: "Shakum Guie has gotten a wife ..." Date, place of publication and publishers' names from Wing. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library. eng Broadsides -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. Man-woman relationships -- Early works to 1800. Ballads -- England -- 17th century. eebo Scotch Moggy's misfortune: together with her chearful hops, that Shakum Guie will bury his wife, and then make Moggy a happy mother. To an excellent n anon 1692 1 459 1 0 0 0 0 0 21.79 C The rate of 21.79 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-04 Sampled and proofread 2009-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Scotch Moggy's Misfortune : TOGETHER With her chearful Hops , that Shakum Guie will bury his Wife , and then make Moggy a happy Mother . To an Excellent New Tune .

Licensed according to Order .

SHakum Guie has gotten a Wife , And he is a weary of his Life : The day will come that she will dye , And Shakum Guie will marry me : Ha , ha , Robin quoth she , Ha , ha , Robin quoth she , Ha , ha , ha , Robin quoth she , Kind Robin loves me . My Father left me a good Stock , Full Forty Weathers in a Flock , With Geese , Ducks , Hens , and a fighting Cock Kind Robin for thee : Ha , ha , Robin quoth she , Ha , ha , Robin quoth she , Ha , ha , ha , Robin quoth she , Kind ●obin loves me :

My Mother sent me to the Well , Better she had gone her sell , Robin gard my Belly swell , Kind Robin he loves me ; Ha , ha , ha , &c. Robin he chash me about the stack , Robin laid me on my Back , Robin he made my Rumy to crack , Kind Robin loves me , Ha , ha , ha , &c. Robin he took me by the Tale , Over the Ditch he made me fall ; Robin ruffled my Fatale , Kind Robin loves me ; Ha , ha , ha , &c. My Mammy she gave unto me Forty Marks as thou shalt see , And I will give it aw to thee , Kind Robin quoth she , Ha , ha , ha , &c. Ginn I was married to a Laird , I should neither Spin nor Card , But fill the Cup , serve to Laird , The day that I was married ; Ha , ha , ha , &c. Robin , Robin let me be , Till I have got my Nurses Fee , And I will drink it aw with thee , In geud Scotch Yale and Brandy , Ha , ha , ha , &c. Robin is o'er the Water gane , It will be long ere he come home ; On Saturday we 'll give up our Names , And Sunday we 'll be married , Ha , ha , Robin quoth she , Ha , ha , Robin quoth she , Ha , ha , Robin quoth she , Kind Robin I am for thee . FINIS .

Printed for P. Brooksby , J. Deacon , J. Blare , J. Back .