Tom Tell-Truth. All you that will not me believe, disprove me if you can; you by my story may perceive, I am an honest man. To the tune of, Tantararara, tantivee. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06161 of text R227392 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1789). 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. 5 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 B06161 Wing T1789 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[104] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.10[79] 99887310 ocm99887310 182021 2248539330

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06161) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182021) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:4[104]; A6:2[79]) Tom Tell-Truth. All you that will not me believe, disprove me if you can; you by my story may perceive, I am an honest man. To the tune of, Tantararara, tantivee. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger., [London] : [between 1681-1684] Verse: "I killed a man and he was dead ..." Date and place of publication from Wing. Item at A6:2[79] imperfect: stained. Reproduction of originals in the Harvard University, Houghton Library and the British Library. eng Honesty -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Tom Tell-Truth. All you that will not me believe, disprove me if you can; you by my story may perceive, I am an honest man. To the tune of, Tanta ra r anon 1684 1 729 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TOM Tell-Truth . All you that will not me believe , disprove me if you can ; You by my Story may perceive , I am an Honest Man . To the Tune of , Tanta ra ra ra , Tantivee .

TOM Tell-Truth .

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Printed for J. Wright , J. Clarke , W. Thackeray , and T. Passinger .