The wonder of wonders: or, An excellent song of a six-legged creature. Tune of, Old Simon the King. This may be printed. R.P. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06692 of text R227496 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W3360). 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. 4 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 B06692 Wing W3360 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[158] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[533] 99887364 ocm99887364 183623 2248541344

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06692) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183623) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:4[158]; A5:2[414]) The wonder of wonders: or, An excellent song of a six-legged creature. Tune of, Old Simon the King. This may be printed. R.P. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for James Bissel at the Bible and Harp in West-Smithfield. Where any chapman may be furnished with all sorts of new and old songs., [London] : [between 1687-1696] Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Verse: "Come listen unto my new ditty ..." Item at A5:2[414] trimmed. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library and the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The wonder of wonders: or, An excellent song of a six-legged creature. Tune of, Old Simon the King. This may be printed. R.P. anon 1696 1 539 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. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Sampled and proofread 2008-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Wonder of Wonders : OR , An Excellent SONG of a Six-Legged Creature . Tune of , Old Simon the King .

This may be Printed

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COme listen unto my new Ditty , it is of a Monstrous Creature Who liveth in London's fair City she 's known to be loving by Nature . She liveth in Service with many , a Creature both loving and quiet , And wages she ne'r receives any , so she hath both Lodging and Dyet . She is not for running away , her anger she soon can expell ; Till Death with her Master she 'l stay , if that he will use her but well . This Creature she is not very tall , sometimes she 's upon the Exchange , Full six Legs she travels withal ; oh ! is this not wondrous strange ? She 'l venture as far in a Battel as any stout Souldier that goes ; Tho' Cannons and Musquets do rattle , she cares not a Fig for her Foes . She values no Pistol nor Gun , nor any Commanders high words ; Nor will she be put to the run , for fear of a thousand drawn Swords .

She ranges the streets very late , her valour and courage is such , She fears not a knock on the pate by Constable , Beadle , or Watch. Thus she in her freedom does reign , no creature more stouter and bolder : The Stocks she does highly disdain , they never was able to hold her . A Washer she cannot indure , foul Linnen is all her delight ; For there she can lye most secure , and never be put to the fright . That man that hath been a great waster , and every thing he doth lack , She chuseth him to be her master , although not a shirt to his bask . Although he be never so poor , without e're a Groat in his Purse , She 'l guard him behind and before , her love it is never the worse . A fuller account I will give of her worthy Fame or Renown : This creature she often doth live with many fine Blades of the Town . Her Pedigrée now I 'le unfold , resolving to speak in her praise ; She sprung from a Nation of old , where I never was many days : 'T was Aegypt , as I have heard say , which once was our natural soil , But now she is grown very gray , With travelling many a Mile . You know when old Herod was King , there then was a wonderful fort Of these in that Nation did spring , and nurst by his Ladies at Court . The reason that many don't love her , because she such numbers doth breed : But this is the worst I say of her , she is a Back-biter indeed . FINIS .

Printed for Iames Bissel at the Bible and Harp in West-Smithfield .

Where any Chapmen may be furnished with all sorts of new and old Songs .