A new summons to Horn-Fair: to appear at Cuckold's Point on the 18th of October, and from thence to march to the gravel-pits, to dig gravel, to make a path for your wives to walk on to the fair. To the tune of The city woman. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B27318 of text R229259 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 3KB 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 B27318 Wing N778 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.121.g.9[114] ESTC R229259 ocm99888281

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 eng Ballads, English -- 18th century. Cuckolds -- England -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 18th century. eebo A new summons to Horn-Fair: : to appear at Cuckold's Point on the 18th of October, and from thence to march to the gravel-pits, to dig gravel, to make n/a 1700 2 504 1 0 0 0 0 0 19.84 C The rate of 19.84 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-07 Sampled and proofread 2014-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A New SUMMONS to HORN-FAIR : To appear at CUCKOLD's POINT on the 18th of October , and from thence to march to the Gravel-Pits , to dig Gravel , to make a Path for your Wives to walk on to the FAIR .

woodcuts: shovel and pickax, basket, man with horns

THis shall be to Warn you : Now you are hereby lawfully Summoned , that belong to the Henpeckt-Frigat , to appear in your own Person at Cuckold's Point , on the 18th of October , being the Day of your usual Meeting , by 8 of the Clock in the Morning precisely , with a Basket , Pickax , and Shovel , there to be mustered with the rest of your Brethren ; and from thence to march to the Gravel-Pits to dig Gravel , to make a Foot-Path for your Wives to walk on to the Fair , upon pain of great Penalty , to be inflicted upon you , by Us the Knights of the Forked-Order , besides the Forfeiture of all your Goods and Chattels , except your Wife's Weapon .

John Do-little , Beadle .
To the Tune of The City Ramo●● . YOU Sots that are joyn'd to a Woman , Your Implements ready prepare ; In the Name of your Wives here I Summons You all to appear at Horn Fair . Fa , la , la , &c. Be brisk , and still ready-witted , That you may live Heavenly Lives ; With all things in Order well-fitted , To make the Way clear for your Wives ; Fa , la , la , &c , Both Citizens , Bumpkins and Seamen , This Summons doth come for you all : And all that are lately made Free-men Of Cuckolds , or Fumblers-Hall . Fa , la , la , &c. You are to appear in great Splendour , With Pickax and Shovel also ; The Feet of your Wives they are tender , When unto Horn-Fair they do go . Fa , la , la , &c. There 's New-fashion'd Horns of all Sizes , More Gallant than ever before , To be given to Cuckoldly Nizes , To hang up at every one's Door . Fa , la , la , &c. Four Fumbling Knights are appointed To see that the Business be done , Whose Horns are made long , and well-joynted , And Wives are as right as a Gun . Fa , la , la , &c. Besure you shall be Rewarded , For all your great Labour and Pains , By an Army of Bullies well guarded , If you 've any Guts in your Brains . Fa , la , la , &c. The List will be then called over , And he that does not appear , If living between York and Dover , Shall do double Duty next Year . Fa , la , la , &c.

Printed and Sold by H. H. in Black-Fryars .