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The saint turn'd curtezan: or, A new plot discover'd by a precious zealot, of an assault and battery design'd upon the body of a sanctify'd sister, &c. Who in her husband's absence, with a brother did often use to comfort one another till wide mouth'd Crop, who is an old Italian, took his mare napping, and surpriz'd her stallion: who 'stead of entertainment from his mistris, did meet a cudgelling not match'd in hist'ries. To the tune of the Quakers ballad: or, All in the land of Essex

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Title: The saint turn'd curtezan: or, A new plot discover'd by a precious zealot, of an assault and battery design'd upon the body of a sanctify'd sister, &c. Who in her husband's absence, with a brother did often use to comfort one another till wide mouth'd Crop, who is an old Italian, took his mare napping, and surpriz'd her stallion: who 'stead of entertainment from his mistris, did meet a cudgelling not match'd in hist'ries. To the tune of the Quakers ballad: or, All in the land of Essex
Alternative Title: Saint turn'd curtezan
Date Created and/or Issued: 1681
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Printed Books
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: ESTC R202035 ; Place and date of publication from Wing ; In two parts ; Verse - "All in the zealous City," ; MS. inscription on Huntington copy reads: "On Benjamin Harris his wife who lay wth a scrivener". Subject matter confirmed by Pforzheimer catalog
Type: text
Format: CompoundObject
Extent: 1 sheet ([2] p.) (1/2 sheet)
Identifier: 135785
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll3/id/5820
Subject: Harris, Benjamin, -1716?--Anecdotes
Broadsides. (rbgenr)
Ballads. (rbgenr)
Source: Printed Books, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Binding signed by J. Wright. MS. price and date: 13 April. MS. notes of Narcissus Luttrell Wynne sale (1796) bookplate of James Bindley (sale, 1820) bookplate of Lord Ashburton (sale, 14-17 Nov. 1900:627 bought by Denham) bought by CSmH at Frederic Robert Halsey sale (Dec. 1915)

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