Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).
Original spelling and typography is retained, except that superscripts, long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.
Line identifiers are those used for line types in the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.
This broadside dialogue ballad appears in the Mummers' play from Symonsbury, Dorset.
The electronic text was initially downloaded from http://www.mudcat.org/ and edited to match the Jennings broadside - Firth c.16(275) - in the Broadside Ballad Index of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The Bodleian collection has four editions, two published by J.Jennings [between 1790 and 1840] , one by J.Pitts [between 1819 and 1844] and one by J.Catnach [between 1813 and 1838] .