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A Dialogue Between W. And K. Previous to a Sale By Auction of an Estate at Swanbourne on March 29th 1877
1877Best.-Nr. 003678No Place: No Publisher 1877. Single sided printed ballad approximately 125mm x 315mm in size. Lightly foxed creased from old folds couple of minor nicks to edges at folds but fairly bright. A dialogue between W. and K. about a land sale where W. notes that K. has enough money to buy the land over the local lord. K. states that W. couldn't even afford the deposit and bemoans Radicals assailing his property rights. W. then advises K. that Death is at hand and he would do better to retire and marry a widow rather than a young maid as "It may be that the Lass for lucre's sake To the old Man may in appearance take But youth and beauty 'tis a shame to see Grafted upon an old and sapless tree". Swanbourne is in Buckinghamshire. Broadside Ballads Online: BOD628. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Broadside. No Publisher paperback
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