I have a copy of a garland version from about 1770. Unfortunately it is not online. I got it from the 18th Century Catalogue but the stamp on the garland appears to belong to the Bodleian. Of course the Bodleian garlands and chapbooks are not yet online just the broadsides. The version titled 'A Kiss in a Morning Early' is in 'The Parent Bird's Garland, Composed of Several new Songs Viz'. There are 5 titles of which ours is 4th. Although there is no imprint telling us who printed it or where or when, the second song is 'Wilkes and Liberty for Ever' and it describes the exploits of famed radical John Wilkes dating from 1763 to 1770. The style of the type, print, illustrations would suggest about 1770. A New SONG, call'd A Kiss in a Morning Early. Shoemaker, Shoemaker are you within All alone, all alone, all alone lee Have you got any shoes to fit a maid trim With a kiss in a morning early Step in step in fair maid and see All... I have got shoes that will fit thee With... He laid this fair maid all on the bench It's hey for a lad or a country wench He laid this fair maid all on the block First he did whistle and then he did knock When 20 weeks were come and past This maid she begun to look round in the waist When 40 weeks were come and gone Deliver'd she was of a lovely son O mother, O mother, throw it out It is but a Shoemaker's wiping clout O daughter O daughter I'll do no such thing It is a prince born and it may be a king.
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