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Thread #67612   Message #1130599
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
06-Mar-04 - 07:29 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Charleston Merchant
Subject: RE: Origins: The Charleston Merchant
Not the same, but reminiscent of "The Chester Merchant," about adultery, the shopkeeper brought into the woman's room in a chest, etc. Bodleian Ballads, Douce Balleds 4(3), no information but the type font suggests ca. 1780-1820. The first part (of four) is as far as I read (tales told many times).