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Thread #54664 Message #847887
Posted By: GUEST
15-Dec-02 - 03:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Netherlands Leaguer? / Holland's Leaguer
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Netherlands Leager ??
See ZN3117 in the broadside ballad index at www.erols.com/olsonw.
The ballad was written by Laurence Price, as noted in the index
and in the file on Price's ballads, and is about Elizabeth Holland's brothel.
Bruce Olson's entry:You that desire newes/ ZN3117| Newes from Hollands Leager/ Tune: [When] Canons are roaring/ [by] L. P[rice]./ P1 98-9: I. W[right]. [Entd. May 24, 1632. ZB1925|.
Holland's Leaguer was a brothel]
-Joe Offer-