A statute for swearers and drunkards, or Forsake now your follies, your booke cannot saue you, for if you sweare and be drunke, the stockes will haue you : To the tune of When canons are roaring.

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[1624]
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Forsake now your follies, your booke cannot save you, for if you sweare and be drunke, the stockes will have you
Be warned by me you swearers and drunkards for I first broke the statute

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Printed at London : For I. T[rundle]. and are to be sold at his shop in Smithfield, [1624]

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1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (woodcuts).

References note

STC (2nd ed.) 23239

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Printer's name and date of publication from STC.
Verse - "You that in wicked wayes".
In two parts, printed side by side; the woodcut above the second part has caption: Be warned by me you swearers and drunkards for I first broke the statute.
Reproduction of original in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, England.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2051:15) s1999 miun s

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