Lovely Lass to a Friar Came, A

DESCRIPTION: "A lovely lass to a Friar came To confess in the morning early... I have done sir what I dare not name With a man who loves me dearly." He orders her Rome; she says she can if her lover comes. He says no -- and says he'll forgive if she does it with him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1710 (broadside, according to Simpson-TheBritishBroadsideBallad)
KEYWORDS: love sex clergy punishment adultery bawdy beauty | friar
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Simpson-TheBritishBroadsideBallad, pp. 474-475, "A Lovely Lass to a Friar Came" (1 tune)
Roud #12543
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Friar and Maid
NOTES [24 words]: John Gay seems to have used this tune in the Beggar's Opera for a song that begins "Thus when a good housewife sees a rat." It is Air #XXVII. - RBW
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File: SBBa474

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