Astrologer, The

DESCRIPTION: A servant girl comes to consult an astrologer; he bids her come upstairs. She says she will not go upstairs with any man. He points out that she lay with her master not long before. (She flounces out -- but only after displaying the coin her master paid)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: sex commerce prophecy
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South),Scotland)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kinloch-TheBalladBook X, pp. 37-39, "The Astrologer" (1 text)
DT, ASTROLGR*
Roud #1598
File: KinBB10

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