Leave kindred and friends sweet Betty
- DMI number:
- 1171
- First Line:
- Leave kindred and friends sweet Betty
- Last Line:
- I'd die a martyr to love
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Song
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Joseph Mitchell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of 'A Song' ('Leave kindred and friends sweet lady'). Mitchell (1729) II: 250-251.
- First Line:
- As the gentle turtle doves
- Last Line:
- I'd die a martyr to love
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.318
- Poem Title:
- Song 368.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol I] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.318
- Poem Title:
- Song 368.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Tea-Table Miscellany: or, Allan Ramsay's Collection of Scots Sangs [?not Suarez?] [N13433]
- Page No(s):
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- A Song. Tune, Blink over the burn, sweet Bettie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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