| Index Entry | Lyric, narrative [beg] Once I was a batchelor, and liv'd |
| Location | New York |
| Citation | NYWJ.736.023 22 Nov 1736:12 (159) Once I was a batchelor, and liv'd by my self, And all the victuals that I had I put upon a shelf; But the rats and the mice they made such a strife, I was forc'd to go to London to get me a wife. The streets were so wide, and the lanes were so narrow, I was fain to bring my wife home in a wheelbarrow: The wheelbarrow broke, and my wife had a fall; So the D_____l take the wheelbarrow, wife, and all! . . . [3 columns of textual analysis follow.] |
| Generic Title | New York Weekly Journal |
| Date | 1736.11.22 |
| Publisher | Zenger, John Peter |
| City, State | New York, NY |
| Year | 1736 |
| Bibliography | B0031280 |